The private diaries of Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have been published on the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News websites as a 945-page PDF, and include references to inspirations ranging from Nazism, terrorist attacks, world wars and riots, to DOOM and Duke Nukem.

The video game references that I've read in excerpts (not having had time to consume the entire document yet) paint Harris more as an obsessive fanboy, period, than particularly driven by the game itself.

"My love for a computer game called Doom. Doom is such a big part of my life and no one I know can urecreate environments in Doom as good as me. I know almost anything these is to know about that game, so I believe that separates me from the rest of the world... Doom is so burned into my head my thoughts usually have something to do with the game... the fact is I love that game and if others tell me, "hey it's just a game" I say "hey, I don't care"

Verbatim blather from every con-trolling, cosplaying nutcase I've ever known (substitute any fandom for the word DOOM and you'll see what I mean), but this is undoubtedly going to be snatched up and trumpeted by every game-hating pundit in the country.

I have always sympathized with Harris and Klebold, all the way up to the point where they actually started shooting: when that happens, you cross the line, and you become one of them.

As a friend of mine once said when we were discussing the bitter urge for revenge, "Fuck the ones who snap." It is far nobler to survive and dominate, than to destroy. Eliza gauger

Columbine Diaries Contain Game References [GamePolitics]

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