Lo And Behold, the Witch Hunt Surrounding Video Games after the Orlando Shooting Got Worse... While Searching for Tweets on twitter, I found someone posting a tweet linking to an article that blames video game violence and Heavy Metal for the Orlando Shooting.
http://www DOT wxa415.com/blorg/2016/6/18/orlando-shooter-inspired-by-violent-video-games-marilyn-manson
(just chasnge the DOT to a .)
Here are Quotes from the article in question:
"As investigators work tirelessly to uncover more facts about the deadly
shooting which took place in a packed Orlando nightclub, new evidence has come to light linking the deadly shooter and an obsession with troubling music and video games."
“At the moment we are looking into links between the types of music and
video games the shooter was into,” said Director Michael McCollins. “We
are still trying to paint as accurate a picture of this attacker as
possible.”
"Since the shooting which occurred over a week ago, several high school
friends of the shooter have offered their help in the investigation.
Those interviewed mentioned the shooter being an “obsessive fan” of the
shock rocker, Marilyn Manson and the controversial video game, Doom. The
shooter was said to have a room plastered with dark metal acts like
Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Eminem."
Only Problem, and it's a major one, is that this "proof" that Omar Mateen played Doom is complete BS, Made up by the article. The Link mentioned in the article FAILS to mention these "facts". In Fact NO SITE found when searching for "Omar Mateen" + "Doom" Says he was into Doom At All..
Here is the site, that is linked by the site in question claiming to show "new evidence that has come to light"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/orlando-gunman-was-a-regular-at-lgbt-nightclub-pulse-before-atta/
Notice something on this site? NO MENTION OF DOOM!
Even the name "Director Micheal McCollins" is not mentioned in the linked article. That was made up too...
It's All BS.
And Thanks to the Idiot on Twitter who linked to this, people will now believe it and it will turn into the next gaming moral panic.
Sites like this need to be pulled from the internet, Seriously. I am sick and tired of sites using a tragedy to push an agenda like "Ban violent games" and worse... The site that did this is named wxa415.com. I don't know if the writers were the same Asshole ManFeminists/Feminists who tried to blame violent games for the shooting (like theVerge and others), but this is sick... These people are sick. Someone needs to throw these fucks in jail... They write an article Claiming that Doom and marilyn Manson/King Diamond are to Blame (More on that later), and then it gets shared and twitter. Know what will happen next? People will Believe this Shit. Most people wouldn't try to verify whether this is true or not and just flat out believe it. That is a huge problem, because you will get tons of people blaming Doom for the shooting next. This site just did the stupidest thing ever. They tried to shift the blame away from the real cause (terrorism) and tried to blame video games with FAKE EVIDENCE.
And What the Fuck is up with the site's constant bashing of heavy metal bands. Some of the ones mentioned are complete crap (like Korn, Limp Bizkit and others), but the picture of Marilyn Manson is actually a Picture of King Diamond. This is disgusting beyond belief. They are trying to Blame King Diamond's music for the massacre, aren't they? Well that is fucked up...
And to bring on the other point I want to bring up, I have to go into rant mode... OK...
RANT MODE ON
I am sick and tired of Doom Being Fucking Blamed for Massacres. Everytime there is some shooting, someone fucking blames Doom. It's Disgusting... Fucking Disgusting... Why can't these fucking idiots stop doing this. I am publicly shaming these assholes now on twitter, both the idiot fucking asshole who shared the article (that wasn't needed you fucktard), and the site itself...
RANT MODE OFF..
But Seriously, shit like this pisses me off to an extreme, because it's been done to death. Doom has been literally blamed countless times for massacres. And if it's the new Doom game, I will be pissed off more... Because that game is awesome... Fuck these idiots...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Thursday, October 1, 2015
People on twitter ALREADY trying to Fake Evidence "proving" UCC Shooter was a Gamer!
Another year, another tragic shooting, another scapegoating on violent games. This time, yet again, just like the last tragic shooting (the Charleston Shooting), complete jackasses on twitter are AGAIN saying it is "confirmed" that the shooter was a gamer. It doesn't help that the damn police killed the shooter (instead of knocking him unconscious with a stun gun or something) making it way easier for people to believe the scapegoating that violent games are the cause, because the Perp isn't alive to disprove the crazy idea violent games directly caused the shooting...
Here are two tweets that piss me off... Don't get me started on these media whores who keep making up crap to cause a moral panic. They disgust me:
Now if you do a google search for "UCC Shooter" + "Gamer" you get nothing. NO ONE IS CONFIRMING IT THROUGH OFFICIAL SOURCES THAT THE SHOOTER WAS A GAMER!
The faking of evidence continues!!!! They don't even try to hide who does it anymore like they used to. Back in the 1990's they were clever with their evidence faking (like the Doom Will Become Reality Hoax. No one even knows to this day who did that) Now they make it painfully obvious they are trying to fake evidence and they get away with it.
This crap has to stop people. Quit lying through your teeth, claiming a shooter was a gamer when there is no proof to back it up. CITE ACTUAL ARTICLES if what you are saying is true, instead of using your blabbermouth bullshit to try to blame games for something they did not cause, asshole!
EDIT : These idiots piss me off too!!!
The first idiot thinks that a shooting like this is caused by kids getting their hands on violent games. And tries to say people are simply letting kids get them. What about the highest enforced rating system (for the ESRB), you fucking monkey?
But the second idiot is a complete bullshitter. "Our Entertainment" (music/video games and movies) do NOT feed violence and sexual assault glorification to American kids. I've played 100's of games and not one that I have played has glorified sexual assault. That's bullshit. Same thing is true with music. Some music might do that, but a lot does not... I've listened to HUNDREDS of metal bands and only 1, ONLY ONE has ONE song out of hundreds that could be considered "glorifying sexual assault" and only if you interpret a certain way. More Bullshit by idiots online. It disgusts me. People like this need to have their internet taken away. Their fucking fucktards.
EDIT : More idiots on twitter are now trying to link the shooter "Samuel Hyde" to gaming, using fake evidence of course! See the below tweets:
The first tweet is by a religious zealot who is trying to blame Gaming for the Massacre. His twitter profile (look at the second image) proves it. The third image shows a tweet that retweets the first tweet and adds "BAN VIDEO GAMES" to the bottom. Now to prove that Samuel Hyde being a gamer was NOT the cause of the massacre:
Search for samuel hyde on twitter now. you will find this...
This is enough proof for me that it was Radical Islam and not Violent games that caused this tragedy.
Notice two things..
A) NOT A SINGLE TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE NAMES SAMUEL HYDE AS A GAMER
Search for the following search on google. You will find NO ONE saying he was a gamer.
The Images that the christian zealot idiot above used to "prove" Samuel Hyde was a gamer prove nothing... All they show is him using a camera and a cell phone. Nice proof you idiot!
B) The media is awfully quiet for a supposed murderer being a gamer... Something else must be the cause... If he was a gamer, like Harris and Klebold, the media would be all over it as soon as possible. They are not..
Now it remains to be seen whether the shooter was a gamer, but I refuse to believe for ONE MOMENT that gaming addiction can cause a normal person to shoot and kill 15 people. That's just bullshit. The bullshit peddlers are winning on twitter... They make up crap and use false evidence, some if it crappily done, to "prove" a shooting perp was a gamer. Sometimes it doesn't work, like when a so-called "crime writer" quack used this tactic to say the snapchat murderer was a gamer, despite NO PROOF on other sites proving this. This crap is really nasty. It needs to stop. If you see someone on twitter claiming a shooter was a gamer without proof, Publicly shame them! They are trying to cause a moral panic because they hate games, plain and simple.
EDIT 3 : Samuel hyde is NOT the shooter!
Proof is here: His name was "Chris Harper Mercer" NOT the youtube gamer Samuel Hyde... These idiots above who are trying to link it to Samuel hyde are disgusting pricks! Apparently these idiots who are blaming Samuel Hyde for doing this (when he did NOT) are being believed!!! Just look at this...
EDIT 4 :
Today, we have even more morons on twitter who are trying to pin the murders on violent games. This one is particularly insidious.
This person is clearly "against entertainment" because she spews out nonsense saying violent games train people to be killers, when they don't. She is also calling for the regulation of violence in media. I hope people like this on twitter are minority, because we could be going into a full-fledged violence-in-games moral panic if they aren't. Imagine if people like this convince the government to regulate violent video games... It could be the Comic Code Authority all over again, this time for video games, and all because of a nutjob like this...
Here are two tweets that piss me off... Don't get me started on these media whores who keep making up crap to cause a moral panic. They disgust me:
Now if you do a google search for "UCC Shooter" + "Gamer" you get nothing. NO ONE IS CONFIRMING IT THROUGH OFFICIAL SOURCES THAT THE SHOOTER WAS A GAMER!
The faking of evidence continues!!!! They don't even try to hide who does it anymore like they used to. Back in the 1990's they were clever with their evidence faking (like the Doom Will Become Reality Hoax. No one even knows to this day who did that) Now they make it painfully obvious they are trying to fake evidence and they get away with it.
This crap has to stop people. Quit lying through your teeth, claiming a shooter was a gamer when there is no proof to back it up. CITE ACTUAL ARTICLES if what you are saying is true, instead of using your blabbermouth bullshit to try to blame games for something they did not cause, asshole!
EDIT : These idiots piss me off too!!!
The first idiot thinks that a shooting like this is caused by kids getting their hands on violent games. And tries to say people are simply letting kids get them. What about the highest enforced rating system (for the ESRB), you fucking monkey?
But the second idiot is a complete bullshitter. "Our Entertainment" (music/video games and movies) do NOT feed violence and sexual assault glorification to American kids. I've played 100's of games and not one that I have played has glorified sexual assault. That's bullshit. Same thing is true with music. Some music might do that, but a lot does not... I've listened to HUNDREDS of metal bands and only 1, ONLY ONE has ONE song out of hundreds that could be considered "glorifying sexual assault" and only if you interpret a certain way. More Bullshit by idiots online. It disgusts me. People like this need to have their internet taken away. Their fucking fucktards.
EDIT : More idiots on twitter are now trying to link the shooter "Samuel Hyde" to gaming, using fake evidence of course! See the below tweets:
The first tweet is by a religious zealot who is trying to blame Gaming for the Massacre. His twitter profile (look at the second image) proves it. The third image shows a tweet that retweets the first tweet and adds "BAN VIDEO GAMES" to the bottom. Now to prove that Samuel Hyde being a gamer was NOT the cause of the massacre:
Search for samuel hyde on twitter now. you will find this...
This is enough proof for me that it was Radical Islam and not Violent games that caused this tragedy.
Notice two things..
A) NOT A SINGLE TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE NAMES SAMUEL HYDE AS A GAMER
Search for the following search on google. You will find NO ONE saying he was a gamer.
The Images that the christian zealot idiot above used to "prove" Samuel Hyde was a gamer prove nothing... All they show is him using a camera and a cell phone. Nice proof you idiot!
B) The media is awfully quiet for a supposed murderer being a gamer... Something else must be the cause... If he was a gamer, like Harris and Klebold, the media would be all over it as soon as possible. They are not..
Now it remains to be seen whether the shooter was a gamer, but I refuse to believe for ONE MOMENT that gaming addiction can cause a normal person to shoot and kill 15 people. That's just bullshit. The bullshit peddlers are winning on twitter... They make up crap and use false evidence, some if it crappily done, to "prove" a shooting perp was a gamer. Sometimes it doesn't work, like when a so-called "crime writer" quack used this tactic to say the snapchat murderer was a gamer, despite NO PROOF on other sites proving this. This crap is really nasty. It needs to stop. If you see someone on twitter claiming a shooter was a gamer without proof, Publicly shame them! They are trying to cause a moral panic because they hate games, plain and simple.
EDIT 3 : Samuel hyde is NOT the shooter!
Proof is here: His name was "Chris Harper Mercer" NOT the youtube gamer Samuel Hyde... These idiots above who are trying to link it to Samuel hyde are disgusting pricks! Apparently these idiots who are blaming Samuel Hyde for doing this (when he did NOT) are being believed!!! Just look at this...
EDIT 4 :
Today, we have even more morons on twitter who are trying to pin the murders on violent games. This one is particularly insidious.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Brown VS EMA Supreme Court Hijacking must be exposed....
People think US could never ban violent games to adults. Their Wrong. In Brown VS EMA, a chilling effect would have happened if the justices in the supreme court decided to vote for California and allow the bill. The bill would have used the Obscenity Clause to choose what games CA cannot sell to kids. The clause allows them to fine retailers that try to sell a game that "lacks serious scientific, educational, and literary value". Since the Fines were absurdly high, the retailers, once fined, would not know what games they could sell ahead of time. The judges in CA, once offended by a game, would not say it has those above values. It's only a matter of time till they fine a store for selling a game they find offensive, and that would cause them to stop carrying violent games because they would not be able to afford the fines. The bill was spreading to other states too.
Why am I mentioning brown vs EMA?
Well back in 2009, an extreme pro-family group, the eagle forum put up an Amicus brief for the case, for the justices to read. This article shows that they did this, and it's filled with BS, but that bs is so old, I won't try to debunk it. What is really bad, is what was in that amicus brief.
It's long been taken down, they don't want people to know how much BS was in the Amicus Brief, and that they were trying to Hijack the Supreme court with Hoaxes and Lies. I read the thing a long time ago, and it contained the claim Eric Harris Said Doom Will Become Reality (A Hoax Disproven by the FBI : debunked here), the claim that doom made Micheal Carneal shoot better in real Life (Debunked Below), and the Claim that violent games are being used to break down the inhibition to kill in the Military (Debunked Here). There were other claims but I don't remember what they were...
Here is my debunking of the Micheal Carneal BS claim that he trained on doom and became a better shooter:
"This is one of the biggest BS claims going out there right now. That Micheal Carneal learned how to aim just from Playing Doom without training at a range. There are tons of problems with this. First of all, doom at the time lacked vertical aiming. A random number generator determined how high your bullet went. You have no control over how high you shoot at all. Explain how carneal hit 3 of his targets in the head then? He couldn’t have. He fired 8 individual shots with semiautomatic pistols that don’t fire multiple rounds when you hold the trigger down, and hit 8 kids in the head or chest. Doom trains you to hold down the mouse button down, your gun in the game will fire multiple times. All of the guns do. Unlike anything but full auto guns in real life. After killing all the enemies in the current room you let go and rinse and repeat in the next room, etc. If Carneal trained on Doom, he would fire one round while holding down the real guns trigger and no more shots would fire (because his gun was not full auto), and would not be able to hit all 8 targets at all. He MUST have trained at a range. "
You can see the bogus claims are a problem. They're being cited now in Supreme Court cases by Wackjobs. This is practically Perjury. Don't try to tell me Eagle Forum did not know these lies were lies. I don't buy that for a second. They have been running their mouth attacking games by saying they have "Decapitation of Prostitutes", "Pushing people into Running Saws" and "Sodomizing People with Broomsticks" for years. NO games have these features. NONE. They just spew their nonsense, ad-infinitum.
People like this NEED to be punished... NO ONE but me knew their Amicus Brief had so much BS claims in it. Someone should have read the thing and attempted to contact the SCOTUS to try to get these fuckers punished for lying to them. I just want the gaming industry to know these anti-gaming groups do more than whine about violent games. They try to sway supreme court cases with fake evidence like this. It needs to be stopped. Someone should be required to read amicus brief's by groups like this and punish them if they put lies and hoaxes into them. They are NOT trustworthy.
Why am I mentioning brown vs EMA?
Well back in 2009, an extreme pro-family group, the eagle forum put up an Amicus brief for the case, for the justices to read. This article shows that they did this, and it's filled with BS, but that bs is so old, I won't try to debunk it. What is really bad, is what was in that amicus brief.
It's long been taken down, they don't want people to know how much BS was in the Amicus Brief, and that they were trying to Hijack the Supreme court with Hoaxes and Lies. I read the thing a long time ago, and it contained the claim Eric Harris Said Doom Will Become Reality (A Hoax Disproven by the FBI : debunked here), the claim that doom made Micheal Carneal shoot better in real Life (Debunked Below), and the Claim that violent games are being used to break down the inhibition to kill in the Military (Debunked Here). There were other claims but I don't remember what they were...
Here is my debunking of the Micheal Carneal BS claim that he trained on doom and became a better shooter:
"This is one of the biggest BS claims going out there right now. That Micheal Carneal learned how to aim just from Playing Doom without training at a range. There are tons of problems with this. First of all, doom at the time lacked vertical aiming. A random number generator determined how high your bullet went. You have no control over how high you shoot at all. Explain how carneal hit 3 of his targets in the head then? He couldn’t have. He fired 8 individual shots with semiautomatic pistols that don’t fire multiple rounds when you hold the trigger down, and hit 8 kids in the head or chest. Doom trains you to hold down the mouse button down, your gun in the game will fire multiple times. All of the guns do. Unlike anything but full auto guns in real life. After killing all the enemies in the current room you let go and rinse and repeat in the next room, etc. If Carneal trained on Doom, he would fire one round while holding down the real guns trigger and no more shots would fire (because his gun was not full auto), and would not be able to hit all 8 targets at all. He MUST have trained at a range. "
You can see the bogus claims are a problem. They're being cited now in Supreme Court cases by Wackjobs. This is practically Perjury. Don't try to tell me Eagle Forum did not know these lies were lies. I don't buy that for a second. They have been running their mouth attacking games by saying they have "Decapitation of Prostitutes", "Pushing people into Running Saws" and "Sodomizing People with Broomsticks" for years. NO games have these features. NONE. They just spew their nonsense, ad-infinitum.
People like this NEED to be punished... NO ONE but me knew their Amicus Brief had so much BS claims in it. Someone should have read the thing and attempted to contact the SCOTUS to try to get these fuckers punished for lying to them. I just want the gaming industry to know these anti-gaming groups do more than whine about violent games. They try to sway supreme court cases with fake evidence like this. It needs to be stopped. Someone should be required to read amicus brief's by groups like this and punish them if they put lies and hoaxes into them. They are NOT trustworthy.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Quack "Crime Writer" Fakes Evidence to prove killer killed because of Violent Games!
Lo and Behold the fake bullshit surround violent video games has not died down. It's been years since a moral panic and still idiots are using fake evidence to start another violent games moral panic. The idiot in question is the same idiot I attacked for trying to claim all gamers are baby killers after sandy hook, and it seems he found a new site to attack violent games from, and the site is just plain disgusting.
This is the post in question:
http://www.crimemagazine.com/twisted-gamer-shot-his-pal-and-selfie
First of all, he references a crime, some kid shot his friend after taking a "selfie". Then tries to claim they were both gamers. What evidence did he use to prove this? None. In fact, if you look at search results for the phrase maxwell morton "Gamer", you get NONE but his site that "prove" the killer was a gamer! None Period. He then runs his mouth, tries to claim several nonsense claims.
"Real time acts of game-inspired violence, like this latest one, are on the rise now, especially among young males who compulsively play realistic single-shooter programs."
Hello! Most "violent" games are not even that realistic. I did actual research on how many games out of all 605 FPS games ever released were realistic, and it's a really small amount...
"Claim 6 : Most FPS games are “Realistic”
Source : Same comment poster as Claim 3
The commenter who mentioned that games that reward “Deviant” Behavior, also said that most were “realistic”. Visually graphic maybe, but people think that just because FPS games are “Realistic” LOOKING they are total realism simulators, with an 100% analogue to real life Military Combat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Visual graphics have not been increased over the years at the same rate as combat realism, what people think when they read these claims. The truth is that combat realism is found only in 1 RARE kind of FPS games, “EXTREME” Tactical shooters. These games are NOT uber violent. They are Simulators of real life combat. And most aren’t even that popular because they are Insanely difficult. They should be. 1 hit kills you. No Health. Things like “marine Doom”. Most Tactical shooters are at most 75% realistic. They do bullet damage fine, and health not around every corner, but things like mimicking real weapons, that almost always fail, with few exceptions. Number 1, in these games, gunshot sounds are quiet. Real gunshots are DEAFINGLY loud. Number 2, real guns jam, break, and need to be repaired regularly. NO games do this accurately. Because that’s stuff that the military teaches. Number 3, as a gun degrades it fires worse. Accuracy and similar characteristics go down. No game mimics these 100% accurately. Some might have weapon degradation. Number 4. Armor in most FPS games, even some tactical shooters is 100% resistant to bullets. or Very resistant. In real life armor isn’t nearly that effective. There are armor piercing rounds that go right through armor. Number 5. In Realistic scenarios like Simulations, Getting shot anywhere can be deadly, not just the head and chest. Shot in the leg. You can’t walk. Shot in the knee or elbow, or fingers, you might be in so much pain that you cannot even move. Shot in the neck, risk of paralysis. Very few, if no games simulate this. Some games TRY to emulate real combat but most fail. The total of these games that come close in some cases in certain areas (like weapon physics, STALKER is a great example, or damage to the player (Far Cry)) are a small % of the total 605 FPS games ever made. MOST Fps games realism level is ridiculously low. For the first 10+ years of FPS games getting shot would just do minor damage most of the time. Not till Far cry come out did this change. Guns had no recoil in most old FPS games. Total % of TRUE “Semi-Realistic” games is 6.61% of all 605 FPS games ever made. But very few of these are even popular. Only 4.94% of all 81 popular FPS games are like this. These “Popular Semi-Realistic FPS games” are only 0.66% of all 605 FPS games ever made!"
He claims that young kids play them, which is BS. The average age of a gamer is 34, according to an actual study by the ESRB.
"Researchers worldwide have conducted dozens of studies over the years exposing a direct correlation between excessive gaming and violence, but, of late, the multibillion-dollar videogame industry and its powerful lobby has found a few of their own *experts* to insist on the opposite."
NO study ever has proven that violent games lead to real life violence. This is BS. There are tons of flawed studies that "prove" violent games lead to aggression, but aggression =/= violence! Repeat, there are NO studies that prove games cause Real Life Violence!
"Their current campaign is much akin to how the tobacco corporations used to propagandize that “9 out of 10 doctors smoke” their cigarette brands -- before being heavily penalized for hiding the truth about the dangerous product they’d been peddling for decades."
Again, some idiot trying to indirectly say the "link" between video games and real life violence is just as great as the link between cigarettes and smoking. Here is some REAL evidence that debunks this.
9 killers have been gamers in the past. Any others who supposedly were gamers have questionable evidence to prove this. That's 9 killers out of 211,000,000+ GAMERS! That's 0%! Compared to the actual PROVEN link between cigarettes and smoking, 41%! For 41% of gamers to kill people over an 18 year period (from the first school shooting to now) we would have to have 4806111.111 gamers killing people per year!
He claims the gaming industry is hiding the truth? Without proof of course. He even says says games are dangerous. More bullshit, bullshit without proof. He is claiming the gaming industry is sponsering studies that have an opposite result to the fake studies the idiots who don't like violent games have been doing. That's bullshit. The "Gaming Industry's" studies don't use Electroshock therapy to bias the results of their studies do they? Well the other sides do! I was reading a PDF on one study that ADMITTED previous studies did this, and only did this to violent game playing kids to bias the result! That PDF, DELETED later to cover it up!
This "Crime Researcher" is a fucking moron who makes up bullshit to cause moral panics. He tried to claim gamers = baby killers after sandy hook, and now he is using a crime that has NO Link to gaming to cause a moral panic by making up evidence that proves the killer is a gamer! NO other site proves the killer was a gamer! It's made up, and it's bullshit people!
I think idiots like this should be jailed! They are doing the equivalent of yelling fire in a movie theater by faking their own evidence that "proves" video games cause violence! These people disgust me. Why isn't anyone else attacking this one "writer" is beyond me. What they are doing is totally disgusting, and it needs to stop.
This is the post in question:
http://www.crimemagazine.com/twisted-gamer-shot-his-pal-and-selfie
First of all, he references a crime, some kid shot his friend after taking a "selfie". Then tries to claim they were both gamers. What evidence did he use to prove this? None. In fact, if you look at search results for the phrase maxwell morton "Gamer", you get NONE but his site that "prove" the killer was a gamer! None Period. He then runs his mouth, tries to claim several nonsense claims.
"Real time acts of game-inspired violence, like this latest one, are on the rise now, especially among young males who compulsively play realistic single-shooter programs."
Hello! Most "violent" games are not even that realistic. I did actual research on how many games out of all 605 FPS games ever released were realistic, and it's a really small amount...
"Claim 6 : Most FPS games are “Realistic”
Source : Same comment poster as Claim 3
The commenter who mentioned that games that reward “Deviant” Behavior, also said that most were “realistic”. Visually graphic maybe, but people think that just because FPS games are “Realistic” LOOKING they are total realism simulators, with an 100% analogue to real life Military Combat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Visual graphics have not been increased over the years at the same rate as combat realism, what people think when they read these claims. The truth is that combat realism is found only in 1 RARE kind of FPS games, “EXTREME” Tactical shooters. These games are NOT uber violent. They are Simulators of real life combat. And most aren’t even that popular because they are Insanely difficult. They should be. 1 hit kills you. No Health. Things like “marine Doom”. Most Tactical shooters are at most 75% realistic. They do bullet damage fine, and health not around every corner, but things like mimicking real weapons, that almost always fail, with few exceptions. Number 1, in these games, gunshot sounds are quiet. Real gunshots are DEAFINGLY loud. Number 2, real guns jam, break, and need to be repaired regularly. NO games do this accurately. Because that’s stuff that the military teaches. Number 3, as a gun degrades it fires worse. Accuracy and similar characteristics go down. No game mimics these 100% accurately. Some might have weapon degradation. Number 4. Armor in most FPS games, even some tactical shooters is 100% resistant to bullets. or Very resistant. In real life armor isn’t nearly that effective. There are armor piercing rounds that go right through armor. Number 5. In Realistic scenarios like Simulations, Getting shot anywhere can be deadly, not just the head and chest. Shot in the leg. You can’t walk. Shot in the knee or elbow, or fingers, you might be in so much pain that you cannot even move. Shot in the neck, risk of paralysis. Very few, if no games simulate this. Some games TRY to emulate real combat but most fail. The total of these games that come close in some cases in certain areas (like weapon physics, STALKER is a great example, or damage to the player (Far Cry)) are a small % of the total 605 FPS games ever made. MOST Fps games realism level is ridiculously low. For the first 10+ years of FPS games getting shot would just do minor damage most of the time. Not till Far cry come out did this change. Guns had no recoil in most old FPS games. Total % of TRUE “Semi-Realistic” games is 6.61% of all 605 FPS games ever made. But very few of these are even popular. Only 4.94% of all 81 popular FPS games are like this. These “Popular Semi-Realistic FPS games” are only 0.66% of all 605 FPS games ever made!"
He claims that young kids play them, which is BS. The average age of a gamer is 34, according to an actual study by the ESRB.
"Researchers worldwide have conducted dozens of studies over the years exposing a direct correlation between excessive gaming and violence, but, of late, the multibillion-dollar videogame industry and its powerful lobby has found a few of their own *experts* to insist on the opposite."
NO study ever has proven that violent games lead to real life violence. This is BS. There are tons of flawed studies that "prove" violent games lead to aggression, but aggression =/= violence! Repeat, there are NO studies that prove games cause Real Life Violence!
"Their current campaign is much akin to how the tobacco corporations used to propagandize that “9 out of 10 doctors smoke” their cigarette brands -- before being heavily penalized for hiding the truth about the dangerous product they’d been peddling for decades."
Again, some idiot trying to indirectly say the "link" between video games and real life violence is just as great as the link between cigarettes and smoking. Here is some REAL evidence that debunks this.
9 killers have been gamers in the past. Any others who supposedly were gamers have questionable evidence to prove this. That's 9 killers out of 211,000,000+ GAMERS! That's 0%! Compared to the actual PROVEN link between cigarettes and smoking, 41%! For 41% of gamers to kill people over an 18 year period (from the first school shooting to now) we would have to have 4806111.111 gamers killing people per year!
He claims the gaming industry is hiding the truth? Without proof of course. He even says says games are dangerous. More bullshit, bullshit without proof. He is claiming the gaming industry is sponsering studies that have an opposite result to the fake studies the idiots who don't like violent games have been doing. That's bullshit. The "Gaming Industry's" studies don't use Electroshock therapy to bias the results of their studies do they? Well the other sides do! I was reading a PDF on one study that ADMITTED previous studies did this, and only did this to violent game playing kids to bias the result! That PDF, DELETED later to cover it up!
This "Crime Researcher" is a fucking moron who makes up bullshit to cause moral panics. He tried to claim gamers = baby killers after sandy hook, and now he is using a crime that has NO Link to gaming to cause a moral panic by making up evidence that proves the killer is a gamer! NO other site proves the killer was a gamer! It's made up, and it's bullshit people!
I think idiots like this should be jailed! They are doing the equivalent of yelling fire in a movie theater by faking their own evidence that "proves" video games cause violence! These people disgust me. Why isn't anyone else attacking this one "writer" is beyond me. What they are doing is totally disgusting, and it needs to stop.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The ‘Doom Will Become Reality’ Hoaxers Exposed? (Old Blog Repost)
As you may or may not know, A phrase attributed to Eric Harris “Doom Will become reality”, used to ‘prove’ Doom’s Influence on his homicidal Rage on April 20′th 1999, has been proven by the FBI
as a Hoax. Thanks to Acolumbinesite.com. What that site did not do is
hint at who hoaxed this. The phrase came from an AOL webpage masquerading as his site (according to an article which has mysteriously dissapeared online) .
And the FBI proved it was made too late to be his work (see : This site – look at the bottom right of the page, after clicking the bottom right most link)
What I am about to do is show you who I think is responsible…. I cannot prove it…. But one thing I can do is eliminate the possibility that it is some odd hacker, who brute-forced his way into Harris’s AOL Page (if that article that's gone now is wrong) .Number 1, I determined that the earliest newspaper ‘reports’ using the phrase were published on April 23, 1999. Doing a Little research I discovered how long an average person would have to wait to keep trying all the the available characters that could be used in the password, till he or she got it right and gained access to the site builder to upload the hoax HTML File. Brute forcing is what this tactic is called. It’s the hardest but the most thorough way to figure out a password that you don’t know so you can gain access to a site that’s not yours or break into an encrypted file that you lost the password to or want to get in for some other reason. Brute forcing tests every single possible combination of characters that can be used in a password over and over again till you get the right one. The amount of time needed to do this depends on many factors.
1) Internet connection Speed
2) Lag from other Programs
3) Password Length
4) Luck
It takes Ages… But how long is the question. Could a hacker do it in 2 1/2 days before the reporters who were given access to the AOL files Harris put on his site could have found it? The answer is…….. Well see below…
from This Post
This post proves that there is no way anyone could have done it in 2 1/2 to 3 days.. It takes YEARS.A century of work AT LEAST…. So the possibility that some random hacker hacked in to Harris’s Aol Page has been pretty much eliminated. But the reporters? But did they plant the Hoax? I think some reporter did this… I can’t prove it… And won’t say which newspaper he worked for. But a newspaper has the most to gain from faking the ‘doom will become reality claim’, because then they could spin the whole thing to damn video games to give the scapegoat the parents and the community want. You can’t sue a mental illness. You cant! You CAN sue the industry. If ‘evidence’ is found… the whole thing could be made to errupt into a the next big media frenzy on violent entertainment corrupting kid minds and making them killers. And that’s what happened!
What I am about to do is show you who I think is responsible…. I cannot prove it…. But one thing I can do is eliminate the possibility that it is some odd hacker, who brute-forced his way into Harris’s AOL Page (if that article that's gone now is wrong) .Number 1, I determined that the earliest newspaper ‘reports’ using the phrase were published on April 23, 1999. Doing a Little research I discovered how long an average person would have to wait to keep trying all the the available characters that could be used in the password, till he or she got it right and gained access to the site builder to upload the hoax HTML File. Brute forcing is what this tactic is called. It’s the hardest but the most thorough way to figure out a password that you don’t know so you can gain access to a site that’s not yours or break into an encrypted file that you lost the password to or want to get in for some other reason. Brute forcing tests every single possible combination of characters that can be used in a password over and over again till you get the right one. The amount of time needed to do this depends on many factors.
1) Internet connection Speed
2) Lag from other Programs
3) Password Length
4) Luck
It takes Ages… But how long is the question. Could a hacker do it in 2 1/2 days before the reporters who were given access to the AOL files Harris put on his site could have found it? The answer is…….. Well see below…
from This Post
This post proves that there is no way anyone could have done it in 2 1/2 to 3 days.. It takes YEARS.A century of work AT LEAST…. So the possibility that some random hacker hacked in to Harris’s Aol Page has been pretty much eliminated. But the reporters? But did they plant the Hoax? I think some reporter did this… I can’t prove it… And won’t say which newspaper he worked for. But a newspaper has the most to gain from faking the ‘doom will become reality claim’, because then they could spin the whole thing to damn video games to give the scapegoat the parents and the community want. You can’t sue a mental illness. You cant! You CAN sue the industry. If ‘evidence’ is found… the whole thing could be made to errupt into a the next big media frenzy on violent entertainment corrupting kid minds and making them killers. And that’s what happened!
Debunking 5 Violent game myths the anti-gamers spread around (old blog repost)
So, on my old blog I spent 2-3 hours researching for an upcoming
article debunking 10 violent game myths. I posted this article on a
social bookmarking site (digg), and tons of trolls came out saying crap
like "badly written article, Downvote!" and one even visited a link to
the pro-family group I called nutjobs for making up a claim that violent
games allow kids to 'sodomize victims with broomsticks'. Something
that I was pretty sure no game had in it.... The trolls then visited the
groups site and I had to take the post down and the whole blog, to
prevent libel.
But... the actual post that I linked on the site was debunking violent game myths. I am going back to recreate the post and debunk 5 violent game myths... With links to debunk them if possible... Here goes....
I will try to say why I think the lie is being spread, and then disprove it.... Below the paragraph about each lie I will write a section called "Data on Lie", which will give rough estimates (in %) of how severe the lie is (how drastic the claim is compared to the truth), Popularity (how much it's being said in the media since it's conception), recent popularity (how popular it is in the media now), and respread (how much people have spread the lie in comments, etc, intentionally or not)
5: Violent games have controllable Rape scenes in them (really going strong now)
So the following article linked in this debunking of mine is spreading this lie that has been used dozens of times on anti-gaming articles bashing the SCOTUS EMA vs Brown decision. The lie is that there are violent games that have virtual rape in them where the player rapes a defenseless woman character in the game.... You have the Bulletstorm controversy saying that the game could cause real life sexual violence, then a biased claim by the psychologist in the article that violent games have caused real life rapes to occur, without any citing of any real cases... And many, many other articles calling violent games 'rape simulators'.... Where did this come from?
You get the morons complaining about violent games going to the next level by saying violent games have rape in them to increase the moral panic, that's what.... And the truth is, is that there hasn't been a controllable rape scene in a violent game since "Custer's Revenge" in 1989!, an adult game not even sold in normal game stores, then!
I hear the claim constantly from various people... Including this Connecticut anti-gaming AG complaining about the Cal law being held unconstitutional by the courts before it got to SCOTUS.. I have heard it at least twice in articles bashing SCOTUS, and in many comments of articles I have surveyed in my study looking for anti-gaming comments to see what their severity is.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 55%
Recent Popularity 75%
Respread 30%
4: Violent games are marketed to kids
This myth is less drastic than the first one, but is still constantly spread around. The truth is this one has been used in many different ways, all claiming violent games are marketed to kids for different reasons. There isn't one common reason why this is true... But My article on this (here) basically says that the ESRB ratings are often misconstrued as GOVT enforced by people who do the same thing with MPAA ratings.. They are both voluntary ratings and if a store doesn't enforce them they don't get in Legal trouble, unlike what the common belief is. So when you get a biased study like the PTC 'secret shopper survey' that says stores sell M rated games to kids 80% of the time, you get people thinking that the industry is marketing games to kids.
The truth is that a recent FTC study says ESRB ratings are even better than MPAA ratings and enforcement in stores... but that doesn't really disprove the myth.... What does, however is the target demographic of the industry is 18-35 year olds, according to this page. I have heard this on many articles in gaming sites, so I trust it.... If it were 5-9 year olds like all the anti-gamers keep saying then I wouldn't even try to debunk this... But I have never heard any kind of evidence to support the biased claim that violent games are marketed to kids that isn't something ridiculous like "violent game ads in our subway", or "kids in a game store that sells violent games that could be seen by a kid", or recently someone on a forum said this great claim "Look at all the Lego games, proof violent games are marketed to kids" after saying that since there were violent game ads 'everywhere' the claim must be true. Basically it's a lie.
Data on lie:
Severity 80%
Popularity 65%
Recent Popularity 45%
Respread 80%
3: violent games make kids violent
There are many studies that seem to prove violent game make kids 'aggressive' but the fact is that this lie is based on right wing journalists and violent game 'experts' misquoting these already biased studies by saying they prove the kids become violent after playing violent games. The studies themselves are flawed (as my debunking shows). Basically the studies use brainwave scanning on both groups of kids, kids who play violent games , and kids who don't. The aggression levels are proven through that, and through a competitive task that pits 2 people (1 from each group) against each other and allows the winner to blast loud static noise into the loser's ears. The study says that the kids who play violent games hold down the 'blast' button longer. They don't say how much, but from a comment on an article on a recent study, it was only milliseconds. Yeah. Nice proof. But if that wasn't the only thing making these studies flawed, we have the fact that many of these studies fail to even measure tendencies that could cause aggression in the kids before the study starts, so basically the more 'aggressive' kids aren't even checked to see that another thing is making them 'aggressive', and the checks are right after they play the games, no checks done next day, next month. These are short term studies... Not good on seeing if a kid will 'go violent' after playing Doom. To make things worse, there is no eliminating gamers from these studies... Using a 18 year old GTA fan as proof of 'aggression', by playing GTA is a bit biased. Don't you think... Now all of this proves the studies have holes. But where did the violence claim come from, the one that says violence is proven by these studies...
From the 'violent game experts on the news', the hack psychologists purposely misquoting studies after columbine, on morning talk shows. This lie was spread like wildfire back in 1999 and many people outright believe it without questioning. It's sad.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 45%
Recent Popularity 25%
Respread 70%
2: Violent games make school shooters better shooters in real life.
This one is really alarming, not very popular in lies being spread by the media, but really alarming, none the less. It basically says that Doom, allows players to be better shooters in real life, and uses the evidence in a school shooting predating Columbine as proof. The shooter was very accurate shooter in the shooting, and an avid Doom fan. They said "he had never picked up a gun before!" and then said that Doom made him the better shooter..... Without debunking possibility of him not going to a gun range, and actually practicing for real... Ok... Now the think is that the Columbine Shooters also were Doom obsessed.... But the FBI report mentioned that they missed most of their shots! Why?
Recoil, the force that pushes the gun angle up after every shot.
99% of Violent games don't have realistic recoil of weapons, Doom had none, Quake had none, Half-life : none, only games that have good recoil are tactical shooters. And they are so unfairly realistic that no one could 'train' on them without becoming frustrated. The shots kill not hurt in those games, and the guns are very realistic with realistic recoil and kickback... But they didn't really get popular till AFTER Columbine.. And since there hasn't been a school shooting with a real link to Violent games since...
Recoil prevents someone from hitting their shots if they hold down the trigger like they do in the movies and in most violent games. It causes a real life gun to spin out of control, especially an Assault Weapon like a MP5, or any Assault Rifle. The tactic taught in older violent games available in 1999 basically was (run into room, hold down fire button, kill all enemies, let go, rinse and repeat). This doesn't work in real life. The person would be shooting the ceiling if they tried this for more than 2 seconds. The military teaches real soldiers to fire in short bursts to minimize the recoil... A debunking of this in Doom was done by me recently on this blog... Here it is. There is no way a violent game will make you a better shot. The tactics are incompatible with real life... At least they were before realism was added to FPS games in 2003+. Realistic tactical shooters weren't really popular till Far Cry (2003). Before that it was all no recoil in weapons...
So no way in hell did the school shooters get better at firing a real gun by playing FPS games of that time.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 45%
Recent Popularity 25%
Respread 10%
1: violent games break down the inhibition to kill
Ok... I've debunked this in my attack on the amicus brief with tons of lies submitted on CA's side of the SCOTUS debate (go here for the debunking) but I will debunk it again... The claim is that violent games are used in the military to break down the inhibition to kill. This blog completely debunks the claim, which is another claim spread by the "hack psychologists" after columbine...
Violent games are used in the military to train group tactics, it's no secret. The Marines licensed doom for this purpose... But there is no branch of the military that uses them to break down the inhibition to kill. The above blog says that the inhibition to kill is part of what Boot camp is for, to make recruits automatically follow orders. This, is really the only way to make recruits fire when they are commanded to... Seriously... A video game won't do this... You need to break down the recruit by Intimidation, exhaustion, and other factors to make them act automatically. This needs an environment where you cannot leave the environment, and have limited freedoms, and are being constantly screamed at for making any mistakes, and are being worked out so bad that your constantly exhausted. No video game does this. Period.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 75%
Recent Popularity 15%
Respread 90%
But... the actual post that I linked on the site was debunking violent game myths. I am going back to recreate the post and debunk 5 violent game myths... With links to debunk them if possible... Here goes....
I will try to say why I think the lie is being spread, and then disprove it.... Below the paragraph about each lie I will write a section called "Data on Lie", which will give rough estimates (in %) of how severe the lie is (how drastic the claim is compared to the truth), Popularity (how much it's being said in the media since it's conception), recent popularity (how popular it is in the media now), and respread (how much people have spread the lie in comments, etc, intentionally or not)
5: Violent games have controllable Rape scenes in them (really going strong now)
So the following article linked in this debunking of mine is spreading this lie that has been used dozens of times on anti-gaming articles bashing the SCOTUS EMA vs Brown decision. The lie is that there are violent games that have virtual rape in them where the player rapes a defenseless woman character in the game.... You have the Bulletstorm controversy saying that the game could cause real life sexual violence, then a biased claim by the psychologist in the article that violent games have caused real life rapes to occur, without any citing of any real cases... And many, many other articles calling violent games 'rape simulators'.... Where did this come from?
You get the morons complaining about violent games going to the next level by saying violent games have rape in them to increase the moral panic, that's what.... And the truth is, is that there hasn't been a controllable rape scene in a violent game since "Custer's Revenge" in 1989!, an adult game not even sold in normal game stores, then!
I hear the claim constantly from various people... Including this Connecticut anti-gaming AG complaining about the Cal law being held unconstitutional by the courts before it got to SCOTUS.. I have heard it at least twice in articles bashing SCOTUS, and in many comments of articles I have surveyed in my study looking for anti-gaming comments to see what their severity is.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 55%
Recent Popularity 75%
Respread 30%
4: Violent games are marketed to kids
This myth is less drastic than the first one, but is still constantly spread around. The truth is this one has been used in many different ways, all claiming violent games are marketed to kids for different reasons. There isn't one common reason why this is true... But My article on this (here) basically says that the ESRB ratings are often misconstrued as GOVT enforced by people who do the same thing with MPAA ratings.. They are both voluntary ratings and if a store doesn't enforce them they don't get in Legal trouble, unlike what the common belief is. So when you get a biased study like the PTC 'secret shopper survey' that says stores sell M rated games to kids 80% of the time, you get people thinking that the industry is marketing games to kids.
The truth is that a recent FTC study says ESRB ratings are even better than MPAA ratings and enforcement in stores... but that doesn't really disprove the myth.... What does, however is the target demographic of the industry is 18-35 year olds, according to this page. I have heard this on many articles in gaming sites, so I trust it.... If it were 5-9 year olds like all the anti-gamers keep saying then I wouldn't even try to debunk this... But I have never heard any kind of evidence to support the biased claim that violent games are marketed to kids that isn't something ridiculous like "violent game ads in our subway", or "kids in a game store that sells violent games that could be seen by a kid", or recently someone on a forum said this great claim "Look at all the Lego games, proof violent games are marketed to kids" after saying that since there were violent game ads 'everywhere' the claim must be true. Basically it's a lie.
Data on lie:
Severity 80%
Popularity 65%
Recent Popularity 45%
Respread 80%
3: violent games make kids violent
There are many studies that seem to prove violent game make kids 'aggressive' but the fact is that this lie is based on right wing journalists and violent game 'experts' misquoting these already biased studies by saying they prove the kids become violent after playing violent games. The studies themselves are flawed (as my debunking shows). Basically the studies use brainwave scanning on both groups of kids, kids who play violent games , and kids who don't. The aggression levels are proven through that, and through a competitive task that pits 2 people (1 from each group) against each other and allows the winner to blast loud static noise into the loser's ears. The study says that the kids who play violent games hold down the 'blast' button longer. They don't say how much, but from a comment on an article on a recent study, it was only milliseconds. Yeah. Nice proof. But if that wasn't the only thing making these studies flawed, we have the fact that many of these studies fail to even measure tendencies that could cause aggression in the kids before the study starts, so basically the more 'aggressive' kids aren't even checked to see that another thing is making them 'aggressive', and the checks are right after they play the games, no checks done next day, next month. These are short term studies... Not good on seeing if a kid will 'go violent' after playing Doom. To make things worse, there is no eliminating gamers from these studies... Using a 18 year old GTA fan as proof of 'aggression', by playing GTA is a bit biased. Don't you think... Now all of this proves the studies have holes. But where did the violence claim come from, the one that says violence is proven by these studies...
From the 'violent game experts on the news', the hack psychologists purposely misquoting studies after columbine, on morning talk shows. This lie was spread like wildfire back in 1999 and many people outright believe it without questioning. It's sad.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 45%
Recent Popularity 25%
Respread 70%
2: Violent games make school shooters better shooters in real life.
This one is really alarming, not very popular in lies being spread by the media, but really alarming, none the less. It basically says that Doom, allows players to be better shooters in real life, and uses the evidence in a school shooting predating Columbine as proof. The shooter was very accurate shooter in the shooting, and an avid Doom fan. They said "he had never picked up a gun before!" and then said that Doom made him the better shooter..... Without debunking possibility of him not going to a gun range, and actually practicing for real... Ok... Now the think is that the Columbine Shooters also were Doom obsessed.... But the FBI report mentioned that they missed most of their shots! Why?
Recoil, the force that pushes the gun angle up after every shot.
99% of Violent games don't have realistic recoil of weapons, Doom had none, Quake had none, Half-life : none, only games that have good recoil are tactical shooters. And they are so unfairly realistic that no one could 'train' on them without becoming frustrated. The shots kill not hurt in those games, and the guns are very realistic with realistic recoil and kickback... But they didn't really get popular till AFTER Columbine.. And since there hasn't been a school shooting with a real link to Violent games since...
Recoil prevents someone from hitting their shots if they hold down the trigger like they do in the movies and in most violent games. It causes a real life gun to spin out of control, especially an Assault Weapon like a MP5, or any Assault Rifle. The tactic taught in older violent games available in 1999 basically was (run into room, hold down fire button, kill all enemies, let go, rinse and repeat). This doesn't work in real life. The person would be shooting the ceiling if they tried this for more than 2 seconds. The military teaches real soldiers to fire in short bursts to minimize the recoil... A debunking of this in Doom was done by me recently on this blog... Here it is. There is no way a violent game will make you a better shot. The tactics are incompatible with real life... At least they were before realism was added to FPS games in 2003+. Realistic tactical shooters weren't really popular till Far Cry (2003). Before that it was all no recoil in weapons...
So no way in hell did the school shooters get better at firing a real gun by playing FPS games of that time.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 45%
Recent Popularity 25%
Respread 10%
1: violent games break down the inhibition to kill
Ok... I've debunked this in my attack on the amicus brief with tons of lies submitted on CA's side of the SCOTUS debate (go here for the debunking) but I will debunk it again... The claim is that violent games are used in the military to break down the inhibition to kill. This blog completely debunks the claim, which is another claim spread by the "hack psychologists" after columbine...
Violent games are used in the military to train group tactics, it's no secret. The Marines licensed doom for this purpose... But there is no branch of the military that uses them to break down the inhibition to kill. The above blog says that the inhibition to kill is part of what Boot camp is for, to make recruits automatically follow orders. This, is really the only way to make recruits fire when they are commanded to... Seriously... A video game won't do this... You need to break down the recruit by Intimidation, exhaustion, and other factors to make them act automatically. This needs an environment where you cannot leave the environment, and have limited freedoms, and are being constantly screamed at for making any mistakes, and are being worked out so bad that your constantly exhausted. No video game does this. Period.
Data on lie:
Severity 100%
Popularity 75%
Recent Popularity 15%
Respread 90%
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