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MmaFan-Qc  +   565d ago | Well said

btw, why the f KOTAKU isnt blacklisted form N4G yet?
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KangarooSam  +   565d ago
Same reason IGN gives such high scores. #paidoff

Joking, not really sure lol.
FACTUAL evidence  +   564d ago
Those 50k people were wii grandma gamers.
Godmars290  +   565d ago
Because people aren't voting it down in the link.

Actually they're rated at three stars.
ZombieNinjaPanda  +   565d ago
CraigandDayDay  +   565d ago

Story: wtf.
Like: no
blackblades  +   565d ago
I forgot where to vote down show nuff don't see it
xursz  +   565d ago
360ICE  +   565d ago
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cchum  +   565d ago
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Simon_Brezhnev  +   565d ago
they not blacklisted because its not HHG.
ALLWRONG  +   565d ago
ZombieNinjaPanda  +   565d ago
geddesmond  +   564d ago

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DragonKnight  +   564d ago
Kraptaku voted down.
fr0sty  +   564d ago
darkpower  +   564d ago

showtimefolks  +   564d ago

Blastoise  +   565d ago
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firelogic  +   565d ago

ThichQuangDuck  +   564d ago
jon1234  +   565d ago
prototypeknuckles  +   565d ago
books, movies, television, comic books
Blastoise  +   565d ago
Rap music? lol
kevnb  +   565d ago
lsujester  +   565d ago
AzaziL  +   565d ago

rpd123  +   565d ago
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M_Prime  +   564d ago


Sp1d3ynut  +   565d ago
lizard81288  +   565d ago
Soldierone  +   564d ago


The news is the problem.
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jon1234  +   565d ago
M_Prime  +   564d ago

Mutant-Spud  +   565d ago
freezola75  +   564d ago
Hollywood.. Rap... is the blame smh
LordMe  +   564d ago
FreshRevenge  +   565d ago
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DasTier  +   565d ago


C.) obviously not raising her autistic son properly.

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Baka-akaB  +   565d ago


That's just silly
CoLD FiRE  +   565d ago


Cam977  +   564d ago
She must've used this cheat:

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kevnb  +   565d ago
hazardman  +   565d ago
shut the fuck up....
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Outside_ofthe_Box  +   565d ago
wenaldy  +   565d ago
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CoLD FiRE  +   565d ago


Hicken  +   565d ago



They are both dead.






Megaton  +   565d ago

dennett316  +   565d ago
How does abstaining from violent entertainment show respect to the deceased? All it does is ensure that this coward of a killer continues to have an impact on the world, even after death.
In these cases, I'm with the FBI guy in the Charlie Brooker video on Youtube....stop giving these psychos publicity. Do not broadcast their name, do not emphasise the number of victims....let's stop giving these unbalanced lunatics a target to aim for and a "hero" to aspire to.
I certainly wouldn't allow their actions to affect the country or world as a whole in the manner of affecting what we do for entertainment. Millions upon millions per year enjoy this entertainment with ZERO ill effect and ZERO negative impact on the lives of others....let's keep it that way.
ronin4life  +   565d ago
A lot of people here don't seem to get what this really was...

It wasn't meant as a statement about gamings relation to the event, just a show of solidarity for other people. No one was forced into this or needs to do so to show support, it was just a way for people with a common interest to say goodwill to those who have suffered. It was in no way a political statement or anything more than a group get together... like a hand holding circle or a candle light vigle.
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StreetsofRage  +   565d ago
Terrible event, but why would I stop playing video games? Death is everywhere, big and small. That's life. I'm not going to stop doing something I like because somebody thinks it's violent or "it's just the right thing to do."

No matter how terrible an event is....life goes on.
Sovereign59  +   565d ago
There is really no logic behind this.
It would be like... if there were a shark attack, you wouldn't ask Discovery Channel to cancel Shark Week out of respect for the victim.
I'm not saying this incident wasn't a tragedy, because it definitely was, but this really shouldn't even be talked about on such a widespread scale anymore. It's just helping to garner attention for the criminal. Unfortunately, the media thrives on tragedy and so we won't be finished hearing about this event for quite some time.
"Eye on the TV 'cause tragedy thrills me, whatever flavor it happens to be
Like 'killed by the husband,' 'drowned by the ocean,' 'shot by his own son,' 'she used a poison in his tea, then kissed him goodbye,' that's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies"
Tool's Vicarious is probably the most depressingly true song of all time. If you've somehow never heard it before, at least look up the rest of the lyrics.
the worst  +   565d ago
oh well im firing up my call of duty now.
Fu$K kotaku and the NRA
Griffin4871  +   565d ago
The truth about all this is simple. The killer is dead so everyone is looking for a target to blow steam at and they choose gaming just because the shooter happened to play games. Gaming once again has to be the fking scapegoat because they don't wanna focus on the real problem which is the public distribution of munitions.
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DasTier  +   565d ago
By blaming "the public distribution of munitions" you sound just a misguided as those who are blaming video games.

The offenders at fault are the mother and the son, no one else.

Why teach a mental ill person to shoot?
Why give them acces to guns?

You could even raise the point of why keep the mental ill people alive, if this kind of action is their contribution to the world.
OccludedGamer  +   564d ago
Say that to the families living with mentally ill people who are stable and harmless and see how they respond to your close-minded attitude
kingPoS  +   565d ago
What ever the media shines it's spotlight on gets attention for better or worse. Unfortunately whenever there's an agenda involved, undue attention is usually focused or directed elsewhere.
young7yang  +   565d ago
Am i the only one that does not care!

people do really bad things and there is nothing we can do about it... what happened happened and it could not have happened any other way!

as a father i am pissed but i would never blame it on games. i am a vivid gamer and a teacher and while i have never played call of duty because it does not appeal to me i have played a number of games that can be labelled violent like ninja gaiden and dead space to name few.

some people are just plain heartless and can care less...

the media is F*&KED up for how that have treated this whole thing...
Tetsujin  +   565d ago
I swear they need to vote Kotaku off this site entirely, and they're getting desperate for hits at this point; and using a national disaster for more site hits? F- Off!
Orionsangel  +   565d ago
I wonder if these 50,000 people ever fired a gun or even had access to guns. I never fired a gun, let alone seen one up close. I ignore guns. I don't care for them, but in video games it's fun to pretend. I use my gamepad. I assume it's nothing like using a real gun. I figure if I ever have mental issues where I wanna hurt people. I won't use a gun. Because I don't even know how to use a gun. Let alone have a gun. So if a video game can influence me to kill people. How would I go about it? Get my point?

To use guns you already have to be a gun user. Why are kids using guns? Why are some kids who grew up using guns growing up to be nutjobs who do mass-shootings? Because they were already gun users who's outlet for aggression was using a gun. Again I ask, why are we raising kids to use guns? A violent video video game doesn't make you own a gun or teach you how to use a gun.

Even if a video game helped spark your interest in guns. The game didn't make you kill. If killing imaginary people in the virtual world was so damaging to a person's mind that it would make you kill people in the real world. Wouldn't it make a soldier killing people in a war a hundred times more damaging? So where are all the Vets doing mass-shootings? Folks, this a mental health issue and it just so happens that most of the people having these mental breakdowns and doing these mass-shootings were already avid gun users.
Tundra  +   565d ago
Let's ignore the fact the guy had a severe mental illness and blame video games. Let's ignore the fact that the mother tried to get him locked in the crazy bin and that he didn't care for that too much. Another possible motive is that Adam believed she cared about her kindergarden class in Sandy Hook Elementary School more than him. But no let's blame an immensely popular form of entertainment instead of his mental disorder.

He was mentally sick and I have no sympathy for this formerly psychotic bastard due to the fact he willingly killed human beings who haven't even grasped the meaning of life and death. This has nothing to do with video games and I hope you're covered in gasoline when you're burning in hell Adam.
kostchtchie_  +   565d ago
exactly, and by getting 50k people to stop playing video games is like saying it was the video games that killed them children not the shit way society fails mentally ill people, society failed them children, they are the reason they are dead, because they FAILED that mentally ill boy
Swiftfox  +   565d ago

You mentioned the casualty count. You mentioned that coward's name. Then you stir up rubbish for the sake of it.

Bad form, kotaku. Truly bad form.
Captain Tuttle  +   564d ago
It's not just Kotaku talking about video games and this incident, it's the mainstream press, the NRA, Congressmen and women. Putting your head in the sand doesn't make it go away.

I don't get the Kotaku hate here, they do a better job than 99.9% of the fanboys who post here on N4G (including me).
Swiftfox  +   563d ago
I know this is a very late reply so forgive me.

Asking them not to say the murder's name or the number of casualties isn't burying your head in the sand, it's asking a bit of dignity from the media to not sensationalize the events of that day into another tragedy.

My comments where not of hate toward Kotaku if that was your assumption. My comments were of disappointment. Disappointment that Kotaku would rather add to the overall problem than take the high road and curve this disgusting trend we see in the modern media.
jakmckratos  +   565d ago
Let's have a day where Autistic people don't do Autistic things then.
Megaton  +   565d ago
"CEO of GamerFitNation"

That's cute. Didn't know blogs had CEOs.
HorrorGod  +   565d ago
I don't see the problem with what was being asked. It's just out of respect for the victims. A "moment of silence" type thing. Same reason my town asked people to leave their Christmas lights off for 1 night out of respect.
My town wasn't blaming Christmas lights for the massacre.
armycore  +   565d ago
Why ANYONE is listening to Triforce is beyond me. The guy is a total attention whore and fairly crooked.
DEATHxTHExKIDx  +   565d ago
obviously gamers care there people just like everyone else.
dee-ecks  +   565d ago
Meanwhile all the actual gamers called bullshit.
madjedi  +   565d ago
Have the media stop making a celebrity out of the scum bags, ban all tv cameras from the court rooms and stop having worldwide coverage to glamorous the tragedy.

I don't bother watching the news anymore all you hear about is murder, rape, robbery or how a politican or government employee embezzling $100,000 - 1,000,000+ of tax payers money.

Same thing with the guy who killed the people at the dkr showing, he should have been executed within a week tops.

But since the tragedy and drama gets good ratings, i doubt it will change any.

But we live in a panzy ass country that reduced the death penalty for a deathrow inmate to life in prison because he is too much of a fatass for a lethal injection.

And to any of the fools screaming for excessive gun control, you still have knives, blunt objects and barehands to contend with. Unfortunetly the old saying were there is a will there is a way, applies even to that evil intent.
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cchum  +   565d ago
Now to bring more relevant "news" than Kotaku

bozebo  +   564d ago
Do we also have to not watch films with shooting, not buy guns or bullets (this one... should be quite important), not read any books that may contain anything involving shooting, avoid basically all media that involves guns and shooting and real guns too? Or is it games' fault... and not... actual firearms?

Every time the media mention a school shooting they increase the likelihood of more school shootings (people do it to make an impression before they off themselves).
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TemplarDante  +   564d ago
Im sick of Kotaku..
Practice what you preach, if you hate gaming, quit covering it.
Or go join Oprah.
The blame game over videogaming is getting ridiculous.
The dude+his mom were loners+doomsday preppers.
Yesterday was "suppose" to be Doomsday, investigate that!
Why are people not investigating that link.
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Captain Tuttle  +   564d ago
And I suppose you could just avoid Kotaku articles. Save yourself alot of stress.
isyourhouseonfire  +   564d ago
I also stopped playing.

Haha, yeah right, of course I didn't stop. There's been enough victims in this tragedy, why add myself to the list?
Deku-Johnny  +   564d ago
Did u kno if everyone in the world stopped playing video games there would never be another crime involving guns again? Knowing is half the battle.
CatXFlash  +   564d ago
And what do Video games have to do with a guy shooting up a school? NOTHING not one single video game that I have ever played has a guy shoot kids at a school.

Tell you what.. when the US takes the guns from the soldiers and the cops than we can talk about no weapons.. till than, leave the American people out of this we have every right to bare arms and watch any content we want.

Bunch of tools this is about mental health not guns.
HorrorGod  +   564d ago
I've played ONE game where the main character shot at kids in a school. But he misses. And breaks down.
But that game didn't make -ME- want to go buy a gun and shoot at people. If anything, it prevented me from doing it.
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