Ugh, why do they always blame games? Can we start blaming books for a change? Or food? Or the weather?
Fuck no, I will play Left 4 Dead 2 all day long followed by Black Ops 2. And only because I was gonna do that anyway.
But at any rate, whether the OP was accurate or not, I can still show my respects while playing FPS. I don't see the relation between the two.
NOTE -WE ARE NOT BLAMING VIDEO GAMES!
GamerFitNation Inc's CEO Antwand Pearman is calling for a ?DAY OF CEASE FIRE" on all online shooters on Friday, December 21st, 2012. We ask for Gamers to show their support for the families of those who lost their lives in the tragedy that took place in a Connecticut's Sandy Hook elementary school Friday, December 14, 2012.
It's not about blaming video games or taking responsability, it's simply about sending a message, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that, just as I wouldn't if someone was running a marathon for charity. And yeah, I'm doing it. I'll be playing some "Batman: Arkham Asylum".
And if you don't want to do it, fine by me!
Just don't look for reasons to throw dirt on those of us who do, and may have a personal reason for doing so.
Probably, although that's because I've recently purchased Rayman: Origins and I kinda wanna play it.
That and the 360 version of Minecraft has finally got close to what the PC version is, so that's suddenly getting a ton of hours played on it.
It's not thoughtful, it's not a nice gesture, it's in no way related. It's just a pathetically-forced attempt at a guilt trip. As some other people have mentioned, it's more than likely that Fox News is going to use this to form a headline that says something along the lines of "Gamer's admit to connection between aggression and violent videogames!"
As such, I will gladly play every shooter in my house. I may even reinstall some of the older ones, like Quake II, or the one that started it all for me: 007: NightFire. And of course, there's plenty of Doom and Army Men to go around.
How many reasons do you want? I've got a whole list of em (or at least two)
1. You're not doing anything. I can't stand these types of events because you're (literally in this case) not doing anything at all. This is in no way, shape, or form going to affect anything for those victims. Now for something like this, it's not so bad since there's really nothing practical you can do for the victims anyway but everyone knows at least one of "that guy". You know "that guy"...the one who talks about how horrible it is in Africa and preaches about how we should be doing everything we can to help, which is why he joined the Facebook group Help Africa!. With that done, he has the sense of satisfaction of doing something without having to do some actual work.
For further info on this: Source [http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/12/cause-marketing-backfire-leadership-cmo-network-strategies.html]:
And there is also behavioral economics research indicating that people who buy a ?good? product feel licensed to cut back on doing good in other ways. These effects can include anything from giving less to charity or mentally justifying doing things that one shouldn?t.
2. Like it or not, you are demonstrating causation here. What is the correlation between the shootings and shooting video games? Both use guns I suppose. However, the killer also drank milk. Should we give that up for a day to show our support? The killer drove a car to the crime scene. Should we give up driving for a day to show our support? The killer played video games? Should we give up video games for the day to show our support? Get the point? There is absolutely no connection between what you're giving up and what took place; by taking this action, you are creating a connection that gaming culture just doesn't need. Frankly, this is my big problem with the entire event.
Now I certainly can't stop anyone from doing this but think about what kind of message you're sending before you act here. Maybe I'm wrong and others won't see this the same way but gaming is already in the cross-fire [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.396175-Mass-Effect-being-blamed-for-Connecticut-shooting] due to this sad and pathetic excuse of a human; at best this action does nothing and at worst, it gives another bullet to those who are putting games on the chopping block. THAT's why I am so openly hostile toward this idea.
Believe it or not for some people this dosen't have anything to do with video games and the people who oppose them. For some people this is only about showing respect for those who have died.
Some people like to show compassion and sympathy by taking a moment out of their lives to offer condolences for the vicitms and their families of any tragedy. You are right that not everybody can actively effect change in the world but everyone is capable of showing compassion.
For some people this would done with a traditional moment of silence but for others choosing not the play a particular videogame is their sign of respect.
Offering sympathy however it may be done is never pointless but what you're doing is, stop thinking about yourself and your "precious" video games and recognise what this may actually be about for most people.
Video games had nothing to do with it and I just bought Far Cry 3, soo, nope. I actually didn't even know about this until this thread since I've been completely ignoring all news on the incident because the media is so retarded.
I'm using my Wii U to re-play No More Heroes 1/2 because ZombiU is done...so, that's not shooting! It's a blacklight, that's totally a lightsaber, that we're calling a "beam katana". Although the glorious fountains of plasma and coins all over my screen upon a triple decapitation will make me wonder exactly how respectful this is, guns or no guns.
I don't see the point of participating although I'm not going to go hunt the most violent game I can find and play that out of spite, just ignore to whole thing and do business as usual. If that involves playing an fps than good for you if not a;; the same. I personally will probably be playing planetside 2, but who knows maybe I'll feel like some psychonauts.
IF Its something that the families of the victims have requested then yes, I will do it out of respect
IF Its because games are being blamed then i'm going to install ALL my shooters and have a massive fucking binge.
Frozen, here's a link to the article about this. It's a "show of support" for the families. I actually found the article after I'd already posted a response on here, myself.
I'm tempted to get Painkiller and play all the way through it, then do a run of Serious Sam, followed by some Tribes and TF2. Some nutjob that played shooters and killed a bunch of people is not my goddamned fault, and I won't be guilted into setting aside my pasttime just to make a bleeding heart feel better.
That said, my condolences are with the families, but don't blame my hobby for the actions of a sociopath.
How about we just put our flags at half mast like everyone else? It's not like we should do anything special just because we're gamers.
That said, I may or may not end up playing a shooter. On one hand, there's the empirical showdown in Planetside 2, and on the other hand, there's the new Humble Bundle with all its glorious Dungeon Defenders DLC. And to top it off, this college semester is over for me that day.
I wish I had something other than this netbook to play games on, and that I wasn't working friday, and saturday... I would totally play a ton of shooters just to spite this idea.
I probably technically will be taking part, but not by choice.
My wife is leaving for Pittsburgh saturday and I promised her the xbox to finish off her second ME3 playthrough. Maybe I'll convince her to play co-op Borderlands instead.
Very fun game. It has a pretty interesting twist on the shooter formula. Both game-play wise AND story-wise.
OT: Well, chances are, I might play a non-shooter game this Friday. Not because I'm following this thing, but just because I want to play that kind of game.
No.
That day I plan on playing Spec Ops: The Line, and to get people's knickers in a twist, I might even boot up Modern Warfare 2 and play "No Russian."
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