Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed nearly 100 people in Norway last Friday, has managed to reignite the issue of violence in video games through his 1,500 page manifesto entitled “2083, A Declaration of European Independence.” In it, he describes Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a “training-simulation more than anything else” and says he “bought Modern Warfare 2, the game” because “it is probably the best military simulator out there.”

Of course, the document talks about a lot more than just video games, but because of the media’s obsession with fast news and sensational headlines they probably ignored much of the rest. After all, those 1,500 pages contain about 769,412 words and I wouldn’t be surprised if reporters looked at them and thought “that’s way too long, I’m not gonna read all of this.”

But a five-minute unbiased look at the murderer’s manifesto clearly shows that all the mentions of video games are incidental, not instrumental. If we were to consider the six games he talks about to have been crucial to his plan, we should also be on the lookout for people eating food, drinking water and breathing oxygen, because those are behaviors exhibited by every single violent person in the history of humanity, so there clearly is something wrong with them.

Also, while we’re at it, why not demonize all his other hobbies too?

Q: Hobbies and interests?

 

A: Friends, fitness (weightlifting and spinning), snowboarding, opera, theatre, art exhibitions, antiquities, MMOs, science fiction, Freemasons, European architecture, European history, European art in general, genealogy, heraldry, political/stock/currency/commodity analysis, travelling – learning about different cultures.

Opera is clearly the music of Satan, theater teaches you how to act and play roles (he was dressed as a police officer when he went on the island shooting spree) and weightlifting and snowboarding can make you an unstoppable force for regular people.

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 ”We will color the city (Oslo) with kindness and love.”

If you were expecting to bask your eyes in glorious girl on girl action, you’ve come to the wrong place. They’re both grandmothers, and they’re both over 75.

I don’t know what’s going on in China, but lately it seems that a lot of Chinese have made a hobby out of making terribly bad decisions. I’m talking about the kid who sold his kidney to buy an iPad and the girl who announced that she’s trading her virginity for an iPhone. I’m also talking about this young couple who met in an internet café, had three children, and then sold all of them to get money to play online games.

The parents, who are both under 21, had two sons and a daughter which they sold for $10,000 (the boys for $4,600 each, the girl for $500).

When asked if they missed their children, the parents answered, “We don’t want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money.”

Now, some may say the children are better off being away from their parents, given how stupid/addicted to online gaming they are, but the sad truth is that the people going around buying Chinese babies on the black market don’t do so out of love.

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