{"id":13484,"date":"2011-08-16T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"former-oasis-guitarist-blames-brutal-video-games-for-riot-violence-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13484-former-oasis-guitarist-blames-brutal-video-games-for-riot-violence-in-the-uk","title":{"rendered":"Former Oasis guitarist blames \u201cbrutal video games\u201d for riot violence in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Britain reels in the aftermath of the past week&rsquo;s mass rioting in London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Liverpool, and hand-wringing MPs look for some explanation for it all, it seems one man has it all worked out &ndash; former Oasis guitarist, Noel Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t understand where their energy for these riots is coming from,&#8221; he tells Yahoo, astonishing people all over the planet with his ability to form coherent sentences after years of drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We live in this age of violence &#8211; and I don&#8217;t care what other people say &#8211; brutal TV and brutal video games are a reason for this pointless violence as well. The people are immune to violence, they are used to it. And if they get caught they aren&#8217;t punished the right way. The prisons are already full? Then build new ones. It&#8217;s crazy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a guy with quite a reputation for on-stage punch-ups, it&rsquo;s kind of ironic.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also not the first time he&rsquo;s slagged of games either. A couple of years back, he compared Guitar Hero to &ldquo;two goblins trying to f*** a donkey up the arse with a laser beam&rdquo;, because he couldn&rsquo;t seem to sort out the difference between games and real life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16578-Noel-Gallagher-blames-violent-games-for-London-Riots?p=496680#post496680\" target=\"_self\">Do games have a role to play in violent behaviour?<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Share your thoughts in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}