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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

JoeyT

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3. Of course it's also coming from the

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 01:41 AM

Dec 2012

very same people that blame video games for everything. Which are the same kind of people that blamed grunge when I was a kid, heavy metal ten years before that, D&D ten years before that, pot ten years before that, rock music ten years before that...

Some people just need a simple answer they can rally behind, doesn't matter how unrealistic it is.

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Here comes the "video games cause school shootings" nonsense. [View all] Odin2005 Dec 2012 OP

Ohio Joe has taken up the good fight, uriel1972 Dec 2012 #1

I used to have that decathalon game for the Atari 2600 lizerdbits Dec 2012 #2

Of course it's also coming from the JoeyT Dec 2012 #3

In the UK, blaming video games for everything is so Nineties LeftishBrit Dec 2012 #4