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D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths
Grymalkin writes "A man is in custody for allegedly stabbing 3 people to death in King of Prussia, PA last week. Now it appears that the district attorney believes there may be a link between the murders and the Dungeons and Dragons RPG. From the article: 'I mean, you have many, many stab wounds and those 'Dungeons and Dragons' fantasy games involve swords and knives and daggers and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can't say for sure.'" Wow. There are a lot more D&D players than I thought there were, what with all the stabbings and all.
All vehicular homicides can be connected to Nascar, right?
Personally, I blame Chris Rock's guns-for-knives program.
The DA is clearly just an attention whore.
"King of Prussia, PA" -- is that a real town? And here I was thinking that "Medieval England, Iowa" was just a lame joke. Now I'm thinking of getting an atlas...
Karma be dammed
:: You rolled 6 add to that your previous pyschotic dispostion modifier of +20 for a score of 26 , pass lunacy check . You go nuts and go stab a bunch of people.
Roll 3 d 6 : 14 or higher to go on a killing spree
Obviously this lawyer never played D&D
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Someone's gonna post these, might as well get it out of the way:
boots of escaping
axe scuffle
You Bastard!
... wait... I must consult my dice for my next move.
I'll kill you!
-- Mitch
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I thought Prussa dissolved? Aren't we calling it Poland these days?
and who are you then?
I am your King
well I didn't vote for you...
-- Mitch
Manzellanews.com
seems that [SA]HatfulOfHollow has what he wanted at last.
Conservatism: The fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.
I mean, the violence in D&D is typically glossed over (some might say to its detrement -- barbarian heroes don't seem to live up to their Conanic legacy without rivers of gore to wade through). You roll. You hit. You kill the monster or it kills you. The survivors gets on with their lives. Not a lot of description going on, when it comes to combat.
Now The Passion of the Christ... there you have some violence! And no matter how you couch it, as being history, religion, passion play, statement of faith, what have you, it cannot be denied that it presents its violent images much more vividly than any DM ever did. If you buy into the watching-violence-causes-violence thing, then it seems obvious that it undoubtedly causes more RL violent behavior than D&D does. (And kids do watch it -- sometimes at parental behest!)
When is a lawyer going to come out and say that stabbings may be caused by Mel Gibson movies, is what I'd like to know.
"What about: Fists and feet Piano Wire Strangulation/Suffocation Drowning Starvation Food poisoning"
Well, if they looked at your hard-drive, they'd probably assume porn.
"Derp de derp."
I have been trying to institute a ban on D&D in my hometown for many years now, but the nerds just wouldn't listen. I guess one of them finally snapped and went on a murderous rage fuelled by satan and cheetos.
Making the moon less necessary since 1998.
Nethack.
Mike: Hey, Joe?
Joe: Yeah Mike?
Mike: Someone just got stabbed.
Joe: Hmmm.... we should probably blame it on video games.
Mike: Nah, I don't think so. Everyone else is doing that. And some people say there's no proof?
Joe: Well, how about D&D? That's kinda like video games, and it's based on the occult, and Satan is bad.
Mike: Yeah, that might work. Let's go with that.
How many people stab in D&D? Any decent combat munchkin will use a sword or battleaxe. And nobody stabs with those. They'll try to get a decent swing.
I guess it's true that D&D is making a comeback, after all, it's been years since anyone blamed the game for anything.
Unless of course he's blaming it on the D&D xbox game...
Or of course the D&D movie. I can see that causing someone to kill.
In the 2010's Scrabble will be the cause of all sorts of crime.
District attorney Duce Dastor: I mean, we got this ransom note, and those 'Scrabble' games involve words and letters and vowels and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can't say for sure.
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Back in 2000 or 2001 a man by the name of Mucko took a couple of guns to work and killed 7, I think, of his co-workers. A couple of days later, the Boston Herald had a story about the investigation and what police found at his apartment:
... ... ... ...and Dungeons and Dragons books.
Books on depression
Medication for various mental disorders
They didn't go so far as to SAY there was a connection to the killings, but they were kind of pulling you in that direction.
THE MAN IS A NERD! OF COURSE HE HAD D&D STUFF.
--Mike
he was attacking the darkness.
"Hi! I'm Gary Gygax, and I'm..."
...who knows? Maybe the guy just crit-failed on his encounter disposition roll.
rolls dice
"glad to meet you!"
That green slime had it coming.
How the hell did this man get a law degree?
You must have a really good spam filter, if you can't even hazard a guess.
The DA has just found out that the suspect had recently gotten bagels at a so-called 'Bagel Store' where he witnessed slashing and sawing motions with a sharp knife perpetrated on a bagel as symbolic proxy for a murder victim.
"Bagels may be involved," quoted the DA as he himself chewed on a bagel, unaware of the sinister implications of his actions.
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Well, wasn't that what was happening back in Jesus' time? You had the religious leaders condemning anyone and everyone. Jesus came along and said, "You're all screwed up and need help. If you loved me, you'd try not to do anything to make me sad, but hey, I understand nobody's perfect ...except for me."
Expected troll:
Something along the line of "yeah, those fictional characters rock." (Although Jesus's existance and history have been backed by many sources. The only disparate part is whether or not he was ressurected.)
no, D&D only caused mass suicides in the 1980s - murders by goth cults didn't happen until the 1990s.
Heavy metal has been the primary source of murder since the 1970s - we all know that Lemmy of Motorhead himself kills 100-200 every concert and his roadies work in conjuction with the CIA and Jimmy Hoffa to cover it up by donating all the spilt blood and bodies to GWAR. Violent video games are the source of all murder, especially if they have a metal soundtrack - like that Prince of Persia, Warrior Within game. GTA isn't the only cause of theft - you can't forget games like Thief, a game that also promotes diabolism. GTA is pure evil, as your main character fornicates with unchaste women and then shoots, and even depicts pre-marital sex, a horrific act that constitutes stiff $5 fines and/or 90 days in jail in some states with powerful and moral blue laws. Its also a well known fact that Osama bin Laden has an underground bunker where his minions play video games and D&D and listen to a mix of heavy metal and country music to harden them to their homicidal and suicidal cause.
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there are probably nutbags out there that take me seriously...
Any time some conservative or religious nutcase
Oh wait! This just in, there are liberal nutcases too: Hillary Clinton bashes GTA
... and I quote: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different color or they're from a different place."
After all, most people who burnt witches had access to a copy of the Bible.
I ddin't see anything about the victims being orc though
from what I've heard, the whole thing started with a heated exchange over 3rd Edition vs. 2nd. It got pretty bloody after that.
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