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  • TheShizNo1
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    • Mar 2007
    • 26341

    #706
    re: Off-Topic

    Originally posted by TripleCrown9
    Right. Um...



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    • Caulfield
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      • Apr 2011
      • 10986

      #707
      re: Off-Topic

      on the itinerary this week

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      • l3ulvl
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        • Dec 2009
        • 17243

        #708
        re: Off-Topic

        Originally posted by Caulfield
        I'm an extremely light sleeper and can rarely sleep more than a few hours at a time so I have a 2 a.m. ritual where most mornings I sit on the porch for about 20 minutes. Well, I live out in the boondocks and for about the last month or so I have developed a wolf problem. For awhile, when I came outside this wolf would immediately run back into the woods. Then it got to where he wouldn't leave just because I came outside so I started stomping on the porch or hollering at him. That did the trick for awhile but eventually he got where even that wouldnt scare him off. We used to have neighbors with dogs but for now there are no dogs around so I figure this is why he's hanging around. I dont own a gun and I dont want to kill him anyways if I did. I also dont want to get a dog(s) either. I wonder how/if I can trap trap him somehow and safely remove him. Thoughts/suggestions? Other than "be careful" lol
        You absolutely need to take him in as your pet, having a pet wolf would be so bad ***
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        • Blzer
          Resident film pundit
          • Mar 2004
          • 42520

          #709
          re: Off-Topic

          In the wake of the El Paso, TX shooting and the Gilroy shooting last week, there has been another one in Dayton, OH. Police have confirmed 9 killed, and 16 injured. The manifesto posted from the El Paso shooter also acknowledged the mosque shooter at the forefront.

          I'm certain there isn't a direct connection among the perpetrators, but golly they likely seem like they are influenced by what they are seeing in the media.

          82 families have been greatly affected within just a 13-hour time span (EDIT: 83 if you count the two shooters' families, since devastating news just broke that the Dayton gunman killed his own sister among the other eight). This is heartwrenching.
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          • RockinDaMike
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            • Feb 2003
            • 9092

            #710
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            Damn man. I dunno what to say, just extremely sad what’s going on again. Two cities in a row


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            • Jr.
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              • Feb 2003
              • 19171

              #711
              re: Off-Topic

              9 killed, 27 wounded in 30 seconds. That's horrific
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              • SmashMan
                All Star
                • Dec 2004
                • 9732

                #712
                re: Off-Topic

                Worth noting, for no reason in particular, that research hasn't found evidence linking playing violent video games to someone going out and shooting people.

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                • Blzer
                  Resident film pundit
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 42520

                  #713
                  re: Off-Topic

                  Originally posted by SmashMan
                  Worth noting, for no reason in particular, that research hasn't found evidence linking playing violent video games to someone going out and shooting people.
                  I always kind of found it to be the opposite, really.

                  Not that I have a particular real life fantasy of doing so, but I felt that playing a game like GTA or COD nullifies any sort of chance of mindset I could ever possibly have of doing something like that, and I wouldn't need that sort of real life aggression in my life for any particular reason.

                  Same goes with sports games, at least at the professional level. I love playing sports, but if I can't make the NFL then I'm going to happily have the next best thing to watching it, which is playing it virtually. Not even close to the same thing, but video games serve the purpose of leaving me wanting less from the actual experience, not more.

                  As far as fantasy [genre] video games, I don't think that violence can reciprocate as well. Someone playing God of War or Mortal Kombat really isn't going to teeter one way or the other when it comes to wanting more real life violence in their lives; it's just all good fun if you like that sort of game.

                  If anything they could do I suppose, I could point to a famous quote from Scream and place it on video games: "Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative." Maybe you learn a thing or two from the exposition it provides, but a disturbed individual is a disturbed individual.

                  Games do create different forms of internal rage, though. There's no doubting that. (NSFW for language)
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                  • SmashMan
                    All Star
                    • Dec 2004
                    • 9732

                    #714
                    re: Off-Topic

                    Originally posted by Blzer
                    I always kind of found it to be the opposite, really.

                    Not that I have a particular real life fantasy of doing so, but I felt that playing a game like GTA or COD nullifies any sort of chance of mindset I could ever possibly have of doing something like that, and I wouldn't need that sort of real life aggression in my life for any particular reason.
                    Meaning, they'd use the games as an outlet in a way? Interesting theory, though I wonder how you'd even test it.

                    If anything they could do I suppose, I could point to a famous quote from Scream and place it on video games: "Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative." Maybe you learn a thing or two from the exposition it provides, but a disturbed individual is a disturbed individual.
                    Yeah. At the end of the day, ****ed up people are going to be ****ed up with or without video games. I could see trying to make a case that people with these issues gravitate toward violent games, (I don't know if data exists to support even that idea) but that's never the case that's tried - it's always that the games are the cause...and that's just junk.

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                    • Blzer
                      Resident film pundit
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 42520

                      #715
                      re: Off-Topic

                      Originally posted by SmashMan
                      Meaning, they'd use the games as an outlet in a way? Interesting theory, though I wonder how you'd even test it.
                      I guess just a worldwide survey!

                      So like, take the new MW footage for instance. There was some gameplay footage that came out about a week ago, and I made a comment that said: "Yay, blood!" I was enamored by the fact that they finally made a game with some nice, realistic-looking blood spurts. Does that make me sadistic? I hope not, it's just a video game. I like the virtual aspect of resembling real life with it though, and I look forward to killing some people online (or getting killed) with that kind of carnage.

                      Movies are less ill-natured because you aren't controlling what happens, but even when watching a movie like Hacksaw Ridge and seeing all those headshots, even when they are deaths from the U.S. side, it's viscerally entertaining. Even if it's depicting real-life events, the fact that it's fake is very acceptable for me. I can watch Saw and Hostel and be amused at what I'm seeing or how they design a corpse, but show me a photo of something that is really resembling that and I'll blow chunks (and I've seen plenty at the behest of spammers/trolls or whatever you call them). That's a disgusting thought, as is killing someone in real life out of free will. Hell, I set spiders free man.

                      But I absolutely have no problem playing or watching a virtual or real-life depiction of something. None at all. In fact, I prefer it. That's also not to say I don't mind going to the shooting range time and again either.

                      Anyway, there are my two cents.
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                      • LambertandHam
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                        • Jul 2010
                        • 8008

                        #716
                        re: Off-Topic

                        Most of it is escapism, which is needed at times. It reminds me of the old Penn and Teller show "Bull****" where they had a young kid who played GTA or COD(can't remember which) fire a real gun based on him enjoying shooting games.
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                        • slickdtc
                          Grayscale
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 17125

                          #717
                          re: Off-Topic

                          Just a talk-in-circles, garbage, space filling opinion rooted in nothing but old people needing to blame this **** on any single thing, like that’s what’s happening.

                          It’s a bunch of things combining that have created these incidents happening more regularly. And some of the most obvious, what some of the bad guys are actually pointing to and saying this is why I did this, are being brushed aside because... we have a lot of problems in this country. Let’s just say that. People are either worried addressing the problem aggressively will do nothing and cede more power to the government, or there’s too many loopholes and obstacles to getting anything of any consequence done, so we stay paralyzed in place as more people get slaughtered.

                          If you were to describe this reality to me, I’d laugh at it because it’s ridiculous. We can take pictures of a black hole light years away, but can’t figure out why people go out and massacre their fellow humans or how to stop them. Here we are.
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                          • countryboy
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                            • Sep 2003
                            • 52762

                            #718
                            re: Off-Topic

                            When we as a society start to view mental health illness as something more than just those affected are crazy and belong in a nuthouse and start advocating for families, friends, and public figures (teachers, counselors, etc..) to recognize the signs/symptoms, then we are going to continue to have this problem.

                            I'm not saying mental illness is 100% the cause and fixing that 100% solves the issue, but its a damn good place to start.
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                            • Fresh Tendrils
                              Strike Hard and Fade Away
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 36131

                              #719
                              re: Off-Topic

                              Ok. Everybody remember that come Election time for once.



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                              • l3ulvl
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                                • Dec 2009
                                • 17243

                                #720
                                re: Off-Topic

                                I like how the focus of coverage has shifted from the killers to the victims. Memorializing the victims and not glorifying the gunmen is a good step. Even with shows like The First 48, they cover a show about murders and everything that goes into investigating and solving the crime, in recent years they've made sure to make a point of having a special ending to speak with the families of the victims and sort of celebrating their lives.
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