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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhoa. Holmes friend saying it WAS the video games.
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It is believed Holmes was due to be kicked out of his flat and may have recently broken up with a girlfriend, while one friend said his addiction to video games meant he had lost touch with reality.
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Neighbours told TMZ anyone living in the block had to be enrolled at the university otherwise you had 30 days to evacuate.
It is not known exactly when Holmes stopped going to classes but it is thought he was nearing the end of the 30-day grace period.
A former classmate from the University of Colorado suggested another cause for the killings, saying Holmes had lost touch with reality after becoming 'obsessed' with video games.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177736/James-Holmes-Dark-Knight-massacre-gunman-appears-court-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty.html#ixzz21Tf0isOm
Drale
(7,932 posts)it wasn't not the video games per-say but the addiction.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Latin. Literally "in itself."
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)dogknob
(2,431 posts)...to describe a person with actual standards desensitizes people to the true meaning of the term.
When Romney becomes CEO of the USA and corporate policy becomes law, who will we compare their racist, classist, anti-intellectual, anti-gay, exclusive agenda to when the obvious comparison has been rendered meaningless because of its application to everything from soup to President Obama?
randome
(34,845 posts)Your second sentence is too long.
That is all.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)What is all? And why is That equivalent to All?
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)The gaming industry and geek community have been fighting this bullshit for years.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)Have you seen all the posts blaming the Batman franchise for this?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)dogknob
(2,431 posts)...like making billionaires look like idiots...
Then they will run out of steam just short of Grand Theft Auto, where you can sleep with a hoooker, then kill her and get your money back.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)Alduin
(501 posts)that caused his issues, not the video games themselves.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The mountains of evidence that we was not a video game addict?
I must have missed all that.
Please do share.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)So he was obsessed with video games? And he gunned down dozens of people?
So the video games caused him killing people?
I think not. Isn't it more likely that his obsession with video games and his shooting a bunch of people were both caused by a different trigger. Possibly that the guy's barking mad?
Okham's razor!
Edweird
(8,570 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)IMO, this is pure conjecture on his part.
randome
(34,845 posts)However, it is interesting to see how defensive some people get when the subject is broached. Instead of debating the point, they want to protect or justify their own hobbies, interests or obsessions.
But I don't believe we can ban or 'cleanse' video games as a way to keep the nuts from going nuttier.