So, will you be participating in "Ceasefire friday"?

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RobfromtheGulag

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No one's going to notice one way or another.

Either way, apparently it's Starcraft [http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/12/19/cnn-picks-their-game-to-blame-starcraft/] we should be abstaining from, not FPS.
 

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Maze1125 said:
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I probably wouldn't have because I don't really play "shooters" to begin with

I suppose I can dust off my Xbox and that copy of Halo I never gave back to my co-worker and pretend to enjoy it out of spite for 30 minutes.
Yes, a group is trying to honour 18 dead children, misguided or not, and your response is to do the exact opposite of their suggestion in order to spite them...
Yes, that is absolutely the best way to get people to believe that video-games aren't warping your mind...
Well I was kinda joking but since you bring it up.

Well intentioned or not this kind of Slacktivism is pretty much the worst kind of thing to be giving any degree of credence to. I'd sooner see these folks waste their time signing an online petition to ban crazy people from shooting the innocent or wearing whatever ribbon or wrist band colour has been assigned to this issue by the national bullshit trinket awareness council. At least signing the petition or putting on a doodad would required some degree of action on their part before the ill deserved feeling of self satisfaction.

My advice to anyone who wants to honour these kids or any victim of gun violence? Volunteer at a hospital or support group, donate to a relief fund, attend your city council meetings, address your politicians...do something...do ANYTHING other than just not playing a particular genre of game and pretending like anyone but you gives a shit.
 

Maze1125

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As if Fox News cares about being proved wrong.
Which do you think makes a "better" Fox News headline?

"Gamer's stop shooting each other for a day due to recent tragedy, are they admitting guilt?"
or
"Gamer's outright refuse to stop shooting each other, even in the light of the recent tragedy. How much must the games have warped them for them to care so little?"
 

Bocaj2000

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http://kotaku.com/5969100/video-games-and-the-sandy-hook-shooting-two-very-different-reactions

Thanks from bringing this up OP. I didn't even know that this existed. You forced me to do some research, and I choose to partake in the even instead of immediately reacting out of spite. It is a SIGN OF RESPECT, NOT A SIGN OF GUILT. I respect the victims and their families, and this sign of respect is all I can do. THIS WAS NOT PROPOSED OUT OF BLAME.

This video might put things in perspective and give this idea some respect:

EDIT: By the way, OP has lied to us. Games were not blamed. Guns were not blamed. There are more articles about them being blamed than the blaming itself. These are myths. The only thing that is going on is mourning.
 

Catrixa

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Wasn't it supposed to be Starcraft II that taught him how to murder children with guns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MHzTlkAGNIE)? So, wouldn't that mean we should be abstaining from playing RTS's loosely (or directly, I guess) based on Warhammer 40k? Either way, I'll be playing whatever it is I'm playing. If my box-that-can-run-Natural-Selection-2 was working, I'd be playing Natural Selection 2 (which is pretty much first person Starcraft II anyway xD). But, since it isn't, it'll either be Minecraft or the MMO-of-the-month.

Really, though, this is kind of like: "Known TV watcher murders large number of children, country abstains from TV in memoriam" or "Known book reader kills many, no one reads for a day to remember the fallen." I mean, not that we shouldn't be taking a break from our favorite pastimes occasionally, but wouldn't it make more sense to maybe: "Cities across the country hold candle-lit vigils to mourn the fallen in recent school shooting"? This way we aren't blaming anything and are actually showing support for the families who lost their children. Maybe save the blaming for when we aren't super emotional and can actually think through things.
 

Abrams63j

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I will not be participating, as this will not help anyone. If I want to pop in Call of Duty tomorrow, I will.
 

Stein Inge

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Yes, a group is trying to honour 18 dead children, misguided or not, and your response is to do the exact opposite of their suggestion in order to spite them...
Yes, that is absolutely the best way to get people to believe that video-games aren't warping your mind...[/quote]

I´m with you dude...

As far as I can tell the people behind this "No Shooter Friday" thing wanted to do something to show that "no, games doesn´t turn those who play them into murderers, and we´ll do this little symbolic gesture to show that we support those left behind from this senseless tragedy". I see no problem with this!

For fucks sake guys: children were murdered! And you feel butthurt because someone said something bad (and utterly irrelevant) about you fucking hobby!?

Shame on you!
 

pat34us

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Bocaj2000 said:
http://kotaku.com/5969100/video-games-and-the-sandy-hook-shooting-two-very-different-reactions



EDIT: By the way, OP has lied to us. Games were not blamed. Guns were not blamed. There are more articles about them being blamed than the blaming itself. These are myths. The only thing that is going on is mourning.
If they (whoever decided on doing this) spun it that way they might get a better response.

Such as:

How about we take a day off of playing shooters to represent a day of morning for the victims of the tragedy (like a flag at half mast or a moment of silence).
 
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It's not a blame of video games.
It's saying that maybe using mass murder with guns as entertainment might not be in very good taste given recent events, and it might do some good to raise awareness that the real use of these things isn't so happy.
For me, I think I'll be playing Recettear.
 

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ya know, I had planned to just get drunk and hang out with friends watching shitty movies during the apocalypse... but now these window licking media people are blaming us for something completely unrelated...

So now, I'm getting half a dozen people, 2 Xboxes, a new router and a pile of batteries together for a lan party spectacular to erect the largest middle finger possible to these paste eating window lickers possible.
 

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Nope, I've never even heard of "No shooter Friday".

[Edit]

Alright, so I read the topic (silly) me and I don't see any reason not to play shooting games.
 

sageoftruth

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What is this "no shooter Friday", or rather, where was this announced? I just googled it and only found a link to this forum thread. Is this really a thing?