Lo and behold, some stupid idiot ran an article bashing violent games
after the ucc shooting. The article spreads tons of lies surrounding
video games and video game violence. It's nonsense and I can't stand
nonsense like this. I will debunk it's claims 1 by 1 to show how stupid
it is...
Link to Initial Article:
http://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/its-time-for-video-game-companies-to-take-some-responsibility-for-these-shootings.html
Here is the bs, and I will debunk it below:
"Through research, reports often indicate many mass killers were addicted
to violent video games. Chris Harper Mercer was no exception to this
trend."
Not one trustworthy source tries to say Chris
Harper Mercer played violent games or was addicted to them. The one
person claiming he was was a person sending a letter to the editor of an
Oregon Newspaper, and claimed Mercer played violent games all day, but
the link she used to prove this didn't even say that at all. The idea he
played all day was her invention. No other articles are saying he was a
gamer. This one is clearly making it up too!
"Mercer was known as a recluse who obsessed with violent gaming and
the digital world, even finding supporters on those sites. On an
anonymous chat room website called 4chan, there are messages that talk
about what he was planning to do. A comment stated, “Some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest. So long space robots.” The responses he got back to this were terrifying to say the least:
“DO IT”
“You might want to target a girl’s school which is safer because there are no beta males throwing themselves for their rescue.”
“I am so excited for this. If this comes true then thank you for my late birthday gift anon.”
“I suggest you enter a classroom and tell people that you will
take them as hostages. Make everyone get in one corner and then open
fire. Make sure that there is no way that someone can disarm you as it
possible. I suggest you carry a knife on your belt as last resort if
someone is holding your gun,”
“Do not use a shotgun. I would suggest a powerful assault rifle
and a pistol or 2x pistols. Possibly the type of pistols who have 15+
ammo”
Here are the responses after the shooting:
“THE MADMAN ACTUALLY DID IT”
“That score, ouch. Not even double digits on current reports.”
“GOOD SHOW OP”
“MAY YOU RIP IN PEACE.”
These were the responses by other people SUPPORTING his decision to
kill innocent people! People responded by calling the death toll a
“score,” and how they were disappointed he had not killed more. One
cannot turn a blind eye to the obvious link between violent video games
and mass murders. For the 40th time this year, the 141st time since the
Sandy Hook Massacre, a gunman has opened fire in a school. Hollywood,
especially the gaming industry, should be taking some of the
responsibility for these shootings."
What this idiot
writer fails to tell you is that the board she is talking about is not a
gaming board at all. It's a board for celebate men called /r9k/. It has
nothing to do with gaming at all. So much for this chearing to be the
work of the gaming community! What an idiot. This idiot is bashing
gaming for the work of 4channers that aren't gamers?
"With video games becoming more and more realistic, we need to be
extremely cautious as to what our youth and young people are being
exposed to on a daily basis. Fantasy violence can leave a troubled mind
craving more and more until they act out in reality. There is a violent
cultural script that too many children are influenced to live out. To
dig further, here is a list of some of the most violent horrible
killings in the past few years; all of these killers had an obsession
with violent video games."
Hello. Games aren't getting more realistic, that's bullshit, debunked here...
And "Fantasy violence" doesn't make people do real life violence at
all, despite her bullshit claim that it does. The claim that violent
games can make people addicted to them then commit the real life act's
in them is a bullshit claim made up by the hack psychologists in the
90's on talk shows. It's complete bullshit. Her list of violent killers,
has a lot who weren't obsessed with violent games either...
"Here’s a list of the mass murders linked with video Games:
1. Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary, was a frequent player of
violent first-person shooter video games. It was said his existence
largely involved playing violent computer video games in a bedroom."
What this idiot doesn't say is Lanza played more non-violent games than violent ones.
"2. James Holmes, went on a rampage in a movie theater showing
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, He was a
frequent player of violent video games including “World of Warcraft,” an
infamously addictive role-playing game."
HELLO! World
of warcraft is a sword fighting game! How does that lead to GUN
VIOLENCE? Also James Holmes played a lot of "Violent Games" Like Guitar
Hero. Right. Like that's a violent game now...
"4. Eric Harris, based on his journal, a panel of
psychologists, psychiatrists, and FBI agents point to Harris’ contempt
for others and his total lack of empathy and conscience as evidence of
his psychopathic tendencies. He also enjoyed violent video games."
Another fucking idiot trying to blame Columbine on Doom. Fuck you!
Oh
BTW, Columbine was a revenge crime designed to kill cops for raping
Harris during a 1998 bomb making materials arrest where the Sherriff of
CO Sexually abused him.
"5. Elliot Rodger, killed 7 young men and women including
himself. He was hooked on violent video games from a young age from his
own admission, hiding himself in “the World of Warcraft,” a place where
he felt comfortable and secure."
Again, World of warcraft can't cause gun violence, It's a sword fighting game!
"8. Anders Behring Breivik, 68 shot dead at a youth camp of the
Norwegian Labor party, another 8 in a bombing of government buildings
According to the judgment rendered against him, he liked playing violent
games."
What this piece of shit article doesn't say is
that Anders was an anti-islamic terrorist who killed people for their
religion. He admitted he trained on Call of Duty, but mostly he played
World of Warcraft, again a sword fighting game! Also this idiot listed
his name twice, once with his middle name once without to make it look
like there were TWO Anders Breivik's, when there are really only one
Anders.
"9. Michael Carneal, shot girls as they prayed in a prayer
group. Carneal never moved his feet during his shootings, and never
fired far to the left or right, but instead fired only once at each
target that appeared, just as a player of video games maximizes his game
score by shooting only once at each victim, in order to hit as many
targets as possible."
More bullshit claims. This time
this writer makes up a bullshit claim about Paducah. Video games do not
train people to maximize their score this way. The game Carneal played
was Doom, which HAD NO SCORE IN IT. In fact no games in 1997 had a
system with a score that did what this pile of crap writer claims it
did.
"Other killers have been hooked on violent video games too and have a
warped sense of what’s real and what’s not, thinking that real life is
just like a video game."
Where's the proof to prove
this? Nowhere! In fact this idiot makes up so much shit she should be
ashamed for herself, a fucking zealoty anti-gamer cockwad is what she
is!
"Numerous studies have linked violent behavior to consumption of violence in video games."
No... NO Studies prove violent games cause violent behavior. Tons of Flawed studies prove they cause aggression. But Aggression =/= Violence. She is a liar to say it does.
"Recently, researchers at Ohio State University conducted a study and
concluded that, “People who have a steady diet of playing these violent
video games may come to see the world as a hostile and violent place.”
Brad Bushman, professor of communication and psychology at OSU,
continues, “These results suggest there could be a cumulative effect” in
making video game players more aggressive and violent over the long
term as well as over the short term.
This is just one of thousands of studies about depictions of violence
in the mass media, including video games, that come to similar
conclusions."
This study author, Brad Bushman, is one
of the most flawed study authors out there. He is a fucking anti-gaming
quack, and his studies are known to be false. No trustworthy studies
have been done that say violent games cause violence. They are all being
funded by groups like the "Center for Successful Parenting" who say in
their mission statement that their goal is to get the health industry,
the government and the media to get rid of media violence. These studies
are NOT to be trusted.
"Of course, this doesn’t mean that ALL children, teenagers and young
adults playing video games, even violent video games, will act out
violently, but when will people realize that the most dangerous weapon a
person yields is their mind? The more minds corrupted with violence,
the more dangerous society becomes."
Bla-Blah-Blah Save the children, Blah-Blah-Blah FUCK YOU!
EDIT: Another fucking idiotic newspaper ran the SAME ARTICLE:
http://www.charismanews.com/culture/52651-14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games
EDIT: 3 More sites running the same idiotic article:
http://www.yournewlifeinchrist.com/14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games/
http://thesechristiantimes.com/2015/10/16/14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games/
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/17713783-14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games/
EDIT 3: When trying to post a rebuttal, it got deleted twice at the sites... It's stupid... They are trying to censor me when I am trying to tell the viewers that the article is false...I had to censor this article to prevent Libel when I decided to post a link to this article in a comment, not knowing that risks libel, fucking crazy....
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Oregon Newspaper spreads another moral panic on violent games.
Well it seems that the dead horse of the ucc shooting violent games moral panic has been resurrected by a greedy newspaper. They ran a fricking letter to the editor whining about violent games even though the shooter was proven to be a terrorist. The quotes by the person writing in are idiotic, they make up complete nonsense about violent games, that I will debunk. But it's leading to idiots spreading their nonsense in comments (more lies). And it's being spread ALL OVER twitter.
Lets get into debunking the nonsense that the letter says first:
"Friends, the real issue here, I believe, is the use of video games. Chris Harper-Mercer sat at home playing video games all day long. Video games are more and more realistic these days, and many of them are very violent. In many games, the participant is actively killing people."
ONE Article mentions he played video games. NOT VIOLENT ONES! It never specifies. Read the article she links. It doesn't even mention playing all day long. She made up that claim, because the article doesn't even specify how long he played. She also tries to say video games today are "more realistic, very violent and involve actively killing people". This is BS...
Most games are NOT realistic these days. Realistic games that are so realistic they could be simulators are rare. She is pulling that out of her ass. Very violent is also nonsense. Most violent games are mildly violent, only a few are realistic.
I did a study on over 605 games based on a wikipedia article of all FPS games ever released. I found out just how many are are realistic and how many are uber violent. Not many games were realistic or uber violent.
"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!"
As for many games being very violent, that's complete hogwash:
"Claim 9 : Most FPS games are Ultra-Violent
Source : MANY, Many articles saying this in many ways, basically all saying most FPS games are uber violentbased on descriptions of one game (good example is all the articles describing games like Postal 2 to attack the Justices who voted against CA in EMA vs Brown)
Ok… This isn’t so much a claim but a pattern among articles “damning” Violent video games. These articles use examples from 1 or 2 violent games that are what I call “Uber Violent” games as proof that “most games” are like them. Uber violent games are a rare thing. What’s the definition of “Uber violent games”? Games that are so violent that most people would find them tastlessly violent. Out of all 605 FPS games ever made, only 4.46% are “Uber Violent” like this. Only 14.81% of all 81 Popular FPS games could be considered Uber Violent. These “Popular Uber Violent” Fps games only make 1.98% of all FPS games ever released! (605)"
As for many games allowing to kill people, that's the only true thing she even mentions...
"When he entered the classroom to start shooting, Harper-Mercer said, "I've been waiting to do this for years." He obviously spent a lot of time imagining what it would be like to kill people. Where do thoughts like this come from? From watching violent, bloody TV shows and participating in the killing of virtual people through hours of video games. In these virtual worlds, there are no consequences or ramifications, and it only reinforces a feeling of powerfulness."
More bullshit. She claims that that video games lead to this. Anything could lead to him wanting to kill for years. Terrorism could, being a sick person could. This is yet another baseless claim with no evidence.
"Please, let's turn the conversation toward the topic of the harmful effects of video games, and let's think about what we can do to bring about change for the better in our society."
No, Lets not, you idiot. Enough Scapegoating. GO AFTER THE REAL CAUSE of the UCC Shooting, Terrorism!
It's quite shoddy "journalism" for a newspaper to run this letter, filled with complete lies about violent games after a shooting that had nothing to do with violent games. They should be fined or sued, but no one will do that, because no one cares. Not even gamers or the gaming industry do! Which is pathetic.
But the stupidity doesn't end there. I found this commenter trying to say tons of studies prove violent games lead to aggression. I quote:
"The research at this point is a slam dunk on violence in the media: it's having a very negative impact on young minds. There are now dozens of studies showing that violent video games impact a teenagers mood, level of aggression, shifts attitudes toward the more negative... etc"
This more BS. The studies that "prove" aggression are flawed on methodological grounds. REAL RESEARCH on them proves this. My post here goes into more detail on this.
Only time will tell if this nonsense leads to yet another moral panic on video game violence. All of this is the fault of the fucking zealot who tried to claim that the shooter was a gamer before it was confirmed to be Chris-Harper Mercer. That idiot (Xui Xes) is to blame for this nonsense... If the country tries to legislate morality by banning violent games, I will throw a fit, you fuck!
Lets get into debunking the nonsense that the letter says first:
"Friends, the real issue here, I believe, is the use of video games. Chris Harper-Mercer sat at home playing video games all day long. Video games are more and more realistic these days, and many of them are very violent. In many games, the participant is actively killing people."
ONE Article mentions he played video games. NOT VIOLENT ONES! It never specifies. Read the article she links. It doesn't even mention playing all day long. She made up that claim, because the article doesn't even specify how long he played. She also tries to say video games today are "more realistic, very violent and involve actively killing people". This is BS...
Most games are NOT realistic these days. Realistic games that are so realistic they could be simulators are rare. She is pulling that out of her ass. Very violent is also nonsense. Most violent games are mildly violent, only a few are realistic.
I did a study on over 605 games based on a wikipedia article of all FPS games ever released. I found out just how many are are realistic and how many are uber violent. Not many games were realistic or uber violent.
"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!"
As for many games being very violent, that's complete hogwash:
"Claim 9 : Most FPS games are Ultra-Violent
Source : MANY, Many articles saying this in many ways, basically all saying most FPS games are uber violentbased on descriptions of one game (good example is all the articles describing games like Postal 2 to attack the Justices who voted against CA in EMA vs Brown)
Ok… This isn’t so much a claim but a pattern among articles “damning” Violent video games. These articles use examples from 1 or 2 violent games that are what I call “Uber Violent” games as proof that “most games” are like them. Uber violent games are a rare thing. What’s the definition of “Uber violent games”? Games that are so violent that most people would find them tastlessly violent. Out of all 605 FPS games ever made, only 4.46% are “Uber Violent” like this. Only 14.81% of all 81 Popular FPS games could be considered Uber Violent. These “Popular Uber Violent” Fps games only make 1.98% of all FPS games ever released! (605)"
As for many games allowing to kill people, that's the only true thing she even mentions...
"When he entered the classroom to start shooting, Harper-Mercer said, "I've been waiting to do this for years." He obviously spent a lot of time imagining what it would be like to kill people. Where do thoughts like this come from? From watching violent, bloody TV shows and participating in the killing of virtual people through hours of video games. In these virtual worlds, there are no consequences or ramifications, and it only reinforces a feeling of powerfulness."
More bullshit. She claims that that video games lead to this. Anything could lead to him wanting to kill for years. Terrorism could, being a sick person could. This is yet another baseless claim with no evidence.
"Please, let's turn the conversation toward the topic of the harmful effects of video games, and let's think about what we can do to bring about change for the better in our society."
No, Lets not, you idiot. Enough Scapegoating. GO AFTER THE REAL CAUSE of the UCC Shooting, Terrorism!
It's quite shoddy "journalism" for a newspaper to run this letter, filled with complete lies about violent games after a shooting that had nothing to do with violent games. They should be fined or sued, but no one will do that, because no one cares. Not even gamers or the gaming industry do! Which is pathetic.
But the stupidity doesn't end there. I found this commenter trying to say tons of studies prove violent games lead to aggression. I quote:
"The research at this point is a slam dunk on violence in the media: it's having a very negative impact on young minds. There are now dozens of studies showing that violent video games impact a teenagers mood, level of aggression, shifts attitudes toward the more negative... etc"
This more BS. The studies that "prove" aggression are flawed on methodological grounds. REAL RESEARCH on them proves this. My post here goes into more detail on this.
Only time will tell if this nonsense leads to yet another moral panic on video game violence. All of this is the fault of the fucking zealot who tried to claim that the shooter was a gamer before it was confirmed to be Chris-Harper Mercer. That idiot (Xui Xes) is to blame for this nonsense... If the country tries to legislate morality by banning violent games, I will throw a fit, you fuck!
Monday, October 12, 2015
New Flawed "Study" "Proves" Video games and porn are more addictive then Heroin.
While reading KIA today I ran into this study that was linked. It said that video games and porn are as addictive as Heroin. It's a really bad study and many people there pointed out how flawed it is. The study itself is no longer being loaded, so you can't view it, unfortunately. I don't know what happened to it. All I know is studies like this should not be trusted. Why?
The Following Paper disproves a lot the study says. It argues that recent "studies" on video game addiction are not based on facts but media hysteria. It is revealed that people overplay video games due to ineffective time management skills, or for other reasons. It's not because they are addicted to them.
I can tell you that video games can be addictive. But as addictive as Heroin? People on the forum discussed how the word "addiction" has been redefined. It used to mean "a dependence on a substance". Now it can mean compulsion's as well. It seems it has been redefined to attack video games. Many people on the forum discussed how during times when they had no PC they had no withdrawal symptoms from a lack of video games in their life. To me that proves that they are not as addictive as heroin.
If someone says crap that games are this addictive, its to start a moral panic people. It should not be trusted. Games aren't that addictive.
The Following Paper disproves a lot the study says. It argues that recent "studies" on video game addiction are not based on facts but media hysteria. It is revealed that people overplay video games due to ineffective time management skills, or for other reasons. It's not because they are addicted to them.
I can tell you that video games can be addictive. But as addictive as Heroin? People on the forum discussed how the word "addiction" has been redefined. It used to mean "a dependence on a substance". Now it can mean compulsion's as well. It seems it has been redefined to attack video games. Many people on the forum discussed how during times when they had no PC they had no withdrawal symptoms from a lack of video games in their life. To me that proves that they are not as addictive as heroin.
If someone says crap that games are this addictive, its to start a moral panic people. It should not be trusted. Games aren't that addictive.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Brainwashed and Retarded MSNBC Morning Talk show host bashes Call of Duty
After reading gamepolitics again, I found this lovely article. Basically MSNBC's morning talk show started talking about a former Panamanian Dictator, and then started talking about someone who was suing the makers of Call of duty for putting in their likeness into the game, or something like that. Then they start complaining and stated "we don't know what is worse, this Panamanian dictator or the makers of call of duty". They then go on to bash the game, say it "damages brains" of kids, and worse.
What kind of retarded assholes are these?
Number 1, Call of Duty is a war themed FPS, far from the kind of games that get attacked on retarded talk shows like this. It's makers are FAR from the kind of people the said Panamanian Dictator are, those kinds of people who kill their own people, help to move millions of drugs throigh the border, ran a country with an iron fist where banks helped to launder money of drug dealers, etc. This idiot is comparing Infinity ward to this?
It's just mind bogglingly stupid.
As for the claim that "games like this damage brains of kids" brought up on the talk show, this is Bullshit used to attack games. There has never been one study that proves that games "damage brains" like this, it's a stupid claim brought up on a talk show, and now that bullshit like this has been spewed, millions of people who believe all they hear will believe this nonsense. It's retarded.
There have been studies claiming that games cause brains to be effected, but they are all funded by the same group who claims they want to prevent entertainment from being violent to save the kids, what does that tell you? Major bias, and engineering involved to the results of such studies.
You have to be brainwashed to say and believe "violent games damage brains". It's a stupid claim. These claims are the kinds of claims brought up by hack researchers and the hack psychologists constantly. There is no evidence what soever to prove them, they just say them, can't prove them, and people believe them because news stations and talk shows like this one keep hosting these poeple and claim they are "media violence experts" when they are really media violence attacking quacks.
What is up with video games being attacked on talk shows?
It's happened since 1997, and it still happens. Talk shows keep on attacking violent games, half the scaremongering and scapegoating is brought up on talk shows, and I wish people would STOP watching crap like this so they would not get the money they are. It's stupid. It's crap like this that keeps reminding me that we need restrictions on what the media can say. If you agree, sign my petition to the Obama Admin to make it punishable by jail time for media to use lies and false truths when attacking games here. You can help stop madness like this before it starts again!
This is the first time in a while nonsense like this has been brought up, and hopefully it's the last in a while, because it's retarded.
What kind of retarded assholes are these?
Number 1, Call of Duty is a war themed FPS, far from the kind of games that get attacked on retarded talk shows like this. It's makers are FAR from the kind of people the said Panamanian Dictator are, those kinds of people who kill their own people, help to move millions of drugs throigh the border, ran a country with an iron fist where banks helped to launder money of drug dealers, etc. This idiot is comparing Infinity ward to this?
It's just mind bogglingly stupid.
As for the claim that "games like this damage brains of kids" brought up on the talk show, this is Bullshit used to attack games. There has never been one study that proves that games "damage brains" like this, it's a stupid claim brought up on a talk show, and now that bullshit like this has been spewed, millions of people who believe all they hear will believe this nonsense. It's retarded.
There have been studies claiming that games cause brains to be effected, but they are all funded by the same group who claims they want to prevent entertainment from being violent to save the kids, what does that tell you? Major bias, and engineering involved to the results of such studies.
You have to be brainwashed to say and believe "violent games damage brains". It's a stupid claim. These claims are the kinds of claims brought up by hack researchers and the hack psychologists constantly. There is no evidence what soever to prove them, they just say them, can't prove them, and people believe them because news stations and talk shows like this one keep hosting these poeple and claim they are "media violence experts" when they are really media violence attacking quacks.
What is up with video games being attacked on talk shows?
It's happened since 1997, and it still happens. Talk shows keep on attacking violent games, half the scaremongering and scapegoating is brought up on talk shows, and I wish people would STOP watching crap like this so they would not get the money they are. It's stupid. It's crap like this that keeps reminding me that we need restrictions on what the media can say. If you agree, sign my petition to the Obama Admin to make it punishable by jail time for media to use lies and false truths when attacking games here. You can help stop madness like this before it starts again!
This is the first time in a while nonsense like this has been brought up, and hopefully it's the last in a while, because it's retarded.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
PROOF that the Adam Lanza "Score Sheet" is FAKE.
Since the Newtown massacre, dozens of news articles have been saying Adam Lanza made a 7 by 4 foot tall spreadsheet with info on previous murders. The articles try to claim it is the work "of a deranged gamer" and that he killed himself to "save points", at the same time, stereotyping gamers as murderers.
I did some more research into the fake Adam Lanza "Deranged gamer score sheet" claim today. Apparently the original article, which is here, said it was a document on his computer. Only problem is that it was found, that he destroyed the Hard drive of his computer, according to this site. How could the spreadsheet document even exist?! A PC with a Hard drive that has failed due to destruction won't start. No way can anyone retrieve info from that Hard Drive. It's impossible. This article proves they did not succeed at retrieving data from his Hard drive, so how could this document be real?
This means that this spreadsheet claim IS fake.
This is PROOF Lupica made up this crap. He is a scumbag. People like him should be rotting in jail for spreading hate speech. It pisses me off. How can a newspaper allow him to spread nonsense like this? How can the government? Since sandy hook, the government has done NOTHING to stop the spread of media fabrications surrounding video games or gamers like the article. It's their responsibility to prevent BS like this. DO something to punish the media for calling gamers murderers and claiming this spreadsheet is real. They won't because they too think gamers are potential school shooters.
I'm demanding it!
And I want your help Connecticut gamers....
I need it.
Talk to your senators about this. Say how you dislike nonsense being spread about violent games like this fake spreadsheet. Say how the article stereotypes gamers as murderers. Say how the spreadsheet document mentioned in the article is fake and that his PC had it's hard drive destroyed so nothing could be recovered from it. The government investigation claims it's real. Complain about that too. It's disgusting. Make them feel your wrath.
I am going through with the plan to petition the government to regulate the media. I plan to go to the whitehouse.gov site and start a petition there. I don't know what it will be, but I will update the blog when I do do this petition. Your signatures will be needed (and appreciated). Stay tuned gamers.
I did some more research into the fake Adam Lanza "Deranged gamer score sheet" claim today. Apparently the original article, which is here, said it was a document on his computer. Only problem is that it was found, that he destroyed the Hard drive of his computer, according to this site. How could the spreadsheet document even exist?! A PC with a Hard drive that has failed due to destruction won't start. No way can anyone retrieve info from that Hard Drive. It's impossible. This article proves they did not succeed at retrieving data from his Hard drive, so how could this document be real?
This means that this spreadsheet claim IS fake.
This is PROOF Lupica made up this crap. He is a scumbag. People like him should be rotting in jail for spreading hate speech. It pisses me off. How can a newspaper allow him to spread nonsense like this? How can the government? Since sandy hook, the government has done NOTHING to stop the spread of media fabrications surrounding video games or gamers like the article. It's their responsibility to prevent BS like this. DO something to punish the media for calling gamers murderers and claiming this spreadsheet is real. They won't because they too think gamers are potential school shooters.
I'm demanding it!
And I want your help Connecticut gamers....
I need it.
Talk to your senators about this. Say how you dislike nonsense being spread about violent games like this fake spreadsheet. Say how the article stereotypes gamers as murderers. Say how the spreadsheet document mentioned in the article is fake and that his PC had it's hard drive destroyed so nothing could be recovered from it. The government investigation claims it's real. Complain about that too. It's disgusting. Make them feel your wrath.
I am going through with the plan to petition the government to regulate the media. I plan to go to the whitehouse.gov site and start a petition there. I don't know what it will be, but I will update the blog when I do do this petition. Your signatures will be needed (and appreciated). Stay tuned gamers.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Adam Lanza "Score Sheet" Hoax is the latest of crap BS attacking Games.
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.
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.
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