Trump may be using Russian bots that pretend to be Conservatives to try to force politicians to Confiscate your violent games...

Back when this moral panic started I started equating posts on twitter attacking violent games to botnets that groups like hamilton_68 said amplified hashtags like #Parkland, #Guncontrol, #Guncontrolnow, and #ParklandStrong. I kept on noticing posters saying the same exact thing multiple times on twitter over several days... I think their bots.... But I don't know for sure... But if Russia Did Collude with Trump to get him elected, maybe he has something to do with these bots...


Bots like this could be responsible for the moral panic surrounding violent games after the Parkland Shooting.   ----------------

Notice the copy and pasted messages and the tweets to politicians that seem to look like normal people but aren't because the message is copy and pasted and can't be a person due to that?
Why would a person post the same exact messages over and over again to multiple people?
Only a bot would do that.


Well... It got worse today... I saw these tweets tonight and last night...

I don't know if these are bots but the first of the last 2 is very suspicious because it tweets to a senator... A senator that is a Democrat in California...   Why are they calling for Confiscation of all violent games? Because they think all gamers are school shooters. You know who else thought that? One of the Hack Psychologists who went on talk shows  saying games are training tools for mass murder. The same hack psychologist also said that all gamers deserve the death penalty.

Trump has already called for regulation on violent games... It's only matter of time before he tries to ban them or confiscate them to all people...  If his damn fans want it, he's dumb enough to do just that! And they do....


This is BAD... If the GOP really wants to confiscate violent games from innocent gamers like us we need to fight it... Go to this blog post and talk to your senators to try to get them to oppose video game legislation and demand action if Trump demands confiscation of your video games!

GOP supporters trying to hijack #parklandstudentsspeak to get students to recommend Confiscating Violent Games as a solution to Lawmakers...

What I am about to talk about really, really pisses me off. As you may or may not know, the Parkland School Shooting survivors rallied in Washington to try to stop gun violence. It didn't really work, because the NRA funded politicians they talked too all said guns aren't the problem. The Students used a hashtag #parklandstudentsspeak to rally people support them I guess...  But this act, doing a hashtag campaign only lead to calls for video game censorship by complete morons...

And I mean hundreds of morons this time, all hellbent on getting video games banned, confiscated, or destroyed. I don't like this one bit. I am a 38 year old Gamer. I own lots of violent games. I used to play for 15-16 hours a day, from age 13 to now.  I no longer do.  But I still play them... I am perfectly fine. Video games have not turned my into a fucking lunatic that wants to kill in real life. I don't like idiots from right wing crowds advocating for video game censorship by the hundreds.  I DON'T WANT MY GAMES CONFISCATED! I am taking a stand, to prevent just that.

I feel powerless to stop this if one of the students LIKES this horrible idea of confiscating video games from everyone, all of the 11 million gamers worldwide that haven't killed people. I've decided to write my senator and I want other gamers to do the same, if they try this sly tactic of trying to confiscate violent games from people.  But before I talk about that I wanted to provide proof of all the idiots on twitter trying to get these kids to say games are the problem....

Ok Gamers, I need your help right now. I don't know if  The GOP wants to confiscate games from everyone but If they do, I fear there will be nothing to stop them this time.

A) GOP is attacking games like crazy after this shooting, Mast, Bevin, and some others as well...
B) They have control over the entire House of Representatives and the Senate as well. There are too many people in the GOP to prevent this from not getting through.. They will all agree it's a great idea because Bevin will convince them Gamers are all school shooters in the making.
C) The new Chief Justice is a conservative. If the law gets to the supreme court, there will be NO Guarantee it will be found unconstitutional. The last time the Supreme court got involved with the gaming industry (Brown VS EMA), the justices said later that They didn't think they did the right thing...

You guys need to talk to your Democrat senators NOW... To AT LEAST tell them to fight any GOP bill that would ban violent games to adults or confiscate them from all people... Gamers we need to fight this. HARD.  I will do my part,. But you must help me on this... I can't do it alone. One senator opposed to confiscating violent games isn't enough! There needs to be a shit ton of angry Democrats fighting this shit... Send THIS message...


"Dear Senator "insert name  here"

I am your constituent 

I fear GOP may try to regulate violent games after the Parkland shooting. There are angry Trumpsters online that are trying to get the kids who are marching to washington for gun control to  attack violent games rather than guns. There are literally hundreds of people doing this. Some want video games confiscated from all people in the country, over the supposed link to violence found in ultra-violent games...

There are lots of studies that have proven recently that video games don't cause violence. Searching online will show these studies.  There have been 18 mass murders this year, but only the latest one has any link to video games. Only Columbine and newtown have links to violent game playing shooters... There are 11 million gamers worldwide.  only 4 out of 11 million have killed people. That is a tiny percentage, too tiny to warrent confiscation of violent games to everyone in the USA.

You will hear lots of nonsense spread about violent games from the GOP. They will try to tell you other killers killed because of games, but a lot of that is nonsense. They will try to tell you studies prove violent games make people violent. But in reality no study has ever proven that. Many studies prove games cause aggression, but studies have proven that aggression comes from the frustration of playing video games, not the violent content.

The people who attack violent games don't like them. Especially Matt Bevin. He questioned why they need to even exist, period. The GOP and NRA will try to attack games. I hope you can make the right decision on this. If they call for a ban to children only. That's one thing. But to adults too... That's unconstitutional. And so should be this confiscation angle..."

I hope this works gamers, but I need your help...

Did Russian Bots start the Anti-Gaming Moral panic after the Parkland Shooting?

I read an article online talking about how hashtags surrounding the Parkland School Shooting on twitter got amplified by Russian bots. They pretended to be liberals attacking the NRA and conservatives defending guns.  What does this have to do with video game violence? I was checking the same hashtags looking for posters attacking video games after the shooting the night before I read this article.  I saw a LOT of people attack video games, several hundred.  I became suspicious, because after the previous mass shooting that I covered (the Las Vegas Shooting) there was not nearly as many people targeting games on twitter.  So I always wondered if Russian bots were doing anti-gaming attacks as well...

I've touched upon the idea that a moral panic of this size was orchestrated by Russian bots before people but now, I think I have proof.  I saw some idiot posting video game bashing stuff that didn't quite make sense. I saw that he was trying to say video games violence is correlated to real life violence but could not quite make sense.... Well fastforward to tonight, and I notice the same poster posts THE SAME EXACT MESSAGE to someone else that he posted before, using the same hashtag as well..

Ok... Why the blue hell would someone post the exact same message twice?  Why would they do that. People don't act like that. They type what they feel... If he was really a person he would be saying a different sentence, but this guy said the same exact thing he said before... Here is a screenshot for proof...

Ok... I got that and I was lucky to be able to track this down... I think this guy is a bot. He says a badly written message when posting on twitter and it's filled with grammar problems like "Extremely More Violent" and whatever.... Why would you post the same message copy and paste like that? So I think this is proof that bots may have contributed to this moral panic at the very least..

I don't know if this guy is a Russian bot though... That is up for debate. All I know is that there have been tons of people bashing games on twitter since the shooting. And at least 1 other copy and pasted a message multiple times several days apart to try to get it out there multiple times.. Finding this other person is very hard for me to do so you just have to trust me on this...

IF this is true, this is bad... It possibly points at the GOP for trying to use their Russian Allies to try to "stir the pot" in favor of video game legislation. Right now very few people outside of the conservative world blame video games for shootings... But if they can make more people believe that BS than they might have a chance to pass any legislation they start after the shooting... I think I caught them in the act...

People who are looking for Russian bots should really look for the following searches on twitter to try to find people who do this kind of thing...

#Parkland Games
#Parklandstrong Games
#MarchForOurLives Games
#EndGunViolence Games
#GunControlNow Games

Keep looking through these searches and you will eventually find people posting the same messages over and over again... I think they are bots but I have no proof... If they are this will be a new thing for moral panics, bot started moral panics...  It's bad and I think something needs to be done. If you see people posting repeated messages that attack video games and use the hashtags listed above, report them to twitter. We need to fight this...

EDIT : I think I found another bot...

Proof is in this image:

EDIT : One more bot found... This one is trying to get media to attack games by tweeting to them...

Yet Another Bot....

This guy I found while doing my Moral Panic Post. Didn't recognize him as a bot till now...

Stupid Twitter Witchmob attacks violent games after Parkland Shooting....

Another shooting, another stupid unfounded moral Panic attacking Violent Games.  It never ends... And it pisses me off, because a lot of shit I heard on twitter last night (while I was scanning for moral panic-y posts both days) is complete BS... Number 1, video games have no connection to this shooting.  Number 2, the shooter was a white nationalist... Hello! What do you think causes real life violence, video games? Or being a racist asshole who was part of the white nationalist militia?

Anyway, I found dozens, hell, even hundreds of tweets attacking violent games after the shooting and these ones I highlighted below are the worst... Expect dozens of BS claims and some really stupid ideas for Legislation like illegal search and seizure of video games from people's housing and the like...

The following people deserve to be trolled for this... If you people want to troll them do it, but I won't get involved...

HELLO! Stupid idiot number 1, I don't even play Grand theft auto games because they suck and I don't even take Ritalin! Fuck you!  Bravo for being the stupidest idiot on the list so far. Most gamers don't play Grand Theft auto... Most gamers play... Other games... A lot play Grand Theft Auto so stop trying to make me and other gamers look like sociopaths! Because doing that is just what this poster wanted to do...

Both posters here are complete idiots. The first is a real turd. He's a Trump Supporter and Trump supporters piss me off because it's them who are attacking violent games in this moral Panic.  This fucking idiot thinks 8 year olds are playing Grand Theft Auto. No.... They're not. Most gamers are in their 30's and again, Grand Theft Auto is popular but it's also shitty...  Children's brains aren't being rewired, that's a BS claim by BS idiots... Prove it you turd! You can't can you!

The second poster thinks most gamers play games for 16 hours a day? Even I don't do that. 3-4 hours at most... Stupid BS with no proof, AGAIN!

I wish this Trumptard would shut the fuck up. The last thing we need is more fucking video game studies. They've been engineered from the get go... Look for people like "Center for Successful parenting" funding such studies, they clearly have an agenda... They even use Electroshock therapy to fudge the results. The last thing we need is studies like this!




Hello! Games are NOT getting more and more realistic... FRANZ ASSHOLE! How many games have 100% accurate firearms simulation? Very few. How many have realistic battlefield simulation where 1 hit kills you and there is no healing? Almost none... In fact that claim that games are getting more and more realistic is stupid... They've gotten better looking, and they've gotten harder... But realistic? That's BS!


Stupid idiot #2 is another moron. He thinks games are training combatants... That's BS... Games can't be used and are NOT used to train in the military. But for years complete idiots like the Hack Psychologists made up BS saying that was true on talk shows so you get idiots like this that believe this crap... Games are not realistic enough to be used as a training tool! That debunks this... Gunfire isn't simulated 100% and very few games even teach people how to handle fire-arms properly...

This time we have two stupid trump supporters whining about violent games...  The top one is the same idiot who showed up twice in tweets, and he recycles his "rewiring the brain" BS here... The other one is trying to claim games Desensitize people to real life violence. That's bs... They desensitize people to video game world violence, that's it...  People are all assuming they desensitize people to real life violence but that's nonsense... Real life violence is not the same thing as video game violence. Most people can tell the difference between a game's violence and real life horror's like school shootings. Playing video games won't make someone all of the sudden be accustomed to real life violence....

More people whining about the Culture of Violence... What culture of violence...  It's all blown out of proportion. Yes they're is violence in video games, but TV? Nope...


Stupid Idiot 3 "ED" is an idiot. The last thing we need is media bashing violent games after a shooting  that had nothing to do with them...  

Stupid idiot #1 wants violent games to be taxed, and he wants purchasers to be background checked? Fuck him. We live in a free society. Video games don't cause real life violence and they certainly don't "promote, encourage, teach and desensitize people to gun violence and murder".. That's complete bs! You know why? Most violent games have you fighting MONSTERS! Last time I checked, gunning down a horde of Hell Knights, Mutants, Ogre's, Draugr, star wars stormtroopers, etc is not murder! And I don't see how violent games desensitize make people more accustomed to some murder on the street, there is nothing in common between games where you mostly fight monsters and murder! Murder involves killing innocent civilians! Monsters and soldiers are not innocent civilians, civilians that don't fight back... Last time I checked, gunning down innocents isn't really something people really like, because it's no challenge, so this argument is total BS!

Now we have some stupid idiot or perhaps a person working for the government trying to start a moral panic. He is tweeting to dozens of media outlets, politicians that he wants video games "dealt with"... it's stupid... This shit has to stop...  Stuff like this leads to legislation, which can stifle an artform and that is censorship. This guy needs to be fought hard...

Now we get some really stupid posts. Stupid Idiot #1 "Ichabod Scrooge"  is advocating for search and seizure of violent games from people's homes in the aim of "saving the children!"... It's fucking stupid. Last time I checked, violent games aren't illegal to own.. Fuck this guy.. He pisses me off. Luckily he has no power...  But if some senator reads this bad shit could happen. Troll the fuck out of this guy!


Another idiot below idiot 1 is making up more BS... He tries to claim most shooters are gamers. But that's bs because most of them didn't actually play violent games. Only a few did, Columbine shooters mostly... Most were terrorists, white supremacists or similar. I think that is a lot more likely a cause.... I know Lanza mostly played NON VIOLENT games and a lot of people who committed mass shooting played guitar hero or RPG's... Speaking of RPG's, here comes the stupidest tweet I've seen on twitter in ages... prepare for a facepalm...

This idiot is whining about how mass shootings are caused by the Violence in... RPG's? WTF!
90% of rpg's have sword fighting or spells... Very few have guns... Only fallout and some newer ones like Deus EX have guns in them... Last time I checked there was not a rash of violent school slaughterings by guys with swords and chainmail! This has to the stupidest BS claim I've heard...




This moral panic has been a lot worse than the minor ones we dealt with during the last 2-3 shootings. This one has 100's of people actively targeting violent games, politicians getting in (more on that on my next post), and some stupid shit on twitter... I keep saying... Moral Panics start on twitter. And  they do.. They spread to politicians and those politicians start trying to censor games...

This is no different.. This is disgusting...