More Breivik Trial Idiocy.

[Sheilbh]

Call of Duty has a lot to answer for.  I read an article that it was where the Libyan rebels learned most of their tactics before the revolution

[mongers]

Given some of the loons I've encountered recently I'd be more interested in his youtube viewing habits rather than he played WOW obsessively for a while or other computer games had.

[Razgovory]

Call of Duty has a lot to answer for.  I read an article that it was where the Libyan rebels learned most of their tactics before the revolution

No wonder it took so long.  Half the rebel casualties were probably TKs.

[Richard Hakluyt]

All clear! It's been evil videogames all along for Breivik!

At least according to mainstream media as quoed by RPS:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/19/breivik-testifies-about-gaming-press-ignores-the-facts/

It is inevitable that during the trial of Norwegian mass murderer, Anders Breivik, that the matter of videogaming will come up. Soon after the horrendous events I dug into what Breivik had actually said about gaming in his ghastly manifesto, and it was pretty much nothing of relevance. But with the press still not having found the next nasty to leap on, gaming is the scapegoat. It seems reasonable to point out how inaccurate this remains, and how attempting to shift the blame onto things uninvolved only makes it more likely that whatever led to Breivik's state of mind will not be discovered. But now that Breivik has testified about how important playing WoW was to him, and his peculiar understanding of Modern Warfare 2, it's all happening again.

It's pretty relevant to note much of what the killer said in his opening statements, in which he described secret societies, battles for purity, global conspiracy, and refused to recognise the jurisdiction of the courts. Very few press outlets took his comments at face value nor reported them as fact, strangely enough, but rather pointed out that he was either mad, or trying to appear mad. Now he has told the courts that he played World Of Warcraft for apparently 16 hours a day for a year, and saw Modern Warfare 2 as a police-shooting simulator, and not only is the press at large taking it as fact, but most are twisting Breivik's words to their own interests. Something has gone very wrong when the horror of his actions is being used to fuel irrelevant agenda.

Yesterday Britain's Daily Telegraph spoke to Oslo University professor of sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who believes that one factor that "hasn't sufficiently been taken into account" was Breivik's so-called "fascination" with World Of Warcraft. Because Breivik likes order and doesn't like chaos, erm, something something, it's gaming's fault.

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I bet he was a blood elf paladin as well, they all need to be rounded up and put in camps.

[MadImmortalMan]

So check this out.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/23/anders-breivik-adian-pracon-spared_n_1446133.html

"All he had to do was squeeze the trigger," he described later, in a book produced with writer Erik Moller Solheim.

"He rested his cheek on the rifle and creased his brow. 'No!' I yelled, with the little strength I still had in my lungs. My arms hung limply at my sides."

"Don't shoot!"

... And then Breivik let him go.

Eventually Adrian was shot - in the shoulder, at point-black range, while playing dead near a pile of bodies - but he survived his harrowing experience. And ever since, the question has plagued Adrian's mind: why did Breivik spare his life?

On Monday he got his answer.

"Certain people look more leftist than others," Breivik said in his final day of testimony at his trial for the murder of the 69 victims on Utoya and eight others in a bombing in Oslo. "This person appeared right-wing, that was his appearance. That's the reason I didn't fire any shots at him.

Can you really tell a person's politics by looking at him? In some ways maybe, but why would this guy have been on the island if he were actually right-wing? Duuurrrr.

[mongers]

So check this out.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/23/anders-breivik-adian-pracon-spared_n_1446133.html

"All he had to do was squeeze the trigger," he described later, in a book produced with writer Erik Moller Solheim.

"He rested his cheek on the rifle and creased his brow. 'No!' I yelled, with the little strength I still had in my lungs. My arms hung limply at my sides."

"Don't shoot!"

... And then Breivik let him go.

Eventually Adrian was shot - in the shoulder, at point-black range, while playing dead near a pile of bodies - but he survived his harrowing experience. And ever since, the question has plagued Adrian's mind: why did Breivik spare his life?

On Monday he got his answer.

"Certain people look more leftist than others," Breivik said in his final day of testimony at his trial for the murder of the 69 victims on Utoya and eight others in a bombing in Oslo. "This person appeared right-wing, that was his appearance. That's the reason I didn't fire any shots at him.

Can you really tell a person's politics by looking at him? In some ways maybe, but why would this guy have been on the island if he were actually right-wing? Duuurrrr.

You're trying to understand his 'reasoning' ? 

edit:
didn't the most sadistic of camp guards, on occasion show what appeared to be an act of kindness, not that it was ? 

[Duque de Bragança]

Call of Duty has a lot to answer for.

Like formating and levellling down the entire video game market, not only the FPS sub-genre.

I read an article that it was where the Libyan rebels learned most of their tactics before the revolution

I understand now the early phase of the revolution now.