“Games Made Me Do It”

Nov 21

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Why does the media always have to blame the actions of mentalist kids on videogames all the bloody time!

Recently in France, police foiled an attempted shooting spree in a school when the a boy’s parents reported his suspicious behaviour (and their missing rifle).

Bastien was said by friends to have been devoted to World of Warcraft, the hugely popular online game in which the player takes the role of a fantasy warrior from the Middle Ages. Christian Sadowski, the Mayor of Allonne, said that he knew the family well and that the boy was a fan of computer games. “Many young people end up finding it difficult to tell the difference between dream and reality,” he told The Times.

This was taken from an article on The Times’ website with the headline:

Computer games fan ‘planned school massacre’

It describes the game as being set in the middle-ages, apart from being pretty wrong, they don’t seem to grasp the fact that there weren’t any rifles in the middle-ages. If the boy had marched into school with a suit of armour, broad sword and spell book then I might be more inclined to believe that WoW was what made him want to kill all his teachers.

Obviously the writers didn’t want to bog down the reader with any boring facts or foundation for these accusations so left them out completely. Well done

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Of course it’s not his parents’ fault. Oh heavens no. It’s not their fault that they’re didn’t take proper precautions to secure their rifle and ammunition or that they were irresponsible enough to let their 13 year old son play games “up to one or two in the morning”. No, that’s not it at all. And the article rightfully skipped over these facts.

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So this is more sensationalist journalism with completely unfounded and incorrect facts and attention grabbing, meaningless headlines to add to the pile. Shame.

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This is probably the subject that pisses me off the most. Media outlets that just blindly blame things on video games because they can’t blame TV or Rock & Roll for them any more. When our generation grows up and everyone realises that games have shit-all to do with crazy peoples’ desire to stab and shoot others what will jornalists blame then? Fridges? Pavements? Socks? We all use them, their must be some sort of causal link between them and murders.

If somehow I become a journalist, I’m going to write articles on recent murders and blame them on evil spores from Mars.

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