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Games Made Me Do It Defense Didn't Work
BuddingMonkey wrote to mention a heartening ruling from a judge who saw beyond the anti-gaming hype. CNN is reporting that Devin Moor has been found guilty of murder, in a well publicized case where the defendant stated that video games caused his behavior. From the article: "Prosecutor Lyn Durham said Tuesday that Moore knew what he was doing when he grabbed a patrolman's gun and killed two officers and a radio dispatcher. 'And he knew it was wrong,' she said."
Video games made me pour Hot Coffee all over my naked girlfriend!
...but, the games, if they did not cause this then games might not be dangerous to children but then the government would be wrong in spending millions of tax dollars on needless investigations and... ...it's like, if the gun manufacturers are not to blame for gun crimes but grokster is to blame for p2p crimes and videogame companies are to blame *twitch* not to blame *twitch* to blame for....
ILLOGICAL! ILLOGICAL! THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Can you imagine if the Scooby Doo gang captured a villain dressed up as... O..... Donkey Kong, and he announced "I would've never, EVER, thrown barrels at my Plumber, but the Video game made me do it. Seriously. O, and I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids."
I'm going to make a game that ends in the player killing themself, hype it up a whole lot, and let the problem solve itself.
So, in the opinion of the show, what are the good/bad ways to influence a child from 2 to 6?
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
you and i may be, but look around you, do you really want those people to be making decisions
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