How disturbed where you when you saw todays Jimquisition?

[Nouw]

I can't get the picture of his lifeless face out of my head. I would say I was both disturbed and saddened.

 

[Dead Seerius]

To further prove Jim's point, I too was pretty shocked when I saw it. I might sound naive for saying this but I was expecting it to look like it does in the movies (think FMJ).

Boy was I wrong. Dunno if it's his facial expression or how the blood just keeps streaming out, but it got to me. And I didn't even expect it to.

 

[EHKOS]

It didn't bother me at all, I have found out I only really care when terrible things happen to people I care about, so seeing some random guy shoot himself in the head didn't make me feel anything.

This, I also was kind of happy how he horrified the people around him. Like "take that!" THAT part disturbed me, how I was rooting for him and hoping there would be a huge spray of blood in some traumatized woman's face. But the actual thing was just meh. Although I am a bit disturbed about that .gif on 4chan where the guy gets decapped by a chainsaw. Also any animal abuse at all makes me feel awful.

 

[Rednog]

For the longest time I thought that if I was ever put in a situation where I had to kill someone I could go through with it and probably just shake off any terrible feeling...but after watching the video I threw up a couple of times.

 

[chadachada123]

I wasn't all that disturbed, but I was aware of the enormity and reality of the situation; and I don't reckon that's being desensitised to violence, I think that's not having all that many feelings towards death, and that's more of a personal thing.

I did wonder what on earth someone was doing filming that; I mean, I know that he drew the gun on himself with little warning (another thing that's scary about real situations), and that people do strange things in situations like that; but the fact that they kept filming (and zoomed in, of all things) is a little disquieting.

You'll notice that the man's last words were, if I heard correctly, "No, no, no, don't don't [come closer]. Look, it'll hurt someone. Just chill out, I-"

I think they figured that if they rushed him, he'd do it anyway, so maybe talking it out would be a possibility. As far as the cameramen, I imagine they saw the many other people that actually knew the man trying to talk him out of it, and figured that they would be useless in that situation compared to an actual friend or colleague.

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OT: I feel as if this video hit me particularly hard today because of my current troubles (being screwed by, ironically, the court system myself just this very day). That said, this video has always been rather eye-opening to me. Between this and the suicide video of the Mexican man who killed himself while in custody, this sort of suicide is rather sickening, and extremely effective at showing just how fragile we are.

I've seen multiple death videos, usually as a sort of "train-wreck that you can't look away from once you see the start of it"-type thing. I've been close to puking several times, and I really don't see a single drop in disgust from my millions of video game kills.

Having also personally mercy-killed several animals, having my childhood dog die in my arms, and even saying goodbye to my best friend a mere hour before his heart finally gave out, I can attest that death is no trivial matter to me. I can joke about death all day long and enjoy the sickest of jokes, but at the end of the day, when it's time to get serious, I'm as cautious and caring as they come.

Here is the Mexican video, if anyone is interested. I will absolutely remove this upon request and will absolutely understand if a mod wants to delete this link. Warning: suicide, obviously. In the event of the link's deletion, it appears first in Google when searching for "Mexican suicide video."

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b177f60bb

 

[RandV80]

Personally? If I get a warning that "this may be disturbing!!!" I'm more than happy to shelve my curiosity and skip over it. I've seen dead people before in a drunk driving car accident (not mangled, but still dead), and I don't need to actually watch someone shoot themselves in the head on camera to get what Jim is saying.

Same reason as to while I know what they are I don't have images of 'goatse.cx' or 'two girls one cup' forever engraved in my head

 

[Zen Toombs]

I found it pretty disturbing. But, unlike [user]Rednog[/user], I could still easily kill another person if the situation required it. I could become a weapon, but by doing so I would destroy who I am. I could and would press on, but I would not be the same.

But if it must be done, it must be done.

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Woa, that went someplace weird.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Here is the Mexican video, if anyone is interested. I will absolutely remove this upon request and will absolutely understand if a mod wants to delete this link. Warning, suicide, obviously. In the event of the link's deletion, it appears first in Google when searching for "Mexican suicide video."

Aye, both can be filed under suicide by handgun.

But Ricardo Alfonso Cerna was stopped by police for a traffic violation. He then fled the scene and would eventually shoot a police officer - twice - before getting arrested.

Budd Dwyer was not that sort of person. They were both human beings. They both died violent deaths at their own hands.

I like to think there are things to be learned from the Budd Dwyer case that are well beyond 'be nice', 'obey the law' or 'don't shoot at cops'.

 

[ascorbius]

I skipped it. I didn't want to see a man kill himself. I skipped past the part in the video.

I've killed many sprites in my life, but that's all they are. Cartoon animations of fictional characters reacting to events in a game. Nothing really died by my hands. But I can't bear to see anyone die for real.

 

[XSTALKERX]

No I wasn't disturbed at all. Only graphic torture scenes and people in pain is all that can disturb me.

 

[chadachada123]

Here is the Mexican video, if anyone is interested. I will absolutely remove this upon request and will absolutely understand if a mod wants to delete this link. Warning, suicide, obviously. In the event of the link's deletion, it appears first in Google when searching for "Mexican suicide video."

Aye, both can be filed under suicide by handgun.

But Ricardo Alfonso Cerna was stopped by police for a traffic violation. He then fled the scene and would eventually shoot a police officer - twice - before getting arrested.

Budd Dwyer was not that sort of person. They were both human beings. They both died violent deaths at their own hands.

I like to think there are things to be learned from the Budd Dwyer case that are well beyond 'be nice', 'obey the law' or 'don't shoot at cops'.

That's the thing: Budd Dwyer might HAVE obeyed the law, but was backed into a corner for something he didn't do.

Possibly.

I mean, there'd be little reason to continue denying it even to his dying paragraph if he was actually guilty. To think that an innocent man might have killed himself to protect his family is, in my opinion, incredibly honorable. His Wikipedia article is, for lack of better words, absolutely fascinating.

I understand your point, but when I say that their deaths were "eye-opening," I was referring to the quickness of it all, the fact that it is NOTHING like executions/suicides in video games. Not really about the morality part.

Edit: After finishing the article, I'm pretty much convinced that he was, in fact, innocent. From his final suicide note to the fact that the key witness to his conviction ADMITS that he lied under oath to get a lighter sentence, I'm thoroughly convinced he was an honest man dying a tragic death.

The article, for the lazy, and because I feel like posting links right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer

 

[ProtoChimp]

The whole thing happened in a public conference, Budd was deep into his scandal, was facing jail time and was giving a speech which was being filmed at the time.

I couldn't watch it, not even the episode after Jim explained. I get what he was trying to say and I get the gist of what the episode was probably about but I was way to scared to chance skipping past and accidentally seeing it.

So what did this guy do that made him kill himself and please no one link any pictures or videos.

 

[RedDeadFred]

It was disturbing for me but not nearly as much as a video I saw about a year ago. I won't post the actual video because it's of a real person and it's very fucked up, I'll just describe what happens in it. It's fucked up so don't click on the box if you don't want to hear about it.

Spoiler

The video is of a guy jumping off a tall building into the water below. He missed his jump and his face hits the corner of the sidewalk right before he falls into the water unconscious. You see a massive amount of blood in the water, people are screaming and crying. It then buts to footage of him in the hospital. His face is almost completely cut in half down the middle. Doctors are trying to hold it together and the guy is still alive. He dies two days later.

That video still disturbs me just thinking about it even after seeing it so long ago. I never watched it again but it's still very vivid. I play a lot of violent games that show head exploding and people getting chopped up in slow motion. They don't phase me but real life stuff is pretty traumatizing.

I was actually considering being a lifeguard for a part time job (I am actually certified) but when I heard stories from other lifeguards during my course about how you may have someone drown on you, I decided that I didn't want to do it. I couldn't stand the idea of watching someone die in front of me. It had never really hit home until I'd heard people talking about it.

 

[Owlslayer]

It was disturbing alright. Can`t really stomach stuff like that well, so i looked away when he pulled the trigger. When i heard the gunshot, i thought the worst was over and looked back. Luckily for me, the cameraman went ahead and zoomed right to the face of Dwyer, with blood flowing out of his mouth. I even thought for a second that that was some other person who had some blood splattered on him. Took me a moment to realize it was Dwyer himself. So, yeah. Quite disturbing. But i liked what Jim was saying, and what he did to get people to understand.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Nope, not at all, does that make me a terrible person? I mean I've seen a man have his chest cavity crushed under a bus tire before, in person, and I've seen other much much more traumatizing things in life, and I've had to take medications which were later banned for causing certain forms of brain damage, mainly to the parts of the brain that allow us to connect to our emotions.

I'm not a violent person, but seeing things like that doesn't seem to affect me at all, I'm going to chalk that up to a combination of real life desensitization, and brain damage.

 

[Vegosiux]

As I said in the thread, I wasnt disturbed at all.

And quite frankly I find those who were disturbed quite alien, and I dont understand what the big deal is.

See I wasn't "disturbed". I realize stuff like that happens. But hell, it's still uncomfortable to see someone get killed for real. Even if you don't know the guy. Even if you hate the guy. We're all afraid of death. Yes, I deny that too, but when the push comes to shove, being in direct presence of death hits you, somehow, and we (I say "we" because I do it too) can rationalize it all we want.

Some people are just more susceptible for it.

 

[Berithil]

I felt a little queasy afterwards, but that feeling went away. It sure as heck was disturbing, though. I'm sure it would be worse seeing someone get killed against their will, and this is coming from someone who can watch very violent movies and play violent games without caring. So, yes. Video games and movie don't desensitize you to real world violence, only fake violence.

Point noted, Mr. Jim.

 

[Mr. Omega]

This wasn't the first time I saw that footage. I saw Jim's original take on the subject when he first used it. That being said, that was a couple years ago. I still shuddered when they zoomed in and you saw the blood. Seeing it again, it wasn't as bad as the first time. The first time wasn't even that bad. But it was still uncomfortable.