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Subject: Experts at Fox News link Connecticut shooting to Video Games.
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

With no live suspect (compare and contrast to Oslo) there is "no one around" to hold responsible and blame. No one to put on trial, no one to look at and try to satisfy that deep emotional need for "equality and parity of pain" (sometimes referred to as either revenge or justice).

And with no live person to point at and say "you shall pay for these acts", people will (understandably) start looking for someone/something else to hold accountable and responsible for the event and make sure that there is some sort of "we hold ____ to blame and have made sure that ______ pays".

  • 12.15.2012 11:38 AM PDT

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Posted by: A goon
"Experts" and "Fox" don't belong in the same sentence.

  • 12.15.2012 11:38 AM PDT

I like to play Reach for fun. I hate MLG, campers, armor lock, and team killers because they ruin that fun. Deal with it.


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Posted by: A goon
"Experts" and "Fox" don't belong in the same sentence.

What about "Fox doesn't have experts?"

  • 12.15.2012 11:39 AM PDT

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I dont know which is more pathetic.

1. Fox news
2. Gamers who get their tighty whiteys in a knot when something blames video games.

  • 12.15.2012 11:39 AM PDT
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He added in video games as an after thought..... He mostly blamed reality TV and Facebook.

This. Learn to read, OP.

Woot. Not completely alone!

  • 12.15.2012 11:41 AM PDT

If you can't trust yourself, then don't trust anyone.

Look at the comments on Mass Effect's facebook posts. Most of the people are blaming it since the killer played Mass Effect. Mosts of the comments on the posts are blaming it for the shooting.

  • 12.15.2012 11:42 AM PDT

@accordingto343

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2. Gamers who get their tighty whiteys in a knot when something blames video games.


Considering politicians will use this issue and others like it to trumpet censorship of gaming and demonize gamers as loose cannons waiting to blow up, hard to blame 'em.

  • 12.15.2012 11:42 AM PDT

What's it take to be a Fox expert?

  • 12.15.2012 11:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

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i like how ppl wanna dog on FOX, when just about every news station blames these kinda things on video games(mass murder, anger issues, rage, etc)
Show me another news outlet blaming this killing on video games.


Just search the net, as you're bound to find some other source9s) blaming games as well. The media as a whole is going to blame what ever they can name under the sun, so long as they get the attention they want from the viewers.

  • 12.15.2012 11:43 AM PDT
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>Expert
>Faux News

Pick one.

  • 12.15.2012 11:44 AM PDT


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What's it take to be a Fox expert?


A functioning brain stem.

  • 12.15.2012 11:44 AM PDT

"Right now it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus is, hilariously, orbiting the sun sideways while Venus spins backwards. We sit here on a planet marked with collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until the sun grows and leaves nothing of the earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, and we say "Behold the perfect ORDER of it all!""

>Experts
>Fox News

Quite the oxymoron you have there.

  • 12.15.2012 11:46 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: Modern Designer
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With no live suspect (compare and contrast to Oslo) there is "no one around" to hold responsible and blame. No one to put on trial, no one to look at and try to satisfy that deep emotional need for "equality and parity of pain" (sometimes referred to as either revenge or justice).

And with no live person to point at and say "you shall pay for these acts", people will (understandably) start looking for someone/something else to hold accountable and responsible for the event and make sure that there is some sort of "we hold ____ to blame and have made sure that ______ pays".

Well almost every shooter kills themselves after the act, so it's pretty routine.

Agreed. And that almost routine outcome results in an "imbalance between the cost to the victims and the price paid by the perpetrator" which causes nearly anyone who has an emotional response to want to find someone/something else to bear the responsibility for the actions of the dead perpetrator.

Think about it, OK City bombing. We got suspects, arrests, trial and sentence. The perps were alive, caught and the system determined "justice", all is well. Oslo, same story. DC shooter(s), and so on. A live perpetrator doesn't leave the "vacuum of accountability" that a dead one does. The public still wants "someone to pay" and if the suspect is dead? Someone else still is going to pay.

  • 12.15.2012 11:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: the Han
i like how ppl wanna dog on FOX, when just about every news station blames these kinda things on video games(mass murder, anger issues, rage, etc)
Show me another news outlet blaming this killing on video games.


Just search the net, as you're bound to find some other source9s) blaming games as well. The media as a whole is going to blame what ever they can name under the sun, so long as they get the attention they want from the viewers.


I don't have to find the proof for either of you; that's your job. The burden of proof is on you.

  • 12.15.2012 11:49 AM PDT

"Right now it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus is, hilariously, orbiting the sun sideways while Venus spins backwards. We sit here on a planet marked with collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until the sun grows and leaves nothing of the earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, and we say "Behold the perfect ORDER of it all!""


Posted by: Modern Designer

Posted by: Fat Man 3000
>Experts
>Fox News

Quite the oxymoron you have there.

All the biased kids thinking their clever really need to leave this thread.


*they're

>Like to blame violence on films and games, without playing said games
>Like edit their sources to hell to get their biased point across. One example would be editing a video of obama to get a contradiction when there wasn't one
>"Sun goes up, sun goes down, you can't explain that"

Yeah...

  • 12.15.2012 11:51 AM PDT
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Just ignore them.

My mom told me this, I almost blew a gasket.

  • 12.15.2012 11:51 AM PDT
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I agree with reality TV. It's just so terrible.

  • 12.15.2012 11:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: Fat Man 3000

Posted by: Modern Designer

Posted by: Fat Man 3000
>Experts
>Fox News

Quite the oxymoron you have there.

All the biased kids thinking their clever really need to leave this thread.


*they're

>Like to blame violence on films and games, without playing said games
>Like edit their sources to hell to get their biased point across. One example would be editing a video of obama to get a contradiction when there wasn't one
>"Sun goes up, sun goes down, you can't explain that"

Yeah...


Don't forget:

>We encountered aliens on the moon
>We're all gonna die on the 21st (two threads, and many posts about it from him)
>billions of alts

  • 12.15.2012 11:52 AM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Posted by: Modern Designer

Posted by: Fat Man 3000
>Experts
>Fox News

Quite the oxymoron you have there.

All the biased kids thinking their clever really need to leave this thread.


Well considering one of their "experts" when they discussed the sex scenes in Mass Effect called the game pornographic and explicit yet later admitted to never playing the game, I'd say it isn't far off from the money.

  • 12.15.2012 11:53 AM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Posted by: Modern Designer

Also, blaming violence on video games can have some validity to it. You're not a clever person, and your bias gives you no credibility.


Not much validity as video games do not cause a person to commit violence.

  • 12.15.2012 11:56 AM PDT