Quote Originally Posted by 'zanthor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114694#post 114694
I ran a gaming news website for several years, mostly a blog about MMO's but I'd cover whatever news I could get my hands on, and try to keep some decent traffic to the site. At it's peak I was getting around 10K hits a month, nothing in the big fish world of the web, but not bad either. I did make front page of /. a few times and my site stood up to those...

Anyhow one of the biggest trends in media that angered me was the "it's the games fault"... it's not the game, the kid was fucked up before he got the game, he just used the game to cope for a while... for all you know, the kid could have blown up earlier without the game as an outlet!
Exactly. Millions of people play violent video games today. I think at the time I was ranked in Quake II it was 620,000 players listed. I have no idea if that meant just different names.

Millions of people listen to Metallica (isn't it like 4 platinum records in a row which beats the Beatles?). I remember seeing an HBO special on some kids accused of killing another kid in a satanic ritual. The special featured the music of Metallica. All they talked about was that these two kids from a rurual town wore black and grew their hair long and listened to Metallica, as if that's some recipe for destruction. When I grew up, I wore an Iron Maiden shirt and grew my hair to the middle of my back, and I played more Quake than those kids so I guess I'm a ticking time bomb...

Anti-social people have anti-social interests. Big surprise.