Games do not make killers petition .

[Guest Colonel Trouble]

Games do not make killers petition

The above petition has been started to send to the daily mail to hopefully try and convince them to shut their traps . I for one am supporting this because I feel that in this murder , video games are being used as the scapegoat . One thing the Daily Mail hasnt seemed to pick up on is how the kid bought the game , it was most likely his mum the accuser who bought him it in the first place because a shop wouldnt sell him it . He is 17 and the game was an 18 rated. It is a criminal offense for that boy to be in possession of the game in the first place and so I do not see how they can sit there and blame games for it .

Please sign to shut the tedious comic (the daily mail) up .

Thank you peeps !

[Guest midnight]

why just the daily mail?

every single newspaper and news channel on TV has been saying the same thing.

the mother wants an explanation as to why her son could be a murderer thats all, perfectly understandable and if it wasnt a computer game that caused it then it would be a film or tv program. The daft thing is, the most violence you see on tv these days is shown by news channels that depict war and violence on a daily basis without age restriction and at any time of the day (even the bbc while reporting on this showed the game which was actually showing one person being garotted, and another being attacked by an axe).

i understand you feel the way you do, but some petition is not going to stop a newspaper from writing things that will get more readers, that simple.

[Guest beersoft]

I don't think the 'free press' will ever research a story that puts computer games/videos/drinking/cake in a bad light, it sells papers, and thats all they want to do

this is possibly the best example of spoof "tabloid" journalism i found in the 3.2 seconds i thought about this post

©1995 SimonT 

MAN BAKES CAKE WITH RECIPE FOUND ON INTERNET!

Hamilton, New Zealand. 

8-Aug-1995 

A Hamilton (New Zealand) Analyst Programmer, Simon Travaglia, was caught last week baking a cake from a recipe he found 'On the Internet..'. Police were called in when neighbours became suspicious about 'bakery smells' wafting into their homes from Travaglia's residence. Police noted that Travaglia had in his posession sophisticated cake-baking apparatus including an oven and several professionally crafted spatulas, which, if used properly, could have produced 10 or more cakes in a single day. 

Police also found a stockpile of cakes, including several banana cakes, two chocolate cakes, and a self-saucing pudding. At the time of his arrest, Mr Travaglia was apparently in the process of making several scones which were appeared destined to be stored in 'scone-caches' around the city. The Police also found was a larder full of ingredients with an estimated street value of several dollars. 

Experts who examined one cake surmised that it had an estimated yield of "8 slices, possibly 10 if you cut it up thinner". 

A well-known member of parliament has renewed his calls for censorship of "Usenet News" groups which distribute such material. He says: "We are faced with a situation whereby school-age-children, without the knowledge of their parents, can download recipes by the dozen, and store them in encrypted form on the computer. Parents cannot be expected to Police this information, and it is time legislation was put into place to prevent the distribution of these recipes and punish those responsible for attempting it." 

When it was pointed out that several similar recipes were available at many public libraries, the Minister indicated that libraries were in a position to control access to these books both by placing them in prominent places under the watchful eyes of library staff and also on the top shelves of book stacks. He similarly refuted claims that cakes such as the ones found could be made by any third year cookery student. 

"These cakes" he said "were not made by trial and error. I have been assured by experts that the icing on the top of the chocolate cake in particular was applied by a practised hand. If this information is out there, it will be found and used, and it's obvious that the Internet has NO conscience when it comes to the distribution of sweet foods. We must act, and we must act now!" 

Meantime the Police have confirmed that despite all attempts to the contrary, three of the seized cakes had 'gone off'. On this occasion, no-one was seriously injured, although one officer was taken to sick bay with 'a sore tummy'. 

[Guest Dr Who]

Daily Mail is only a cauldron of bile and hatred anyway - you couldn't expect anything other than outraged indignation.

Seems like video games are the new violence on TV or video nasties battleground. Research has shown that violent video games do increase agression after use. If they has measured me after playing the relatively sedate Civ3 after having been whupped by a spearman when I was attacking in a tank - downhill!!! - (damned deity level) I would have shown them some of the old superviolence. However whether this actually provokes violent incident is another matter - certain people may be predisposed to violence and this tragic event may have been enacted at some point during the attackers life without him having played any game or seen any TV. Human beings have been vile to each other for some time, which seems to get overlooked by the newspapers. And what do they expect when we live in a country that fights another kid in the playground 'cos he doesn't like the way he talks. Same arguments are used for sexual 'deviancy' and drug 'abuse'.

[Guest Colonel Trouble]

oh well fair enough . I enjoy playing games and it is understandable that this woman wants an explanation , but jumping to the conclusion that it was the games fault is silly . Her judgement is probably clouded by the shock of losing her son . But still If they try to ban games then that's just silly.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Heh, they won't :P

Manhunt will be back on the shelves before long. Games like this will still be produced (GTA: San Andreas). I can honestly say after playing UT i do NOT feel the urge to run around a building firing rockets at my mates.

But that's just me...