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* Andrew Schlafly of [[Conservapedia]] has a love of [[Insane Troll Logic]] and a hatred of video games and will invariably take advantage of the most tenuous connection to link any news story involving violence or misadventure to gaming. Highlights include the event of an apparently healthy college football star dying suddenly due to what turned out to be an undiagnosed heart condition; articles mentioned he had last been seen playing a video game, so Andy [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.phptitle=Template%3AMainpageright&action=historysubmit&diff=939108&oldid=939064 felt free to speculate] that the game was somehow responsible. He also announced that Kim Jong-un and the perpetrator of the Norway summer camp shooting were video game fans, as if this explained everything that was wrong with them, and managed to interpret a story about a boy accidentally shooting his younger brother to death because of an argument over a video game as being about the dangers of games rather than the dangers of leaving guns where your children can get them. |
* Andrew Schlafly of [[Conservapedia]] has a love of [[Insane Troll Logic]] and a hatred of video games and will invariably take advantage of the most tenuous connection to link any news story involving violence or misadventure to gaming. Highlights include the event of an apparently healthy college football star dying suddenly due to what turned out to be an undiagnosed heart condition; articles mentioned he had last been seen playing a video game, so Andy [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.phptitle=Template%3AMainpageright&action=historysubmit&diff=939108&oldid=939064 felt free to speculate] that the game was somehow responsible. He also announced that Kim Jong-un and the perpetrator of the Norway summer camp shooting were video game fans, as if this explained everything that was wrong with them, and managed to interpret a story about a boy accidentally shooting his younger brother to death because of an argument over a video game as being about the dangers of games rather than the dangers of leaving guns where your children can get them. |
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* [[Feminist Frequency|Anita Sarkeesian]] has also delved into this. The most infamous being her use of footage from ''[[Hitman (video game series)|Hitman Absolution]]'' to "prove" that games like it purportedly revel in murdering and killing hapless women. |
* [[Feminist Frequency|Anita Sarkeesian]] has also delved into this. The most infamous being her use of footage from ''[[Hitman (video game series)|Hitman Absolution]]'' to "prove" that games like it purportedly revel in murdering and killing hapless women. |
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* In a 2015 piece for [[The Escapist]], Robert Marks [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/garwulfs-corner/13982-Hatred-Makes-You-Look-In-the-Mirror-to-See-Meaning brings up the issue] of the relatively controversial game ''Hatred'' being a Murder Simulator. But unlike other examples mentioned above, he ''defends'' the case for ''Hatred'' and games like it being such things. |
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== In Fiction == |
== In Fiction == |
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