SERIOUSLY!!! Who believes this rubbish! I'm gona try my best not to swear on this one but i'm not promising.
Read an article online today about a guy who murdered a crew member on board a submarine by shooting him in the head. It has apparently been published today in the press with the Front page title "I'll do a GTA style massacre". Apparently the murderer admitted to a friend that he was intending to go on a killing spree style of massacre like in GTA.
NOW. Is it me or should that not have started ringing alarm bells as loud as big bloody ben inside the head of his so called friend. Don't get me wrong I can take a joke, but really! What happerns now is the entire case is not only to prosecute the guilty, but incriminate the evidence that has been used in his defence. I feel sorry for the people of DMA Design and Rockstar games to have there Flagship title torn to shreds yet again and labeld as nothing more than a murder simulator by the press. I understand a lot of people will play the game with nothing more than murderous intent. Its exciting to be on the run from the police as an assassin or a hit and run maniac. The game allows you to do this, but also punishes you when you get caught. If the press believe we are all influenced by playing games this way then it means my drive to work in the morning may become a little more interesting atleast.
I can't believe people fall for such simple excuses. I don't believe I have become a murderer through playing games for over 25 years. There are other reasons that should be inquired about as to why what has happened. If we get GTA banned in this country because of small minded fools then I'm off to read the catcher in the rye.
Mate, TELL ME ABOUT IT! As if The Mirror has nothing better to write about (Then again, this is The Mirror. Pretty sure if I wanted to find out the news I'd read an actual NEWSpaper like Telegraph or Times). Tabloids are the first in line to create any sort of mad hysteria they can. It pisses me off royally the amount of times someone shoots someone and video games get blamed.
ReplyDeleteIts as if they ignore the fact that more then half the world play all these bloody, violent and terrible video games and the world has yet to descended into chaos. They also regularly seem to look over obvious facts like psychological issues, childhood issues, the fact they liked football (and no offence to anyone that does like football, but with the way half of the British players seem to act nowadays under the impression that they're God's frigin' gift to mankind, its beyond me that society still holds them in such high regard. I mean, seriously. They kick a ball... GG.).
Its absurd that half the tabloids are even allowed to publish really. The only interesting thing in any of them is the Dear Deidre section, and I only find that interesting for the same reason I find Jeremy Kyle interesting; It reminds me how much of an ass bandit I'm really not compared to most of Britain.
That's my addition to this rant anyway!