May 17th, 2007
Virginia Tech Online Game Generates Outrage
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
… and well it should. It’s been said that Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-hui was disturbed and mentally ill. I will go so far, based on what I have read, to say the creator of this game fits in those same categories as well. (OK, maybe not the mentally ill part …) Yes, I went to one of the sites it’s hosted on to get a screenshot. No, I did not play it.
The creator of “V-Tech Rampage”, 21-year-old Ryan Lambourn, said he made the game “because it’s funny,” the Sydney Morning Herald reported Thursday.
The unemployed Lambourn responded to outraged calls for him to remove the game from the Internet by demanding 1,000 US dollars for each of the two sites it is on and said that for another 1,000 dollars he would apologise. Source: Yahoo! News
We Say: Naturally he now says it’s all a joke … but he still won’t take it down from the sites. This is the “We Say” section … but I’m speechless.
Rhys says:
I mean, some people could argue “all’s fair in love and comedy”, and certainly some people make jokes about tragedy, usually to get over the grief of it (it’s certainly a very British thing to do).
However, demanding money to remove offensive content and apologising is completely wrong, has he no heart?
May 17th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Lewie says:
He’s a 21 year old. Obviously he’s never been touched by tragedy so he’s oblivious to the pain it creates. That will change no doubt as he matures and eventually faces tragedy of his own.
Or he might just be a subhuman piece of shit.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Pyrial says:
But it is funny to make games about Mexicans crossing the border or punching Osama Bin Laden repeatedly… Where oh where will we draw the line…
It is in bad taste yes. It is within his free speech rights yes. You dont have to play it or look at it and support his advertising…
May 17th, 2007 at 4:27 am
MissingFrame says:
I hate to break it to you, but by posting about the outrage you are supporting his behavior:
“I’ve done offensive things before but they’re not usually this popular,”
May 17th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Richard Ahlquist says:
And how praytel is the lame game some scriptkiddie hobbled together RealTechNews?
May 17th, 2007 at 6:30 am
dogger says:
21(i think) years to early for jokes accourding to south park
May 17th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
jay says:
yo that is masd up sh!t ok whhy would u make a game like that he needs to take that sh!t off the net
May 18th, 2007 at 6:30 am
jay says:
yo that is masd up sh!t ok whhy would u make a game like that he needs to take that sh!t off the net
May 18th, 2007 at 6:30 am
jay says:
yo that is masd up sh!t ok
May 18th, 2007 at 6:31 am
jay says:
due that is gay and backstabin i am in the 7 grade and i think that is to much for the fuckin parents kids how died and i new some how died in that bullshit and it was fuckin gay ass shit
May 18th, 2007 at 6:33 am
John says:
This is a simple one. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Charles says:
You know me… always the contrarian on RTN.
The situation at Virginia Tech was sensationalistic, but no more of a loss than the kids that get gunned down in inner cities every day. That same number of minority kids are killed every year.
A game like Grand Theft Auto uses the back drop of gangs and organized crime in the inner cities and that is ok, but a game about the Virginia Tech shooter is not. Yep, makes perfect sense to me…
Did anyone think that a Flash game about shooting VT students was NOT going to be created?
May 18th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Some Bunny’s Love » Freedom of Speech Should not Support Bad Taste says:
[…] Just a quick blurb to state a comment about a poorly created on-line flash game I fist heard about on RealTechNews and confirmed on Yahoo. I refuse to link to the game itself, but if a search on VTech is done, one would find a video game that puts the player as the shooter in the massacre. The game writer states that he understands Cho because he himself was picked on. Ha. So was I, but I learned how to deal with it by making something of myself. I had mentally promised that I would not write a response because I know how hot I can get. I could easily put both feet into my mouth. That does not mean I will discourage anyone else from writing… All I can say is, “UGH. WHY???” […]
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Nick says:
dude… i think its a funny gam… it is def. a tragety and sad, but there are jokes about it, and the game is funny. i have played this game it was well made good job
… oh and if you have ever heard on holocost jokes.. isnt that the same thing?? yeah it is its all in fun stop getting bent outa shape guys
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