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Subject: Do People Actually Believe This?

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.

I decided to check exactly how much people had flipped out at Bioware for poisoning society. I was greeted with this and a link to this wonderful page.

Do people actually believe any of that is true? That a game based upon killing aliens and robots is secretly endorsing an underground gang. I always knew there were those who believed it contributed to violence, but this seems too over the top. Attacking one company for something they had no responsibility for is ridiculous. Posting that page was even more ridiculous. The page looks like it hasn't been updated since 06', yet apparently it is still an actively used resource.

What is wrong with our society that people are so quick to not only move the blame for something onto an innocent company, but to also make up such ridiculous reasoning for it.

[Edited on 12.14.2012 5:38 PM PST]

  • 12.14.2012 5:38 PM PDT

Ignorance is bliss.

  • 12.14.2012 5:39 PM PDT

MEDIC!

I don't trust these links for some reason.....I'll wait for someone else no offense

  • 12.14.2012 5:39 PM PDT

Posted by: TheTankSB14
I don't trust these links for some reason.....I'll wait for someone else no offense
They're safe, calm your tits.

  • 12.14.2012 5:40 PM PDT

What is even worse is that people think Ryan Lanza was the man who massacred the kindergarten and since he "liked" the Mass Effect page, the soccer moms are all putting the blame on the game.

  • 12.14.2012 5:42 PM PDT

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To quote myself:

"I'm dying inside reading what some of these idiots who call themselves "humans" are posting. First, they blindly accept what the media tells them as fact, when actually it was wrong. Second, they try to pin the blame of a senseless and tragic event on video game violence and the effect on today's youth. Well, the shooter was in his 20s. That means he grew up playing Pokemon or Super Mario, hell, even Sonic. If Pokemon can make a man commit such atrocities, anyone playing a modern game is -blam!- beyond hope."

  • 12.14.2012 5:43 PM PDT
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"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."
-Felix Adler

Why So Many Caps In The Title?

  • 12.14.2012 5:44 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: bergXX09
What is even worse is that people think Ryan Lanza was the man who massacred the kindergarten and since he "liked" the Mass Effect page, the soccer moms are all putting the blame on the game.
I know. I feel really bad for EA and Bioware right now, since they have been on damage control all day. I believe I heard someone say Gamestop had some issues as well. Tragic as the event may be the blame lies solely on the the shooter.

  • 12.14.2012 5:46 PM PDT

Posted by: Black Eagle X99

that made me rage

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Posted by: Modern Designer
Explain what this -blam!- is about.


The guy the media wrongly accused of being the shooter (Ryan Lanza) liked "Mass Effect" on facebook, I'm assuming these are from the mass effect page.

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  • 12.14.2012 5:46 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: flippinrite

Posted by: Modern Designer
Explain what this -blam!- is about.


The guy the media wrongly accused of being the shooter (Ryan Lanza) liked "Mass Effect" on facebook, I'm assuming these are from the mass effect page.
They are. They are.

  • 12.14.2012 5:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: bergXX09
What is even worse is that people think Ryan Lanza was the man who massacred the kindergarten and since he "liked" the Mass Effect page, the soccer moms are all putting the blame on the game.


wow. no surprise there, but wow.

  • 12.14.2012 5:47 PM PDT
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>MAVAV
>front page article posted in 2007

Did you just discover the internet today?

  • 12.14.2012 5:47 PM PDT
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PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE. PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE.

Because you know, every person who plays a violent video game becomes a serial killer. -_-

  • 12.14.2012 5:48 PM PDT

No thought required, just spawn and GOOOOOOOOOOO

Sometimes I wonder why I'm smarter than white middleclass adults...

  • 12.14.2012 5:49 PM PDT
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Made me rage.

  • 12.14.2012 5:50 PM PDT

More awesome than a shark high-fiving a bear during an explosion...IN SPACE.

If anything, video games give people an outlet for their violent thoughts without actually hurting anyone. That guy was just a psychopath that probably had some kind of mental problem, and happened to like that game. It's idiots like this that just want to bring the world back to the 50's and keep it like that forever.

Edit: Wow, and that wasn't even the guy who did it? These people need to get their facts straight before they start pointing fingers.

[Edited on 12.14.2012 5:53 PM PST]

  • 12.14.2012 5:51 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: Baba OSmiley
>MAVAV
>front page article posted in 2007

Did you just discover the internet today?
I clearly stated that it was old in the OP. It's the fact that someone linked it on the facebook page that scares me. She was using it as an "accurate" source.

  • 12.14.2012 5:52 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander Santa
I went to Google and typed in "fat people keyboards."
All I saw pretty much was an advice column and fat jokes. :(
I do not think they make them.

Posted by: Captain K Mart
Well..

Good God, what is this garbage? I tried reading it, but I felt like punching every idiot who'd ever put those stories up.

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People are so stupid, its actually difficult to tell if they're being sarcastic and deliberately overdramatic or not.

  • 12.14.2012 5:52 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: seven blind mice
People are so stupid, its actually difficult to tell if they're being sarcastic and deliberately overdramatic or not.
"Burn in hell!" Yes, burn in hell Bioware. How dare you make a game. That one really gets me.

  • 12.14.2012 5:56 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

Quote: "Yeah... Ryan Lanza "LIKED" your game. He just gunned down a Kindergarten class"

Are these people retarded? Do they actually think a video game told this guy to kill people?

  • 12.14.2012 5:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: spartain ken 15
Quote: "Yeah... Ryan Lanza "LIKED" your game. He just gunned down a Kindergarten class"

Are these people retarded? Do they actually think a video game told this guy to kill people?


People just insist on being stupid.

I'm sick of it as well, Ken.

  • 12.14.2012 6:00 PM PDT

"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."

"This is EXACTLY why I do not let my kids play MOST video games... I do not want to destroy their innocence with this bulls**t."
"This is EXACTLY why I do not let my kids play MOST video games... I do not want to destroy their innocence with this bulls**t."
"I do not want to destroy their innocence with this bulls**t."

Am I the only one who finds this a bit hypocritical?

  • 12.14.2012 6:09 PM PDT

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