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NEWS: UK Tabloid Links Dynasty Warriors With Sandy Hook Shooting


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VORTIA
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:19 am Reply with quote
The....what.....but......ohmygodstheignorance. *facepalm*
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Kutsu



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:22 am Reply with quote
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UK Tabloid


And all was said and done.
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:26 am Reply with quote
Here we go yet again, insinuating that this video game contributed to this incident.

I am sure there are is a large amount of people who've played this video game series and not done anything afterwards or confuse this video game series with reality.
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VORTIA
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:38 am Reply with quote
I'm not sure what running around in a peacock suit waving a stick around by pressing X has to do with this school shooting. I don't think he arrived on horseback. nor do I believe anyone was killed with a dao.
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Forte-sama



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:44 am Reply with quote
What isn't mentioned in the article on here is that British tabloid The Sun also claims that Activision's Call of Duty first-person shooter series was to blame for the shooting, and one true fact, before leaving for the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother as well, so it should read something like " killing 20 children and seven adults, before turning the gun on himself".

This whole thing really breaks my heart. It's so sad and senseless.
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SpacemanHardy



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:52 am Reply with quote
This is easily, by far, the single dumbest connection of a real-life tragedy to video games that I have ever seen. Bar none.

I'm surprised Fox News didn't jump to this first. Confused
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MagusGuardian



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:05 am Reply with quote
is it me or do other nations like to make up the most idiotic bull shit about the US?

also Seriously Dynasty Warriors a game set in a time period where the most advance projectile weapon is a bow an arrow or a crossbow how desperately stupid are these foreign tabloids to say some nonsensical BS like this to sell a scrap of paper that isn't even worth using as toilet paper
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taster of pork



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:11 am Reply with quote
FACEPALM. I was expecting the media to blame Video Games, but Dynasty Warriors? Looks like the American Tabloids have some real competition.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:54 am Reply with quote
LOL! They were blaming Mass Effect two days ago and now it's DW. Grow up, seriously.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:59 am Reply with quote
Oh here we go.................

Next thing ya know, perverted media are blamed for sexism in Japan! Laughing
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GYRAX



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:29 am Reply with quote
What the @#$%?

That is all...
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mewpudding101
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:23 am Reply with quote
That's complete bullshit. Dynasty Warriors may be a beat-em-up game, but it is much less violent than other games like Call of Duty and and Modern Warfare.

Sure, when I'm depressed or angry I play DW to feel better, but I've never once wanted to hurt someone. Scapegoat scapegoat~~~
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s.alsa-man1991



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:50 am Reply with quote
Sure, ignore his well-documented mental illness. It must've been da vidja gaemz. So many darn vidja gaemz. Because, you know, before those things were everywhere, we didn't have murderers. Like, at all. So, yeah.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:07 am Reply with quote
It's part of the standard reactions to something like the Sandy Hook tragedy. People want to find the one, single & unique cause and then FIX IT good and hard.

It is not simple, it is not singular and most critically it is not fixable. It is our own human nature, that as a species we produce the occasional misfit that may, in the course of time, go off on a violent tangent. We can try and catch this before it happens, and we do a good job of that, but some problem individuals will still go undetected.

None of this makes what happened any less tragic or more liveable.

Mark Gosdin
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ZoboCamel



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:35 am Reply with quote
mgosdin wrote:
It's part of the standard reactions to something like the Sandy Hook tragedy. People want to find the one, single & unique cause and then FIX IT good and hard.

It is not simple, it is not singular and most critically it is not fixable. It is our own human nature, that as a species we produce the occasional misfit that may, in the course of time, go off on a violent tangent. We can try and catch this before it happens, and we do a good job of that, but some problem individuals will still go undetected.

None of this makes what happened any less tragic or more liveable.

Mark Gosdin


I think that, to an extent, these things are fixable - if the USA were to make guns illegal, there'd naturally be a resultant decrease in gun crimes. I do agree with you, however, when you say that people are desperately reaching to find a simple cause and fix it; specifically, it seems to me, many people are going on such tangents because they want to blame something apart from guns.

Of course, no change will ever completely eliminate needless violence, but there are certainly those that could reduce it, and it annoys me to see people fixating on such an obvious scapegoat.
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