| OK, now
I'm really pissed off. The recent tragedy in Colorado.
I'm not mad because of the shooting (ok, that makes me
pretty upset as well.) but I'm more mad because
apparently this entire incident will be brought around
and blamed on Doom. That's right, Doom. The game, Doom.
The game that started the entire FPS flood. Its all
Doom's fault these kids shot up a school. No, this is
untrue. Apparently Doom taught these kids to make pipe
bombs (pipe bombs weren't even in Doom. If Doom teaches
you how to make pipe bombs, can someone email me and let me know
where this occurred, I haven't played the game in a while
and I can't remember.) Also, the kids learned to shoot a
gun by playing Doom. Please. Its two humongously
different things between shooting a gun and clicking a
mouse button. I see no possible way you can become
skilled at holding, aiming, and shooting a gun by playing
ANY First Person Shooter (or making bombs for that
matter). These kids obviously had some mental problems,
or they weren't taught right from wrong by their parents,
that's right, their parents. Either the kids or their
parents are the ones to blame, not computer games.
Studies have shown that the average hard-core gamer is a
30-year old male with a college degree. These people can
decide for themselves and obviously know to not play Doom
in some high school. The parents of the shooters
obviously didn't care that their children were playing
some shoot 'em up game, and they didn't try to stop them.
If they try and blame the game, the real blame goes to
the parents for not teaching their child that its a GAME,
doing that in real life is a horrible thing to do. Either
that or not letting him/her play the game period. A
lawsuit came up as of late, targeting some major game
companies, saying the reason another high school shoot up
happened is because the shooter learned to shoot from
playing Quake. All of these charges against games are
stupid. Making games is not about teaching people to
shoot, or make bombs (which I still don't know how you
could learn this from Doom.), its all about money. Money.
Let me say this again: Making games is all about making
money. The entire entertainment business is all about
making money. They make what we want to play, and they
make money, they don't make it so we can learn to be
idiots and shoot up schools, that's just moronic. Look,
leave us be. Don't let your children play violent games,
because when they go shoot up a school, and you try to
blame it on those violent games, you're wrong. You could
have stopped your child from playing at all, or taught
him/her the difference between fantasy and reality.
Please...leave games out of it, let us responsible people
have our fun, and let the developers make their money. |
