Honestly, there’s so much hype around the NIU shooting that it’s pretty fucking disturbing. Another crack in the pristine finish of the youth culture and people are as always quick to point the proverbial gun at the wrong person. In this case we see the government and of course Jack “can’t stop fappin to my next case” Thompson on the warpath blaming some mediocre playtime of CS in the kids life for the killings that took place.

Seriously now, is this what we have left? A kid is unstable and blasts other students and we don’t wonder what actually happened? We just pick a cheap scapegoat that has been beaten to death and ride it like no tomorrow, that instead of figuring out what was going on around them we get idiots going “dude he played 1.6 4 years ago, thats totally why he killed them, gg lets ban violent games recommended for older audiences” Sadly the flawed mentality forgets to include, the following.

1. There’s no fucking buy zone IRL, you don’t wake up, walk into your closet, hit B and then speed key your inventory for the day together.

2. Source is an awful fucking example to use for violence or “training” anyone who has played it knows the lag and hitboxes are awful and that any idiot using it as a base wouldn’t kill someone with a .45, they’d try to hunt down an AWP.

3. If CS was so fucking influencing on the world, we’d see a whole lot more team flash IRL, something that is severely lacking at the moment.

Honestly, the government and the media need to go fuck off with this stupidity, anyone worth their asdw would be able to tell people that FPS titles aren’t murder sims, and anyone that uses them as some springboard has serious mental problems already that existed before playing.

So to all those fucks harping on gaming being the cause of the shootings, go play a fucking title as a non-biased individual and then judge if you could actually bunny hop/knife run/shift run your way to a massive incident.

1. Puscifer, February 24, 2008:

   Couldnt have said it better myself. I’ve played alot of CS in my life and if it is to be considered some type of trianing for RL, then this training program sucks. I still cant shoot for shit.

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