My previous 2 articles go into a supposed deranged gamer "Score
Sheet" Adam Lanza made, which detailed the weapon types, kill count and
other things on 500 murders. An Article by a New York Newspaper claimed
the Police found this spreadsheet, and said it was 7 foot by 4 foot, and
had 500 murders on it. Only problem is that for 500 names to fit in a
spreadsheet, it would have to be made in a smaller font than the 9 font
they said it had. Only 420 names can fit on a spreadsheet that is 7 feet
tall in a 9 font.
The original article attacked games
and gamers heavily, claiming Adam Lanza was trying to outdo previous
shooters done by gamers in a "video game world" when he shot up Newtown.
They also claimed killing yourself was preferrable in their stupid BS
"Code of a Gamer" to being caught because other "gamers" (they mean
school shooters) could take your "points" you were trying to earn while
shooting up a school. This whole article stereotyped gamers by trying to
say gamers = murderers and is quite disgusting at the least, and hate
speech at the worst.
Dozens of newspapers cited this
crap and spread the anti-gamer stereotype even further by doing so, each
one of the articles citing the original mentions the BS code of a gamer
and how gamers live violent fantasies by trying to commit school
massacres in their own sick real life version of the games they play.
Not a single one of these articles attacked the original for this
nonsense, not a single one, and that's telling. You'd think in this day
and age, anti-gamer stereotyping would be attacked massively but the
gamers just don't care. None of them complained. NONE. I'm the only one
complaining, long after the fact, because I recently found out that
there are still articles from more recent times citing this crap. And it
pisses me off.
But what really pisses me off is the
fact that the writer made up a bunk spreadsheet claim, used it to attack
gamers and games, and the Government of Connecticut themselves said it
was real. It's the latest in a long line of BS claims being used against
violent games, and the first fake evidence claim I've seen to be used
against gamers themselves. It stereotypes all gamers as adam lanza
wannabees with their 500 name spreadsheets and murder fantasies. Most
Real gamers don't do crap like this. Most don't obsess over murders,
guns, and violence in general. We may play violent games but most enjoy
the games for the challenge, story, and atmosphere, NOT the violence.
The whole stereotype that gamers are violent sociopaths is being spread
by the initial article AND the articles citing it and therefore also by
the Connecticut government because they are claiming the spreadsheet is
real and it is a product of an anti-gaming article so by default they are
spreading the stereotype as well.
Previous fake
evidence claims always were about demonizing games themselves by
providing "evidence" that shooters killed real people due to the violent
games influence. The Doom will become reality hoax, a fake Eric harris
website did this, it had a page saying "on april 21'st the fires will
light up, doom will become reality", making it look like Doom Influenced
Harris. FBI proved it was fake by figuring out the site went up after the massacre, but still hundreds of articles tried to
use this to attack Doom. 3 Newspapers conspired after this, to make up a
claim stating that a hate site tracking group found a Modified version
of doom that Harris used to "train" for the massacre, complete with
begging students in the game. Only issue is that the features mentioned
could not have been done in doom till 2001 at the earliest (long after
Harris was Dead). But people still used this to attack Doom as well in
articles citing this. This even got spread to the American Psychological
association and was cited in a paper done by them that tried to claim
Violent games make people violent. The previous hoax was put in an
Amicus Brief by the Eagle forum for Brown Vs EMA to try to sway the
Supreme Court with faked evidence. Both of these didn't go as far as to
Stereotype gamers. The newest one does, and it's a change for the
Anti-gamers, a change that is NOT needed!
If Connecticut is using this evidence to demonize gamers, they have stepped to a new low here. Saying he Spreadsheet is real is one thing, but then citing the article that said it's the work of a "video gamer" by making us all look like Adam Lanza Clones is Disgusting. I plan to Go to Connecticut soon within a month or so. I want to see how far this BS has spread. I will order a Doom Shirt online and go into a Wendies in a Connecticut town (wish it was Newtown but my families day trip to Connecticut is way to far away from there), and see if people give me any dirty looks or crap like that. If they do, it's more evidence Connecticut has become the next Colorado in terms of violent game moral panic related BS.
I don't know what will stop crap like this, other than massively limiting the powers of the media to spread false truths. That's the only thing that will help to me. The problem with that is that neither major party would support this idea. Democrats hate violent games. They would never support something that stops their allies from spreading lies about such games, which fuels the moral panics needed to get their bills voted in. Republicans love the big businesses. The media businesses are HUGE. There is no way they will support it either due to this. So basically this means that crap like this is going to happen and nothing can be done about it. What can be done about it is gamers actually calling out journalists that make up stupid claims like this that demonize gamers. Let them feel your wrath. Gamers aren't doing enough to protest this kind of stuff. When it's obvious it's fake and it makes gamers look bad, post comments on the newspaper article saying you don't like it. This can actually work if enough people did this. Bad comments can make a newspaper look bad. That can get them to have bad reputations. If they were flooded with negative comments over their article they might think twice about spewing the same vile shit again. But the problem is that gamers aren't willing to do this. They are too pre-occupied with games to really care.
