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Radish

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"Anyone see Dateline tonight?" , posted Fri 13 Dec 22:07:

Anyone? I never watch those stupid magazine shows because all they do is sensationalize small stories so they seem more important and edit spooky music in the background while they tell you that some brand of soda WILL KILL YOU or whatever.

I heard tonight's episode dealt with the DC Sniper. If you don't know about it, a few months ago a guy and his stepson were randomly killing people from afar in my area and a lot of people were really freaked out. Well apparently if my sources are right, Dateline said that the kid honed his abilities from playing Halo. Not that the fact that the step dad was ex military had anything to do with it.

It's just getting to me how this correlation is always drawn. I'm guessing the vast majority of kids play video games so when one goes nuts and kills people, of course he's going to have played Doom sometime in his life. It's like saying "Everyday the child ate Cheerios. That must mean they are making our children kill!!! BAN THE GRAIN BASED CEREAL PRODUCTS!!!" Sigh....

EDIT: I just thought that maybe it's a good thing quirky dating games aren't released in this country. "OH MY GOD!! THE RAPIST HAD A COPY OF TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL!! SHIORI IS TELLING OUR CHILDREN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS!" You know it would happen.

[this message was edited by Radish on Fri 13 Dec 22:18]

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RugalBernstein

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"Re(1):Anyone see Dateline tonight?" , posted Fri 13 Dec 22:30

quote:
Well apparently if my sources are right, Dateline said that the kid honed his abilities from playing Halo. Not that the fact that the step dad was ex military had anything to do with it.

Like playing Halo is anything like aiming a real gun. Yeah, Halo takes recoil in to account! :P

As always, " Blame the tools. "

So, Radish, you live around D.C.?

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(1):Anyone see Dateline tonight?" , posted Fri 13 Dec 22:45:

hahaha i hate those shows too. "later in our program, a famous cable company has designed a way to peep into your house. COULD YOU BE ONE OF THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS?!! but first, the peanuts in your home COULD BE KILLING YOUR CHILDREN AS WE SPEAK. all this and more after our commercial break." local news does that a lot too. i swear, it annoys the crap out of me

damn, you're in the area of the sniping? my condolences, man. i'm nowhere near there, but every time i heard on the news of another death, it just sickened me. i felt so bad for everyone there. those two guys were sick

and ....... bah, i won't even start on Halo. very much like those Columbine punks and Doom. if they like guns and such, they're probably gonna have those games in their home

quote:
Like playing Halo is anything like aiming a real gun. Yeah, Halo takes recoil in to account! :P

lol, reminds me of an old argument that blamed fps's (first person shooters) on creating tomorrow's Columbine kid: because when you're fighting with a gun in real life, you've gotta know how to strafe and dodge bullets!

EDIT:
oh yea, Rugal, i forgot that you're also around that area. damn ...
i don't think i saw you online much around the sniping, or i did and none of us never mentioned it. i haven't talked to many people about that event. some things in life are even too horrible for me. how long ago was that anyways? my sense of time always spirals every time school starts

[this message was edited by Juke Joint Jezebel on Fri 13 Dec 22:51]

Radish

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"Re(2):Anyone see Dateline tonight?" , posted Sat 14 Dec 04:56

quote:
Well apparently if my sources are right, Dateline said that the kid honed his abilities from playing Halo. Not that the fact that the step dad was ex military had anything to do with it.

Like playing Halo is anything like aiming a real gun. Yeah, Halo takes recoil in to account! :P

As always, " Blame the tools. "

So, Radish, you live around D.C.?

Yeah. I got caught up in the sniper induced dragnet twice. The first time it was about a mile from where I was living and a friend and I figured that "Hey, the shooting locating has to be the LEAST likely place for him to strike next" so we drove over there and watched the helicopter looking for white vans (the irony). The second time, a different friend and I were driving home when one of the shootings happened and we knew something was up since about a million cops started closing off exits to the highway.

Mosquiton

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"Re(1):Anyone see Dateline tonight?" , posted Sat 14 Dec 07:22

I don't think the Xbox controller can teach you the physical skill of using a rifle...

That guy who was doing it had qualified as an expert marksman with an M-16 anyway (36 out of 40 targets at various distances... download "America's Army" and you can do it yourself! Probably easier with a mouse though), which is quite similar to the gun that was used.

Good thing nobody saw the kid at the arcade playing Silent Scope 3 or Time Crisis... I think games like that could actually improve your aim.

To be honest though it's not hard to swallow that videogames improve your hand-eye coordination... but so does chopping celery and playing baseball.

People really should stop killing each other though, I've seen some downright disturbing things in the news lately.

/ / /

CrazyMike

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Silver Customer

"Re(2):Anyone see Dateline tonight?" , posted Sat 14 Dec 08:57

Well what do you expect from Barbera Waa-waa?

Personally what I hate about these shows is the fad of covering court cases or criminal investigations, it gets tiring. It used to be they would investigate cases of consumer fraud and go in with hidden cameras, but they rarely do this anymore.