Australian Watchdog Group Slams House of the Dead: Overkill

Loose freind huh?

Just leave, your just as digusting as he is. I have no faith in the older generation of people today, there ignorance, and stupidity is just horrfying. You claim to know what is right for everyone yet you  ignore so many facts around you.

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What is the difference between the German school shooter with access to guns and the millions of people who play Far Cry or Counterstrike with access to guns every day?

Answer: The german shooter was mentally or psychologically damaged. He was not a normal person, but instead had issues with rejection and anger.

Let us eliminate the common denominators here. Access to guns? That's out, becuase 100s of people have them, yet don't go and shoot up schools. Playing FPS games? Again, MILLIONS of people do it, yet only a tiny, tiny, tiny, insignificant fraction of those people go on to become spree shooters. So it's not games.

So what is left once the common denominators are removed? That's right, the mental instability. there's your culprit, not video games.

It's funny that games are blamed for these mass shootings when i would say that throughout history more spree shooters have been non-gamers than not.

Charles Whitman in 1966 took it upon himself to climb a tower and begin shooting at random people, what fps game did he train on? That's right, they weren't invented yet. What did he have in common with the German shooter? You've guessed it, mental instability.

I guarantee you, if you were to take every single spree killer in history, the only common denominator to all cases would be some kind of mental instability.

Now, maybe I'm totally off-base here, but wouldn't it be more useful to go after what appears to me to be the actual causes of these horrific murders (ie. mentally unstable/psychotic people with access to firearms and a grudge)? Of course not! What looks better to politicians, telling parents that they will set up stundent counselling and monitoring to check that their darling child isn't a psychopath, or that they will go after teh evil video games that are corrupting the children, won't someone think of the children!

Mental health is a difficult and complicated issue that would require a lot of work in order to put some sort of system in place that monitors anyone who shows tendencies that are similar to those displayed by spree killers. Much easier to just scapegoat a new technology that parents don't understand!

Considering that the only things "linking" CounterStrike and Far Cry to the tragedy in Germany are agenda-seeking politicians and a news media with a tabloid mentality(the saying goes, "if it bleeds, it leads") and considering tragedies like that happen maybe once or twice a year, and considering that I live in an area near the Gulf of Mexico that has no hurricane protection that's been hit by four hurricanes since 2005, then yes, I guess it is insignificant.

People's lives are hardly at stake. You're the one who needs to grow up.

Geaux Saints, Geaux Tigers, Geaux Hornets, Jack Thompson can geaux chase a chupacabra.

um sage.. sage.. answer me this..

How do you decide that the fact he played games was 'significant'? I mean its been shown that 97% of people play or have played a video game at some point. So where is the 'link'. Even just on the law of AVERAGES. if 97% of shool shooters played video games.. that would actually be NORMAL.

if any less than 97% of school shooters had played video games that would actually be ABNormal.

So just the mere fact he 'played video games' means jack shit. Whats your point? Statistically, 97% of any group you pick who do anything will play / have played video games. In fact on average therefore 97% of all olympic gold medalists have played/ play video games. So does playing video games make me an olympic gold medalist?

Heck  I could just as easily say this:

90% of shark attacks occur in the summer.

90% of people eat ice cream during the summer.

therefore ice cream sales CAUSE SHARK ATTACKS.

Thats the same logic you are using. y'know what its called... yeah thats right 'stupid logic'.

i mean there are other things that corellate with the same or even higher frequency. He watched movies.

EDIT : wow i see you havent replied when somebody confronts you with reality. Whaddya know , you do follow JTs ideals.

LoL man give it up it's obvious you're just trolling to try to piss people off. I'd post some counters to your points but it's kinda pointless since you're just making things up.

 Ok. This guy is 100% troll.

People are incredibly innovative, for better or worse, and can use any knowledge (even that which would normally be used to help people) to hurt and kill. They've been able to obtain these skills since before there was a massive entertainment industry, and they'll be able to do so after it's long gone.

It's a waste of time trying to whipe things out on the fear that people could learn to hurt people. It would be better instead to focus on teaching them to be responsible, and making them understand the consequences of their actions, as the majority of citizens have learned.

Also, you acknowledge that this is a small percentage of people. Every incedent of that nature is tragic, but instead of attempting to get rid of the triggers, why not have our various governments devote more time, money, and resources to researching more powerful and successful forms of treatment for the various mental instabilities and illnesses that make such people psychologically vulnerable? That way they'd have a better quality of life as well, ey?

"Any game that supports violence, rape, or homosexuality, especially to minors, should be banned in my oppinion."

In all of the games that I've played, I've never seen violence "supported" as much as being portrayed as a necassary act in far less than ideal circumstances. Not to mention that wether an act of violence is morally right or wrong is wholly dependant under the circumstances under which it occurs, such as self defense versus murder or assault. As for rape, I've never even heard of games that portray rape at all, aside from "Custer's Revenge" and "Rapelay", both of which suck tremendously, and neither are available in retail outside of Japan (regarding Rapelay).

Homosexuality is relative in terms of morals and ethics. Some, predominately religious groups and followers, view it as evil and sinful, whereas others simply view it as a different lifestyle. It is up to individual parents to decide which view they wish to instill in their children.

Movies teach people how firearms work as well as video games dose not to mention training and hunting videos that teach you how to operate and maintain the tools fo the trade.

The problem is like the bible its far more a tool than anything else, a pistol has 2 or 4 general moving parts that are universal, if one plays darts or paint ball or air soft or BB/pellet or just a nerf foam dart guns one can grasp the finer points of  of point and shoot, of coarse a gun is heavier and the recoil is a bitch if you work out a little this can be minimized.

What I am getting at most firearms are easy to use because they are perfected tools and all it takes is someone willing to train their body a bit and learn basic projectrory with a toy gun of some kind. The trouble is so life is both figuratively and literately dangerous to us so lets skip all this fou moralistic brown nosing and ban life!

As for the bible its abused constantly and yet is rarely picked on(reasonably) because its somehow a fundamental right, as is most things in life.

Gore,Violence,Sexauilty,Fear,Emotion these are but modes of transportation of story and thought, to take them from society you create a society of children and nannys, since adults are not required.

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Then we also need to ban every single movie that fits your world view don't we? As those are not polygons and pixels but real people.

And House of the Dead teaches them how to accurately aim the same gun.

Then why am I so bad at Clay Pigeon shooting, by your locgic I should be some sort of gunslinging zen master by now, unless of course your claim is completely innaccurate and unfounded.....

Wrong again, jabroni. Small percentages are statistically insignificant.

Grow up and get a life.

Geaux Saints, Geaux Tigers, Geaux Hornets, Jack Thompson can geaux chase a chupacabra.

 I hope you are not serious.

HI DEROVIUS!

Been a long time, did you think we'd forgot this was your imaginary friend or something?

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