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German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting
A recent shooting in Germany has raised the ire of many politicians and officials, and they're turning to video games as a scapegoat after it was revealed that the shooter was a fan of Counterstrike and played Far Cry 2 the night before the rampage. First, a major retailer decided to drop mature-rated games altogether, and then the Minister for Social Affairs suggested restricting "addictive games," such as World of Warcraft, to adults only. Despite an unfavorable reaction from gamers and game developers alike, the chief of Germany's national police union has now spoken out against violent games as well, saying, "The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."
I can go to Germany, kill a bunch of people, tell everybody I am modeling myself after the chief of the German National Police and then they'll call for a ban on German National Police Chiefs. Sounds like a plan!
Ban this entartete kunst - it degrades a nation.
+1, Obscure Godwin-bait.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
So you're saying he's upset with the subject matter of Wolfenstein 3D?
I would say something about violence in Germany, but I am afraid someone might call Godwin's Law.
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Men are a bunch of violent bread eaters?
No, that only happens 34% of the time, a signification minority and not the majority you claimed.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
They started it.
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Hey! I'm Joan of Arc's distance relative you insensitive clod!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
Men are a bunch of violent bread eaters?
Let them eat cake!
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Vönder bread. Helps build dead bodies 12 ways.
Understandable point of view - I'd be against eugenics if I was at the fucking stupid end of the 'tard spectrum.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well, I drew out a Venn diagram, and my conclusions are something like this:
1. Some school-shooters are young males.
2. Some school-shooters eat bread.
3. Some bread-eaters play first-person shooters.
4. Some bread-eaters shoot schools.
5. Some breads eat young males.
6. The males of some species eat their own young.
7. Jung was a noted psychologist who might have some insight into why kids shoot other kids at schools.
8. Jung would hesitate to imply correlation and causation wrt fps and school shootings.
9. For that matter, so would Freud, who would instead blame it on unrealized feelings towards the shooter's father.
10. At any rate, did you know that Bread released an album entiteled "Baby I'm-a Want You" in 1972?
11. I'm terrible at logical progressions.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I'm suddenly left with the image of thousands of people storming germany with light guns shouting PEW PEW.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Admit it, you're just an apologist for the necromancy lobby that's trying to push its sick message on our children.
Are you serious about golf? You have a higher chance of dying playing golf than any sport aside from bare knuckle boxing. Do you know how many people need a hip replacement after a game? Clearly the statistics show golf is HARDCORE.
Don't forget the porn. Good stuff.
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I have experienced personally the effect video games have on real life. I actually wound up in hospital and with a criminal record after my last visit to the zoo where I:
I like my coffee the way I like my women - roasted and ground up into little tiny pieces.
Before video games were invented, Germans didn't murder people.
(j/k)
They don't play those (to any notable extent) in Germany.
I always found that odd. Fat men rolling round in mud fighting over a dead pig and then drinking vast quantities of beer - if you were going to design a game for Germans, that would be it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Even simpler, allow everyone to register for a gun, shoot the ones who register, problem solved.
Irony: catchpa is halved, which is roughly what the population will be. Another problem solved.
There are many correlations between violence and other things. Studies have shown that 97% of all people who participate in school shootings are wearing pants at the time. Contact your government representatives and get them to ban wearing pants in school!