Re:important relevant gaming article (Score 1)

What a pathetic excuse. Okay, let's all drop our baggage on someone else, after all, we can't possibly think for ourselves. Quake/Doom caused 2 kids to shoot up a school? Oh, wait, the GAMES didn't make them kill people, the PROGRAMMER caused them to kill people...I get it. You are saying that programmers are responsible for programming a game, which a software company distributes to stores, where a person buys the game, and then installs the game, and then runs the game. How does the programmer kill people? I think I'm missing something here... Hey, think about this! Maybe Jon Carmack doesn't want the lives of dozens of people weighing on his head. Imagine this, if you are able to see someone else's point of view... Jon Carmack works for NASA. He writes a prog to regulate oxygen on the shuttle. There is a slight problem with the mix, but no one detects it. The suttle lifts off, and 12 hours into the flight, everyone is dead because there is no o2 left. Now, Jon has the lives of all those people on his head. That sucks. First Person Shooters are there to let us do things we wouldn't normally do. If stupid kids go to their school and shoot up a bunch of teachers and students with the guns that their parents bought, that is their fault for performing those actions and their parents fault for not interacting with their kids. I play FPS's a lot. Doom, Doom2, Quake 1 2 & 3, Cstrike & Half-Life, Wolfenstein. I have no urge at all to go to work with a Glock. My boss is a dick, but I can just go home and hit the punching bag for a few minutes and I'm fine. If you are unable to control your actions, that is your fault. You can not possibly say that a video game MADE you do something. The only thing my video games ever make me do is use my keyboard or click my mouse You are too stupid to own a computer. Thats my opinion but it also happens to be true, so it has that extra 'oomph.'