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Finnish school shooter was a gamer, uh oh!
Maurice Tan | 9:08 PM on 11.07.2007 12 comments


As you may have heard or read, there was a school shooting in Finland. Some guy shot 8 people, then tried to become an hero but shot himself in the head like a "player who is new at the game". He almost survived but died of his wounds later on. Good for him.

Some Dutch internet matlocks from the retard site Geenstijl.nl found some of his stuff before it got pulled, and it appears he is a gamer too!

Dutch gamer site Gamekings.tv looked up his nicknames Sturmgeist89 and NaturalSelector89. They found that he was a WoW addict and played a lot of Battlefield 2, espcially Special Ops. Which makes perfect sense, since WoW is all about racism and killing people in Alliance schools..

Apparently he even posted about it on 4chan before doing it, from the allakhazam forums. Wtf.. He also made a tribute video to Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, best known for their gay shower scene in Elephant. He even loves C&C music!


From Gamekings.tv:
This dramatic event will undoubtedly be more ammunition for people like Jack Thompson who will probably go shout again that gamers are walking killing machines.

Germany will probably be the first to use stuff like this to ban more games. Everything takes a little longer to seep through to the UK, so they will probably be none to pleased either, since we have so many choices to play approved murder simulators.

Youtube has suspended his account, but Liveleak still has a backup. The guy himself even said:

- And remember this is my war, my idea and my plan. Don't blame anyone else for my actions but myself. Don't blame my parents or my friends. I told no one about my plans and always kept them in my own mind. Don't blame the movies that I watch, the music I listen, the games I play or the books I read.

- You may ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and narrow minded to understand... Probably you'll say that I'm "mental", "crazy" or "psyco", "criminal" or some other crap like that. The truth is that I'm just an animal, human, individual, dissident.

Yeah, I'm sure they will listen to that. What with the trend of dissident animals/non-humans and all that. Hopefully they will just focus on the real reasons for why he turned to his actions, instead of blaming media influences, but what are the odds of that? I'd blame it on their national diet of fish and berries. And maybe some exploding Nokia batteries.



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11 comments | showing # 1 to 11
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Butmac's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/07/2007 21:48
Butmac
Psssh - Finnish gamers are nothing like American gamers...

There's no chance Jack will draw correlations here.

C'maaaaan
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/07/2007 21:53
Maurice Tan
No, we have our own Jack's in Europe ;)
Simmons 2pt0's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/07/2007 21:55
Simmons 2pt0
Blame the death of Aqua Dots!!!!
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/07/2007 22:02
Clockwork
Oh my god!

They have video games in Finland?
Seriously dude, I'd say most of the teenage population plays video games, so who's surprised that when a guy shoots up a school--regardless of how fucked up that is--that he plays violent video games.
Excremento's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/07/2007 22:12
Excremento
It was the copies of Doom he played earlier in life, was it the Marilyn Manson CDs in his collection? Wait, it was the comic books!
taumpytears's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/07/2007 22:17
taumpytears
God, I hate how these guys have some pretentious little pity party before they do this shit.
Tristero's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2007 02:55
Tristero
Yeah, and I heard Hinckley read the Catcher in the Rye. Let's burn some books while we're at it.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2007 02:57
Bob Muir
I blame the liberals!
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2007 05:22
Eschatos
I blame the jews!
glipe's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2007 06:50
glipe
I'd say a cross between David Walliams and Benicio del Toro.

I love the way people who want to do stuff with no good reasons always say "you wouldn't understand". They're right, because we normally understand things that have reason and logic, rather than ill-thought out violence. I'm glad he's dead and I hope that anyone who has similar ideas turn the guns on themselves before they bother the rest of us.

Just another dickhead with a gun.
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2007 08:35
blehman
Hey, at least he tried to explain not to blame any of the stuff he did on what he did. That being said, what's to blame for him trying not to scapegoat said stuff?
That's right.

Vidja games.
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