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Tuesday 4 November, 2008
During my last time playing Super Columbine Massacre, I found that the game was getting harder and harder to play. The characters actions and language were even more disturbing than before, and I kept feeling somewhat uncomfortable. Although, luckily for me, the graphics in the game are not very realistic, helping me to withdraw myself from the actual killings. Although I still knew that I was killing children, which is very disturbing to me. I also noticed that there were different options that you could select while playing the game, including taunting someone before you killed them. This made me uneasy to think that Eric and Dillon felt that it was not enough to just kill their classmates, but they would make them suffer even more before they murdered them. Their revenge went far deeper than just the shootings.
The game is mostly troubling to me because this massacre actually happened, and the thoughts of these two greatly disturbed teenagers are somewhat real. Even though we do not know the exact thoughts of the boys, the game gives us insight into what may have influenced these boys to commit such an act. I do not believe that listening to Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, or Radiohead could have lead these boys to commit the shootings, but I am sure that they reinforced some of the disturbed thoughts and feelings that the boys already had. I believe that playing this game would not lead someone to go on a shooting spree, but it may push someone over the edge who was highly disturbed to begin with.
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