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PostPosted: 05/27/18 2:03 pm • # 1 
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WTF?????? ~ on a horror scale of 1-10, I put this at 9.95 ... jumping up to just below immigrant children being removed from their families by DHS/ICE news ~ :tearhair ~ a few "live links" in original ~ Sooz

Video game lets players simulate school shooting rampage
"How can anyone sleep at night knowing that they are profiting from turning deadly school shootings into entertainment?"
Danielle McLean / May 27, 2018, 2:44 pm

Like a lot of video games, “Active Shooter – the Simulation,” promises an adrenaline rush through the squeeze of a make-believe gun trigger. But this new game, set for release next week, has a controversial twist: Players simulate being gunmen who exchange fire at a school.

“Pick your role, gear up and fight or destroy! Be the good guy or the bad guy. The choice is yours!” reads a description of the action on Steam, a digital game distribution site.

The game’s scheduled release comes against the backdrop of a barrage of school shootings, including one in Santa Fe, Texas earlier this month that killed 10 people.

Another shooting at an Indiana middle school just last week injured two, and might have turned deadly if not for the heroics of an unarmed teacher who tackled the shooter, a student at the school.

So far, there have been 21 school shootings that have hurt or killed people in 2018, averaging to more than one shooting per week, according to CNN. This includes the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 17 people, one of the most deadly shootings ever in the United States.

The epidemic of shootings has fueled much of the outrage that has greeted the game. A petition on Change.org demanding that the “Active Shooter” game be canceled has garnered over 11,000 signatures. “How can anyone sleep at night knowing that they are profiting from turning deadly school shootings into entertainment?” the petition asks.

“Active Shooter” is billed as a “dynamic S.W.A.T. simulator,” which allows players to be either a S.W.A.T. team member of or the shooter in school settings, according to Variety. The game’s release is set for June 6 on the videogame marketplace Steam, which allows people to publish games on the site for a $100 fee, and developer Revived Games is planning to release a survival mode, allowing players to become civilian characters during shootings.

According to Variety, a disclaimer on the game’s Steam page warns players “not to take any of this seriously. This is only meant to be the simulation and nothing else. If you feel like hurting someone or people around you, please seek help from local psychiatrists or dial 911 (or applicable). Thank you.”

In a post on Steam, without a trace of irony, Revived Games said that their game “does not promote any sort of violence.”

https://thinkprogress.org/video-game-lets-players-simulate-school-shooting-rampage-499a2d2678b7/


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PostPosted: 05/30/18 7:37 am • # 2 
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I'm very relieved this game was taken down ~ I still can't get over what a stupid/evil idea it was ~ :ey ~ Sooz

A new video game simulated school shootings. After outcry, it got taken down.
Active Shooter was set to come out on Steam, Valve’s gaming platform, on June 6. But Valve took it down.
By German Lopez Updated May 29, 2018, 8:30pm EDT

A video game that let players simulate a school shooting was set to come out on Steam, the PC’s biggest platform for buying and selling games. But Valve Corporation, which runs Steam, has taken it down.

Active Shooter, from developer Revived Games and publisher ACID, was set to release next week on Steam. But it drew a lot of negative attention, including from outlets like BuzzFeed and Kotaku, as well as the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Parkland activist Emma Gonzalez tweeted, “Valve Corp shut down this shovelware immediately please.” (Shovelware is software that does nothing new and is a quick cash grab.) Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) called the game “inexcusable.”

On Tuesday, a Valve spokesperson told Deadline that the company is removing the game from its online storefront:

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We have removed the developer Revived Games and publisher ACID from Steam.

This developer and publisher is, in fact, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, who had previously been removed last fall when he was operating as “[bc]Interactive” and “Elusive Team”. Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation. His subsequent return under new business names was a fact that came to light as we investigated the controversy around his upcoming title. We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve.

The broader conversation about Steam’s content policies is one that we’ll be addressing soon.

The ill-advised game, based on a video posted on Steam, would let you play either as a SWAT team member focused on stopping the school shooting or as the actual shooter. The game’s developer, it seems, saw this as a selling point — with the developer pointing out on Steam that “[o]nly in ‘Active Shooter’, you will be able to pick the role of an Elite S.W.A.T [sic] member or the actual shooter.”

[Video accessible via the end link.]

The video showed a shooter running through school hallways and classrooms while killing — with firearms and grenades — police officers and civilians. Through a score counter, the game tracked “civ killed” and “cops killed.”

The developer responded to the outrage last week, saying that it “will more likely remove the shooters [sic] role in this game by the release, unless if [sic] it can be kept as it is right now.” But it also defended the game, arguing that there are worse games out there (“Hatred, Postal, Carmageddon and etc.”) and that it “does not promote any sort of violence, especially any soft [sic] of a mass shooting.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/29/17405716/active-shooter-steam-valve-corp-video-game


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PostPosted: 05/30/18 8:04 am • # 3 
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I don't understand. According the Rep. Representative Diane Black who is running for Governor of Tennessee, it's porn that causes school shootings. Why worry about violent video games? :b :sarcasm


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During a meeting last week with local pastors, Black raised the issue of gun violence in schools and why it keeps happening.

“Pornography,” she said.

“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she continued. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”


http://juanitajean.com/oh-dear-9/


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