There is a story currently popping up all over the Internet (sourcing a non-existent news story, supposedly run by Kansas news station, KCTV) about a Kansas teenager who supposedly strangled his little sister thanks to influences from BioShock. Aside from the fact that it's the most ridiculous story ever conceived, it has been confirmed by our very own Joe Burling (who made a quick and easy call to the KCTV news desk) to be completely false. Already circulating our Webs, the tale is getting somewhat out of hand and really isn't very funny anyway, due to the fact that it's so badly done.
“I get really into my games and when Brit’ came over to me to watch TV I forgot I was in a game and accidentally strangled her,” is what fictional Sean Connor is claimed to have told KCTV. Now, I'm all for dark humor, but if you're going to do it, make it good dark humor. This seems like a petty attempt to start an urban legend, but it's just not done well enough at all. Plus it's about a month too late.
Should you see any reports about this story online, would you kindly ignore it as it's quite, quite fake. KCTV has no reports of this nature, and directly debunked it for Destructoid. I also have a piece of advice to the "writer" who started this joke: Be funny next time.
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9:59 AM on 09.28.2007
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OK! Will do.
what?
you don't even do any stranglin' in that game. he should of said, "so i froze her with winter blast 2 and hit her with my wrench until she shattered, luckily i had my sports boost tonic on, so it was quite easy" or something.
I called it.
First, thanks for even reading the article. What's worse than negative publicity (Which I have MORE than enough of. Check out my biggest article about Goatse being on the CNN/YouTube debates) is no publicity.
The fact is (heh, "fact") that the article accomplished everything it was meant to accomplish. Though I won't say the article is fake, I will say that anybody who believed the article also recognized how ridiculous it is that nobody held Sean Connor responsible for his own actions, including his mother and Jack Thompson.
I'm a huge gamer and an even huger fan of Bioshock, some of you express a concern that the Jack Thompsons of this world will use this as fodder, but the fact is that this article actually does more to discredit the Jack Thompsons than it does to support them by pointing out how ridiculous their platform is.
And for anybody who wants proof of this, try to find one comment from somebody which argues that this is a good example of the dangers of videogame violence. There isn't one. Instead, all of the dialogue created around the article has been defending videogame violence, and thus supporting videogames.
Like all my articles, it's not the story that is important but the conversations started because of them. And this is no exception.
Thanks for reading!
Sincerely,
Ben Goldman
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