Crackpot News Network, always good for a laugh :D
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I'm gonna use that along with "Faux News", it's just too good. lol
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12 burgers bought in McDonalds
Outside Fort Worth, Texas, friend Michael Ritrovato said Alexis had recently been frustrated with the civilian contractor about a payment issue. But Ritrovato said his friend never showed signs of overeating, though he played a lot of shooting video games online.
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omg, i'm sad and a little angry that ANYONE believes this is another "shot" at video games causing violence.... yes it mentions it and by right it should (after all people get influenced by movies what makes video games so special), does it say anything else?
no...
is the blame on video games?
not in the slightest, it was just stating a fact "no matter how small"...
geez people, calm down
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"violence" is an act of harm towards something with the intention of producing harm... last time i checked, even if its virtual, shooting someone is a sign of violence...
your second point is rendered invalid as you could hear someone say "He was a nice guy, however he had a fixation with horror movies"... you can NOT generalize a statement in either sense "he was a nice guy, except he played video games" is what your statement is equal to...
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Like I said, "Video games probably blamed for the attack"
But what I see from the comment was that the friend was trying to convince other people that Alexis would never have attacked the Navy base since he was so nice and "never showed signs of aggressiveness or violence" except that he played online shooter games, a sentiment that all massacre suspects seemed to be accused of.
Just like the Newtown shooting where Lanza was found to have been playing COD games, suddenly video games were brought up in the lime light when NRA decided to blame video games partly for the Newtown shooting.
"And here’s another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.
Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here’s one: it’s called Kindergarten Killers. It’s been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn’t or didn’t want anyone to know you had found it?"
Forgive me but I can see news outlet starting to blame FPS games again from this...
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if you think of the news as anything more than a business, you give it too much credit... you must not forget that it is a company which can and will go bankrupt if they do not amass an audience from either a debatable topic or something the majority finds interesting.
This is the simple fact of news: bad publicity sells best, therefore you are obviously going to write what gains you the most money.
edit: however i should point out in this instance, they do NOT blame video games, the fact they mention it is because of people like you and others who love this industry and won't give proper thought to the subject are going to share it around and cause it to sell more, after all, each time someone refreshes the page, leaves a comment, or even just leaves the webpage open, it increases either the chance another person will find it or the revenue from advertisement gained.
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I know...isn't that the whole point yellow journalism started? Little facts, flashy headlines/story, and no sources = big buxs :/
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Let me tell you a story.
Jim became fat. No one knows why because he always exercise, though he always eat at McDonald.
Now I didn't say McDonald made him fat but it's there, irrelevent or not. But because I included it, it infers that McDonalds made him fat.
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again, maybe thoughtless people say that but i would not say its because of that... if anything it will be because jim's metabolic rate isn't fast enough, therefore he needs to ingest more catalysts such as coffee or mustard, or his genetic makeup simply makes his body type become an endomorph...
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Yeah, it could have been any those things. Heck, he may even have a glandular problem but none of those were mentioned. It's the fact that he ate at McDonald every day being mention will lead people to base that the weight gain was because McDonalds and let's face it, people nowadays don't think. People will just make an equation in their heads based off what they read saying, "If exercise makes you lose weight and exercise + McDonald = weight gain, then McDonalds must be very bad for you." It's not directly blaming McDonald but insinuating that McDonalds causes it.
But yeah, I agree with your edit to CombatWars.
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This heading makes things sound more interesting...
It's a blog on Wall Street Journal though...take what you will from it.
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now that one is singling out games (and also drinking but that's irrelevant to this conversation). It directly points blame at alcohol and gaming in general so i could understand why with this article however, it still doesn't change the fact the last one was purely to get people riled up in controversy and gain revenue. so yeah, this one is the one people should get mad about if they want to, however to be completely honest i don't see what good it does when you could instead do something constructive and just ignore it.
(fun fact for people who get mad over stuff like this: the only reason this still occurs is because you get mad and angry and voice that opinion, and as stated before, more revenue therefore they will keep doing it).
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Actually, before the title was edited, it was headed "Friend: Aaron Alexis Skilled at Shooter Videogames". People reading the blog would automatically assume that shooting games in general were to blame for the atrocity committed on this day since the title did not even mention his drinking until the recent edit.
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That gosh darn rock and or roll music is the work of the devil, I tells ya! Makes our children do naughty things! *Shakes a walking cane at the sky*
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Come on. I've been playing all sorts of video games my entire life. Cannons, guns, cars, planes, everything.
And look how I turned out.
I'm fine.
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It looks kind of disturbing, like that girl from the Orphan movie.
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hate to break it to you, but yeah it kinda screams "I drive a white van with the windows covered and FREE CANDY written on the side"
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Umm, my van is black.
And yes, I do drive around throwing free candy out the window on Halloween. Seriously, you can get shitloads of candy at Costco for cheap. Do you have a problem with that?
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You know some of us have to go on murder sprees after playing games to satisfy our murder boners. Some people are so inconsiderate.
I mean we never kill less than our share and we help the planet by performing population control, next thing you know murder will be outlawed... pffft Thanks Obama.
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Yes, videogames make people more violent. Postal 2 is the reason why I go around constantly pissing on everyone and chopping their heads off. Oh, wait... :B
Yeah, society is full of all sorts of idiots. This does not surprise me. I wonder what the next scapegoat will be.
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That guy was a Buddhist. So Buddhist terrorists is the new fad?
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"Well he seemed like an okay guy, but he did poop every day."
POOPING IS TO BLAME FOR ALL VIOLENCE. EVERY VIOLENT CRIMINAL IN HISTORY REGULARLY POOPED. WE MUST OUTLAW POOPING.
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Don't tell me you're surprised. The news tends to be infamous for being, y'know, full of shit. It's what they're there for, after all.
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CNN
One comment I saw was very interesting...
"Outside Fort Worth, Texas, friend Michael Ritrovato said Alexis had recently been frustrated with the civilian contractor about a payment issue. But Ritrovato said his friend never showed signs of aggressiveness or violence, though he played a lot of shooting video games online."
Every time there's a mass shooting, you can be rest assured that somehow, somewhere the perpetrator will be linked to shooting games of some kind, be it FPS or TPS or even platformers if possible...=.=
Wall Street Journal Blog - "Friend: Aaron Alexis Skilled at Shooter Videogames" - They editted the headline to "Friend Says Alexis Was Videogame Fan, Heavy Drinker"
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