You can keep him!

[Honorary Bloke]

:ranton:

Just saw on the news a story about the American-born 21 year old, living in OZ, who has posted a video game on the Net based on the Virginia Tech shootings. He thought it was "funny." He agrees to take it down if he gets monetary donations.

I just wanted to say that you can keep him, we don't want him back.

:rantoff:

There, I feel better. :-

[Lignum]

I seen him on the news last night and he was a real smug looking prick with a grin you would love to wipe off. Sorry Bob you can have him back anytime:~

[fred.n]

Scum, thats all he is

[ozwinner]

Dont worry Bob, these sorts of characters always get sorted out. :U

Society has a way of dealing with them.
Trust me.:2tsup:

Al :)

[Lignum]

Dont worry Bob, these sorts of characters always get sorted out. :U

Society has a way of dealing with them.
Trust me.:2tsup:

Al :)

The dental scene in Marathon Man would be a good place to start:wink:

[martrix]

is it just me, or did any one else notice his Hitlers moustache.....:screwy:

[Gra]

Compromise.... We send him back...

you draft him, then send him somewhere "interesting"....

Problem solved, one way or the other

[Gumby]

I heard about him this morning on talk back radio. He copped a bucket full from everybody. What a gutter crawler. :((

These games and violence on TV and the movies have a lot to answer for.

[Wood Borer]

There was a thread about testing the sharpness of tools.

There are people who watch or play these games perhaps they could attend a "How sharp is my blade" competition and actively participate.

[Honorary Bloke]

They showed a snippet of the game on the telly. Very crude graphics by today's standards--sort of Pac-Man like. I suppose he just wants his 15 minutes of fame. Well, he's getting it and I hope he receives everything he has coming to him. :bns:

[Wood Borer]

It's pathetic but an indicator of how ridiculous we have become with all our laws that protect such people. Ideally he should have been dealt with long before his sick works were made public.

Are the media any better for showing it?

[Honorary Bloke]

Are the media any better for showing it?

Of course not. They are the ones who give him his 15 minutes. :((

[TEEJAY]

Tar and feather then parade in an open truck - it is a good way to dispose of rotten fruit and veges :p

Repeat offence - either garroting or public hanging - oh for the good old days :) They weren't so bad after all - sorted these twits. :D

[Gumby]

Tar and feather then parade in an open truck - it is a good way to dispose of rotten fruit and veges :p

Repeat offence - either garroting or public hanging - oh for the good old days :) They weren't so bad after all - sorted these twits. :D

Good idea. Perhaps someone will make a video game of it called 'Retribution'. :rolleyes:

[silentC]

Suprising what some people find amusing. There was an amateur comedian on the ABC last night (Raw Comedy). He's a Muslim, so naturally we got the obvious terrorist jokes. He reckoned the world would be a better place if he had been a terrorist. Why? Because he'd be as lazy with that as he is with his current day job. Take 911, he says. I'd sleep in and miss the plane. The boss would call on the phone and ask where I was "you're meant to be crashing a plane today". He would say "(cough cough) I'm feeling sick, don't think I can make it in to work today. Can't you get Khalid or Mustafa to cover my shift?" etc.

He finished up with a thing about the Cronulla riots. "You white people don't know how to riot". Gave a few examples of bigger and better riots around the world. Walking around with a flag as a cape and the nearest you've got to a molotov cocktail is a VB. That's not a riot. That's you and your mates are ****ing ****heads.

He got a laugh though :)

[Master Splinter]

Actually, the thing that is worse than a kid knocking up a simple, silly videogame is the over-reaction that people have to such things.

Making videogames based on violent historical events is nothing new.

I guess its all in what timing you consider as 'historical'. Read about the Columbine version here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR2007011702051.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR2007011702051.html)

What is more serious, though, is the knee-jerk overreactions that such events generate in people - particularly in people in authority who feel the need to be seen to 'do something'.

After the Columbine massacre, nonconformist (insert goth/geek/emo/loner or your choice of social pariah here) students across the US were instantly under suspicion of being the next potential mass murderer.

The overreactions are recorded in the piece by journalist John Katz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Katz), titled "Voices from the Hellmouth (http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249.shtml)" and posted on the geek-themed website Slashdot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot) :

An exerpt:
"From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Todd Solondz's "Welcome To The Dollhouse," and a string of comically-bitter teen movies from Hollywood, pop culture has been trying to get this message out for years. For many kids - often the best and brightest -- school is a nightmare.

"People who are different are reviled as geeks, nerds, dorks. The lucky ones are excluded, the unfortunates are harassed, humiliated, sometimes assaulted literally as well as socially. Odd values - unthinking school spirit, proms, jocks - are exalted, while the best values - free thinking, non-conformity, curiousity - are ridiculed."

Here are a few more overreactions...which - since they come from 'authority figures' - are all much worse than making a simple videogame:

The teachers who held a class 'gunman attack' drill: http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/13/faked.attack.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

The student who was arrested for making a videogame map of his school: http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847/chinese-community-rallies-behind-student-removed-from-clements-over-pc-game-map (http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847/chinese-community-rallies-behind-student-removed-from-clements-over-pc-game-map)

Or the straight A's student arrested for writing an essay: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070425essay,1,696682.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070425essay,1,696682.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true)

[joe greiner]

Granted, gummint can be quite ham-handed in responding to this sort of insult (as we've seen especially since 11 Sept 2001), this little [floater] exercised his right of free speech specifically to anger decent folk. Fair enough, if you insist, but a salient distinction here is that the [floater] attempted extortion; that's already a crime in most jurisdictions.

Without some form of social disapproval, acts like this further the decline of civilization. Way back when in Merrie Olde, the outlaw concept not only declared offenders as criminals, it also deprived them of the law's protections; in other words, fair game for anyone and anything. Thank goodness those days are gone.

Joe

[reeves]

hahaa yes i saw that one, sorry but its lost on me how a society can support and promote freedom of speech then bitch about it when someone does it.

Sure that video game is probably in poor taste, insensitive and even exploitative but thats about it, if hes ignored then it wont last long...if its promoted as 'oh my god how could he' then it will become a cult classic, he may even be the next bill gates..

I'd say dont give him more credit than he probably deserves

lots of people , especially the young are blase (blazay) about the continue promotion of violence coming out of the US, is it any different to endless hollywood/TV crime and violence shows promoted as entertainment?

[Gingermick]

I just wanted to say that you can keep him, we don't want him back.


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