SA school attack blamed on GTA: report

[Fivel]

Reminds me of the 80s with heavy metal and rock n roll I wonder what will be next in line for the blame game.

Steve Hofmeyer ?

[Neo]

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

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

[Dragonic]

[Clive Woofer]

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.

[Fivel]

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.

[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.

[Glordit]

[MetalSoup]

The Saints Row series isn't even close to being as well known by the general public as GTA.

[Glordit]

The Saints Row series isn't even close to being as well known by the general public as GTA.

I can assume with reason perhaps people don't know it's charms too well, as seen below.



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!

[Necuno]

SA school attack blamed on GTA: report

The SA media jump on the evil-GTA bandwagon

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...

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...