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Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt?
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Philadelphia Inquirer article linking videogames to an alleged spree killing attempt. According to the article, "Investigators suspect the three teens arrested.. as they allegedly were about to launch a killing rampage in the small town, found inspiration in violent computer games.. [police] learned that the name the three reportedly had given themselves - Warriors of Freedom - is also an Internet-based combat game." But only a few media reports mention that the violent game connection was made by Jack Thompson, a Miami lawyer and outspoken critic of violent video and computer games - is this a case of shameless Googling to find any obscure game with a similar name and make a connection, or is there genuine evidence here?
And just because I go around building towns near gold mines and harvesting lumber doesn't mean the game has affected me.
Do nethack players go on a ) wielding killing spree?
I guess we shall never know.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Seriously, before video games, there was no war, no violence, and everyone loved each other. The crusades were caused because of the church's addiction to Doom. World War I, well, that was Duke Nukem. World War II was cause by the release of Quake. It is time to put an end to these horrible inventions now, before Doom 3 comes out and World War 3 starts.
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As a psycho killer, I am outraged that you don't think I can enjoy Oregon Trail as much as non-psycho killers, or non-psycho non-killers.
Next you'll be saying we don't like Commander Keen.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I've been stuck at work for the past fourteen hours, and I'm about ready to kill someone right now. Maybe we should look into getting work outlawed as well?
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Therefore, NetHack players either do their deed and get away with it, or they're the people we hear about on the news who get killed by kittens after eating bad jelly.
when i was a child (i was born in 1939)
we would take large pieces of lumber and smash frogs on the head.
we had no video games back then.
Therefore, NetHack players either do their deed and get away with it, or they're the people we hear about on the news who get killed by kittens after eating bad jelly.
Nitpick: eating a rotten jelly corpse could cause death by food poisoning, NOT a "killed by XXX while helpless" death. You're thinking of getting killed by a kitten after hitting a floating eyeball.
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when i was a child (i was born in 1939) we would take large pieces of lumber and smash frogs on the head. we had no video games back then.
When I was a teen (in 1993) we would get an old 3 wood and launch cane toads down an imaginary fairway (it's okay cause they're a pest).
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
Following your analogy, and assuming a cycle of 3DRealms - id Software - 3DRealms, the next big war will be caused by the release (not of Doom 3 but of) Duke Nukem Forever. I guess i can sit pretty for a while =)
Ouch! Mod this up as "insightful", not funny! I mean, wait until they try to tie the first killing spree to AA!
Yes, he was a quiet kid, kept to himself, played a green beret captain in the U.S. Army on the Internet...
I hear America's Army is a great game, but I won't play it until there's a mod that lets me go AWOL in the jungle of southeast asia, become a living god to a tribe of natives, build up my own private army and keep a freaked-out photographer as court jester...
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> They will blame everyone and everything, except the two causes:
> 1) the people who teased them to death for years.
I thought people who suffered excessive childhood teasing grew up to be programmers.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
oh come on, we all know that the bison died out because the settlers played too much oregon trail.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
is the universe's sense of irony.
I played GTA3: Vice city for 2 weeks straight..
Then my car got stolen from the mall.
Really.
When I see a psycho killer attempting to Bunny hop, wielding his knife, to run faster then I'll know he was influenced by video games.
... are an obvious counterexample to the idea that naming yourself after a violent video game means you're a violent group.
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