5'd for informing me.

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mass murders and other news stories are Big Business for a guy like Dr. Phil

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Whats next, blame Iraq on video games?

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And don't bother telling me "omg, ana rticle, alme" just here to inform those who don't watch for this sh*t. Little bastard Phil....

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err, typed that a wee bit fast.

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I 5 good screenshots

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rofl

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fried chicken on a stick

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comments on this page are full of win

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ARGH IGNORANCE BLOWS

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I've played every violent game known to man and I haven't killed anybody

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yeah but how do you explain the fact that before video games, there was no murder?

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well if you look at school shootings they've certainly gone up since 1990. I'm not saying we need to ban any video games or harm their accessibility, just stating a fact.

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personally I blame Michael Moore for showing kids how easy it is to get guns

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to ambulo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster that was in 1927. What was the big video game title that year?

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there is no god

If Dr. Phil were smarter he'd know it was the kids girlfriends fault for cheating on him. Phil is just wants to sound smart for re-reading Columbine reports which were also untrue.

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no, i think it's just because the kid was a violent asian. Being that he was South Korean, it probably had at least SOMETHING to so with starcraft. Maybe he needed to construct one additional pylon too many.

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5d i will never take the devils advice again...

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At least he's saying that games + sociopath = mass murderer, and not that games + normal kid = mass murderer...

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CAN'T WAIT FOR GTA4!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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hells yeah brother

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saw it on TV.. the ytmnd experience, unnecessary and lame. also, when was dr phil EVER 'alive' to you??? wtf...

Sorry but dr. phil is a smart person...i mean until now.

this is exactly why max is complaining about bad content FYI, this site is prime example #1.... as for you akiraus and your respect for dr phil - WTF do you watch oprah every day too? how did someone like you find their way onto ytmnd....

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yes i like oprah

If you look into it the majority of school shootings occur shortly after Spring Break. What am I saying? I blame it on uptight parents who wouldn't let every teenager and 20 something year old should do. Go somewhere get sh*t faced, f*ck strangers and most likely contract a disease. Sure you're head might hurt and it may burn when you piss for a while...but at least yuo're happy enough to not want to kill people.

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No it's the parents fault for letting his girlfriend do that and cheating on him!

I'd be more homicidal if I had an STD

it's flattering that Dr. Phil thinks of people as "programmable"

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also, the guy was an English major. might as well blame the killings on Shakespeare

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amen

Everyone dies in the mostly taught Shakespeare's. (most of his comedies are not covered, unfortunately)

he was never good to begin with.

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Someone should murder Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson for irony's sake.

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I've always said that.

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already posted omg

I blame Dr. Phil for the shooting, the war, hell...I blame him for sh*t that hasn't even happened yet. Him and his groupies can all choke on one.

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and the shooter wasn't even an american citizen.

nice loop

why does this need to exist when http://jackthompsonisadouche.ytmnd.com/ already does?

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Because Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil aren't the same person?

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At least video games are not the only thing he's blaming this on. He's using it as a piece of a blanket statement, saying society is conditioning people to where they might take these kinds of violent avenues.

brb, imma go play some BF2142 then go out and shoot soem pplz

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Dr. phil isn't a psycologist. Don't treat him like one.

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Dr. Phil is SUCH A F*CKING IDIOT. he shouldnt be saying that sh*t if he doesnt even know the f*ckin chinks motive. Dr. Phil is a fake, and he should be shot.

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5'd for information, and your name, too. MST3K forever! :D

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I'm going to start a movement against video games on the basis that Mario games encourage children to slam their heads into brick ceilings to earn money, causing tragic brain damage, and eat toxic mushrooms to get high.

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I've noticed that a lot of kids were slamming their heads into bricks and jumping on turtles and shooting fireballs at goombas

the proper term is Italian American.

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ppl still play everquest??

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The dude is was and always will be nothing more than a hack.

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Perfect choice of music. :^)

The guy was Korean, that means he only played Starcraft. It's South Korea's national sport.

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He zerg rushed them.

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...and quite effectively at that.

Wow, flawless loop.

I APPOLOGIZE IF OTHERS HAVE 1'D THIS BUT YOU'RE A F*CKING DOUCHEBAG

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It's quite sad... if you want to experience incest, genocide, graphic and lewd details, and just about every bad thing, read the Old Testament. Video games aren't the problem... it's people who can't distinguish between fantasy and reality that are the problem. And not just that. There could be personal problems, cultural problems, even something like tripping over a rock. With the perfectly unstable mind, anything could set it off.

People just love to use the argument: "The (Devil, Video Games, Alcohol, etc.) made me do it." Blaming one and only one thing as the cause of a trend is the wrong direction.

Dear Dr.Phil Please explain all violent acts pre-interactive entertainment (Choose your own adventure books don't count). PS: When demons from Mars attack your house, don't come crying to me.

To quote the great philosopher Chris Rock, "What the f*ck happened to crazy? Did we eliminate crazy from the dictionary?" The assole, Ching Chong F*ck or whatever his name happened to be was a crazy *ssh*le who got it into his head that whatever problems he had could be solved by murdering 32 people who had absolutley nothing to do with whatever was pissing him off. It wasn't the video games, or music, or the NRA, it was one lone maniac with a chip on his shoulder.

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I f*cking knew this bullsh*t would come up with the politicians and TV personalities again! F*CKING A! If Video Games caused f*cking school shootings, UAT wouldn't have a student body left.

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"Dr. Phil is Dead to Me"... You mean there was a time when he WASN'T?

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I know that I already did it first but I'm here supporting you to stand up to this douche.

why does everything have to have one cause? i think there is some validity to the argument that video games desensitize people to violence, but there are so many other vulnerabilities that contribute to this kind of outcome. for example, would he have killed these people if he continued to play fps'es, but was treated for his psychological problems? would he have done it if he weren't as socially isolated? what if he couldn't purchase guns legally? those are the relevant etiological questions.

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The news desensitizes people to violence too, but do we try and ban the news? You can't eliminate one and allow another to exist.

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Yes, the news desensitizes people to violence. Maturity in general can have that effect. The distinction between violent video games and the news is that the former often rewards morally abject behavior. It is a distinction of degree. I'm not saying, that it was the major etiological cause. Most people, myself included, who play violent video games don't go around shooting up dormitories, but it does create a vulnerability, however small.

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Still, it's a build up of multiple causes that makes sh*t like this happen. Yes, video games may have played a part in it. But enough to damn the entire business to hell and back? F*ck no!

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What I'm saying is this: if you're going to do a taxonomy of the massacre and deem that video games was a cause, their relevance should be contextualized with reference to the other more serious contributors like social isolation, psychological problems and access to guns. If you want to prevent more events like this from happening, perhaps creating a "ban" on those last 3 items would be more effective.

Penny-Arcade has an interesting article of sorts on a kid who blamed video games to lessen his punishment. Little bastard,

Oh don't even get into a gun ban debate with me. You ban guns and the only people being hurt by it are law abiding citizens. Criminals will always have access to guns.

Yes, you're probably very adamant about the importance of guns for protecting people from criminals. In actuality this opinion has very little empirical backing.

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You know why? The media would rather report on people being shot by criminals than people using guns to stop them. It's not a human interest story if someone innocent doesn't get hurt/killed/maimed/robbed/raped/shanked/ect. The fact is, guns have prevented countless crimes without a shot being fired. The fear of death is enough to scare away most criminals, and those it doesn't? They end up being glorified on the news.

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Media bias and statistics are very different. A stark comparison: Canada vs. US. People have similar wealth, especially in city areas, so why are the crime rates so much lower in Canadian cities where it's illegal to carry a gun? Shouldn't criminals run rampant with their illegally acquired guns? Again, your point has some logical validity, but very little empirical backing. If you want to play the "violent minorities card," Toronto is the most ethnically diverse city in the world.

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You bring up low crime rates, then why is it that Switzerland, where all males are required to undergo military training and required to keep a working assault rifle in their homes, has one of the lowest crime rates in the world? Surely, with all those assault rifles everyone's got, the crime rate should be skyrocketing! Massacres should occur daily based on the availability of guns, especially fully automatic ones.

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The country is racially homogenous and everyone is (relatively) rich. There almost no income polarity. Why would anyone want to rob anyone? Point being that access to guns + poor/stupid people = crime and violence. You want opposite example to fill in this correlation? Try Sierra Leone. This a tangent we shouldn't go down. More to point what kills more people than assault with firearms in the US? Do you know? I can name one that does by a factor of 10: accidental discharge of firearms.

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man so i just got done playing some CS now i want to go kill some people, and i see this...so anyone else want to kill him?

of course the blame video game they grasp a straws so time so the will blame the games and ban them. if the shooter had a wow account , they would blame it on that

Maybe he was grinding XP for lvl 70 and his epic flying mount. Guess he used inferno for too long and didn't have a soul stone =(. Now the cops are spawn camping his corspe, those *ssh*les.

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what a sand n*gg*r

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I BLAME DR. PHIL FOR CANCER IT MUST BE RIGHT HES BALD! THATS LINKED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY!

Cancer is caused by video games.

Thanks for alerting us. I hated him already, but just because he was a douche. Now he's a stupid douche.

true nuff

what a dumbass

At least he mentions movies as well, instead of blatantly ignoring the influence of other mediums like Jack Thompson.

damn fine loop

He was from South Korea so he MUST'VE been a GAMER!! Let's let Virginia sell lots of guns and ammo to the public & waste more money on oversees operations instead of focusing on defending our own communities and improving social environments. BAN VIDEOGAMES!!

Everquest f*g. You go squish now!

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Didn't he say, "& mix that with being a psychopath"? Is there a quote of him actually blaming video games in a causative fashion, or is the reporter the douche for reading between the lines where there was nothing written?

Nice touch with the music. 5'd.

Don't see why everyone is downvoting this.

The idea that video games cause mass murder is bullsh*t. I was playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was 5 and Doom when I was 6 and other violent games as I've grown up (I'm 18 now), and I'm not a murderer. I'm not going to go around killing innocent people because the idea of it was put into my head during my childhood. Dr. Phil can kiss my *ss if he thinks video games make psychopaths.

Exactly, if anything, violent video games let you VENT your anger. Not build it up.

What a ball licker, Tip for you TVsFrank get rid of IE thats no good, second get some virus protection and a firewall (I am guessing thats why the windows security center is complaining). There are a few good free ones on the internet (ZoneAlarm Free, AntiVir, AVG, ect.).

wasnt he in scary movie 4?

"Im in ur schools, killing ur mans"

Yanno, if violent videogames are to blame, what about violent books and movies? Yes, video games can be violent, but anything can trigger violent behaviour. Books, movies, even a pesky brother. And of course the legal ability to own guns helps a lot. If you really want to solve this problem, get rid of every piece of media that suggests violence as a solution. Or take every shooter and replace the guns with walkie talkies.

Testing something...

If it wasn't for video games like Halo and GTA, where else would the youth of the world release hate? Oh yea that's right, they'd go outside and kill people. If anything, video games PREVENT this kind of sh*t from happening.

What the f*ck game is based on murder sprees?!

good question! cause i wanna play it NOW!

Dr. Phil isnt a real doctor so what do we care what the moron says

By the way. http://drphilisadouche.ytmnd.com/ lol

f*ck dr. phil

Charles Whitman pwned everyone at Halo

dr phil =1

The guy who went on the killing spree was insane. It had nothing to do with video games. He was a South Korean student who was majoring in English who was slowly starting to lose his mind. His essays and stories that he was turning in to his teacher were so sick and twisted that the teacher refered him to counciling. For Dr. Phil toexploit this horrible event for his anti-video game agenda is just outrageous and immoral. F*ck him.

Put him on the board!

Same. The kid didn't shoot people because he saw it in a video game, it's been said that he had little to no friends and he was just plain screwed up.

when has he ever been alive to you?

Agreed.

Have not people been killing each other and commiting even worse things even before video game existed? or did they blame poker for that? At least I know what to say to the judge when I commit my massmurder; "I played to much video games, its not my fault!".

OLD

Cho never owned a video game console! (Wiki needs source)

4'd because dr. phil has ALWAYS been a douche, this isn't a new thing.

Dr. Phil doesn't blame the video games, he blames psychopaths. Obviously they get their inspiration somewhere. And it is glamorized in the media. In the end, he's not blaming the video game, he's blaming the person.

5'd for gamepolitics.com

Agreed.

better music this time around

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true, better music. I 4'd his too though, for sympathy.

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Note 1: I have a disclaimer up, appologizing if it was done before. Note 2: His title is crap, his association with the music is crap. Note 3: The dumbass made it when nobody is on, I'm here to inform. DEATH TO THE PHIL!

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And I really hope you all see the last part of that last comment is meant to be humorous... otherwise you're dead to me.

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