Quote:
|
Originally Posted by eden06
"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.
|
OK, then enlighten us. How does a game in which you play Dylan and Klebold and the object is to shoot up your classmates educate you? How does it make you think? Describe it to us.
Quote:
|
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.
|
I'd like to see your source on the idea that the creation of the game was supposed to foster debate.
Quote:
|
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.
|
Then he really is an idiot. Ignoramuses across the country are busy blaming childhood violence on video games and TV and anything else but where the blame actually goes -the parents. What in hell gave Danny the idea that creating a game like this would make them take a step back and think about what they're saying? He's just tossed a whole crapload of gasoline on the fire. Hell I'd be more inclined to believe that he was secretly working FOR the videogame banners, because this game sure as hell isn't going to hurt their case.
Quote:
|
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.
|
Let's get a few things straight here. Columbine was vastly different from those 40 year old previous massacres. The Bath bombings of '27 were carried out by an adult schoolboard member, not a kid. The Poe attack was perpetrated by an adult with a briefcase full of dynamite. In fact the first year in which a student carried out a school shooting was 1997. So I'm not sure where you get your 40-year-ignore idea from.
And once again, how exactly does a game in which you try to kill as many schoolchildren as possible convince people that video games are not to blame?
Quote:
|
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.
|
You have a funny definition of "more." Columbine was covered nationwide for WEEKS and is still referenced routinely today. I have yet to see much at all about this game in any of the mass media.
Quote:
|
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?
|
No one is ignoring school massacres. Cite your sources or don't make the claim. The trouble is that people are coming up with boneheaded ideas regarding the massacres. Crap like "it's anything's fault but the parents who didn't know the damn kid was building an arsenal."
Quote:
|
Why should we ignore it, like people ignore the people who died at columbine and others?
|
You're either vastly uninformed on this issue or you're posting flamebait here.
Quote:
|
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.
|
Well I suppose the next step is to create a game called "Kill the Jews" in which you play Hitler and get points and in-game rewards for killing as many jews as you can. That's bound to spark discussion about the idea that persecuting groups is wrong. /sarcasm.