The first time someone took me to a shooting range, I fired off a pistol magazine, and was told it was a very impressive, tight spread for a first-timer.
I know how iron sights are supposed to look when they're on the target, because video games taught me. Failed to make me more violent, though. :\

A lot of people in the country have anti immigration beliefs so attempts shall Ofcourse be made to disassociate why he did what he did.

@Zacsi, I know humanity will find a solution to it; namely extinction, either voluntary or otherwise.

@Phil:
Which draws the conclusion:
Stupidity/Ignorance is the biggest problem.
People will never stop projecting their their own predjudical images onto others. We are all guilty of this in some point of our lives.
I wonder if humanity, as a whole, will ever find a solution to that.

Books still are; I got called a pervert the other day because I was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover. The old lady said it turns women into "filthy whores" and men into "licentious beasts." I wanted to laugh, but she was shaking her cane in rage as it was, so no need to provoke her.

nope.avi tentacle-san is the best.

@Katrina Swales: Books themselves make better blunt instruments for bashing in a man's skull than any murder knowledge found inside. Take it from an internet badass.

@mechwarrior2: Obviously you've never played Lair.

Book's "used to be dangerous" too, you know...

If you time your jump perfectly on a person's head, you can make the other guy shit out his entire spine.

@Vincent: Motives seem to be political extremism. Basically, blaming the Norwegian Left for being muslim-friendly, the degeneracy of the country, etc.

Usual ultranationalist tinfoil-hat crap.

Wait, since when is Breivik's trial about videogames? Sounds like some weird American skewing of what's going on. Hasn't even been mentioned in Swedish media.

They seem to focus more on whether he is or was a psychopath (which in the strict medical sense, he isn't and wasn't) and his motives.

@Lisek's photo note. I see what you did there.
Love that game.

What will probably be a case for most gamers who have no strength training: "Pffft, how bad can recoil can be? It's only a pist--OW MY FACE OW MY EARS"

yep, games teach you how to kill in the same way that monopoly teach u how 2 be rich.

"And Jo's strip is where you learned to stomp on people's heads until they died, young hoodlum?"

"...yes, sir."

Hey, RoderickBR, I couldn't find a pistol with a mouse button, but I found a mouse in a pistol:

http://www.solware.co.uk/bb-guns/g-mouse.shtml

The funny thing? if you really wanna learn how to kill, what you do is do what people offer as non violent alternatives to games ...... read books XD I swear I know more methods from books then games

Yes, games teach me how to kill.
I just need to find the mouse button in pistols. And I'm sure smgs are super easy to handle, re-load, and do maintenance as well, right?

IIRC, the latest round of this stupidity was blaming Call of Duty. I want to see someone use America's Army as a 'training tool' excuse, just so I can see the brain-spasms resulting from it. :-)

Jeez get it right Jo:
MAIM KILL BURN
MAIM KILL BURN
MAIM KILL BUUUUUUUUUUUUURN
SKULLS FOR THE SKULLTHRONE
BLOOD FOR THE BLOODGOD
EARGBLEAGHAFHafgasgkn
Obligatory training video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-gSJW3sHXE

@Censuur TL:DR version = "No, there isn't any real strong evidence to support the stance of VG violence."

Now gun ranges, those teach you how to actually use a gun, let alone most handguns are pretty easy to use regardless (though it doesn't mean you'll be accurate).

So clearly the next logical step is to all fear those politicians right, they debate all the time and people who debated showed signs of increased aggresion!

Damn people can be retarded sometimes >_>

Furthermore, there is no correlation between violence and videogames, what has been noticed was that after playing a videogame people could get more violent (didn't happen every time so no clear connection) and the same response was observed in people who played sports, a game of chess, a debate ect

So millions of people play call of duty, millions of people play wow

One guy kills dozens and happened to be part of those millions, clearly there is a relation between those games and the act of violence, right? This is clearly never happened before videogames.... right?!

Stop that mechwarrior2. There is no need to let things like logic and reason ruin a perfectly good media story that political fringe elements can latch on to in lieu of facing real problems.

There's no correlation between video games (or movies, or music, or TV) and homicide.

A person who is a well adjusted, emotionally balanced individual will not become a murderer, a rapist, or suicidal just because they played a video game. A person who is not well adjusted or emotionally balanced can become a murderer, rapist, or suicidal regardless of whether they play video games.

@Nuckel- Charles Manson, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, found the inspiration to kill from what he saw in Beatles music.

People don't actually find the inspiration to kill anywhere- it was part of their mindset the whole time and they just claimed it was external.

Am I the only one who wonder how can a tentacle jump?

@Nuckel: Sure, games can do this, but they are surely way less efficient in it than, for example, religion. Or alcohol. Or politics. Or, god damn it, sex, if it does exist. Damn, even watching birds encouraged more violence than games. So let's burn churches, ban sex and shoot all birds.

@Nuckel
But those types will find that inspiration anywhere, from books to the morning newspaper. Instead of putting a lot of energy in keeping these mediums away from everyone. We should pay more attention to those weak, asocial and ill people and actually help them.

I love how (especially in America) we can blame violence on everything but the availability of guns to anyone who wants them. School shootings are the worst example. Who in their right mind gives high-powered weapons to moody adolescents?

It's not the question if games can train people in handling weapons (they cannot). The question is if games can influence weak, asocial and ill people's minds and help them take the last step to becoming a murderer because they hate themself and the whole world. And this games CAN do.

I weight 260 pounds. If I jump on your head, pretty sure it is gonna kill you.

One can't kill just by watching. They have to have pratice. Thinking I knew how to shoot a gun when I went to a firing range for the first time made me reliese that I can't almost aim for crap.

I don't blame videogames for teaching people how to kill. Both World Wars predated videogames entirely.

I do blame MODERN videogames for turning people into a bunch of FPS whores who couldn't appreciate a good game if one fell on them, and I think that's justified entirely.

I believe that jumping on someone head can really be quite deadly

hey Jo i know where this comic came from, you've watched that "rede record" new right? i know how its sad to blame videogames because of people mental problems...

Society needs something to blame for the senseless violence that occur all around us because what scares most is the fact that nothing is really to blame, nobody is truly in control and that we're stuck in a swirling vortex of randomness.

@Norway Killer: Indeed. "No Russian" Taught him how to shoot at defnenceless people. Without it he wouldnt know that you need to point a gun in their direction to kill them.

@Hfar: Let the galaxy....BUUUUUUUUURN!!!!!

Nerfnow

@Norway Killer:
Yeah that was pretty much my first thought when reading todays comic. My thought is that something was definitely wrong with him before the games, so the games can't be blamed

Because there was absolutely no violence on Earth prior to the creation of Video Games.

Engie is doing Jo cosplay!... and.. Jo is doing.. Engie.. cosplay?..

To quote the no longer around Backwards Compatible: You can pretend we gamers are smoldering powder kegs ready to go off at a moment's notice, but the lack of ammo and health drops that keeps us confined to the basement.

MFW Engie's outfit is the same color as TentaJo...

A videogame definately can't teach you more than you already know about killing a person.
Pick up gun
Point
Pull Trigger.

Yeah, jumping on someone's head seems to kill 'em in most games. I officially hate "Goomba stompers", especially when they're scouts.

You are dead. Not big surprise.

@Norway Killer: LOL. World of Warcraft.

Reminds me of the guilds who meet up then some butt hurt nerd stabs another one over lost loot.

Maim! Burn! Kill!
Maim! Burn! Kill!
Blood for the Blood God!
Skulls for the Skull Throne!

@Role Also, Movies should go before Comics. You wouldn't believe how early people started claiming that "films are destroying the fabric of our society" and all that junk.

@Role Naw. The next step is totally augmented reality.

As for TV, it would go in between Movies and Video Games.

So basically, it went from:

Books → Music → Comics → Movies → Video Games → ? (Dubstep, maybe?)

I'm sure TV should be in there somewhere, but I dunno where exactly...

Before video games got big they tried to blame RPGs like DnD.

So is this comic a response to Anders Behring Breivik the Norwegian mass murderer and his trial? You can look up the specifics of the incident, but video games are being brought up in his trial. In short claims to have used Call of Duty to train plus his playing WoW has been brought up.

different things. And besides, those kids who do kill others more likely than not had issues before they began playing the games themselves. Anyone can be butt hurt angry. Not everyone can "put a gun to a man's head and pull the trigger."

I'm surprised this still even an issue: People have been blaming video games for violence aince the Playstation and N64 era, if not older. And while there is indeed scientific evidence for violent video games empowering kids to be more aggresssive, being more aggressive and killing people are two di

Anyone can kill. Most will get caught though, that's the tricky part.

So Get Mantreads to kill?

third, and the future is bots doing the killing for me

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