counselor out the door on her ear for coming to our home and demanding
I quit gaming. I am 45 years of age a Preacher and small business
owner gaming really hurt me huh?
On Aug 31, 1:36 pm, WJ Walton <rpgadvoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (Cut and pasted from The Escapist Blog - theescapist.com/blog)<p>
>
> This is not a repeat from the mid-1980s: A young man committed a
> heinous crime, and detectives are investigating the connection between
> his acts and a popular game.
>
> Tyler Savage raped and killed a 16-year-old mentally disabled girl,
> then went to a friend's house to play some Dungeons & Dragons Online
> to help "cope" with what he had done. Now detectives are considering
> the possibility that Savage may have been inspired by the game to
> commit the crime.
>
> "Detectives investigating the strangulation death of 16-year-old
> Kimmie Daily are trying to determine whether her accused killer might
> have been acting out a violent fantasy from Dungeons and Dragons.
>
> The video game theory comes from something Tyler Savage himself said
> to investigators. He talked about playing a video game to cope with
> what he'd just done. Detectives now want to know if that game somehow
> became his point of reference on reality."
>
> If Savage had mentioned playing basketball, golf, chess, or poker to
> "cope" with what he had done, there would be no similar investigation.
> This is total speculation on my part, but I think the name "Dungeons &
> Dragons" may have something to do with this.
>
> Then we see a classic example of an article that doesn't agree with
> its headline:
>
> "Detectives are working with an expert in sexually violent fantasies
> to explore the video game motive, but the true cause for this crime is
> still unknown. They aren't blaming a game for this violence, but they
> are trying to understand what triggered this murder and why."
>
> "(Detectives) aren't blaming a game for this violence" doesn't exactly
> match the title: "Detectives: Murder motive may have been video game
> fantasy." This happens a lot with stories like these, when the
> journalist writes the story, and the editor decides what the title
> will be.
>
> The odds are that when this comes to trial, Savage's lawyer will
> attempt a game defense, which has never worked. When it doesn't,
> they'll switch to something else, like an insanity plea. History will
> likely repeat itself due to those who refuse to learn from it.
>
> Read the full article here:http://www.komonews.com/news/local/101525398.html
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