SA school attack blamed on GTA: report
The SA media jump on the evil-GTA bandwagon
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SA school attack blamed on GTA: report
The SA media jump on the evil-GTA bandwagon
Oh wow we really thought our media could be more imaginative than this. We expect too much from them.
I thought those kind of people like to blame everything on satanism, is poor Pan being outdone by GTA? lol.
When do you rape woman? As for as I know you pay for the pleasure of a woman :p
i played GTA since the first one (birds eye view). never once was there anything remotely close to the word rape, infact i don’t ever think any character in GTA has even said the word rape...Quote:
“Players gain points when they perpetrate very serious violent acts. If you kill a woman with your bare hands you get points. They also get points for raping a woman,”
Dont open you mouth if you know nothing about the game...
Why are the kids playing GTA?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nt-alright.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by czc
EWN = South African version of Fox News. Seriously, don't pay any attention to them. It's like listening to an illiterate trying to read a bed-time story.
I can only laugh at these sort of Articles. We shouldn't be giving them any lime light.
And building on czc and The Joker's post, here's the link to the FPB ratings for August: http://www.fpb.org.za/classification...es-august-2013
As expected, GTA V was rated 18.
Only a matter of time before something like that came out.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
http://www.myspaceantics.com/images/...ta-somalia.jpg
Come now, surely you know the first frame must always be a helicopter.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
Full article here http://ewn.co.za/2013/09/25/GTA-Glenvista-High , many folk just like here, do not agree with the opinion piece.
O MY F$%K Really FFS no man this blaming on games people play is rubbish. Parents need to wake up on what the kids are playing.
I bet that kid dose not even have GTA. Even then this act was done before GTA V. Its not the Teachers fault its the parents for letting this happen. Teachers have no Power anymore what can they do. Parents are making it the teachers discipline the kids, but when they do they get flak for it. This journalist needs to wake up and not copy paste other work and blame shift what is really going on with the youth.
If they blame it on GTA then they means a whole class of +/- 30 people all play the game and its the games fault that they are rude, disrespectful and full of Sh$T. I think that's rubbish.
People need to know more about the world step back and look at whats really going on and why its happening and not blame something that will never solve the state of chaos that's going on.
ErmQuote:
Originally Posted by Fivel
The many folks here don't agree with the OP. That article you linked takes a rational approach to the problem, especially underlining that violent games is just a single factor that contributes to shootings and such.Quote:
The deep-rooted issues the shooters were facing probably can’t be blamed fully on computer games, and while their final actions might have been informed in part by games, it was not the sole contributor to their actual actions by any stretch of the imagination. While it was nowhere near the same level of violence, I’m sure the same would prove true in any other case, including Glenvista. In the coming weeks we’ll likely hear more about the psychological states of the Glenvista and Sasolburg boys, and find that there were greater problems in their lives than computer games.
Don’t blame one game, or one pageant, albeit if they are in poor taste. There’s probably no point in banning games, and age restrictions clearly don’t help. Banning drugs hasn’t helped stem their use by much and, unlike games or movies, drugs can’t simply be downloaded. Violence will remain a part of films, games and, for some kids, everyday life as long as it remains something which is glorified and glamorous. This is done by society as a whole, not just one game. It isn’t something you can stop with one law or sanction. At the very least, parents need to be able to show their kids the difference between fantasy and reality, as realistic as that fantasy may be.
My bad Lyt, thought the OP was referencing the article I linked to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyt
It's like giving your kids Alchohol same with playing GTA, only the parents could be to blame here.
yep, when I bought my copy there was a lady buying gta for her son. Shop guy asked her the age of her son and she said 14. Shop guy asked her if she was aware that the game had a rating of 18. Then she asked if it was worse than the previous gta's. The whole shop (there was about 5 guys in there) said 'yes!' in unison. She bought it anyway without hesitation.
Fail parenting. Porn is also rated 18, does she buy that for her son?
Yup, this is all true.... and after your kids play Diablo 3 they'll feel compelled to become a Witch Doctor. :D
More like a warrior from the recent events :P .Quote:
Originally Posted by Totempole
What? That is so stupid :wtf: Besides the fact that the kids shouldn't even be playing GTA.
It would be a less bitter pill to swallow if that idiot actually knew what the game was about. Instead these idiots pass the buck and games get the blame as an easy target. Then again that's all anybody does in SA, mainly the ANC
true man true...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ike_009
o wait i forgot i played Doom 3 again the other day im going to do what I did in the game in real life now. AFK -.-'
Hey! Don't bring porn into this! Dit het jou NIKS gemaak nie!Quote:
Originally Posted by bradbear117
Reminds me of the 80s with heavy metal and rock n roll :p I wonder what will be next in line for the blame game.
Ya, if all those guidance and bible ed teachers were right about my music when I was at school, I'd be a big satanist or I would have committed suicide long ago. Ag I guess there's always something to moan about, used to be music, now it's games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsar
I remember people saying music makes kids commit suicide (heavy metal etc) but it probably has saved many from it actually imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsar
When I was very little we once had some people coming to talk to us about how evil the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and similar toys were. They actually had an unopened Turtle figurine there for their little demon-stration and I remember how afterward all the kids asked if they could have the toy. Those people weren't going to play with it afterall :DQuote:
Originally Posted by matt
Steve Hofmeyer :p ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsar
LOL - dude, I remember those days. Now that I'm (a lot) older I realise the funny thing is, if you understand the Word of God you'd know that all those "talks" were from a bunch of clowns who probably never even laid eyes on a bible before. Either that or they'd rip their topic so out of context that it didn't matter at all anyways. I lost MANY He-Man toys due to people like that :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Eugene
The sad part is, the only reason people run articles like these is to stir up controversy and elicit a reaction from people. Judging from this thread, they succeeded.
I wish people would just start ignoring the ignoramuses who write articles such as these. A babbling idiot without an audience is just a babbling idiot.
No that would be apathetic. One needs to stand up and offer a different view. Saying nothing just allows the one view to be out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clive Woofer
Tabloids don't care about pushing opinions, they care about page views. That's why they run these articles.
It's sensationalist drivel at its finest.
The Saints Row series isn't even close to being as well known by the general public as GTA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glordit
I can assume with reason perhaps people don't know it's charms too well, as seen below.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eugene
http://i.imgur.com/EN291Eml.jpg
Yes you are being pulled in a pony carriage by a bondage wearing pimp, in a gunfight with other S&M gun toting freaks in pursuit. - If thats not as shocking as GTA then I give up! :D
While I totally agree that most of these incidents makes gaming, movies, music an easy target to put blame and normally this would be bullshit...Quote:
Originally Posted by James
you have to consider this:
Certainly most of us here are not mentally unstable and have a good ability to discern between right and wrong, reality and not so reality, right?
However if you take a person that can or has committed these acts they are not your normal Tsar or Eugene posting here on mybb. These people are already at such a state that something has changed them to do this or they just need the final straw to snap and produce lunacy.
Whether its rapeplay, GTA or stairway to heaven it can serve as a catalyst towards the final act or make up the whole psychotic beliefs the person hold. We can always throw in the religious angle here and see how many has act on them because out of those [good] beliefs they based on and finally forming their own perversions.
Yes sure I've played, I've watched, I've listened, I've read the spectrum there is, but I've not committed any acts based on them.
However they can to a degree linger in your subconscious and whether or not you want to believe it... they can if you let them influence your thinking patterns which altars your actions. I would think that there is enough truth in this to support this; not that I say you might go bat shit crazy all of a sudden, but you know that thought of fuck it I want to drive 220 and feel how it feels because it was leet in NFS ;)
Now of course like our locals who blames every little thing on satan, its wrong to just say hey that dude who had a katana and pitched up at school... IT MUST BE SHADOW WARRIOR !!!! or IT MUST BE CIRUS's TWERKING!!!! or SATAN!!!! must be him of course. Lets all forget how he got to that point and just point an easy target out, lets not do actual work and lets not solve the actual problem. I mean when it happens again we can just next time say it was Pan :)
WTF am I saying!?
Just that media (game, movie, music etc) might add to it or could be from what the ideals are built on and it takes a certain type of person for this to happen to. So it is actually it is kinda stupid to just say its the games fault or how on earth can they blame a game, I wouldn't do it and I played this or that...