more bs against gaming

[Dr. Freeman]

i don't understand the line of thinking when society starts blaming games every time there is an incident/accident.
seriously, when did we all forget we are still responsible for how we drive or what we allow our children to watch on TV? :frown:

gotta scroll down a bit to find the part about game being found.

Toronto police allege a teenage street race that went horribly wrong is behind a taxi driver's death.

According to police, two 18-year-olds were racing on Mount Pleasant Road in their parents' Mercedes-Benzes. The luxury cars allegedly hit speeds of up to 140 kilometres per hour in an area where the posted speed limit is 50 km/h.

Investigators found a copy of the video game Need For Speed in one of the cars. The game involves street racing, drag racing and pursuit racing, where players attempt to evade police.

the source

 

[Beerdude26]

NOT LAWL
(Because someone died D: )
That is all ty

 

[CptStern]

heh this is the first I hear of them trying to pin it on video games ...it's not like traveling at high speeds after their parents foolishly allowed them to drive their $50,000 sports car ..nah that couldnt be it

rich little spoiled shits needed alesson ..too bad someone had to die for them to learn it ..****ing parents need a beating as well

 

[Solaris]

Lol I love that.

Like my Local paper.

HOODIES STEAL DISBLED BOYS BIKE.

Some people stole some disabled boys tricle, and one was wearing a hooded top, and now everones scared of young people in hoods!

 

[xcellerate]

...yea, because video games are the reason street racing is popular. Nothing to do with 'fast and the furious'--which was a terriable movie anyway...

 

[Ren.182]

Lol I love that.

Like my Local paper.

HOODIES STEAL DISBLED BOYS BIKE.

Some people stole some disabled boys tricle, and one was wearing a hooded top, and now everones scared of young people in hoods!

We have that round here... The local shopping centre has banned hoodies because the old people think people in hoodies are gonna mug them. They also said it makes "gangs" fight each other or something silly.

I wish people would blame those that are really to blame...

 

[CptStern]

people are stupid ..they should encourage youth gangs to fight it out ..even provide them with weapons ..what better way to thin out the ranks?


"oh you're going into town to start a fight with a rival gang? ...here's a sawed off shotgun and 17 boxes of shells ..I hear your rivals will be in the square at 9pm, good luck and try to take out as many as possible, god bless"

 

[Yuri]

I don't understand. What about the other million zillion cases of deaths resulted by drag racing? Since this car had a copy of a racing game in it... its automatically the game's fault?! It's adolescant moron assholes, not f*cking video games! AHH!

I think society just needs a scapegoat for things sometimes. Especailly groups of people who are dumbasses.

 

[Beerdude26]

I think society just needs a scapegoat for things sometimes

Release the Icarus!

 

[Yuri]

Release the Icarus!

Lol were you even around for that?

 

[Beerdude26]

Lol were you even around for that?

I believe I was. I'm pretty sure I've seen Pi Mu Rho's original post about it.
Ah yes. Here we go:
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1543431&postcount=4

I was quite confused about what was happening at that time

 

[Yuri]

Oh right, he came back and posted a few times.

Iccy was an OK guy and a terrible mod. One time he banned sheepy which resulted in a forum coup. After that he was cool, but ironically a few days later he lost his mod status for EMO DRAMA among the mods.

And that, my children, is the story of Icarus the Mod.

Fin.

 

[CyberPitz]

Oh right, he came back and posted a few times.

Iccy was an OK guy and a terrible mod. One time he banned sheepy which resulted in a forum coup. After that he was cool, but ironically a few days later he lost his mod status for EMO DRAMA among the mods.

And that, my children, is the story of Icarus the Mod.

Fin.

Yay for history!!

 

[AiM]

Um...to be fair the article and cops never point out that the game was the culprit of the crash. All the article does is provide information based on the game, whether any connection is made is done soley by the reader. I honestly don't see any bias against gaming here.

 

[CptStern]

then why bother mentioning it?

 

[Yuri]

"A game is a game," Toronto Police's Det. Paul Lobsinger told CTV Toronto. "And when you get behind the wheel of a car it's not a game anymore. And when something tragic happens in a huge crash with a lot of smoke, there is no reset button. You can't start over with a new car and a new life."

If you ask me, theres some suggestion that it was the game's fault within that article.

And like Stern said, why would they bother mentioning it if they didn't think it had anything to do with it.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Um...to be fair the article and cops never point out that the game was the culprit of the crash. All the article does is provide information based on the game, whether any connection is made is done soley by the reader. I honestly don't see any bias against gaming here.

its only a matter of time before some angry soccer moms cry about the game being in the cars at the time of the incident...thats kinda why Jack Thompson is famous, right? :|

 

[<RJMC>]

i don't understand the line of thinking when society starts blaming games every time there is an incident/accident.
seriously, when did we all forget we are still responsible for how we drive or what we allow our children to watch on TV? :frown:

gotta scroll down a bit to find the part about game being found.



the source

"possibility of being drunk while driving? or just stupid drivers?OMFG THERE IS A VIDEOGAME OF STREETS RACES INSIDE THE CAR IT CONTROLLEd THE MINDS OF THE DRIVERS TO MAKE THEM DRAG RACES IN THE STREETS SEND THE COMPANY TO JAIL!"
soccer mon reading"OMG JIMMY DONT TOUCH THAT VIDEOGAMES THEY WILL MAKE YOU KILL PEOPLE!"

EDIT:from the article

"A game is a game," Toronto Police's Det. Paul Lobsinger told CTV Toronto. "And when you get behind the wheel of a car it's not a game anymore. And when something tragic happens in a huge crash with a lot of smoke, there is no reset button. You can't start over with a new car and a new life."

atleast they dont say that is fault of the game

 

[CptStern]

its only a matter of time before some angry soccer moms cry about the game being in the cars at the time of the incident...thats kinda why Jack Thompson is famous, right? :|

I was encouraged by the fact Mayor Miller said "many people play video games but they dont drive 3 times the speed limit"

 

[Steven]

Investigators found a copy of the video game Need For Speed in one of the cars. The game involves street racing, drag racing and pursuit racing, where players attempt to evade police.

If the game was found in the bloody car woulden't that mean that they've never taken it out of the car? It was at night time so they woulden't be taken it back, it's damn un-reasonable to think that they had even played it if it was in the f'ing car.

Who the hell keeps Computer games in there car?

 

[xcellerate]

no. when you go to shoot skeet/beer cans, don't you bring along your GTA copy? I know that when i go to watch the race cars at the track i always pack my GT4 game.

 

[AiM]

then why bother mentioning it?

They mention it because the game was in fact, inside the vehicle. The article doesn't attempt to persuade the reader that the game was directly responsible, it merely left a sentence or two stating it was inside the vehicle and what the game's about. Who knows, maybe the game did influence these spoiled brats (or at least to some extent) enough to race down the street at 140 kmh.

If you ask me, theres some suggestion that it was the game's fault within that article.

And like Stern said, why would they bother mentioning it if they didn't think it had anything to do with it.

They mention it because there's a remote possibility of it actual influencing the kids, whether you connect the dots is entirely up to you. Note that they also included the cop's message which clearly indicated that he believes the kid's were responsible and not the game.

Just because game's don't affect the majority of us, doesn't mean it might not affect a small sample of the population. While almost all of the claims and lawsuits of games influencing the population are ludicrous (ex. Jack Thompson), there's a slight chance that it may affect certain people in wierd ways.

 

[CptStern]

They mention it because the game was in fact, inside the vehicle.

why didnt they mention what cell phone he had or shoes he was wearing or if he had a clean pair of underwear? the only way a game could have caused the accident would if they were trying to play it while driving

The article doesn't attempt to persuade the reader that the game was directly responsible, it merely left a sentence or two stating it was inside the vehicle and what the game's about. Who knows, maybe the game did influence these spoiled brats (or at least to some extent) enough to race down the street at 140 kmh.

the very fact that it's even in the article proves that the author is implying that that may have influenced their decision ..it's scare mongering pure and simple ..I'm willing to bet at least one of the drivers had a cell phone, why didn the author of the article imply that maybe he was talking on the cell phone when he was involved in an accident?



They mention it because there's a remote possibility of it actual influencing the kids, whether you connect the dots is entirely up to you. Note that they also included the cop's message which clearly indicated that he believes the kid's were responsible and not the game.

Just because game's don't affect the majority of us, doesn't mean it might not affect a small sample of the population. While almost all of the claims and lawsuits of games influencing the population are ludicrous (ex. Jack Thompson), there's a slight chance that it may affect certain people in wierd ways.[/QUOTE]

 

[Yuri]

They mention it because the game was in fact, inside the vehicle.

So what about the bag of chips on the floor of the vehicle, the car pump, the backpack with the math book, and the porno magazine? Why didn't they mention those, because they were, in fact, inside the vehicle. :|

They mention it because there's a remote possibility of it actual influencing the kids, whether you connect the dots is entirely up to you. Note that they also included the cop's message which clearly indicated that he believes the kid's were responsible and not the game.

Uhh. Yeah. That's exactly what I said. They were throwing it out there as if it were an actual culprit as to why the kids were so godawfully stupid. I'll agree that the article didn't flat-out state that it was the game's fault... but the mere fact that it was mentioned says something.

Just because game's don't affect the majority of us, doesn't mean it might not affect a small sample of the population. While almost all of the claims and lawsuits of games influencing the population are ludicrous (ex. Jack Thompson), there's a slight chance that it may affect certain people in wierd ways.

So you might as well ban them, and everything else that **might** affect people in some sort of negative manner. I don't think if affects people at all. I believe that people who are stupid might mimick things that they see, but its their stupidity to blame, not what they are seeing. Even if that thing is Need for Speed or The Fast and the Furious. Its their stupidity to blame, not what they want to blame it on to get off.

 

[jerkasaur]

oooh, so the iraq war was because bush played too much c&c based games...

more on-topic: well it's da police, you know what you should do...

 

[JNightshade]

Yup.
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