<![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @usfslacker:

hahahahaha, you crack me up, aahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

freespeech

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Perhaps he was not drunk, but just mildly sedate after stepping into his TIME PORTAL and purchasing a copy of GTA IV before it is even in stores.

The real story here isn't that he's drunk, it's that he bent the time space continuum to get that game

merebito

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Unfortunately, the more viewers of television that are lost to interactive media, the more the "news" will try to make people fear interactive media. I also wouldn't be surprised if movie studios weren't spending good sums of money lobbying politicians as video games take more and more paying customers out away from that medium. The fact of the matter is television and movies are big buisness, don't expect them to lose their most profitable demographic to video games without a fight. No matter how unfair that fight may be.

Roundling

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @TRT-X: He wouldnt have a case just becuase something that "looked" like him was in game. ;D

That and Im sure with all the trouble hes given judges if he tried to take the case to them they would just look at him and laugh.

Then have him thrown out right after.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @gamecrazychris: HE DOESN'T EXIST.

Evilninja

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I totally killed someone with my Mind Blast yesterday after playing WoW.

warf0x0r

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Lucky, he may be in jail(and drove thought a store) but he got to own GTA IV before any of us.

gamecrazychris

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @jihadjoe343:

But remember, movies already went through the phase video games are going through now. Only a matter of time before robot porn or virtual reality crap takes the place of video games in the fear-mongoring world.

Jac21

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @squirrel_enix: No, it's just fake. And set in the near future. Seriously, people: that clipping is one small part of a much larger article. Follow the link to the article, and all will be made clear.

Evilninja

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> OBJECTION! How did they find a copy of GTA IV inside the car?

Is this a late april-fools day article or something?

squirrel_enix

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> The jokes on them!

I was hotboxing cars years before even GTA III!

Slick-Rick

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Sam_Lowry: That shows you how much they check the facts of their stories before they report them.

You should probably go back and RTFA before you make a statement such as this.

Yeah I misunderstood the article, but at least I read the article.

TRT-X

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> lol, they say he just bought a copy of GTA 4. That shows you how much they check the facts of their stories before they report them. (I also love how they wrote it as a 'gamer' who crashed his car and not a drunk)

But to be honest, if I got my hands on a copy of GTA4 two weeks before it came out I'd drive like a maniac too because I'd want to get home as soon as possible so I could start playing it.

Sam_Lowry

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> This is just plain pathetic. Why is this country full of idiots, especially in the news?

Oh yes, GTAIV is to blame if it wasn't even open!

Lainface

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @adas1023:
@SirNirian:

I'm guessing that you both didn't RTFA. Oh well.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Witzbold: I don't know if that'd be a good idea.

Knowing the guy, he'd likely fire back that the inclusion counts as a threat against his life. If they allowed the gamer to do anything.

I'd rather have the guy parodied on one of the talk radio stations.

TRT-X

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @sobjw: Yep. Got me. I read the article snippit first, which basically made me ticked off enough that I misread the Kotaku article.

Which is tragic, since I suggested this idea earlier. Well, I take my banning if it comes with an appropriate sense of irony.

But in all seriousness, do we need to add more fuel to the already very tepid media vs. gamers combat?

Well, if I don't see you guys again...it's been fun.

TRT-X

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Love the article. He was intoxicated at the time...but that's not important, it's the fact he bought a game.

So instead of "drunk driver" it's "gamer". That's pretty pathetic.

TRT-X

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @scotty: Venting is ok but please vent in the appropriate article.

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Is the mainstream media scared of video games or something? They just use games as scapegoats all the time... GAME NAZIS!

Maybe they should hold a summit where gamers educate polititians and High ranked police officers.

fadecy

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Cchrist: No need to say something like that.
The guy just wanted to vent.

scotty

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @SirNirian: Thank you for your brilliant insight. /sarcasm

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> UGH! i wish the media AND the Government would stop using games as a scapegoat i am getting so fucking sick of these no-nothing conservatives getting on Fox and telling the world the cause of all of todays problems is a fucking game.And on top of that the same dumb ass conservatives campaigning against cigarettes yep you heard me right cigarettes not illegal narcotics such as LSD, acid, crack,etc... nope bollocks sucking cigarettes.

SirNirian

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> All I know is:

If I kill 3 people in a row (without me getting killed), I get our UAV online.
If I kill 5 people in a row (without me getting killed), I get to call in an airstrike.
Lastly, if I kill 7 people in a row (without me getting killed), a friendly helicopter will appear and kill others.

Oh, and don't forget the practically unlimited ammo...nothing like carrying around 10000lbs of brass and metal jackets...

"Friendly airstrike on the way!"

SigmundTheSeaMonster

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @MartinX: Read the original article. There's enough in there thats unrealistic.

@adas1023: Are you aware that journalists useually get to play early versions of new games and get to play the whole game a long time before they come out?

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> MartinX

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Does the cheat code for the apace gunship work in real life?

Allyourcakerblong2us

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> how the fuck did the guy get the game?

adas1023

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dumanue: you mean it's not really a tube? oh my god. my world has been turned upside down. reality as i knew it has been vastly distorted. i believe i'm going to go cry in a corner now and eat bananas covered in sprinkles.

MormonJay

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Witzbold: Gamesradar is always the #2 site for me. I mean a site that dedicates a whole week to hating everything (including themselves) can't be not funny right?

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Fyren

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Cchrist: I think thats the point of the article itself.

Well asides from being highly amusing to read.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Brilliant! Pointing out what an opponent will say before he says it, then ridiculing it, is one of the most effective strategies in debating.

erlik

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> The funniest thing about this article is that it shows who actually read the article and who didn't. :D

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I have this feeling that blaming video games is the softer version of pleading insane.
I mean, hey, all these gamers trialled - what do you think they just carry gamer ID's around or something? - no, it's probably a detail that was mentioned during the trial.
It's actually pretty neat if you don't want to plead insane - just say video games brainwashed you into doing it.

tehFluffz

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Quick, someone bring up the latest crime stats on dead hookers since 2001, i.e. when people found out you can kill them to get your money back in GTAIII.

/sarc

Frank

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> LOL I've been in a few hotboxes where the smoke was about as bad as that pic.

I love how they made sure to add prostitutes in every one of the news clippings too.

xBETAx

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I love how a third of the commentors think

a) These newspaper clips are real
b) These newspaper clips are not real, but coming from people who are claiming GTA is (for real) gonna make you go out and do these things

Seriously you guys, haha. Your reactions to it made my day.

Plus, the fact that every single news article alludes to the killing of prostitutes, I couldn't stop laughing.

"in this game, where you call prostitutes and tell them to stand in front of your car while you drive..."

hahaha.

Komrade_Kayce

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Meh, just ignore them I say.

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "The game ... was found wrapped in plastic and concealed in a shopping bag on the car's passenger seat following the incident..."

Holy smokes! GTA is so bad it can now influence people who haven't even played it yet!

Evil Jim

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dowingba: Teen found in a mushroom haze breaks into multiple houses, cites reports of princess in another castle.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Atomicvege: Teen ticketed for jumping a four-way stop using feather. More at 11.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Some reporter's ask the parents if they noticed any odd behavior before thier kid's went off, and the parent say's no, he was a good kid, really quiet and loved playing video games. And the reporter's run with it, even if the kid only played Nintendogs or Tetris. "Kid Kills Playmate's After Playing GTA Style Game". Than A judge ask's, What is this GTA game, let me try it...And than shit get's banned.

slice156

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Owen Good:

that was drunk, not stoned.

but it was a great mission.. i keep a save-game on vice city, right before that mission, so that i can always go back and drive around in that altered state anytime. it was funnnn!

joelface

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> The future looks promising. Maybe in a couple of years there'll be no crime left which can avoid being "game related".
Then maybe I'll be able to commit all sorts of crimes and just blame it on the gaming industry later.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Witzbold: Tonight on the news, how insidious banana peels are causing pile ups on our nation's highways. The cause, a fat Italian plumber adored by millions, and his go-kart street gang.

Atomicvege

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @usfslacker:

Err...maybe you didn't realize that those graphics are simply amazing considering the fact they're all being rendered on one very large game map with no loading screens. All those games you've seen with better graphics take place in pre-loaded, levels. GTA IV is just one big city with everything working together without a hiccup.

Also, if you did a good amount of research,the jump in difference between GTAIII and GTAIV is substantial.

gravytoast

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ShaggE: Strong Bad would've by now. Get on it people.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @psgamer92: Then someone should *make* it a dance craze! :p

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Dayyym! I wanna know which bank that is!

Wookiee1

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> you know, I read other articles on that site about GTA4 after laughing through those fake news articles, and I have to ask, "Is there any way this game won't be amazing?"

maverickuw

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Erwin:

Thanks for posting that Erwin!

@cherrybomb:

How are others getting fucked over exactly?

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> cherrybomb

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "Players score points by running over prostitutes while drunk."

That sounds a badass game right there. Get on it Rockstar.

C0MB1N3 C0MPL3X

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @tsathoggua:

assassinate

psgamer92

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ShaggE:

no. i just suck at spelling :)

psgamer92

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ShaggE: Perhaps he was referring to acciaccature ([dictionary.reference.com]), although I'm not sure how that fits.

tsathoggua

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ShaggE: Perhaps i can shed some light on to this most peculiar of words, "acciacate". Acciacate - v. - To show a form illiteracy; to display one's vulnerability to making an incredibly obvious grammar mistake.
Yup that bes a word a i has learnded in the fif grade!

Ignorance's Enemy

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Witzbold, psgamer92: Yep, that's right: [en.wikipedia.org]
[gamepolitics.com]

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I wonder if this is a test?

Everyone who posts thinking that these are real articles gets the Banhammer.

sobjw

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @psgamer92: "acciacate"? Is that some type of new dance craze?

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> LMAO at the people responding to this as if it's real. Hopefully this is a test to weed out some of the less-than-literate posters on here.

kidnicky

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I thought it wasn't out yet, if I could get this game too, I'd slam my car into a storefront drunk.

RaepGoblin

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Witzbold:

actually i heard that there was tthis one part in a mission in which u r to acciacate a lawyer but before u kill him he says "guns don't kill people video games do"

that was a hilarous acticle. the sad thing though is that it will proubly be at that. Fox will be on it...

psgamer92

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Starsmore
@Kaijumaster

It's fake guys. RTFA.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> The article thats image is used in the Kotaku post "takes place" in my town. Really suprised me at first glance.

sobjw

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Owen Good: Possibly my favourite mission in Vice City. I loved how they had a whole game mechanic of drunk driving that was only used for that one single non-story side-mission. Absolutely awesome.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @joelface: They've done this. Did you ever play Boomshine, with Phil Cassidy, in GTA:Vice City?

Owen Good

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @KM91: Too bad it actually sucks when it really happens: [kotaku.com]
Yeah, not as funny.
@Kaijumaster: Fake.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> GTA4 = worlds most realistic jaywalking simulator

RedEyedFacade

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> great little fake article, though it's sad that if something like this actually happened, the game would get blamed even though it's still in the shrink wrap, and in a sack... obvious that the guy hadn't even played it yet.

darknessgp

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I would find it hilarious if someone actually blamed a crime on GTA before it even comes out. I would literally fall out of my seat laughing.

KM91

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> it would be sweet if when someone hotboxed a car you were driving in, in IV, if you'd actually get stoned..

..although getting drunk, its pretty easy to simulate that in a game.

but getting stoned, i don't know how they'd do it.

joelface

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> wait....is GTAIV even out yet? how did he have a copy?

Kaijumaster

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Ignorance's Enemy: oh, i forgot to add the "And Blames It On A Modified Version Of Rockstar's New Videogame 'Grand Theft Auto 4'" or just add "ABIOAMVORNVGTAF" to the abbreviated version

Ignorance's Enemy

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Im going to mod gta4, and create the perfect merge of two gaming franchises. Grand theft auto and 50 cents games, that way, i can make headlines for "Teen Hijacks A Car While Smoking Illegal Substances And Taking 9 Shots From Another Proclaimed Gta4 Gamer While Having Conspiracy To Hotbox And Sneak Into A Strip Club With Stolen Bottles Of Liquor" Orrr "THCWSISTNSFAPGTAGWHCTHSISCSBOL" for short. =)

Ignorance's Enemy

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> can they really take a crime so vague as that and blame it on GTA 4

Elijah Man

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Wait, the kid bought GTA4? Where'd this happen! Someone broke streetdate!

Starsmore

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dead_red_eyes: I was going to try hotboxing at the same time, but that would be overkill.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Communist_Gamer:
In Gta4, u have to break one of the windows of the car and then hotwire it. therefore making it a valid enough reason for the media [fox news] to attack gta4 if a young person hijacks a car

Ignorance's Enemy

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> What no mario kart related crimes?

Where has the love gone man? I ask you Where has the love gone?!

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Black-Dog-Howls: What's this about fondling? Brilliant man, absolutely brilliant!

2NinjasTapedTogether

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I love how simply owning or buying a game is some how in the same league as real bad things. Headline could read, Teen vandalizes Temple, Nazi literature found in car. That would make sense, but change it and add in Grand Theft Auto found in car and it some how doesn't make sense, duuur media.

Bon5ai

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I can't wait for MGS4 related crimes.

"Tonight, reports of a 17 year old highschool student dressed in all black with an binocular like eye patch device attacked several officers with what he called 'CQC.'

The other officers involved were not injured beyond being knocked unconscious. Apparently the youth held up the officers at gun point and proceeded to fondle their privates trying to acquire rations. After coming up empty handed he used gripped their testicles until the officers fell unconscious."

Black-Dog-Howls

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @onikuwagata:

Oh, and don't forget about everyones favorite lawyer.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @onikuwagata:

Don't forget about the fundies & the neo-cons.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I don't think it's the police that usually say video games did it (as the fake articles allege), it's often concerned soccer mom groups, and politicians.

onikuwagata

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> theblackgate

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> This was a great article; I especially liked how the game was always described using the word "prostitutes" in the fake articles. The only downside is that I wish they didn't sound so plausible (probably every 'real' description of GTA in news articles has involved the word prostitutes, too =P).

Also, there's no need to get upset at people who didn't read the article. This is, after all, the Internet. Or perhaps I'm just desensitized (after all, I came from Slashdot).

tsathoggua

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Get drunk and then run over cars with hookers

Huxle

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Blake Ruff:

I'm not trying to be an ass, but when you're making comments on an article that you haven't even read yet and then saying "big whoop" about it ... well, it makes you look like a troll.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> T6Spades

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Origin of prostitution discovered! GTA IV to blame!

cheesecake000

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> peAr nectAr

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> It isn't even humorous though. Do you have to be an ass?

Blake Ruff

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @kryzhal:

I think most of us are reading it, and it's blatantly obvious who's not. It is sad/funny that one of those articles will probably come true.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Blake Ruff:

So you don't care that you didn't read the article before commenting? Then why do you even bother being here? I can see what you're trying to bring up ... but with this being a humorous post and all ... well, you do the math.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> You know, I'm beginning to wonder how many people comment before they click the link to read the rest of the article. I wonder if they even read it at all sometimes. It seems that some people just read the header and off they go!

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I don't care. I'm still trying to state the problems with what has been accused on people in past articles.

Blake Ruff

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dead_red_eyes: Prior to writing my response I did read the article, and although funny it is sad to think that those articles could actually happen.

kryzhal

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @VixDiesel: Dont worry this article is fake. ;D

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @VixDiesel:

RTFA, IT'S A JOKE!

Argh.

I swear Witzbold, I don't know who's gonna have a heart attack first ... me or Bash.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Erwin: - "I can't wait to get a jump on stabbing... while drunk driving."

How in the hell would a person do such a thing? Either way, it's an impressive goal. Best of luck to you sir!

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> When will the media pull the stick out of their ass?

VixDiesel

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Witzbold: - "I still want to know if they are going to have JT in GTAIV. ;D"

Me too.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Communist_Gamer:

You have to die to be eligible for a Darwin Award. You know, survival of the fittest, and thinning of the stupid from the gene pool.

Most of those awards turn out to be urban legends anyway.

PapaBear434

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Blake Ruff:

Did you even READ the linked article? It's FAKE. You're getting your knickers all in a bunch over FAKE news.

C'mon guys, READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE! Please do so before commenting. That way you won't come off sounding like a crazy person.

@ShaggE:

Haha! That's hilarious.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Bam345:

I have you there. I DID read it.

I'm just an idiot.

Snake726

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Bam345:
@ggodo:

Heh, thanks. Wish I had more room to work with, though. I had about fifty more jokes I could have used there.

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ShaggE: Nice, that's awesome.

ggodo

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ShaggE: XD, brilliant.

Bam345

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Snake726: God damn it, why does no one read the damn article before commenting anymore?

Bam345

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Had to do one myself. [i39.photobucket.com]

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Witzbold: They could do it, just call him Tom Jackson :D

jayntampa

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I still want to know if they are going to have JT in GTAIV. ;D

Would be funny if hes the one giving out papers with all these fake articles in them.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Excuse me for not reading into the thick sarcasm :P

Snake726

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I love how every single one of those fake articles manages to shoehorn in a reference to the hookers in the game, even when it's completely unrelated to the subject XD

Of course, when you begin to seriously consider that that's what the mainstream coverage will look like when the game comes out, it gets a lot less funny, and a lot more scary.

beat89

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> hmm, this reminds of a part of The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet that my girlfriend was watching a couple of weeks ago. They were talking about a group of 3rd graders who plotted to revolt against a teacher by tying her up and possibly stabbing her. One of the hosts, Juliet, asked something to the effect that "is it because of video games that children are becoming more violent"

The person they were talking to about it said no, and that there are many factors to take into account. So it's not just video games, it's media in general.

He also said that the 3rd graders probably wouldn't have done it because they probably would have gotten over it and moved on to another moment.

I wish I could find a video of it. Juliet was posed to pounce on video games for blame.

This media violence thing is becoming something like "which came first the chicken or the egg". Only in this case it's "which do we blame, the media or the people". Except it's a ridiculous question being that media is made by people. Attacking a faceless idea is always easier then dealing with an actual person.

Honestly I don't think we should focus on blaming anything. We should focus on taking responsibility in any case. Suspects blame games/ media, or bring it on as some sort of accomplice. The news then runs with the idea and investigates the "harmful reality".

Fear becomes the message. Fear becomes the MEME. Fear spreads through the mind by the hand of popular media, the people. It spreads like an infection, especially to those who supplicate themselves before it, narrowing their vision.

#&@$ fear.

I want to see the world encourage understanding. To encourage a willingness to learn...

I think I've ranted a bit too far, and am sorry for the digression.

kryzhal

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Our society and "supposed protection" love to spread bullshit until the sun comes up. Humanity in general is failing because we continue to ignore the real problems in life.

We're destroying our planet constantly with CO2 emissions. What about solving the real problem in Iraq? We continue to pour billions of dollars into that so called "war effort". It isn't even a war anymore. It's more like a one sided argument. We continue to overpower a society but get nowhere. How do you think the families over here feel? I love America to death, but I feel more sympathy towards the children that get strapped with these bombs. How can you do that? Yet, we stay there anyway. We aren't solving anything. We are approximately 9 trillion dollars in debt and counting. A recession doesn't help either.

So, in short...we have more important issues to worry about than the "video game criminal."

Blake Ruff

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ST19AG_WGreymon: You can get drunk in GTA4. And since you can also drive, you can also invariably drunk-drive.

Should make for some terrific tabloid fodder. This is spot-on satire.

Zeliard

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @myself

Hint to self: Read everything more carefully next time to get jokes.

Communist_Gamer

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I always thought that the character in GTA was sober when he did those things.

ST19AG_WGreymon

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "Robbing a bank staffed entirely by prostitutes." lol

nanikore

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dead_red_eyes: All of them. I've already taken care of driving on the phone and telephone line theft and I can't wait to get a jump on stabbing... while drunk driving.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I'm going to blame the next Crime I commit on No More Heroes... Just to see what happens. Or I can bypass the crime and make another fake article... hmm.

Megan Fox Iz Hot! ^-^ - ph15h

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dumanue:

He'd go broke if he tried. He can't file free suits anymore, he needs to hire a lawyer now since his right to file was revoked.

At most, he'll either go broke, or he'll make noise on "faux" news.

超外人

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @dead_red_eyes: I'd guess all of them. Probably verbatim. Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> The articles are hilarious and what not, but chances are these will be cropping up when the time comes...

Alaron

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Snake726:

THEY'RE JOKES

RageKage

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Snake726: It's fake...

Next time sum1 hotboxes, guess they'll have a scapegoat. :( Luckily the ones around my area only use the internet for porno... They don't check for information or news or comedy.

Megan Fox Iz Hot! ^-^ - ph15h

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Blake Ruff: I agree, fake news designed to point out the ills of society in a humorous and poignant way should be stopped and stopped NOW!

Maldron

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> j.howlett

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> This is actually really good writing... Why can't the average American write like this?

I'd actually read more often!

blacksamurai87

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Ok, now this kind of shit pisses me off.

How is it that as soon as something happens the media, parents, cops, and everyone that doesn't play games jumps in and automatically blames it on our hobby/lifestyle? There is no excuse for that. They don't even consider the criminal's life, habits, or mental state.

A line needs to be drawn and it needs to be drawn right fucking now. Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton, the media, and every other anti video game-ist need to stop being asshats and look at the big picture. You can't constantly blame video games with the real problem. Look at 9/11. We didn't go all up in their faces and say: "Well, since you're the government and you have all the power, we're just going to blame it all on you."

Give me a fucking break. Get a grip on reality and arrest the real criminals. Quit assuming that people do these things because of video games. Get your head out of your ass and stop making the rest of us look like the criminals of America. You make yourselves look bad as well as 70% of the country.

Blake Ruff

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> GamesRadar did a great job with this. Now let's sit back and see what prediction will come true!

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Snake726:

Please read the article before commenting.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @Snake726: Check the link, it's a faked clip. ;)

Owen Good

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "Players use cell phones to call prostitutes to stand in front of moving vehicles."

Cuz that's what I'd do with my cell phone.

ggodo

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Did I miss something? If that is a real newspaper clip, it says that the man bought a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV. Maybe someone should tell them that that's impossible, because the game isn't even out yet?

Snake726

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @ffmusicdj: Of course not. They were made to add to the humor of the article.

Sad how close they are to reality, though.

ShaggE

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Quite hilarious

RageKage

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Err... I don't know if some people are aware that these are fake news headlines written by Games Radar, satirizing the mainstream media's obsession with "violent" video games. :P

Zeliard

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @usfslacker: I don't see how capitulating and giving into psychos like Jack Thompson would do anything positive for the game industry.

The best thing to do is keep fighting (metaphorically) the good fight and show that just because we play video games doesn't mean we have uncontrollable urges to murder people while having sex in a stolen car as our buddies listen in on our cell phone.

jihadjoe343

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "The game - in which players score points for running over prostitutes while drunk."

Okay. WTF...?

toastydoom

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> MattB

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> That not a real news paper clip, that can't be ...

ffmusicdj

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @usfslacker: Dude, are you crazy? the more games like that Rockstar makes, aka, Bully, aka Manhunt, aka, GTA, etc, the faster it will be accepted by the majority of conservative idiots in the world, same as movies that depicts violence are accepted and yet movies that show even half a skin of a naked girl is immediately mature only O.o

go figure...

dumanue

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "Robbing a bank staffed entirely by prostitutes."
"Players score points by running over prostitutes while drunk."
"Players use a cell phone to call prostitutes to stand in front of their moving cars."

Sadly, these ridiculous claims (a clever way to drum up interest in your game, by the way) will probably be echoed -- unintentionally, of course -- by mainstream media.

At least there have been enough alarmist articles for people to be able to fake some of their own.



Does Not Equal

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> @jihadjoe343: This world, and not only gamers, its the whole media medium and FCC in particular that is pretty much ruled by retarded conservatives with no clue between right and wrong.

They still believe the internet is a tube.

dumanue

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> I just wish GTA would stop coming out and Rockstar would just go out of business. Then Jack Thompson would be completely out of work and the world would have one less drab, uninspired series on the shelves that people can praise as if its any different than the other games in the series, even though the graphics are only marginally better and rank as the worst looking games on their systems. Hell, I'm surprised this casual fest doesn't have its own Game Fuel.

usfslacker

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Didn't know that you can do that many things with prostitutes in GTA4.....

mikemil828

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> It's so stupid how a video game can be blamed for a car theft or a murder or something like that, but a movie shows the actual hot wiring or mechanisms of a working weapon in much greater detail.

Obviously this country, and the world as a whole, has a long long way to go before games and gamers will truly be accepted beyond a novelty or a scape goat.

jihadjoe343

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Oh man im already doing things in GTA4!
Talking on a cell phone. Looks im one bad cat, Watch Out World! Here I Come!


GUNDAM-RX-78-2

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> J.T. is just biding his time. He's waiting until the GTA4 hype goes out of control and then he will start suing companies right and left again.

Mark my words.

Dum dum duuuuummmm.

dumanue

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> 'Gamer' eats, sleeps and drinks like most other regular people. 'Gamer' somehow also represents all other 'gamers' by driving through storefront. Gives other 'gamers' bad name and is somehow duly associated with them. Probably because they play 'games'.

Absent Blue

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> Now remind me.

How in GTA when you press triangle and you get in a car instantly without even hotwiring it, that helps you hotwire a car in real life.

In fact I'd say anyone so retarded to think thats true would let themselves get thrown in jail as they get in the car which is MAGICALLY UNLOCKED then expect to just drive away. Maybe they'd be so idiotic they'd just get shot and be nominated for the "Darwin Award".

I thought Jack Thompson was taking the piss but this, this takes the biscuit then blames the stealing of the biscuit on a videogame.

Communist_Gamer

]]> <![CDATA[More Crimes to Blame on GTA IV]]> "Driving while talking on a cell phone"

geez, I wonder who does that? :P

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques

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