Capcomwarrior wrote:?!?!
What was hilarious about it?
Really?
Not angry or anything... just extremely curious.
The whole reasoning behind it and media frenzy that followed I find ridiculous and played out. For the longest time all people compared everything and anything kids did to becoming "The next potential Columbine" it's just old hack and funny how much weight people put into that one incident.
Was the incident itself a tragedy that hallmarks both my and the 90's generation? Yes. Should we constantly compare and contrast it to everything? No.
Yes, we shouldn't forget what happened, but people need to move on already. It's been almost twelve years people! The more kids hear about something and are told to follow everyone's opinion and never get angry or express heir natural tendency for violence in a safe and controlled manner then the more chances we have of seeing this happen again.
People got too wound up over it, adults were all suddenly scared their kids were sociopaths and we all as gamers got screwed over with even more censorship and cuts to games that should have been released without them. Just take a look at the Dreamcast and Sega's of America's refusal to allow their own official lightgun to operate on an American unit! Or, how games of the era and following few years ended up with an unreasonably high amount of content cut from them before release to avoid the so called "Columbine Effect" in the media.