Woo-hoo! Journalism Fail!

[SirOleas]

Humans were finding disturbing ways to kill one another long before the Call of Dutys, Battlefields, Final Fantasys etc. were even an idea. Mental illness has existed for as long as mankind has existed!

Leave my hobby alone you old fuddy-duddys up on capitol hill!

[SkyeWindbinder]

You know, I've been playing video games since I was a wee tyke. And I haven't stopped yet, nor do I plan to. So, apparently, I'm a high-risk candidate for dangerous psychosis. Yep, it shouldn't be long until I go on a killing spree of my own. I'm surprised I haven't already. I just want you guys to know that if I wind up ruthlessly murdering any of you when I inevitably go shooting up a public place, I'm sorry. Just apologizing in advance, because I know that it's only a matter of time. A mind can only take so much Mario and Pokemon before it finally snaps and a person goes berserk.

[Firon]

You know, I've been playing video games since I was a wee tyke. And I haven't stopped yet, nor do I plan to. So, apparently, I'm a high-risk candidate for dangerous psychosis. Yep, it shouldn't be long until I go on a killing spree of my own. I'm surprised I haven't already. I just want you guys to know that if I wind up ruthlessly murdering any of you when I inevitably go shooting up a public place, I'm sorry. Just apologizing in advance, because I know that it's only a matter of time. A mind can only take so much Mario and Pokemon before it finally snaps and a person goes berserk.

oh noes skye is gonna killz me :_:

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I saw this on Kotaku as well and felt like posting it, but meh.

[DardGhalawad]

I'm not sure if you're secretly agreeing with me or not. Kotaku is poor journalism at its finest and deserves nothing but contempt for it.

I'm not agreeing with you nor I'm agreeing, Kotaku is a website of web news, and off course is another sensancionalist web journal of the many that are inside the web. It just helped to spread that news of the main sensancionalist paper/web journal that writed the nonsense. Wich some of readers are players of FFXIV and one of them putted the warning in the forum with concern of the same and unjustly difamated game.

Notice: the smily is not to put a sarcastic tone on my reply, it's just there because the "unjustly difamated" phrase reminded me of a similar situation in the tv news, where the reporters of tv news and also from the journals tried to put a man in the jail because they wanted a scape goat for all the spreaded news that they delivered to, all the world i suppose. Where in fact he was totally inocent, just had been at the wrong hour and the wrong place where the murder happened.

[Zumi]

Did you see this one, the guy that wrote a bill to ban violent video games that got struck down by the supreme court was going off on games and gamers again.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/gamers-...enator-6402953

Leland Yee a CA senator says

"Gamers have got to just quiet down, Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry's lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest."

[Colino]

Quick blame something for our own problems!

Oh I know, he played tetris and that made him a violent person!

Edit: Wolfie, Kotaku is reporting someone -elses- poor journalism, they are not the ones that screwed up.. this time.. lol

True, but they are the ones repeating it just to get more hits. It's disgusting the direction that site has gone in the past couple of years.

At least Tim Rogers articles don't get posted as often anymore.

[Keith_Dragoon]

You know, I've been playing video games since I was a wee tyke. And I haven't stopped yet, nor do I plan to. So, apparently, I'm a high-risk candidate for dangerous psychosis. Yep, it shouldn't be long until I go on a killing spree of my own. I'm surprised I haven't already. I just want you guys to know that if I wind up ruthlessly murdering any of you when I inevitably go shooting up a public place, I'm sorry. Just apologizing in advance, because I know that it's only a matter of time. A mind can only take so much Mario and Pokemon before it finally snaps and a person goes berserk.

Me too Skye, let us all sync up our psychosis and just send the world into a downward spiral of utter chaos. It's totally out of my control because pretty soon everyone will look like Marmots around my level and I will farm them for xp and crafting mats. @_@

[Kerwin]

Stop posting Kotaku shit. The site is ALL miss-information. Just stop.

[Lucke]

Stop posting Kotaku shit. The site is ALL miss-information. Just stop.

You don't like Kotaku, that's fine. Could have used the german news sites instead. Here, let me link them for you (they were at the bottom of the kotaku post BTW.)

German IGN

Some other German news site

Another German news site.

There you go. This discussion is not about Kotaku, it's about the mis-information that's running rampant scapegoating the video games industry.