One of the unfortunate inevitabilites of a national tragedy is that stupid people will get together and be stupid. And a whole, whole bunch of stupid people decided to appear on Mass Effect‘s Facebook page and blame the game for inspiring bloodthirst.
To give you an idea of how stupid this is, the morons we’re about to show you came to the Mass Effect page because Ryan Lanza, the brother of actual shooter Adam Lanza, was incorrectly identified as one of the perpetrators. And Fox News did what they did and blamed video games and Facebook.
So, they went to his Facebook page, saw he liked Mass Effect, which is a video game, and started getting stupid on its Facebook page:
The sad thing is that this person was not weighing in on the Sandy Hook shooting. They’re a Krogan still pissed off over that stunt the Salarians pulled.
Yeah, BioWare. You need to think carefully about how realistic you make your game about humans in spaceships fighting cyborgs with the assistance of psychic aliens.
Yeah, that whole “blow up the Collector daycare” mission was a bit tasteless.
I just want to emphasize that this is the first thing you see when you come to the Mass Effect Facebook page:
It’s one thing to not do your research. It’s another to not look, at all, at the actual page.
And here you thought the Reapers weren’t already overly self-righteous.
There are always going to be people who blame video games for, well, everything. But is it too much to ask them to not be this dumb?
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I don’t want to live on this planet anymore
I just don’t want to live near these people.
unfortunately we live in a country full of fucking idiots.
True, idiots are impossible to avoid. I live less than a mile from Harvard and I just saw a guy trying to teach his pit bull to take a piece of bread from his mouth.
Weird. I always figured Mark Wahlberg for an American Bulldog kind of guy.
Where I live there are predominantly two pets: Tuxedo cats and pit bulls. Seriously. There are at least ten tuxedo cats I know of in the area, not counting the one who begrudgingly shares his apartment with me, and at least seven pit bulls living less than a mile from my house.
I don’t…what?…huh?…what is?… but then?…
This just further makes me lose hope for humanity.
To be fair, people may have been in the throes of anger and not thinking clearly.
That doesn’t make what they said any less mind-bogglingly stupid, though.
Oh no I totally understand all the irrational thought and anger. And maybe my anger creates this idea that I should judge those who judge immediately. It will just always bother me that this is the initial reaction that some people have, and that there is now a million ways for them to express it and shame those who they believe are responsible for influencing horrible moments. Hence why I’m whining about it now. Fuck, I need a hug.
Let me just turn a few things off in the van and I’ll be right over, buddy.
To be fair, stupid people are stupid.
I blame Assassin’s Creed.
If any series drives me to kill, it’ll be Final Fantasy.
the Hitman series always made me want to stab a dude.
Not a lot of difference between desynchronizing and “desynthesizing”… although there is a significant different between either of those and desensitizing.
I actually replayed Mass Effect 1 and 2 over the last couple of weeks, so I guess everybody should watch out? What a strange association people make between games and violence that they don’t make with movies and TV. Also, why are we blanking out people’s faces and names? If you’re a big enough fuckwit to believe in what you’re saying, that the mystical sky wizard will punish Bioware for this in the afterlife, then you should be proud to have your face on this.
Part of my job is not getting the site sued. Besides, the last thing we need is some kid sending total strangers random ragey death threats over a video game.
You are absolutely right, Dan. Sorry, I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
You’re right, Dan. I didn’t think of it that way. I just needed to vent. I can’t put up with morons until I’ve had my 44 oz Wild Cherry Pepsi.
Apparently you were super-right and I don’t understand the reply function.
Maybe bump that up to an 88 oz Coca Cola Blak: [en.wikipedia.org]
That looks amazing. I can’t believe I missed that – usually I’m on top of soda trends. Not something I’m proud of. I’m also well versed in candy and potato chip lore. Why am I still talking.
Being a potato chip lore expert actually sounds kind of awesome, not going to lie.
Well, Ken Burns isn’t calling to produce any chip documentaries. OR IS HE??!!!!???
Also, how has nobody jumped on the Revenge of the Sith connection? Obviously, I don’t think it has any merit, but holy shit that’s a Fox News special. Actually, forget I said anything. I don’t want to do their job for them.
Erm, they would never draw that conclusion. Revenge of the Sith = 20th Century Fox. They might be stupid, but not so much as to shit where they eat.
Good point. Although they do let Family Guy, The Simpsons, and American Dad take pot shots at Fox News.
To be fair, the shooter was a biotic. I blame the L2 implants. The blood is on your hands, Chairman Burns.
you cant blame this when it is truly the player to blame. the chose is yours in mass effect. hello!
Wasn’t this his brothers facebook page? Maybe because Adam Lanza DIDN’T play M.E. he didn’t learn any lessons about tolerance and working with a team to achieve a common goal. Perhaps if he would of played he could of learned something…nah that can’t be possible…going to play some angry birds and start throwing chickens at people.
PETA would probably object, but they have no sense of humor anyway.
Video games (like movies, television, and music) are works of FICTION. Seeing someone who is not real getting killed on a screen does NOT make you more likely to kill someone for real. GET A GRIP YOU STUPID IMBECILES!
If there is someone who is mentally unstable and ill, anything could be a trigger to such a reaction, mentally unstable should be a HINT. But there’s million of ignorant people lurking in the shadows, waiting for something to happen to throw the guilty stone at the video game industry, i guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but make such a statement without any solid argument? well, i guess common scence is not as common as we thought.
“ASSUMING CONTROL!”
-FOX News
video games!! really!?…A mean yeah once I was playing Pac-Man, and I started gobbling up dots.!!
like movies, television, and music they are works of ART and FICTION. Seeing someone who is not REAL getting killed on a screen does NOT make you more likely to kill someone for real.
Here is what it kills people. Having an outdated gun laws, where you have a variety of mentally ill paranoid psychopaths on psychotropic drugs, having near easy access to guns and weapons to use, whenever they start having their psychotic breakdown episode. That’s the real problem, not some interest or hobby.
Stupid fucking self righteous assholes. 99.999999999% of gamers dont go out and murder people.
this is stupid killing aliens make you kill people and tbh there are worse games than mass effect for making you want to kill people but there is nothing wrong with the game mass effect