Shakran, I do agree with some of what you have said, however not all of it.
Has anyone thought that maybe the purpose of a game about a killing isn't meant to necessarily be fun?! Could it not just provoke thought on a subject like a book or film can? Or do the people here in this supposed "gaming" forum really have as much disdain for games as a medium as the general public? Has nobody here ever played a video game that made them think?
"We have a tasteless game made by some dumb ass"...Tasteless, nobody I know of who's played the game has called it that, only people who haven't played the game yet. Upon playing it first I was shocked to learn that instead of being something that approached the killing with a "aren't Eric and Dylan awesome!" approach, it came off as more truthfully than that, a horrible situation that we're all responsible for in some way.
"Wouldn't it be smarter to ignore idiotic crap like this so that it just goes away?"
I agree that if someone doesn't want to know about the game, or can't comment on it because they're yet to play it, then they should probably just ignore it, since it's idiots like that who created this negative media attention in the first place, which does nothing but stifle the debate it was supposed to create.
However, the reason this game exists, as Danny has said countless times, is because he wanted to create a dialog on Columbine, School shootings in general, Video games and The Media scapegoat tactics. Just ignoring the game will probably cause it to go away, but people have been ignoring the issue of school massacres for over 40 years now, and THEY HAVEN'T.
It's a funny comment on society as a whole when a videogame based on the events surrounding a school shooting sparks more controversy than actual school shootings. Was the actual massacre not enough of a wake up call? Or is this game just reminding us of the Elephant in the middle of a room everyone is desperately trying too ignore? Why should we ignore it, like people ignore the people who died at columbine and others?
To be honest if I'd been shot in the face and killed I'd be wanting people to create anything that tried to create discussion on why the hell I'd been shot in the face.
Super Columbine Massacre RPG does not condone the killing of innocent people, nor does it's creator, it forces dialog on a very real problem in America and as recent events in Germany have reminded us all, anywhere in the world.
I am going to quickly post two quotes from an interview with Richard Castaldo On this game, who was paralyzed from the chest down after being shot in the arm, chest, back and abdomen by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold during their attack on Columbine High School.
"It seemed like the purpose was to expose people to what happened in a unique perspective. There are probably a lot of people that would find it and play it out of curiosity. And find out more about Columbine than they usually would have were it not in game form. And in this process learn that what they did was not glamorous in any way."
"It probably sounds a bit odd for someone like me to say, but I appreciate the fact at least to some degree that something like this was made. I think that at least it gets people talikng about Columbine in a unique perspective, which is probably a good thing."
Maybe you SHOULD look at the specific case.
Discuss the game, the shootings, and they're impact on society as a whole, at the Super Columbine Massacre RPG forums.