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Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
Drobny bounced me this story about the "Playstation Murders" in the UK.
Campaigners are stepping up pressure for a violent video game to be banned after it was blamed for the horrific murder of a 14-year-old British boy by an older friend.
The game, Manhunt, is described by its promoters as a "sado-masochistic" game in which players gain extra points depending on the viciousness of their killings.
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Outside the court, Stefan's parents said Leblanc had mimicked a game called Manhunt, made by Rockstar for platforms including Playstation 2, in which the players score points for violent killings.
His mother Giselle claimed her son's "inherently evil" murderer was "obsessed" with the game and called for it to be banned.
I haven't played Manhunt, but I have heard nothing but good things about it. Rockstar (the GTA people) have again released what is by all accounts a well done, wholly-not-for-kids game. Look people, you don't let your kids have free-run of the video rental store or the book store, why do you let them snag any game they want? We don't ban "Mein Kampf" because Hitler was "a genocidal fuckhead". It's speech. Perhaps distasteful. Perhaps offensive to some people. It's still speech. Again, I have never played Manhunt and never gotten into GTA* games, but as a Mortal Kombat and Quake player, I'm certainly not going to tell someone else what they should or should not be playing.
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RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
Again totally agreed, what we need to ban is dumbass parents. Pay attention to what your kid is watching, doing, who they are hanging out with, etc. This isnt complicated, its not even a real "issue", its just people not wanting to take responsibility for not being parents (and parenting is not one weekend a month, its no GI bill, its ALL the time, from the time the kid is born until they leave the nest and beyond, parenting is the accumulation of YEARS of teaching and nurturing and helping and so on).
I had many people tell me that I would change my mind about all this and want TV shows, games, movies and such banned in only I understood and HAD KIDS. Well I now DO HAVE KIDS, and I feel even more strongly that its parenting that matters, not the outside world.
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
Figure Cooper would have a good rant for that. Going to have to rent it on the way home so I can come into work on friday with a hammer, and go Hamma Time
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
Why can nobody take responsibility anymore. It has to be passed onto somebody else. Will it come to the point of banning books because they have murder in them? My son killed his friend because the new best seller had a murderer in it who killed his best friend.
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
It used to be "cowboys and indians". There's always something to blame. This is a kill or be killed universe at times. You can't ignore it, nor can you have interest by denying conflict whether it is in books, movies, or games.
Unfortunately, some people do not deal with conflict in healthy ways. Denying conflict is just as dangerous as overreacting to it.
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
video games give weak minded people ideas meaning that someone could get serious hurt or killed
i've played manhunt and it would seriously mess up a kid or even cause him to try it for himself
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
No, keep GTA games. Stuff that includes their child in a negative way doesn't mean that it's the parents fault. It's just that the kid was dumb enough to do this. If I had a kid, as long as I keep him in line, don't let him do retarded things, I'd let him play GTA as much as he wants.
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
I got a BB gun for my birthday one year back in the 60's and 20 years later I didn't grab a real gun and start blasting cops and people at random. If anything, in GTA, your child will learn how to use a controller better than shoot people. Vice versa for a BB gun.
RE: Blame the Video Game hops the Pond
Video game not to blame