Ultima's Derphub

furyhunter:

You know, now that they’re drudging up the Norway massacre from last year again, apparently the guy has admitted to playing video games. And apparently he claims to have used Modern Warfare 2 to “train” for the incident. Let’s just disregard the fact that CNN is trying to use his claim of…

It’s almost hard to listen and endure the atrocities that these people call “news” as anything such. We’ve been labeled with this stereotype for years, and it’s not going away. Much like the idea that Xbox Live is full of 10-year-olds (which I so-heartily agree with) and the idea that certain mascots designed for kids are only to be played by kids, we’ve been classified with such ridiculous lies that slander us that nothing can be agreed to.

To be frank, while CNN isn’t a bad news station (like FOX News…) it leaves a certain taste of annoyance, the kind that’s left in you when you learn of some big thing being cancelled. They’re trying to put us in as bad a light as they can. Why? Who knows? Maybe they want video games destroyed. Maybe they want companies and franchises cut out. Maybe they’e trolling.

Honestly, should any of us give THAT much of a damn? It’s CNN. The last thing a gamer will listen to for news that they want to hear is CNN. Why else do we have IGN, Kotaku, Gamespot and G4?

Actually, Kotaku made a post about this kind of thing.

But no, there isn’t any credible evidence that video games can be of a psyche-modifying tangent by any large count. It’s an annoying, discriminatory falsehood that we will have to deal with.