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Salon, editor Andrew Leonard serves up a scorching review of last night's CSI: Miami episode, "Urban Hellraisers." The show depicted - what else - rampaging video gamers.
"In conjunction with the venom and disgust that enfuses the word 'gamer' when it's spoken by star David Caruso, aka 'Horatio Crane,' it is made clear... that people who play games are but one step removed from pedophiles or suicide bombers in the social hierarchy of evil..."
"When Horatio confronts a slick, smarmy executive from the company that makes the game, the suit refuses to divulge any information about the internal narrative of the game that would help the cops figure out the next target of the criminals.
"It turns out that executive isn't just smarmy - he's Satan. Not only is the company providing bad role models to the youth of today, but, in an effort to boost sales in a competitive industry, it's also actively supplying college students with Tec-9 automatics and encouraging them to murder innocent people... This neatly solves the problem of whether video games are responsible for violent behavior."
Just one hour of watching David Caruso's leaden acting and banging my head against this ridiculous plot did, I confess, make me want to get my own Tec-9 and start laying waste to television executives. But I refrained, just as 99 percent of everyone who has ever played a violent game refrains from throwing a punch at someone in flesh and blood. "
****ing stupid hollywood ...CSI is leaps and bounds more violent than any video game ever made ...just the other day I saw a scene from CSI that featured a close up of a snake coming out of mouth of a decaptiated rotting head ...yet video games show violent imagery? ****ing kneejerk hysteria plays well in the sticks, they'll lap this up like the mindless drones they are
"In conjunction with the venom and disgust that enfuses the word 'gamer' when it's spoken by star David Caruso, aka 'Horatio Crane,' it is made clear... that people who play games are but one step removed from pedophiles or suicide bombers in the social hierarchy of evil..."
"When Horatio confronts a slick, smarmy executive from the company that makes the game, the suit refuses to divulge any information about the internal narrative of the game that would help the cops figure out the next target of the criminals.
"It turns out that executive isn't just smarmy - he's Satan. Not only is the company providing bad role models to the youth of today, but, in an effort to boost sales in a competitive industry, it's also actively supplying college students with Tec-9 automatics and encouraging them to murder innocent people... This neatly solves the problem of whether video games are responsible for violent behavior."
Just one hour of watching David Caruso's leaden acting and banging my head against this ridiculous plot did, I confess, make me want to get my own Tec-9 and start laying waste to television executives. But I refrained, just as 99 percent of everyone who has ever played a violent game refrains from throwing a punch at someone in flesh and blood. "
****ing stupid hollywood ...CSI is leaps and bounds more violent than any video game ever made ...just the other day I saw a scene from CSI that featured a close up of a snake coming out of mouth of a decaptiated rotting head ...yet video games show violent imagery? ****ing kneejerk hysteria plays well in the sticks, they'll lap this up like the mindless drones they are
