New 'Playing Columbine' Clip Airs on Dawson College Shooting Anniversary
New 'Playing Columbine' Clip Airs on Dawson College Shooting Anniversary
September 14, 2007
One year ago, GamePolitics and other outlets reported on a rampage shooting at Dawson College in Montreal.
The shooter, Kimveer Gill, was a deeply troubled 26-year-old whose pastimes included playing Super Columbine Massacre RPG, a controversial game which examines the infamous 1999 school shooting.
In the interim, SCMRPG creator Danny Ledonne announced he was working on a film about the game. Dawson survivor Joel Kornek created Kill Thinking, a website designed to help young people in crisis. In the wake of the Dawson rampage, Ledonne and Kornek connected, as Ledonne describes in a press release issued yesterday on the first anniversary of the Dawson shooting:
The shooter, Kimveer Gill, was a deeply troubled 26-year-old whose pastimes included playing Super Columbine Massacre RPG, a controversial game which examines the infamous 1999 school shooting.
In the interim, SCMRPG creator Danny Ledonne announced he was working on a film about the game. Dawson survivor Joel Kornek created Kill Thinking, a website designed to help young people in crisis. In the wake of the Dawson rampage, Ledonne and Kornek connected, as Ledonne describes in a press release issued yesterday on the first anniversary of the Dawson shooting:
Shooting survivor Joel Kornek promptly emailed the game's creator, Danny Ledonne - scolding him for ever creating the game. In the months that followed, Ledonne and Kornek corresponded often and with great candor about the purpose of the game, the reasons as to why school shootings happen, and what they could each do to prevent them.
...The documentary "Playing Columbine" and the website "Kill Thinking," ...have now fused together... they aim to continue challenging the public to think more carefully about why such events occur and challenging the press to reconsider how they cover such events.
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Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:05am
JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:03am
chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:56am
JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:45am
JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:37am
JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
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Don't worry, man. At no point in the documentary will you have to restart the film if there's something you didn't pick up - but when it comes out on DVD you can restart it as often as you'd like. :)
I'm just looking, and I'm thinking that it won't be effective if they plan to jump right into sympathising for the creators of a colombine RPG.
i don't know if the documentary is going to sway people, but i am now definately interested in getting a copy.
Thanks for the feedback. I am going to be mindful of the mix of content; the story is told by about fifty people and will feature a variety of footage including videogames, contemporary cultural references, and press about the game and related issues. The Fox News pundit was interviewing Brian Flemming (who was speaking about the mainstream media) so it wasn't an arbitrary bit of Fox but rather illustrates Flemming's own experience on cable news. There is a bit of this shown WITH audio earlier in the film so that may help form that connection for audiences.
It's encouraging to hear from everyone that this clip raised their interest level. Yes, generally there may be something to the "if you don't already get it, you won't get it by watching this film." However, many of the people I interview share their transformation from disgust to support for my game and my cause - perhaps this will shed light on a similar transformation for the viewer. Joel Kornek is one of them! He wrote me a really angry email after getting out of the Montreal hospital last fall... but the more we talked the more he realized that we were on the same side of the debate. Now we're working together. This story isn't an isolated incident, either.
In terms of who sees this film, well, that's largely up to a brave distributor who's willing to circulate it and/or a general word of mouth from the public. I think this film is important for gamers to see - so there's half of America right there! Of course, bad films don't get recognition regardless so my focus now is on cutting the best documentary I can. Peace out for now, GP readers.
They could try and talk to the daily show or perhaps one of the morning news shows on NBC or something, lots of people watch them.
I hope that this gets out...it could be a voice among all the naysayers.
Mike
do they really have to try harder to spin news into such bombastity in order to gain viewer ship?
Good work Danny Ledonne,keep trying to show the masses why its a good idea to think for yourself and challenge your way of thought!
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