Post by Ancient Goddess on Jan 23, 2006 13:18:05 GMT -5
If you check gaming news often, you might have heard about a man belonging to the Metal Gear Solid community committing suicide.
If not, read these two articles:
news.gaminghorizon.com/media2/1137635340.3198.html
news.gaminghorizon.com/media2/1137793080.3207.html
This was a result of just how bad the media can be. Bad reporters and/or editors not verifying sources are becoming too common nowadays. They twist and distort things to make the news more appealing rather than report the actual facts. Actually, one of those articles reported that a certain news media actually tends to purposely alter the news to make the story more interesting. Honestly, I find this sad.
As if the fabricated news vs. the real story situation wasn't bad enough, people have taken it upon themselves to put down the gaming community altogether with this news. An example is a man named Jack Thompson stated upon reading the news of this event on Gamepolitics.com:
"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.
Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.
Sad. Sad for all of you."
Of course, members of the community came together and sent him angry emails, phone calls as well as other methods to get their 'disagreement' (understated term) across. If you want to read his response (as well as view the original source in which I've received the news from), click here. It'd be too long of a post if I pasted it all.
Anyway, what is your take on this story? About the news media wrecking actual facts? About Kuja105 committing suicide? About Jack Thompson's 'heartfelt' reply?
If not, read these two articles:
news.gaminghorizon.com/media2/1137635340.3198.html
news.gaminghorizon.com/media2/1137793080.3207.html
This was a result of just how bad the media can be. Bad reporters and/or editors not verifying sources are becoming too common nowadays. They twist and distort things to make the news more appealing rather than report the actual facts. Actually, one of those articles reported that a certain news media actually tends to purposely alter the news to make the story more interesting. Honestly, I find this sad.
As if the fabricated news vs. the real story situation wasn't bad enough, people have taken it upon themselves to put down the gaming community altogether with this news. An example is a man named Jack Thompson stated upon reading the news of this event on Gamepolitics.com:
"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.
Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.
Sad. Sad for all of you."
Of course, members of the community came together and sent him angry emails, phone calls as well as other methods to get their 'disagreement' (understated term) across. If you want to read his response (as well as view the original source in which I've received the news from), click here. It'd be too long of a post if I pasted it all.
Anyway, what is your take on this story? About the news media wrecking actual facts? About Kuja105 committing suicide? About Jack Thompson's 'heartfelt' reply?
