Aw, here it goes!

[Gahars]

Fox News, a paragon of investigative journalism, has decided to tackle the subject of video games and violent crimes. Now, of course they're tackling this with an even hand and...

'Training simulation:' Mass killers often share obsession with violent video games

Well, okay, that title's a tad bit sensationalist, but...

“More than any other media, these video games encourage active participation in violence,” said Bruce Bartholow, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri, who has studied the issue. “From a psychological perspective, video games are excellent teaching tools because they reward players for engaging in certain types of behavior. Unfortunately, in many popular video games, the behavior is violence.”

No, wait, I mean...

Harris and Klebold, who killed 12 fellow students and a teacher in 1999, were reportedly obsessed with “Doom.” Seung-Hui Cho, the 23-year-old who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University in 2007, was, according to the Washington Post, a big fan of violent video games, specifically “Counterstrike.”

Well, so much for that.

 

[Veho]

 

[Gahars]

*snip*

To be fair, if I was forced to play the Virtual Boy with what appears to be some sort of price scanner, I'd probably feel pretty violent and angry.

 

[Veho]

To be fair, if I was forced to play the Virtual Boy with what appears to be some sort of price scanner, I'd probably feel pretty violent and angry.

And they say games don't cause violence.


I find it silly that you expected anything else from Hysteric-Fearmongers-Я-Us in the first place.

 

[Gahars]

I find it silly that you expected anything else from Hysteric-Fearmongers-Я-Us in the first place.

Hey, don't be so quick to discount them. Were it not for Fox News and their exposé on the hacker group Anonymous, I might have been a victim of the internet hate machine.

 

[Veho]

Anonymous [...] the internet hate machine.

Yet another thing they maliciously slandered.

 

[FAST6191]

Veho posting 4chan on GBAtemp.... afraid the best we can do for you is give you a headstart.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

VIDEO GAMES CAUSE BUTTS.