You're shitting me: Washington Navy Yard shooting blamed on violent video games - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Friends of the gunman in the deadly shooting spree Monday at a Washington Navy Yard remember him as a nice guy with flashes of a temper and an obsession with violent video games. Aaron Alexis, the gunman who killed 12 in the rampage, was liked by neighbors, but he was known to immerse himself in violent video games for hours on end, one of his neighbors told the Dallas Morning News. Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, the owner of the Happy Bowl Thai restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, recalled Alexis as skilled at these games. Alexis would play marathon sessions for hours, The Wall Street Reported. Another friend said that Alexis would play first-person shooting games online. These games would be so time consuming, that friends would bring Alexis food during these binges. Several other mass killers, including Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, have been linked to violent video games. And some experts worry that as the games get more violent and more realistic, so does their power to blur the line between fantasy and reality in alienated gamers. “More than any other media, these video games encourage active participation in violence," Bruce Bartholow, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri, who has studied the issue, told Fox News earlier this month. “From a psychological perspective, video games are excellent teaching tools because they reward players for engaging in certain types of behavior. Unfortunately, in many popular video games, the behavior is violence.”[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/17/dc-gunman-obsessed-with-violent-video-games-reports-say/"]Fox News[/URL] [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10314585/Aaron-Alexis-Washington-navy-yard-gunman-obsessed-with-violent-video-games.html"]The Telegraph[/URL][URL="http://www.examiner.com/article/fox-news-navy-yard-shooting-proves-we-need-registry-for-video-games-not-guns"] The Examiner[/URL]

In other news, dumb people believe in dumb things, more at 7.

its especially funny because not a single source has mentioned [i]which[/i] supposedly violent video games he played, because they're all going off of a single quote from one person.

You see, the vidja games are bad because they caused the nazihitler to invade the vietnam and cause the nineleven.

[QUOTE=Winner;42250132]You should be required to get a license at least before playing video games[/QUOTE] It is my god-given right to carry a concealed 3DS in public.

or, you know, maybe he was fucking insane

[QUOTE]"From a psychological perspective, video games are excellent teaching tools because they reward players for engaging in certain types of behavior. Unfortunately, in many popular video games, the behavior is violence.”[/QUOTE] So how about those sports?

[QUOTE=Ern;42250015]You see, the vidja games are bad because they caused the nazihitler to invade the vietnam and cause the nineleven.[/QUOTE] no he got mad after a polish a jew and a russian beat him at monopoly

Yeah, violent video games. Lets pretend he didn't think his microwave gave him vibrations, or that he had a history of shooting incidents Has to be them video games

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42250167]So how about those sports?[/QUOTE] If forms of entertainment and in particular formats of media encouraged and directly caused actions to occur, we'd have a massive wave of bondage-focused sex rampages from middle-aged women after Fifty Shades of Grey.

[QUOTE=Reds;42250183]If forms of entertainment and in particular formats of media encouraged and directly caused actions to occur, we'd have a massive wave of bondage-focused sex rampages from middle-aged women after Fifty Shades of Grey.[/QUOTE] this is a really shitty example because by pasting "rampage" on the end you made it ludicrous and unrealistic, but in doing so made your argument retarded and exaggerated. fifty shades actually made bondage a lot more popular. So yeah entertainment influences us. if a fucking book can, pretty sure a game can too. gg inadvertently evidencing your opponent.

He was playing gta V Or he wanted to but couldn't handle the pressure of waiting!

[QUOTE=Trogdon;42250278]He was playing gta V Or he wanted to but couldn't handle the pressure of waiting![/QUOTE] he couldn't because the shooting occur'd day before GTA 5 release

"Don't be silly, it has nothing to do with mental illnesses or motives, it's always the vidyagams!" Could we please ban Faux News too for obvious reasons?

[QUOTE=Reds;42250183]If forms of entertainment and in particular formats of media encouraged and directly caused actions to occur, we'd have a massive wave of bondage-focused sex rampages from middle-aged women after Fifty Shades of Grey.[/QUOTE] its p obvious that media does influence us dood, its just that most people are sane and rational enough not to perform the same actions they see in violent media.

Ehh, people thought rock music was the devil's tool and that television would kill theater and movies, back in ye olden moldy days. It always happens with new forms of art/entertainment that are coming of age. This shit'll keep up for a while, maybe years or even decades, yet before you know it games are a legitimate art form and no one says shit about it. Let them whine and cry, they'll just be forgotten or even laughed at someday, just like the morons who thought women and non-whites shouldn't vote. Obviously, this isn't nearly as important as those issues, but the point still stands that the idiots trying to bring good things down will inevitably fail.

Eh im not interested in this story, heard it all before.

This just in, shooter likes video games, women and action movies.

Guys, I know how to stop all this! Step 1: Give the critics a "film". Step 2: Right when the film gets to a climactic fight scene, have the film pause itself and say "press the play button to continue". Step 3: Having pressed play, the critic will now have interacted with the now-violent media and will have "played" it. Step 4: Watch as they are overtaken by bloodlust. [I]It's the perfect plan.[/I]

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;42250417]its p obvious that media does influence us dood, its just that most people are sane and rational enough not to perform the same actions they see in violent media.[/QUOTE] It was just a joke.

[QUOTE=Reds;42250556]It was just a joke.[/QUOTE] oh my b

These claims really are unfounded. The people that knew the attacker don't want to say anything negative about him, so they try to flip the story to make the attacker a victim of some form of media. If this happened 20 years ago, they'd be blaming this on Dungeons and Dragons, but now that video games are more well known, everyone dropped the DnD claims and moved on to video games. Also, I wish they'd stop saying that video games "train" people to become killers. I'm pretty sure a controller or keyboard won't teach you how to turn off a safety, not smack yourself due to recoil, or even release a magazine. If a game incentivizes violence, then why doesn't every FPS player have a complex understanding of how to use a firearm and go out on their killing spree? The ratio of gamers to mass murderers is pretty low, so I cannot find a way to possibly believe that there is a link.

so if I had an obsession, making toolbars, favorites, my desktop, EVERYTHING related to the game Super Deep Throat And went around fucking the throats of various people would police and news confiscate my computer and be like, "THIS MOTHER FUCKER PLAYED VIOL- wait a cock sucking game, what?!" it'd make their heads explode