I seem to recall the media jumping on video games as the root cause for the Beltway Sniper incident, when that shit was going down. They hushed up really fast once the culprits were caught (and hell, I remember some CNN twat trying to connect a fucking craft store to the shootings, just because of the name. I'm sure other stores happened to be in the same area as multiple shootings, lord knows the US is rumored to have a McDonald's nearly every freakin' block.)
For the longest time comparing actual buildings to level design was verboten because of the Columbine shooters. The rumors about them designing a level out of the school wasn't true. Their notebooks did swap back and forth between the shooting and level ideas though.
I seem to recall the media jumping on video games as the root cause for the Beltway Sniper incident, when that shit was going down. They hushed up really fast once the culprits were caught (and hell, I remember some CNN twat trying to connect a fucking craft store to the shootings, just because of the name. I'm sure other stores happened to be in the same area as multiple shootings, lord knows the US is rumored to have a McDonald's nearly every freakin' block.)
They love a good rage bait.
For the longest time comparing actual buildings to level design was verboten because of the Columbine shooters. The rumors about them designing a level out of the school wasn't true. Their notebooks did swap back and forth between the shooting and level ideas though.