I started playing this game and one of the things I first noticed were the various items lying around the house that the player can equip to boost his stats, the Marilyn Manson cd and the Doom video game. This obviously refers to the idea that the cause of the Columbine massacre was related to the boys' use of popular culture. I thin the creators of the game do not feel that these played a vital role in the whole dilemma because of how Eric blatantly says that everyone is going to blame Marilyn Manson for everything that is about to occur. They could have had a slight affect on the situation but I think the real reasons behind the massacre are how the boys were treated at school. The way that the two boys talk to each other definitely highlighted the fact that they felt like outcasts in their school and that it was their motivating reason to plan the whole massacre in the first place. I feel like it sympathizes with the boys to a certain extent because of how it shows that they were truly psychologically messed up by the constant teasing and bullying they received in school. Ethically the game hasn't done anything that I would consider immoral so far but I'm interested to see where the game takes the player as I progress further into the game.
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