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I wonder what game it was for? Personally, I would consider it fun to run around a level based on a real-life location my friends and I frequented... but ever since Columbine, doing something like this is asking for trouble even if it's harmless.
Wow.. that is retarded... you know how badly my buddies and I wanted to play paintball in our school! We would have loved to have played Firearms or CS on a map based around our school. Nothing like saying you just got sniped in the girls bathroom.
I'm trying furiously to come up with a joke somehow relating the confiscated hammer and the Hammer map editor for Steam, but I got nothin', folks. I'm sorry.
Even though media figures have called Jack Thompson on his stupid claims in relation to Virginia Tech, the suggestion still remains in the minds of America.
Doing something like expelling a kid for no real reason would be more likely to make him go crackers and start poppin' caps than playing a CS map of his school. I think once the guard has changed and more gamers are in positions of power and authority this kinda crap will happen a lot less.
@Nexypoo
When I read the article that was linked from Kotaku(which I think was the Fort Bend paper), it named CS as the game. Even in the comments, the writer of the article even clarified that it wasn't a modified version of CS, but the original CS
When I read the article that was linked from Kotaku(which I think was the Fort Bend paper), it named CS as the game. Even in the comments, the writer of the article even clarified that it wasn't a modified version of CS, but the original CS
You have no idea how much this pissed me off. Fort Bend is literally about 5 minutes away from my work, it's really sad. I tried posting on the Fortbend site but for some reason my comment didn't post, I'm guessing it's because everyone and their Mom was blowing it up at the time. All of this is going way too far and it's getting out of hand. I mean a map in Counter-Strike? My god what the hell. I know for a fact there's ALOT of maps built off of schools and stores. So stupid. Then when they searched his house they found swords, that were on display and they made a commotion about them. I guess they assumed the kid planned on going out all knight style on everyone.
I don't know guys.. Making counter-strike maps of fictitious locations is one thing, but making one of your school? If I were the principal I'd have had the kid arrested too. The authorities don't have any idea what the hell is going on in the kid's head. If I were still a student in high school and a kid made a map of our school, [i]I[/] would want someone to check into it.
At the very least, you have to admit it was done in poor taste. Just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean its sensible.
Now bring on the hate..
At the very least, you have to admit it was done in poor taste. Just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean its sensible.
Now bring on the hate..
If i were a student there i'd make characters with the faces of all my teachers and the principle. distribute to all my friends start a lan party at school and see if they expell my entire year
My guess: The administrators of that school are gonna get reamed when it comes to a battle over the legality of expelling him. And then the police are going to get double-reamed for taking a kid into custody over this, as well as for confiscating a hammer as a deadly weapon. Better hide your toolboxes folks, we're all murderers it seems.
I've read that, even though they just found out about it, the map was released 2 months ago. Apparently, it was only distributed to friends. And as most of you should know, it takes more than a week to make a map.
I actually did something similar at my high school, where we made a CS map of the high school. I think that's everyones dream to play CS in somewhere you work or go to school. Only problem was it wasn't done with blueprints, but from memory. We didn't get expelled, but all the computers got wiped clean and most of us denied working on it (how were they going to prove I was Pwn Daddy Magnus? Their IT guy was working on the project with us!). But yeah, expelling and arresting is BS. I can see detention and some other sort of punishment, but not arrested. Shit, I mean why not arrest vALVE, since you know, they gave him the software to run the game.
HALT! HAMMERZEIT!
Good story, except you've got your facts wrong. The boy was not expelled, he was transferred to the district's special education school and not allowed to partake in his class' graduation ceremonies. He also was not arrested, nor were any criminal charges filed.
Please check sources, kthxbai.
I still think it's ridiculous.
Good story, except you've got your facts wrong. The boy was not expelled, he was transferred to the district's special education school and not allowed to partake in his class' graduation ceremonies. He also was not arrested, nor were any criminal charges filed.
Please check sources, kthxbai.
I still think it's ridiculous.
Oh, and they found swords along with the hammer. Which were most likely decorative, but he was Asian, so he obviously could instinctively use them effectively as weapons.
"Then, in November 1948, a tragic event in Canada's Yukon Territory added fuel to the fire. Two boys, aged 11 and 13, stole a rifle and hid by the highway near Dawson Creek. They shot at a passing car, fatally wounding a passenger. The senseless nature of the murder, as well as the murderers' young age, sparked a public outcry, and the ensuing investigation found that both boys were avid readers of true-crime comic books. Both the judge and prosecutor at the trial blamed comic books for contributing to the victim's death, and the case provided powerful ammunition to anti-comic crusaders. Fredric Wertham, the American psychiatrist at the forefront of the anti-comics crusade, even titled Chapter 11 of his book, Seduction of the Innocent, "Murder in Dawson Creek."
I would have killed (poor choice of words?) to have a DM Doom II map of my high school. My HS was a HUGE campus that had lots of small rooms and stairs, etc.
I would've really enjoyed something like that as a cathartic release, yet, I don't actually own a gun or any deadly, deadly hammers...
I would've really enjoyed something like that as a cathartic release, yet, I don't actually own a gun or any deadly, deadly hammers...
Everybody, say goodbye to Agent MOO. The authorities are probably at his house as we speak!
Rant GO!!! This is simply ridiculous. Confiscating a hammer? WTF? I guess we should also ban any kind of laser tag, paintball, and hell, lets ban all videogames so there is absolutely no chance people will replicate them in any context. That goes for sports games too. We don't want people pretending they are pro-baseballers and getting killed when someone throws a 10mph speed ball.
Rant GO!!! This is simply ridiculous. Confiscating a hammer? WTF? I guess we should also ban any kind of laser tag, paintball, and hell, lets ban all videogames so there is absolutely no chance people will replicate them in any context. That goes for sports games too. We don't want people pretending they are pro-baseballers and getting killed when someone throws a 10mph speed ball.
well stated. it is this type of thing that does indeed cause such frustration that kids do stupid stuff like murder people. and a hammer? they stole his hammer. for real now, come on people. did they take all his pencils he takes to class, too? borne identity showed me how nasty it can be to stab someone with those, too. idiots. i hope the courts throw this out seeing as there was apparently NO REASON to actually arrest him. the kid did nothing wrong at all.
Few years ago, my brother was doing level of his school for Quake. When I see this, thanks god he wasn`t able to finish it, my whole family would be arrested with all those dangerous things we have at home, like knifes or screwdrivers....
Ya know, this is quite funny actually... several people seem to think that a 'changing of the guard' will stop things like this from happening (i.e. when "we come to power" as it used to be known), but unbeknownst to them, there are millions of uptight conservative kids that aren't represented here in gamer forums just waiting to take their daddy's place in politics...
This should be a wake up call to ALL gamers out there, start making a difference in your community, or your morality will be dictated to you by people who never touched a game console for fear of it's "satan inducing powers".
Just thoughts, but everyone should be having them...
This should be a wake up call to ALL gamers out there, start making a difference in your community, or your morality will be dictated to you by people who never touched a game console for fear of it's "satan inducing powers".
Just thoughts, but everyone should be having them...
I really feel like each increment this moves is closer and closer to outlawing video games or at least having government regulation of the content (which is about the same to me).
If we get in a world where Pokemon is outlawed because it models animal cruelty, I'll lead the Revolution (we'll codename Wii and everyone will be confused).
If we get in a world where Pokemon is outlawed because it models animal cruelty, I'll lead the Revolution (we'll codename Wii and everyone will be confused).
Well, it doesn't have to end here... is there a petition or an appeal that gamers worldwide can sign or something?
LET'S STAND BY OUR OWN, PEOPLE!!! LET'S LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER!!!
LET'S STAND BY OUR OWN, PEOPLE!!! LET'S LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER!!!
Quick question,
Is it just me, or are all of these school board members, political leaders, and media personalitys, ignorant and retarded as Justin"Whats a video game?"Murry. Besides, i've seen cs,far cry, and doom maps of schools, buildings, wal-marts, wtf? Does it really matter that much?
Is it just me, or are all of these school board members, political leaders, and media personalitys, ignorant and retarded as Justin"Whats a video game?"Murry. Besides, i've seen cs,far cry, and doom maps of schools, buildings, wal-marts, wtf? Does it really matter that much?
Those who would give up a little liberty, in exchange for a little security, deserve neither, and will lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin
Just a little description of what is happening to us, in regards to free speech, i.e. videogames.
-Benjamin Franklin
Just a little description of what is happening to us, in regards to free speech, i.e. videogames.
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