Tragedy and Video Game Violence

[Chaos]

This morning I went to Youtube to peer through my daily subscriptions, when I saw this particular video posted not 2 hours ago. I watched, despite my general reservation about watching this type of "Coverage" by Youtubers. Now, after watching, I have to say, this has probably been one of the most informative, and well thought out videos concerning this sort of material I have watched concerning Media hype.

Total Biscuit's Video

[Feathers]

Yep, I agree with him, the media REALLY needs to tone down their overreporting of these crazy killers (and blaming books and games for his murders).

[Vendettadabeast]

Give this man a nobel peace prize, because what he says is so damn true.

[Chaos]

Personally, the thing that impressed me the most about this video was when he showed information based on countries OTHER than the United States, which in concern with video game violence is certainly a black sheep on the graph at around 10:16. The point he brings up concerning South Korea and their video game culture is something that Western media seems to conveniently glaze over as well.

[musical74]

I'll say this first...WOW!!!

This is someone that definitely knows what he's talking about, and yeah, the media does need to quit the oversatuation of school shootings. I liked how he used South Korea and their video games culture...and ZERO school shootings there, ever. Clearly it's not video games that cause stuff like this, it's some sick twisted individual.

[Savor101]

When people do things like this, the media blamed movies and comics. Now it all about the vidya games, what people fail to realize is that it takes a hell of a lot more than a video game to turn those people into mass-murderers. The human ability to think logically/rationally and to have common sense is solid enough that a simple video game won't break that ability down. A lot of the murderers on the news had legitimately serious mental problems and it doesn't help that the USA has little to no support for mental health care. I have played violent video games since I was 7 or 8 years old and here I am, already in the Air Force and becoming a productive member of society. I highly doubt video games will ever ruin a human being's ability to think rationally, the media is beating an extremely dead horse at this point.

[Blake81]

Well now, it seems like one of my classmates owes me money; the day I read about the tragedy in the newspaper I told him ``10Bs.(Roughly 1.50$) to that in a week or so, the news will say that the police found a copy of any videogame in the murderer's home and some morrons will start saying it that the tragedy happent because of videogame violence.´´ and it seems like I won.

This shit's been going on since it was found that the authors of the Columbine Massacre played Doom; whenever some nutbag goes trigger-happy on a mass of innocent ppl and the police finds a game among his stuff, then some buncha idiots immediatly jump at the conclusion that it was the game what led the murderer to commit the horrendous act. Regardless of if the cops also found that the murderer had over 10Kgs of cocaine in his home or that he had a dozen of previous criminal ofenses; it's all the game's fault, just because they says so...... Truly, such a thing makes me wanna puke.

And certainly, that guy sure knows what he's saying in many ways. First, his idea of using South Korea as a comparision was superb; I mean, if game violence causes ppl to become mass killers, then there should be about two or three massacres per day at South Korea. But as you see, there arent. Second, it's so damn true that the whole way of the media to highlight everything related to the killer is like they're giving the would-be-killers detailed instructions of what to do. God knows how many of these murderers have been inspired in one of those that came before them. And remember, humans are monkeys, and what monkey sees, monkey repeats; so as long as the media provide such in-detail coverage about the killer's lives, then it's only a matter of time before someone imitates them.

[Severontous]

I like TB, I have followed him for a couple of years now. Granted I disagree with some of his outlooks and reviews (who doesn't), but he sure damn knows how the industry works. And just as with the justification of charity video he put up a few weeks ago. The media simply looks for scapegoats that will seem as the "easy way out" merely for hits more than anything. Obviously I agree and have the same thoughts on this matter as he does, but he explains it near perfectly as it should.