GTA 5 "Responsible for Virginia Tech Shooting"?

Here's what annoys me. There's people, usually politicians and other such "powerful" people, who like to accuse games of making people go on violent rampages. A recent one was some guy going around Virginia Tech and shot and killed a cop then shot himself, which i hadn't heard of until today.

I saw it posted on a Facebook fan page of Grand Theft Auto V (https://www.facebook.com/GrandTheftAutoV5). And today, it posted a link to it's blog: http://grandtheftautov5.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-website-claims-mw3-bf3-and-gta-v.html, which is a post about GTA 5, MW3, and Battlefield 3 being accused by some website called myona.com of influencing the 22 year old dude that shot this cop.

Firstly, Modern Warfare 3 wasn't even out at the time, and GTA 5 isn't out now, and won't be for a while. So apparently Battlefield 3 influenced him. So what he did was strategically and stealthily, go around the school, or whatever Virginia Tech is, and silently take out the cop. You know, like in a lot of modern games. He didn't? Oh, so what it said was a load of old crap then? Yep.

In fact games VERY VERY rarely influence people in a negative way. How many copies of MW3 were sold? 6.5 million in the UK and US. In one day. So there's millions of people who have played MW3 going around shooting people? No. There isn't. Actually it's more likely that games like that relive stress and let their violence out without harming anyone. Apart from camping cunts. So clearly, they don't know what they're talking about.

It also says on that website that the shooter's "style of the killing is similar to the upcoming Rockstar’s title Grand Theft Auto V". So apparently they've played the game. Because I'm pretty sure there's only been one trailer out and it doesn't show any gameplay. Even if they referred to GTA IV, there isn't any point in the game, or MW3 of BF3, where anyone goes around a school and shoots a cop. although in GTA there is a lot of cop shooting. Maybe next time it should be a myona.com writer. OOH SCANDAL. Now I've just influenced people and they;ll go around killing news website writers.

Clearly whoever wrote that article (a Mr. Amir Ariff) was just after internet traffic (just like i am with this blog post). It has 363 comments on it. the next highest amount of comments on an article on that website is... 7. Most of the commenters are probably people from that GTA 5 blog page though.

It says in that article that the guy was "quiet". In other words, he just kept it quiet that he was going to go crazy. He must have some mental illness. All i know is that it wasn't the game. I've been playing games since i can remember and i turned out relatively OK. I've never shot anyone (that I've been caught for). Kidding.

So myona.com, you might want to think about what you put next time. And that's the nice way of saying it.

On a lighter note, I was going to play DC Universe Online on PS3 since it became free to play. So i start it up, update. I expected that. What i didn't expect was after the update it has to download data. 12GB of it. So far it's been going for 50 minutes. and it's done 15%. It's going to take over 4 hours. So i'll do something else. Maybe play some OnLive. Actually i recorded Jumper last night so i might watch that. Oh crap, i recorded it on my PS3, and my PS3 is kinda busy downloading 12GB of data for 4 hours. OK, different plan.

Oh yeah, and i'm also growing a beard. Anyway, i need to poo. Ciao!