So last week, we reported on this curious "killer games" event arranged by German advocacy group Aktionsbündnis Amoklauf Winnenden (or "Action Alliance").
The event, which took place on Saturday, October 15, called for gamers to bring their violent games and toss the items into a big dumpster. No idea what they were planning to do with the "garbage," but most readers agreed this was a stupid idea. Participants were eligible to win a signed soccer jersey from Germany's star team.
Well, videos of the event have been popping up all over YouTube, supplemented by German news reports covering the "game burning" -- hey, book-burning is out of style! Anyway, who wants to guess how the whole thing turned out? If you guessed "badly," then you are correct.
Not surprisingly, the game trashing event was a complete failure. Videos show a near-empty dumpster with a handful of games inside. No doubt the organizers are disappointed by the poor turnout; as previously mentioned, many members of Aktionsbündnis Amoklauf Winnenden are parents who lost children during a shooting earlier this year, in which the teenage culprit was identified as an avid Counter-Strike player.
We feel for the parents involved because the shooting was a deep tragedy, but how does this help the situation, exactly?
Mind the odd angle on this next one. It shows a couple kids tossing a couple (literally) games into the huge rusty vat, while a cameraman films. He's probably with the media because a clip of that boy throwing away his games is later shown during a German news report. We non-Germans can only speculate that they are taking a FOX news-esque approach to the whole thing, judging by the nature of the comments and the video's low rating. At least those kiddies probably won the signed soccer jersey. We hope.
So I wonder who the retards are who actually threw something in.
I see... One Pokemon card (Valid considering that Pokemon is about poor little animals forced to fight each other for the amusement of humans. Pokemon is the evolved form of *bleep* fighting.) One piece of scrunched up paper.
Two games. They don't look like the packaging of games I know to be violent. I wonder what got thrown in.
violent games aren't the direct cause as guns aren't direct cause
It's the peoples mind that is stupid , and what parents and care that shooter had , it's just a social matter , whether a person is properly socialized and functions normally , a game is just a game and they know it , but the game if wrong people are using it , it's a deadly catalyst.
Games are nothing but aditive , if games are the cause , then the whole world must be stupid, those cases when games were the catalyst for an such a primitive thing a guy can do , rampage around in real, must be either a social desperate person , same kind of parents , mentally ill , heavy drug abuser , or the lowest possible degree of a gangster/huligan , even those don't do such things , they fight each other, and that's something different.(at least they have a reason they stand for)
Muhahaha told u the whole idea is a fail, I bet u these 2 "games" are just empty cases of non brutal games and the tv tried to make a show of that Them germans are really dumb ^^ I would throw in a Counter strike and write on it with a marker " Thats how ur kidz died".
People are always trying to put the blame on someone/something besides themselves... I know that the were just trying to avoid the tragedy from happening again, but instead of doing something as nonsensical as an anti-video game campaign they should form one against violence at home for example...
Video games don't control one's life, it's the people who buy them.
This isn't just a fail, this counts as an epic fail. Gamers who love their games are going to keep playing them despite the controversies that some titles have. And if gamers are going to dispose of their games, they'll either sell the games or-if they don't work-they'll recycle them. I'm aware of several different recycling processes across the United States and around the world, and while I haven't been able to independently verify the specifics of recycling game cartridges/disks-which I would assume to be in the same category as CD's/DVD's-I would call it a safe bet that electronic recycling would include those materials. We've had a similar video game controversy in the United States involving the Grand Theft Auto series, where-in this case-an individual named Jack Thompson made several attempts to get various games in the series banned, starting with GTA 3 back in 2003, and has constantly been an opponent of the entire GTA series since. And if my memory is correct, Jack Thompson got flamed pretty heavily here on Neoseeker--I know I had some unpleasantries to say; Facebook is probably doing the same to him now because he sued Facebook for $40 Million last month. And speaking of which, he got permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court in July of 2008. Guess Jack doesn't know when to quit, does he?
The point being is that there will be people who strongly disagree with violent video games to the point where they have to stand up and try to make their voices heard. But video games are-in a way-a form of art; graphic novels don't lead people to kill and neither do violent video games because it's all about the mental makeup of the individual who plays the games.
forums
So I wonder who the retards are who actually threw something in.
I see... One Pokemon card (Valid considering that Pokemon is about poor little animals forced to fight each other for the amusement of humans. Pokemon is the evolved form of *bleep* fighting.)
One piece of scrunched up paper.
Two games. They don't look like the packaging of games I know to be violent. I wonder what got thrown in.
as guns aren't direct cause
It's the peoples mind that is stupid , and what parents and care that shooter had , it's just a social matter , whether a person is properly socialized and functions normally , a game is just a game and they know it , but the game if wrong people are using it , it's a deadly catalyst.
Games are nothing but aditive , if games are the cause , then the whole world must be stupid, those cases when games were the catalyst for an such a primitive thing a guy can do , rampage around in real, must be either a social desperate person , same kind of parents , mentally ill , heavy drug abuser , or the lowest possible degree of a gangster/huligan , even those don't do such things , they fight each other, and that's something different.(at least they have a reason they stand for)
And if gamers are going to dispose of their games, they'll either sell the games or-if they don't work-they'll recycle them. I'm aware of several different recycling processes across the United States and around the world, and while I haven't been able to independently verify the specifics of recycling game cartridges/disks-which I would assume to be in the same category as CD's/DVD's-I would call it a safe bet that electronic recycling would include those materials.
We've had a similar video game controversy in the United States involving the Grand Theft Auto series, where-in this case-an individual named Jack Thompson made several attempts to get various games in the series banned, starting with GTA 3 back in 2003, and has constantly been an opponent of the entire GTA series since.
And if my memory is correct, Jack Thompson got flamed pretty heavily here on Neoseeker--I know I had some unpleasantries to say; Facebook is probably doing the same to him now because he sued Facebook for $40 Million last month.
And speaking of which, he got permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court in July of 2008.
Guess Jack doesn't know when to quit, does he?
The point being is that there will be people who strongly disagree with violent video games to the point where they have to stand up and try to make their voices heard. But video games are-in a way-a form of art; graphic novels don't lead people to kill and neither do violent video games because it's all about the mental makeup of the individual who plays the games.
so true so true