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I was told to stop reading it again as it was making me angry and giving me chest pains. Normally I quite like getting riled about things, especially when you can feel morally superior, but the Mail is just downright nasty. For me what started out as an amusing past time (lol, look at what the crazies have written now), turned into a burning obsession that had me frothing indignantly at the mouth every time I looked at an article.

I'm now refusing to read anything about them, even 3rd party articles that will annoy me. It feels good not to be so angry (though I now need to eat more as rage was my main source of sustenance).

I can't see the Mail as anything other than satire of itself. I'm convinced the articles they write are simply there to provoke a reaction of incredulity, or outrage, reckoning either of those are better than no reaction. But then I hear people quoting ill-informed statements that sound as if they saw them in the Mail and thought that that meant they were true and I wonder if life isn't all just some colossal jest on the Creator's part and it's only me that's getting the joke.

If it was satire I could handle it, but the horrible truth is that they're catering to a demand. The only truly amusing thing about it is that I reckon 50% of its reader base is made up of people who hate it but want to hate it up close.

I wonder if it would be possible to fit in a "Reading Daily Mail gives you cancer" inside the letters section of the Daily Mail itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19842704

Read that and try not to rage. Yet more of the fucking idiotic view that what you play in a game defines who you are in life.

Aside from the gaming thing, it strikes me that American politicians are vicious, nasty bastards. I couldn't vote for anyone who used hate campaigns like that.

My reaction to that was to laugh. And I think the only reasonable reaction is to find it ridiculous and dismiss it. Unless they start discussing the entertainment media that all politicians consume, films, books, TV, music, etc.

Ladan Cockshut

Dog Pants wrote:Aside from the gaming thing, it strikes me that American politicians are vicious, nasty bastards. I couldn't vote for anyone who used hate campaigns like that.

This. It absolutely galls me that instead of offering counter points to any arguments, they just go straight for the character assassination.

It took longer than expected really. But as we all probably predicted, the media are blaming videogames for the Newton massacre. As bad a piece of journalism as one would expect from the Sun. I expect the Mail is probably running one too.

Paging Roman! Are you still reading the Mail and pretending to get angry at the articles?

Dog Pants wrote:It took longer than expected really. But as we all probably predicted, the media are blaming videogames for the Newton massacre. As bad a piece of journalism as one would expect from the Sun. I expect the Mail is probably running one too.

I'm beginning to suspect that's become a standing joke in the tabloid press. Oh, a shooting? Blame video games! Which is weird, cos computer games have been around long enough now that most middle aged journos probably played them as teenagers.

HereComesPete wrote:Paging Roman! Are you still reading the Mail and pretending to get angry at the articles?

Not looked at it for months and months, and I feel so much better for it. Instead I'll just post this again as all the major news outlets seem to do the exact opposite:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4[/media]

Wait, was that right? Man Utd 1 Liverpool 4?

Haha! I noticed that when I watched it again the other day. Well, it is a tragic video after all

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHzTlkAGNIE[/media]

Notice how he says "media violence", yet the story is spun as only games. I'll accept that media violence in general could contribute to violent tendencies in those with mental health problems. Perhaps the US should treat violence in media in the same conservative manner as they do sexual content.

All mass murdering fuckheads enjoy video games.
Therefore all video game players are mass murdering fuckheads.
Flawless logic, Mr Aristotle

It's what philosophical logic calls an informal fallacy, for those who might be vaguely interested

friznit wrote:All mass murdering fuckheads enjoy video games.
Therefore all video game players are mass murdering fuckheads.
Flawless logic, Mr Aristotle

It's what philosophical logic calls an informal fallacy, for those who might be vaguely interested

I feel I really need to revisit my discrete maths teaching I so enjoyed at college, which in sensible, calm equations cruelly expose this and more complex tangles as massively-bullshit suppositions.

friznit wrote:All mass murdering fuckheads enjoy video games.
Therefore all video game players are mass murdering fuckheads.
Flawless logic, Mr Aristotle

It's what philosophical logic calls an informal fallacy, for those who might be vaguely interested

Aristotle's organ, pffftt.

Been a while since I've had to dust off this thread. That's a good thing, right? Well trust the Daily Mail to focus on the non-issues:

Daily Fail wrote:Revealed: Washington Navy Yard gunman was a paranoid insomniac who played Call of Duty for up to SIXTEEN hours a day

Note, if you dare to read, that they only really mention games in the article to point out that they're violent. And the picture shows him watching American Football (which clearly isn't violent at all).