Small town rocked by video game related violence

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Twilight_guy

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I do believe that these kids must have been crazy already if they wanted to do that. That desire and odd behavior is a sign of insanity; they just happened to act out a video game. If a movie was seen they would have acted that out. It's all very strange.
 

Drake the Dragonheart

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Mariena said:
Surprised so few have realized that this isn't exactly a true story.
Until I realized this wasn't actually true I thought maybe what someone said in another thread was true that Jack Thompson might have moved to Journalism which would explain this sudden eruption of anti-game news.
 

zacaron

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realy Katamari dinasty...cause of murders
people who argue against violent games have just shot themselfs in the foot here.
 

Nikolai Smirnov

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i got this from bigal2k6 from youtoube he was ranting about jack thmopsin (i know i spelled his last name wroung) and jack (jack thmopsin) tryed to ban the all video games no joke!
 

Atvomat_Nikonov

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quickpaw said:
It's not just video games that society has managed to warp like that. We have had a poem removed from our English exam and the government has demanded that the books containing that poem be destroyed because it apparently encourages knife crime. It?s called Education for leisure if anyone is interested.
I remember reading Education for Leisure last year in English and finding it funny. It's a good poem, but it's a shame we never studied.

Admittedly, I thought this story was true at first. In my defence, I'm tired and I trust The Escapist for news.
 

MaxFan

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Damien the Pigeon said:
MaxFan said:
The sad thing is, this is plausible enough that some people believed it.
You can't really blame those of us that did, though. I mean, people talk about this stuff all the time, so it wasn't that surprising at all.
I didn't think the people who believed it were reacting wrongly, I mean it's pathetic that society has gotten this messed up so people will blame anything to avoid acknowledging their own failures. I thought it sounded entirely plausible, but read the replies in this post.
 

Handofpwn

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No link to real article = fake. Amusing, but fake. My first reaction, however, was to wonder what these kids were smoking and where I can get some.
 

Hookman

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...*Mouths*What...The...Fuck...How old were these kids? Either they were too young to understand what they were doing or they are fucking insane!
 

Phyroxis

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There was this one day, I was sitting there thinking "Hm.. I wonder what it would be like to roll my family and assorted crap into a ball and then push them down a hill" then I finished, wiped, washed my hands, and went back to my computer.
 

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Indigo_Dingo said:
Its actually kinda depressing seeing the number of people who didn't realise this was a joke as soon as they read it.
i lol'd. does that count as getting the joke even if i can imagine some pohr kids to actually do this?
 

Samurai Goomba

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Fronken said:
Wait a minute, isn't Katamari that cute little game where you roll stuff up into a ball to give to the king of the cosmos?, what the fuck does that have to do with 2 retarded kids brutally murdering a couple of old ladies?

Those kids should be put into a press and compressed into a ball and see how they like it, yeah, they would be dead by then, but that only means that the world would be a better place...the kids die, and we get to live on, its a win-win situation for those of us with an IQ higher than 10
Actually, Katamari Damacy is a surprisingly dark game, it's just presented in such a charming little way that it's easy to miss for the first couple of hours. Think about it... What do you really DO in Katamari Damacy?

1. Roll up stuff into a big ball, including living animals and people.
2. When you've gathered a big enough ball of helpless citizens, you LEAVE Earth's ATMOSPHERE WITH IT, and present the Katamari to your father.
3. Your father then turns it into a star, which we all know is a burning mass of hot gas. Essentially, he lights it on fire.

So, if there were any people in the Katamari, they were suffocated, then cremated and their corpses used to light up the sky.

Actually, the (hidden) dark undertones in KD are one of the major things I really like about the game.

But that said, I think enough time has passed without an actual source that we can just say "fake news" and laugh about it. I do think such a story is entirely plausible in today's world. Video games, it seems, are the new black people (and by that I mean that they're a popular whipping boy, defending them never seems to do any good, and anti-game advocates don't seem susceptible to logic or reason.)