OK I don't like this at all

[parksie]

http://www.gameindustry.com/ih/010425a.html

Why the f**k are they suing the game companies? If the kids weren't such mental screw-ups they might have some idea of the difference between reality and computer

I've played loads of violent games but have I ever gone rampaging through school with a gun?

[ghost ryder]

coz they need f*****g scapegoat, the media r thick as s**t and dont want 2 blame the parents, when its obviously there fault coz if teh kid is a raving loony then he shouldnt be playiong violent games or be in the same house as a gun, its a similar sort of thing like whne they blamed that shooting on marilyn manson, i mean what the f**k??

[Gaffer]

Mike, these are loopy times. How about the bloke who got USD2bn because he has terminal cancer from smoking?

[Jamagei]

SHOW ME THE MONEY

Or at least that is what they are saying. THe only reason is the money. Also they don't want to say that they didn't bring up their cild properly. Much easier to blame someone else.

Bastards

[parksie]

Originally posted by Gaffer
Mike, these are loopy times. How about the bloke who got USD2bn because he has terminal cancer from smoking?

$3bn

Yeah, damn loopy

[simonm]

It doesn't suprise me in the least.

You can sue anybody for anything in America and (usually) get away with it.

The suit also names pornographic Web sites as responsible for influencing the killing.

What's all that about? How can they be responsible?

[Al Smith]

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.". - Shakespeare II Henry VI.

Al.

[Bloodeye]

Speaking of violent games......

Has anyone played Half-Life Blue Shift? It's not too bad.....pretty much the same as the original Half-Life except this time around you are one of those security officers.....hence Blue Shift. There's also a High Definition Pack of textures and models for peeps with fast computers......which I don't have

[ShIzO]

*****,

are they out of their mind? *****ing stoopid as*holes...

i wonder when they start suing Sylwester Stallone for being too violent in Rambo III sometime in 80's . s*it

personally i *****ing hate lawyers. if you got money they can do anything you want... i mean almost... i'm so glad about Judge's decision on Timothy McVeigh.

[SurfDemon]

Mmmm, They're blaming "doom". Which, lets face it, almost everyone has played and has had a copy of at some time. Yet, most people don't go on a rampage, therefore it must be the kids that are screwed up not the game.

You might as well blame MS Word, it's driven me to the point of murder a few times and I'm sure it was on their computers too.

SD

[Jethro]

Right thats it f**king clippet, where's my M16 am going postal

[denniswrenn]

I have played numerous violent video games, and have never killed anybody, or had the urge to... The video games are not to blame, the kids are ****ing wackos...


Even though there are wackos like this out there, we should consider ourselves lucky that they are so ****ing stupid. Almost everybody I discuss the columbine situation with, agrees that they could have killed a lot more people than they did... perhaps by aiming... This reminds of a cartoon posted a while back... I think by Matthew: http://www.promasc.com/images/lag.jpg



Anyhow, I think they should stop blaming the game makers, and start blaming the parents.

[chrismitchell]

I would like to know how its the parents fault Dennis? All they could do is ban their kids from playing the game... That won't stop them though because if a kid really wants to play a game then he will probably know someone with it or steal it... (In any country... I am not being bias) So its the kids fault not the parents... we are all free thinking individuals and if there are kids so damn ****ed in the head that they need to be put away.. Maybe they should start doing psychiatric exams on all High School children (Secondry school in the UK). That way you could start to work out the nut cases in the school and try to help them (or lock them up).

[chrismitchell]

The suit stems from an April 20, 1999 police investigation where police located a videotape of one of the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, holding a shotgun he called Arlene, supposedly named after a character in the computer game Doom.

Ok Arlene was the female cat from Garfield.. Are they going to sue Garfield now too?

[SteveCRM]

Its mostly just here in the US. We have the dumbest system. Today we are having a gunman test. But the stupid thing is that if someone is in the hall when the teachers lock the doors, we are supposed to tap on the door and they'll let us in! What will stop the gunman from tapping on the door! I don't think video games have anything to do with it. There actually aren't many games where you just shoot people. The ones that there are aren't very realiistic so I don't know how they would get ideas from them

I have rogue spear but I've never had the urge to kill some guy with a sniper!

[Cander]

The fact that these guys had a pet name for their shotgun shows they were mentally unstable anyway. You don't see guys with pet names for their ***** going on rampages do ya?

[Arbiter]

Comedy.

I saw a pretty funny cartoon in the paper where some Scientists were making kids play computer games and then running tests on them at the end to determine if games blurred the line between fantasy and reality.

At the end of it, the Scientists decided it wasn't true and said to one of the kids 'Ok, you can go home now Kiddo'

The kid promptly screamed 'DON'T CALL ME KIDDO!' and uppercutted the Scientists head clean off Mortal Kombat stylee.

Nice!

Anyway, you Yanks make too much of it. If some kids pulled out guns and started shooting in the school I went to, both the teachers and the other pupils would promptly overturn tables for cover and start firing back....

[denniswrenn]

I did not mean it was solely the parents fault. The parent should have been able to notice that the child was psycho or troubled(in the case of Columbine). Of course the parent can not control the childs thoughts, but they can try to help.

[Cander]

It actually is sort of the parents faults, but also society in general. Back in the olden days when the man worked and the women stayed home, there was always a parent there at the house to keep the kids straight with whats right and wrong. You had quality family time also. And since there were less divorces, you always had both those parents. Nowadays both parents are gone all day at work, single parent families are more common, and families spend little if any time together. Kids lock themselves in their room and the parents dont keep tabs on what their kids are doing. So eventually the kids minds may not be able to distinguish between right and wrong.

My 2 cents

To Katie and any other females here, dont take what I said in the beginning as saying that women belong at home in the kitchen. I dont think that all. The belong in the bedroom..
Just kidding about that one . Had to loosen up the post a bit.

[chrisjk]

Last year, I was playing GTA, and I suddely became zombified. I walk out the house, gunned a few people down. Next thing, the boys in blue were on the scene, but they were no match for my Instant Gang, so I car jacked a jam sandwich and mowed down anyone who got in the way. Eveytime I did so, a sign saying "1000 points" kept coming out the ground. Then I got a call from some West End gang boss. He wanted me to deal some sh*t to these corrupt pigs. I said "no way", but he offered a generous incentive. I stole an RV and went cruising for some chicks. Then I remembered about the sh*t. I dumped the biyatchs and met up with Mr. H. He had contacts within the Met. I told him the sh*t was pukka. He walking into the police station whilst I burned off on a jacked bike. Seconds later, the ground shook. The cop shop had been reduced to a smoldering mess. As I rode into the distance, I smelt the sweet smell of cash.











Hey, it could happen!

[parksie]

I have both parents, but I wouldn't say that makes much of a difference. They both work full-time and I'm at home on my own a lot, playing violent games, chatting to people (not sure which of those is most damaging ).

I learnt the difference between right and wrong from the school of hard knocks. Bugger the whole "family values" stuff, I did a lot better when if you did something wrong you felt pain for it -- it's a good incentive not to do it again.

[denniswrenn]

That's a good way to learn stuff... but it usually takes me a while...

When I was just a toddler I got shocked by house current about 5 times..... I learn faster now..... one shock a week keeps me in line

[parksie]

Hehehe...electric fence round your garden to stop your baby crawling away...

*ZZZT* Damn...another one gone. Honey? We need a new baby, but we're fine for food for the next few days!

[Jethro]

Originally posted by denniswrenn
That's a good way to learn stuff... but it usually takes me a while...

When I was just a toddler I got shocked by house current about 5 times..... I learn faster now..... one shock a week keeps me in line

......lol......................


Parksie you are absolutely right. It's called taking responsability for your own actions, something the small "l" liberals are trying to drummed out of the kids.

Like we have all these eight year olds running rampant in the Western Suburbs being totally violent unruly etc. Every now and again they run a story on the TV about how it's the pressures of society etc causing this. Look in the background of the parents kitchen and check out the food. Invariable cocoa cola, food with perservatives, and food colouring. Give me a break, feed the kids a decent diet and you may resolve some of the problems.

Currently they just give em drugs.................okay am unruly here, violent tendencies, need help

[Matt_T_hat]

Single parent families isn't no excuse. Ok it makes it tougher me old mam worked her self into an early old age keeping us four in line, and yeah bleeding hearts I was bullied too - tough s**t it sucks. But at least I had someone to laugh at the bullies and repeat the old jibe about how they are the biggest cowerds. Didn't stop it hurt non but I didn't go sprying lead at my contempories...

thought crossed my mind in a few of the darker daydreams but...

end of the day I'm alive an happy an a fair bit wiser and tougher me mums half dead from the effert... now thats good parenting anything less is dog spew!

Yes I'm blaiming the perents and any school that dosen't deal with bullies and any damn stupid system that has guns anywhere you wanna look. The UK isn't much better but kids tend to s**t themselves at the site of a real gun even if they are the ones holding it.

I like violent games too, the more gore the better. Alien vs preditors good for that: BITE THAT F****RS HEAD OFF, YEAH, BABY YEAH! but it'll take you all day just to make me make a fist. If you want me to punch you, you'd better have all week to work on it.

This world is screwed up man!

BTW has anyone played Alien vs Preditor? Bit old but cool as heck, you've got to admit that any game where you get to run on the cealing and then drop down and eat some unsuspecting gun tooting fool is cooooool baby, YEAH!