Oh hey, it took long enough. Someone finally linked the Norway shootings to video games.
Breivik said he played the computer game "Modern Warfare" for 16 months starting in January 2010, primarily to get a feel for how to use rifle sights. In 2006 he devoted a full year to playing "World of Warcraft," for 16 hours a day, he said.
I really have no idea which of my dozens of initial reactions here are the appropriate one. I have a sneaking suspicion that the only proper thing to do here is to drop a Haddock and move on.
It bears noting that this paragraph is buried pages down in an article detailing Breivik's motivations in great detail, but the headline is still "Norway killer sharpened aim on computer games". Looks like at least one editor knows his priorities.
My understanding has been the crazy fuckface has been purposely trying to drum this up. For whatever reason the psychopath wants the media circus around it. His manifesto explicitly detailed that he used CoD to train himself, and he acted in court all smug and grinning when they talked about it.
He's purposely feeding them the bullshit and they are smearing it all over themselves so eagerly. I don't know why, maybe he's hoping for more controversy around his name, maybe he hates video games, maybe he wants to get off the hook, but he's doing it on purpose in a disgusting way.
