Source Kotaku

Video games, they do a lot for us. They entertain us, help us learn, well, the boring ones help us learn.  The good ones teach us to kill and destroy.  The good ones make us want to go on crime sprees. You know it’s true.

I know after a game of Shadowrun, I wanted to buy a hang glider and take down an evil corporation for the sake of my people (whomever they are). Didn’t you?

Actually, I just got back from running over hookers in my chevy.  Fun stuff, and I learned it all from video games. 

More after the jump.

While I was just kidding above, this little piece of news… this is the real deal. 

In North Carolina, three 19 year olds decided that they were going to set the town on fire. Literally. They set eight cars and a vacant house ablaze before being captured by authorities.

After being taken in to custody, they confessed that their motivation was a video game, Postal 2. In the game you play an Emo kid that can’t take it anymore, and goes on a tear in a little Arizona town. You make the world pay for your sadness by killing people and destroying stuff. Sounds like a great game. It’s too bad they weren’t mimicking AdultSwim.com’s 5 Minutes To Kill Yourself.  Choices, choices.

Why does this game not get more flak than GTA? I have a feeling that’s about to change.

In other News of the Stupid, a sewage treatment plant in Georgia was attacked.

Terrorists? Nope, just a couple of dumb asses mimicking what they saw in a movie and a video game.

The movie the two 15 year olds watched was Fight Club, a great movie, although I can’t say there’s anything in it I would want to mimic. I wonder if they both had insomnia, chemical burns on their hands and imaginary friends.

The game, Tony Hawk Underground 2. In the game there is a mission where you get you points by stealing and breaking things. Sounds like so much fun. I miss the days when skate boarding games were about…skate boarding.

What happened to the time when mimicking Tony Hawk ended with falling off a skate board and breaking your arm or ankle?

It’s stupid crap like this that gives gamers a bad reputation. The least they could have done was pick a couple of good games.

I think this just shows us that crappy games like these should not be made. If they were good games, these kids would have been at home playing them and not out tearing s*** up.

It’s a damn shame.

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