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Grand Theft Auto Led Teen to Kill
Varg Vikernes writes "FOXNews reports on a lawsuit that claims the video game 'Grand Theft Auto' led a teenager to shoot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003, mirroring violent acts depicted in the popular game. 'What has happened in Alabama is that four companies participated in the training of Devin... to kill three men,' attorney Jack Thompson told The Tuscaloosa News, which reported the suit's filing. Thompson is also filing suit against Wal-Mart, Gamestop, Take-Two and Sony." Gamespot has coverage of this story as well. Thompson has made something of a career out of lawsuits of this nature.
And Super Mario Bros. made me eat magic mushrooms.
Oh, wait...
Pac Man made me eat my father.
:(
I only had a few seconds before my power ran out, I didn't know what else to do
Besides, as Marcus Brigstocke wrote:(Link includes groovy retro PacMan game).
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GTA taught me that shooting cops pretty much always results in a quick and violent death. He must have better cheat codes than I do.
Pong - Led me to a life as a professional tennis player
Pac Man - Responsible for my obesity
Paperboy - Caused me to lose my delivery job as a kid
Spy Hunter - Responsible for my reckless speeding
Monopoly - Caused me to found Microsoft
Leisure Suit Larry - Responsible for my herpes
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Robot Devil: Mwhahaha! 1/4 of my ridiculously circuitous plan is complete!
People are responsible for their own actions. You can't set a precedent stating that violence can't be shown in any form to the American public because it's unconstitional, fascist, and ridiculous considering how many millions have watched grand theft auto and not replicated it.
"I only speak the truth"
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Back when I was a kid all we had was the devils music to make us go crazy and kill a bunch of people. You kids and your video games wouldn't know a subliminal message if it jumped out of your Xstations and slapped you. Why if we wanted to have an excuse for being loony tunes, we'd have to spin a record (a record!) backwards to find out how to act...and we liked it!
No battles to the death are recalled. Mumpsman can hit to attack and cause brainsmashing.
I think we need a game where you kill lawyers.
Personal Story.
When I was young, I had games such as Operation Wolf, Rambo, Commando, Green Beret, Ikari Warriors and the like.
After one day playing all these games, I decided I had to singlehandedly invade a foreign country. So I recorded the game music to a cassette, popped it into my walkman, and made my way to the local park (well, a foreign country was a long way away). There I smeared my face with mud, and went on a shooting spree.
I've only been recently released from prison, but now I can tell my tale of how video games can turn you from a nice normal person with access to guns with fighting parents who ignore you, living in a trailer park with no friends, into a killer!
-- Wile E. Coyote, Esq.
I can't believe that you said Lawyer and ethics in the same sentence!!!
A teen's parents are suing attorney Jack Thompson and The Tuscaloosa News for blatantly publicising a story where a teenager shot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003. After reading this story, their son Billy went out and did the same in their small sleepy town.
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Because I played this game, all I want to do is pick up random women and have sex with them.
er... actually, it's a toss up between the video game and my XY genetic make up.
Get me a lawyer, I need to sue someone.
Live forever, or die trying.
And where in GTA can I kill a dispatcher? I don't remember that one.
Ooo! Good thinking! I'm going to sue Will and Grace for teaching me to be really catty about other people's wardrobes!
By the way, those shoes... I don't think so.
Reasons:
You, sir, are too good for Slashdot.
That game is too violent for you. I demand you stop playing it now.
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Hmm, and I thought it was only me...
"You are right" and shot him in the foot, continuing with... "Oh, does it hurt, just go pick up a health pack or hit the reset button."
> Next people are gonna say that Dungeons and Dragons causes people to murder others with swords.
No, D&D causes people to murder each other with demonic curses. Don't you read the Chick booklets?
Chris Mattern
Let me also state that I have no idea what you just said.
The day Jesus died for our sins. It sent a clear message to people -- you can do evil things, and as long as you profess to believe in Jesus, you will be saved.
The worst part is that, in the game, I sometimes killed a rare life form. It seems there was this pterodactyl, and I would hit him right in the mouth with my lance, killing him. This I did, with no regard for the scientific value in finding a live pterodactyl, after all these 65 million years. Just think, if we found a live pterodactyl in real life, we could study it and learn so much. But I cackled with glee at the poor animal's virtual death. Here I was, fantasizing about an act that carried with it, incredible amounts of scientific devastation -- permanent destruction of so much irreplacable zoological data. Damn, just thinking about it, makes me realize what a sicko I was. It's a wonder I didn't take up pterodactyl killing in real life. I hate to think what my life would be like today, if I had gone that way. That damn game should have been banned!!
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Everyone wants to blame someone else. They want to blame the media, blame their video games, blame their friends, etc. But none of these influences is very strong. You should be able to easily override them.
There is one influence, however, that is too strong to resist- God.
The church tells me that God controls everything. When something good happens, it's because of God. When something bad happens, it's because of God also, and he had a good reason for it. Nobody affiliated with the church has ever told me that something is out of God's control. They say he's always in control- he controls all there is.
Therefore I think it's sensible to blame God. God made him do it. God could have overridden this kid's thoughts but he didn't. God allowed it to happen.
So I think instead of blaming the media, the gun makers, the video game makers, or the parents, we should blame Jesus instead. Sue the church. Because as any good Christian will tell you, God is always in control of things and therefore is liable for everything that happens.
(Hey, if you're going to claim that you're in control of everything that happens, be prepared to accept responsibility for everything that happens)
and then slap the idiot kid so hard with the book that his great great grandfather would feel it.
Man, if you slapped me that hard, I don't think I'd be alive anymore. Although I do know for a fact that getting slapped with a book hurts like hell.
Karnal
Are we really going to wait for a new Joan of Arc or Alexander the Great to destabilize society, before we think about our childrens' welfare and do something to prevent the next tragedy? How many cities will we have to lose, how many millions enslaved, before you take the risk seriously?
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There's a thing called free will, plus the randomness of genetics. You can't always blame the parents.
Oh yes you can. Watch:
Stupid parents! Why don't you give your kid a hug every once in a while? Now look what you've done.
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