Author Topic: Please oh please blame anyone but me... (Read 1166 times)

Sandman · « **on:** February 17, 2005, 11:51:37 AM »

...for my own actions.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/16/news_6118699.html

Ridiculous.

LePaul · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2005, 11:58:17 AM »

People actually accept responsibility for their actions in this century? Nooo! Must not! Thousands of trial attorneys need the work!

JB88 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 17, 2005, 11:59:48 AM »

when i was a child. i played with woodchips. it was good enough for me dammit!

lol.

JB73 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:05:20 PM »

like i said in my thread, impressioinable minds should NOT play games like that...

sad thing is they may have a case:

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where Thompson is said to have bought both M-rated games while under the ESRB-mandated 17-year-old purchase age.

for that alone someone is going to get into trouble

mietla · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:18:22 PM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
People actually accept responsibility for their actions in this century?

that would be un-American in a Liberal America.

Hawklore · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:35:46 PM »

Parents are to blame when things like this happen..

Video Games give Ideas granted, but so do books, other people, and movies..

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:38:56 PM »

I wanna know how that game "trained" this dope to take a gun away from a cop?

And how a cop managed to let him get his gun

Yanno its strange. I like alot of other kids used to watch the threee stooges Yet I dont remember many stories of kid hitting each other on the head with things like sledgehammers.

Raider179 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:39:27 PM »

sorry but I Will never buy that a video game made some car theif kill cops. This is this guys loser family trying to make a $ off a tradgedy. Let me ask this where was his family while this kid "trained" play GTA?Now they want to sue cause he played it. Its all about bad parenting or just plain rotten kids.

Elfie · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:45:59 PM »

How many of us watched the Roadrunner cartoon? That is one of the most violent shows ever on TV. Something bad happens to Wile E Coyote like every 5 or 6 seconds on that show on average. It didnt mess us up.

Otoh someone IS gonna have to pay big $ because he bought that game while under the age of 17. At least thats what the article implies.

indy007 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2005, 12:53:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Raider179
This is this guys loser family trying to make a $ off a tradgedy. Let me ask this where was his family while this kid "trained" play GTA?Now they want to sue cause he played it. Its all about bad parenting or just plain rotten kids.

It's the victims next of kin that are chasing the lawsuit, .not the kids family.

Is AL a death sentence state? If not, it should be. Let him finish out his "video game" reality strapped to a table after a few months of being raped in prison.

Urchin · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:06:36 PM »

I dunno.. I know a lot of kids were "trained" how to fight by Mortal Kombat... had two kids get their hearts ripped out of their chests in the cafeteria while another student got on the intercom screaming "FINISH HIM!"

This other kid used to cut in line by shooting this little grappling hook out of his wrist and yelling "GET OVER HERE!"

Freaky **** man... freaky ****.

Zulu7 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:14:33 PM »

Look its a big difference between "Roadrunner" cartoons, "Tom and Jerry" and the like and people who market a video game thast celebrates every low life scumbag in our society, turns them into heroes and glamourises killing cops, drug dealing and prostitution. If you can't see that what hope is there.

Yes some of us may be well educated sensible and able to seperate fantasy from reality. But there are a host of kids out there who do not have our good fortune. They have been emotionaly abused, given bad role models, badly parented, you name it. And this kind of stuff just feeds them more. Its not the games fault. Its sensible responsible people allowing this kind of thing to be fashionable and fun! and going on about our rights to see this stuff if we want to because we can handle it. We aint everyone and we have a responsibility to make society a better place instead of pleasing ourselves all the time.

Sandman · « **Reply #12 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:19:07 PM »

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Originally posted by indy007
It's the victims next of kin that are chasing the lawsuit, .not the kids family.

In other words, it's a money grab because there's no blood to be extracted from the turnip that committed the crime.

indy007 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:35:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
In other words, it's a money grab because there's no blood to be extracted from the turnip that committed the crime.

Yeah pretty much. I think some people were assuming the kid's family were pushing the lawsuit... which, ironically, wouldn't be suprising with our legal system.

btw guys, I don't think the 3 stooges or the roadrunner are a good comparison to GTA. I'm all for violent video games, but uh.. Wile E. Coyote was never wallowing in a pool of his own blood after he rocketskated his way into a cliff. The roadrunner also never beat his carcass with a baseball bat for the satisfaction of it. My generation is pretty numb to violence as it is... our next generation is going to be *really* screwed up.

JB73 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:45:19 PM »

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Originally posted by indy007
btw guys, I don't think the 3 stooges or the roadrunner are a good comparison to GTA. I'm all for violent video games, but uh.. Wile E. Coyote was never wallowing in a pool of his own blood after he rocketskated his way into a cliff. The roadrunner also never beat his carcass with a baseball bat for the satisfaction of it. My generation is pretty numb to violence as it is... our next generation is going to be *really* screwed up.

very true...

you weren't dictating what evil thing the coyote or tom or jerry would do either.