[News] Role-player decapitated (drug addicts arrested)
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mythago
Hero
What's sad is that the person quoted didn't say "RPGs are evil." He said, and correctly, that people who are reality-challenged shouldn't be playing violent fantasy-based games.
I assume your Swedish reporters are like ours. One of them shouts at the police officer giving the report "So have you ruled out D&D?" The officer says, we haven't ruled anything out, and the headline the next day is ROLE-PLAYING GAMES POSSIBLY INVOLVED IN GRISLY MURDER.
I assume your Swedish reporters are like ours. One of them shouts at the police officer giving the report "So have you ruled out D&D?" The officer says, we haven't ruled anything out, and the headline the next day is ROLE-PLAYING GAMES POSSIBLY INVOLVED IN GRISLY MURDER.
wighair
Explorer
Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
Sigh. Just goes to show that the media is equally stupid in all parts of the world.
Legba
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It's not as much that as the fact that they need an angle to make in intresting. (As if a decapitation wasn't intresting enough?)
So anything that'll give them an angle, they use. In this case, the oddness came from the fact that he played a game which can be thought to lead to a facination with death.
Legba
So anything that'll give them an angle, they use. In this case, the oddness came from the fact that he played a game which can be thought to lead to a facination with death.
Legba
KnowTheToe
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Mark said:
Remind me never to borrow your razor
Mordane76
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Unfortunately, if this spreads, the damage is done, even if it later becomes proven that RP had nothing to do with it. It's been said by an expert, and if this becomes big news (luckily it hasn't yet), people will still remember that an expert said RP had something to do with it.
Generalization -- People, as a group, will believe whatever the media tells them, even if they go back and later recant sections of the story. The damage is already done, because people won't give up their first impressions of the story. I know it's a horrible generalization, but generalizations are normally useful because they hold true most of the time, and while I hate to say it... this is just more ammunition for the anti-RP people.
Generalization -- People, as a group, will believe whatever the media tells them, even if they go back and later recant sections of the story. The damage is already done, because people won't give up their first impressions of the story. I know it's a horrible generalization, but generalizations are normally useful because they hold true most of the time, and while I hate to say it... this is just more ammunition for the anti-RP people.
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