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Valve Slammed Over 'Horrendous' Steam School-Shooting Game (eurogamer.net)
Several readers have shared an EuroGamer report: Just a week after the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas that saw 10 people fatally shot and 13 others were wounded, Valve has come under fire for a Steam school-shooting game that encourages you to "hunt and destroy" children. Active Shooter, which at the time of publication is live on Steam and due for release on 6th June, is described by its developer as "a dynamic S.W.A.T. simulator." The idea is you're sent in to deal with a shooter at a school, but you can also play as the actual shooter, gunning down school children.
Now, an anti-gun violence charity has called on Valve to pull the game from Steam. The developer of Active Shooter is called Revived Games, the publisher Acid. Revived Games' credits include White Power: Pure Voltage and Dab, Dance & Twerk. "Acid", who plans to add a survival mode in which you play as a civilian and have to "escape or perform a heroic action such as fight against the shooter itself," took to Active Shooter's Steam page to defend the game. "First of all, this game does not promote any sort of violence, especially any soft [sic] of a mass shooting," Acid said.
Now, an anti-gun violence charity has called on Valve to pull the game from Steam. The developer of Active Shooter is called Revived Games, the publisher Acid. Revived Games' credits include White Power: Pure Voltage and Dab, Dance & Twerk. "Acid", who plans to add a survival mode in which you play as a civilian and have to "escape or perform a heroic action such as fight against the shooter itself," took to Active Shooter's Steam page to defend the game. "First of all, this game does not promote any sort of violence, especially any soft [sic] of a mass shooting," Acid said.
A buddy of mine used a WAD maker/editor to make a very good rendition of our high school in the 90's. Of course, DOOM was made of monsters and folks enjoyed it and took it for what it was. (this was in the 90's). I shudder to think of what would happen to us now if we were in high school and did this. Probably end up in federal....prison.
You cant be free without guns.. just ask any American.. or Somalian.. or Iraqi..
#sofree!
#blessed
Somalia, Iraq, somewhere in Africa or the Middle East is where a lot of those putzes seem to think they live. They put the camo on, the flack jackets, boots, and strut around with their AR-15s...in suburbia USA.
I love living in the USA so I don't have to deal with war lords and their gangs. If I lived in a country where I felt I needed a gun, I'd leave.
And the ironic thing is that the those camo wearing clowns are in fact turning this country into a Third World shithole where we have armed gangs running around.
EVERY country that has heavily armed populace running around is a Third World shithole. It's very stressful to be always on the lookout for someone with a gun about to shoot you. You can't do anything productive or creative. You become backwards.
And I was see, all the smart people leave and move to civilized places on Earth where they don't have to worry about being shot by someone.
Whatever - it's too late.
O Cananda! O Canada! ....