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Subject: Connecticut Town Plans to Incinerate Violent Games

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A town in Connecticut is holding a drive to collect and destroy violent games, music, and movies in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown. On January 12th, a community group in Southington will host a "Violent Video Games Return Program," where despite the name, it asks people to turn any types of violent media. In return, Polygon reports that they'll get a $25 gift certificate from the local Chamber of Commerce, and the media itself will be "destroyed and placed in the town dumpster for appropriate permanent disposal," probably by incineration. Given how quickly used games lose value (and the even cheaper cost of CDs and DVDs if the same gift certificates are handed out for everything), that's a surprisingly good incentive.

Concerns over games and violence have been echoed by members of Congress and the NRA since the Newtown shooting, and everything from comic books to Beatles records have been burnt as a form of protest during past decades. Southington Superintendent of Schools Joe Erardi, however, insists that this is an independent movement that doesn't necessarily condemn the media it's destroying. "Our message is fairly simple: have the conversation with your child," he says. "If you conclude your child is done with these games, drop them off and let's move forward. That is all."


A tad extreme...

  • 01.02.2013 5:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dodge Reborn
A tad extreme...

  • 01.02.2013 5:46 PM PDT

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stranger

Seems a bit violent for a group protesting violence.

  • 01.02.2013 5:47 PM PDT

inb4cOLD

  • 01.02.2013 5:47 PM PDT
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Already a thread on this.

  • 01.02.2013 5:47 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

I invoke Godwin's Law.

  • 01.02.2013 5:47 PM 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: Dodge Reborn
A tad extreme...

Extreme!!!

  • 01.02.2013 5:47 PM PDT

~Thomsn0w

Just saying. It seems extreme.

  • 01.02.2013 5:48 PM PDT


Posted by: Mr Pinata
Already a thread on this.


Sorry, hadn't noticed one.

The article was only a few hours old so I didn't think it would be here already.

  • 01.02.2013 5:49 PM PDT

If video games make me violent, how come I'm not a NFL player yet.

  • 01.02.2013 5:50 PM PDT

The entire area should incinerate burnout and other racing games with epic crash mechanics for the belief that it makes people crash their cars more often.

Anyways I'd probably do this. Not like I play H4 that much anyways and all my other shooters are old and no one plays them.

Do violent movies fall under action movies where if explosions go off or if the protagonist is using weapons (James Bond?) fall under these violent DVD's?

If so I'd rather it only be video games.

[Edited on 01.02.2013 5:54 PM PST]

  • 01.02.2013 5:52 PM PDT

Aah, more moronic luddites blaming things they don't understand rather than accepting that nothing's perfect...

  • 01.02.2013 5:52 PM PDT

Wheres Meh Sniper?

Youtube page

I don't think it will help in any way. If anything it will cause issues.

  • 01.02.2013 5:56 PM PDT

We work in the dark to serve the light.

You know who else burned media he didn't like? Hitler.

  • 01.02.2013 5:57 PM PDT

And this is why people are god damn retarded...I should have killed over a million people by now if games did what they think they do.

  • 01.02.2013 5:58 PM PDT


Posted by: superaz Roberts
Aah, more moronic luddites blaming things they don't understand rather than accepting that nothing's perfect...
ahahaha...we're humans...we believe we are the sinple most perfect being to ever live.

  • 01.02.2013 6:00 PM PDT

Instead of just burning the games, why don't they just give them to us? Or sell them to gamestop?

  • 01.02.2013 6:05 PM PDT
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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.

While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.

Northern states doing something stupid and irrelevant hoping to repair the damage done and prevent future tragedies? Sadly, not surprising or new.

  • 01.02.2013 6:07 PM PDT

Glory and fame, blood is our name!
Souls full of thunder, hearts of steel!
Killers of men, a warrior's friend!
Sworn to avenge our fallen brothers!
Sons of the gods, today we shall die.
Open Valhalla's door!
Let the battle begin, with swords in the wind! Hail Gods of War!

Why can't people like WBC protest things like this? This is stuff you protest about.

  • 01.02.2013 6:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

$1 copies of an M rated game -> $25 gift cards(use family/friends to repeat) -> cheap very profitable way to take advantage of the stupidity!

  • 01.02.2013 6:14 PM PDT
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They don't think it be like it is...


But it do.

Unfortunately for them, I'm sure that a lot of those kids have downloadable versions.

They're giving you free money.

  • 01.02.2013 6:16 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

March 3, 2553

Because video games and not easy access to guns were to blame........

Only in America.....

  • 01.02.2013 6:20 PM PDT
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OH BOY.

  • 01.03.2013 12:17 AM PDT
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Good for them.

Finally standing up and taking action against the menace responsible for all this senseless violence.

  • 01.03.2013 12:19 AM PDT

Ohai, I'm Loscocco (pronounced Loss-cocoa). I'm a college student (computer science major), 3D animator, and long-time Halo player.

Pretty much how every piece of news covering the CT shooting goes:


Posted by: Randy Marsh

Helping people is not important right now, son. What's important is figuring out whose fault this is.

  • 01.03.2013 12:23 AM PDT