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Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:54 pm on 13/12/2011
Tags: , beard, cop, , DC Universe, free, , gta 5, jumper, mental illness, mw3, myona.com, onlive, shooting, update, violence, virginia tech   

GTA 5 "Responsible for Virginia Tech Shooting"?

Here’s what annoys me. There’s people, usually politicians and other such “powerful” people, who like to accuse games of making people go on violent rampages. A recent one was some guy going around Virginia Tech and shot and killed a cop then shot himself, which i hadn’t heard of until today.

I saw it posted on a Facebook fan page of Grand Theft Auto V (https://www.facebook.com/GrandTheftAutoV5). And today, it posted a link to it’s blog: http://grandtheftautov5.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-website-claims-mw3-bf3-and-gta–v.html, which is a post about GTA 5, MW3, and Battlefield 3 being accused by some website called myona.com of influencing the 22 year old dude that shot this cop.

Firstly, Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t even out at the time, and GTA 5 isn’t out now, and won’t be for a while. So apparently Battlefield 3 influenced him. So what he did was strategically and stealthily, go around the school, or whatever Virginia Tech is, and silently take out the cop. You know, like in a lot of modern games. He didn’t? Oh, so what it said was a load of old crap then? Yep.

In fact games VERY VERY rarely influence people in a negative way. How many copies of MW3 were sold? 6.5 million in the UK and US. In one day. So there’s millions of people who have played MW3 going around shooting people? No. There isn’t. Actually it’s more likely that games like that relive stress and let their violence out without harming anyone. Apart from camping cunts. So clearly, they don’t know what they’re talking about.

It also says on that website that the shooter’s “style of the killing is similar to the upcoming Rockstar’s title Grand Theft Auto V”. So apparently they’ve played the game. Because I’m pretty sure there’s only been one trailer out and it doesn’t show any gameplay. Even if they referred to GTA IV, there isn’t any point in the game, or MW3 of BF3, where anyone goes around a school and shoots a cop. although in GTA there is a lot of cop shooting. Maybe next time it should be a myona.com writer. OOH SCANDAL. Now I’ve just influenced people and they;ll go around killing news website writers.

Clearly whoever wrote that article (a Mr. Amir Ariff) was just after internet traffic (just like i am with this blog post). It has 363 comments on it. the next highest amount of comments on an article on that website is… 7. Most of the commenters are probably people from that GTA 5 blog page though.

It says in that article that the guy was “quiet”. In other words, he just kept it quiet that he was going to go crazy. He must have some mental illness. All i know is that it wasn’t the game. I’ve been playing games since i can remember and i turned out relatively OK. I’ve never shot anyone (that I’ve been caught for). Kidding.

So myona.com, you might want to think about what you put next time. And that’s the nice way of saying it.

On a lighter note, I was going to play DC Universe Online on PS3 since it became free to play. So i start it up, update. I expected that. What i didn’t expect was after the update it has to download data. 12GB of it. So far it’s been going for 50 minutes. and it’s done 15%. It’s going to take over 4 hours. So i’ll do something else. Maybe play some OnLive. Actually i recorded Jumper last night so i might watch that. Oh crap, i recorded it on my PS3, and my PS3 is kinda busy downloading 12GB of data for 4 hours. OK, different plan.

Oh yeah, and i’m also growing a beard. Anyway, i need to poo. Ciao!

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 10:09 pm on 26/11/2011
Tags: £1, brag, dirty, game, , , , onlive, playpack, , service, stream, , value   

New Kind of Gaming. And Ireland

Hello children. in today’s lesson, i would like to teach you about an interesting gaming service you may or may not have heard of. Probably not. It is called OnLive. I’ll explain why it’s different

This is a gaming service that, instead of having physical disks or other media, or downloading a digital copy, you get games STREAMED to you over the interwebs. Kind of like a YouTube video. Only you control it. Naturally you’ll need a relatively decent internet connection. 5meg is recommended. I have 10 (apparently). As long as you have a decent connection, it’s suprisingly fast. Although when it does have speed problems, it really can fuck up your game quite bad. It got me killed once in Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Which leads me on to another subject: Games. The games that are available. There’s quite a few. Although they don’t seem to get released on there the same time as the same game on other systems, you usually have to wait a few weeks. Although there are quite a few games of varying quality. Here’s the list for the UK: http://www.onlive.co.uk/games/featuredgames#&tab=all_games

You can get games in full for a set price, like £30 or thereabouts, or you can get the playpack bundle, which gives you the ability to play lots of games for just under £7 a month. Oh, and you get the first game for £1. Great value isn’t it! You can get it for Winblows and Mac(unfortunately not Linux. Yet), or you can get the onlive console (like i have), for i think £70 or £80 (i got mine for £50 off ebay). It’s a well made piece of kit. It’s well built, has HDMI, 2 USB ports, optical digital out, and it comes with a wireless controller, which also feels well built. Even the USB cable does. Which is a lot like an xbox controller. Which confuses me because i’m used to the PS3 controller. Some xbox compatible controllers also work.

Anyways, all in all, it’s a good value service as long as you get the playpack bundle and there’s a few games in there you are interested in. I recommend you try it out. And if you do, add me, micolps3. Oh and you can also save what they call brag clips, which let you save the last 10 seconds on gameplay and post it to facebook or send it as a message to someone on onlive.

You can also view other people playing games live, and they can watch you. They can also cheer and jeer you if you do good or bad. It’s like facebook likes. Only with dislikes as well (still waiting for facebook to give us that).

And finally. On the 2nd December, i am going to Ireland to see my sexy perfect girlfriend, Tracey Ryan. I shall be returning on the 8th, with the infamous RyanAir (no relation to Tracey). Naturally we’ll be doing something very dirty. Mud wrestling. Yeah right. I’m sure you can imagine. Yeah, that,

Anyway, i haven’t been sleeping much the past couple of nights. I need sleeping pills. And i’ve also written quite a lot in a short amount of time (for me). I think i use brackets too much (or do i). Dammit