Student arrested & expelled for making a map of his school for shooter game

[Cotterik]

videogames do not cause violence. a violent person causes violence. another violent person could potentially cause a VT to happen again. not a gamer enthusiast who made his own CounterStrike map. Gimme a break..

[baddabang]

Originally Posted by kingofthering

Ahem.....

Y'know, I wrote Suicide is Painless (the song) in my black planner and a rather violent comic in my notebook- Do any of you think I'll get in trouble for this....

I suppose if a counselor seen it he would recommend some type of help, that is if he doesn't know the song.

Originally Posted by Cotterik

videogames do not cause violence. a violent person causes violence. another violent person could potentially cause a VT to happen again. not a gamer enthusiast who made his own CounterStrike map. Gimme a break..

QFMFT. It pissed me off when the VT news reporters were giving GTA shit.

[NSXType-R]

That's a bit overboard. It's like you have a roach infestation and you use a nuke to wipe them out. It makes no sense. And by the way, America will always be racist. It'll never change. Racism exists everywhere, even in the land of the "free". As long as you have freedom of speech and thought you will have racism.

[baddabang]

Originally Posted by NSXType-R

That's a bit overboard. It's like you have a roach infestation and you use a nuke to wipe them out. It makes no sense. And by the way, America will always be racist. It'll never change. Racism exists everywhere, even in the land of the "free". As long as you have freedom of speech and thought you will have racism.

Thats impossible.

Everyone knows roaches survive nuclear blasts

[Zytek_Fan]

Originally Posted by baddabang

Thats impossible.

Everyone knows roaches survive nuclear blasts

Only if they aren't vaporized by the heat of a few Suns

[NSXType-R]

Originally Posted by baddabang

Thats impossible.

Everyone knows roaches survive nuclear blasts

Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan

Only if they aren't vaporized by the heat of a few Suns

Yes, I'm sure that they won't be cooked by the millions of degrees Fahrenheit generated in a couple seconds in about 100 or so square meters (I'm even nice to the members overseas by converting to the metric system ).

[fisetdavid26]

This story kinda reminds me about the one of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two men behind the massacre at Columbine. It was said they were avid players of Doom, and that they designed levels which resembled the halls of the school, even going as far as populating them with enemies which acted as teachers and students. These were mainly rumors and unproven.

There's a lot of people who design levels based on actual locations they know, schools included, there's nothing wrong with that. Authorities are going mental because of stories like the aforementioned story of Columbine. It's not because some psychos intend to kill people and practicing it in a game that everybody who create levels are going to do so. I love to pop heads with a Sniper Rifle in GTA and I'll never do it for real because it's "fun" in the game. Game and real life are two completely different things, if you can't tell the difference between the two then you should see a doctor real quick. It's ridiculous really.

The confiscated hammer is a joke, I have screwdrivers in my room for my computer, are they going to confiscate them because they could be used as weapons? C'mon now. The poor guy only needed to repair his bed for God sakes. Expelling him is going way too far also.

As for racism, there's an obvious link between the killer at VT and the poor guy. It's a shame.

[Rockefella]

Originally Posted by baddabang

Thats impossible.

Everyone knows roaches survive nuclear blasts

That's how Spastik's still around.

[h22a]

pathetic, man im glad i live in aus.

[Vaigra]

Originally Posted by blingbling

they outta realize its stuff like this that could potentially cause a VT to happen again

How so? The kid made a map for a game. It happens all the time. As mentioned above, designers use familiar surroundings all the time to design new game maps.

[Sauc3]

Originally Posted by Vaigra

How so? The kid made a map for a game. It happens all the time. As mentioned above, designers use familiar surroundings all the time to design new game maps.

I think he means that the kid now might want to go back to the school and shoot them up because he got expelled for such a stupid reason.
At least, that's how I read it. If that's what he meant, I do agree.

If I was at a good school and really focused, and I got expelled over such a shitty little thing I'd be tempted to go on a rampage...

[ScionDriver]

Originally Posted by NuclearCrap

But the thing is, he isn't the only one who makes maps of schools. Lots of mappers online make maps of their own schools, and they just have to pick on the Chinese guy because the VT massacre was caused by an Asian.

They shouldn't even give ANY kind of punishment in the first place. That kid didn't do anything wrong.

I dont see how his Asian parents reporting him leads to racism. I like to think that if this kid had been white the same thing would have happened, the parents reported what they saw, the school overreacted, and that is arguable over whether or not it was racist, I don't think it was.

[NuclearCrap]

Originally Posted by ScionDriver

I dont see how his Asian parents reporting him leads to racism. I like to think that if this kid had been white the same thing would have happened, the parents reported what they saw, the school overreacted, and that is arguable over whether or not it was racist, I don't think it was.

Why did you think he should even get a suspension?

[Rockefella]

Originally Posted by NuclearCrap

Why did you think he should even get a suspension?

Suspension isn't a big deal. I think a couple of days would be justified for mapping the school in a fps game.

[DesmoRob]

Originally Posted by h22a

pathetic, man im glad i live in aus.

Yea, they would not have done that over here either. Too extreme. Then again, not a whole lot happens in Canada compared to the States anyway.