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Joel Smith, a student from the Lausanne's University, was arrested this morning after shooting into the campus with an AK47 elite build.

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Thanks to the presence of StatTrak on the weapon, the police could easily determine the number of victims.

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There were 69 people affected, 42 died, that's at least what's indicated by the StatTrak counter.

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With the weapon, its skin and its StatTrak we can certainly put the blame on the infamous game Counter Strike: Global Offensive or CSGO.

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It was already known for its community, I quote, "toxic and full of bad motherfuckers Russian players, as well as haters."

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Live at Joel's apartment, our correspondent Didier.

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Indeed Thierry, I'm live in the apartment, or rather the room, of Joel Smith.

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After the shooting, the police went straight to his house to find clues or evidence against him.

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They found what could be the cause of the massacre: on his computer, he owned three hyper-violent games that have already been found after other shootings of this kind.

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First, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, which, according to the police, helped Joel to control weapons and explains why the targets were mostly Russian.

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Then GTA V, well known for his hyper-violence and its latent police racism, which would explain how Joel has obtained his weapons.

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Finally Hotline Miami 2, which would have served, authorities said, to put good music in the speakers of the University.

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Didier thank you, following the news in a moment.

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How many times have we heard a radio or television program saying this stuff?

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Since Mortal Kombat, which introduced the age limitation, and Doom, first FPS, the media regularly used video games as an excuse for massacres committed by students in schools.

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And they then dragged the reputation of players in a rather unpleasant hell.

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It was said that video games were making people violent, idiots, addicts, and, because of that, video games and their consumers were conidered bad for society.

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Yet despite numerous studies, scientists have never been able to create a link between sustainable and constant aggressiveness or video games.

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And now, the media gradually give up, and accept more and more video games as they are.

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You can also see, through the increasing number of eSports tournaments, the competitive video game is now considered a sport, with tournaments, rewards, many spectators and a growing audience.

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Yet the competitive video games and tournaments often use violent games like CSGO, CoD, LOL ...

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And are the eSports champions violent, or do they act violently? Not really ... So, do video games really make people violent?

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Hello everyone, and welcome for this third episode of « the Case », focused on the question « do video games make people violent ? ».

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This will be a special episode, because I won't use the same method as usual, and will rather make a discussion, talking in the same time for the pros and cons.

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There were a lot of studies, tests and surveys that have tried to point out if there was a link between violent games and aggressiveness, but without success.

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For example, 15 young people were playing GTA and 15 were playing Tetris, and that for about 30min.

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Then they made them take tests, and you could see that the 15 who played GTA were more tense, irritable, aggressive, that the 15 having resolved puzzles.

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The thing is that it was a reaction directly after playing, and it was not repeated in the long run, just with other youths.

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So, it just served to prove after being stressed and energized, you are more tense and aggressive than if we are alone.

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So thank you Captain Obvious.

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But that is normal.

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Me too, after a close game of CSGO I am on edge, and  I'm more irritable than usual. But it's during 10 to 20 minutes, not for days or weeks.

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The only interesting study in my opinion is a study on the difficulty and not the violence.

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It said that aggression and irritation caused by video games does not come from violence, but because of the difficulty, which leads to frustration.

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And that's what seems to me the most logical: if I get angry in a game, for example CSGO, it's not because I kill people, it's because I can't.

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We can therefore ignore studies, as there are no concrete results.

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This is at least my opinion.

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No, but just like that, when a study says that players of violent video games are more likely to smoke, doesn't it sound like bullshit in your ears ??

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We can actually compare this whole fear of violent video game to the fear of violent movies.

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I'm talking about murder cases claimed as a movie-inspired, as this backstab "inspired from Scream" or the shooting before the Batman movie.

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Again, studies, further studies, but no results.

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Why ? Because the only culprits, very isolated, were found being psychologically unstable.

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But cinema, followed by video games, are victims of this thought, that showing violent content will result in making people violent.

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So we can conclude that the Roman people were a serial killer nation? No, but the circus games weren't a bit hyper-violent?

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Especially when what we see are fictitious images, not the actual people.

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We also talk about « trivialization of violence », but the problem to me is that most of the time, this violence is not even realistic.

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While the developers boast the realism of their game, in a graphic part at least, their games are rarely realistic.

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Especially because there are always improbable tricks. Take GTA V, look at the missions we're given!

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Boarding a cargo plane belonging to a private military agency with an agricultural aircraft

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killing all the elite soldiers inside the plane, taking control of the cargo

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standing up to the army of hunters and finally getting shot, but getting out narrowly

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all being performed by one person !!

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Don't ever tell me it's realistic.

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And here I don't event speak of games like Halo, Destiny, where the context and the game world are not realistic.

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Finally, I think that we must see especially violent video games, like every FICTITIOUS violent media, as an outlet.

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For me, killing in people in video games, seeing people killing each other in films or series, is better than killing people in real life.

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I even wonder if there is a number of people who use the video game as a stress relief.

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Caution, not a stress relief such as "I'm not happy so I relief my stress" but a relief like "if I don't kill people vitrually I might kill in real life".

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But you have to know that people who go nuts and claim a video game as their "inspiration" are often unstable people at the grassroots. (text in the video: "he didn't claim a video game as his inspiration")

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So, do video games make people violent?

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I would say that everyone has his opinion. One can believe this or not.

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The problem is that nothing is proven, and most studies are contradictory, sometimes it leads to violence, sometimes drug consumption, sometimes nothing ...

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So, if I take in consideration my life and my friend's life, it is mainly the frustration that makes aggressive, and yet, it is only in a short run.

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For example in a CSGO game where we are losing, my friend and I might say "goddam we are shit" "fuck they are cheating" etc

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And this is normal.

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The only reason I play hyper-violent games like Bulletstorm, is because I want to let off steam because someone / something has frustrated me and I want to evacuate my anger otherwise than yell at my parents and my brothers.

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But you know, play GTA V, CSGO, Hotline Miami, anyway it shouldn't harm you, exept if you're psychologically unstable...

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Oops, I have to go, see you later !!!

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one hour later...

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We are just being told that *****, know as Ante on internet, a student at *****, was arrested following a shootout in the Media Markt store in Fribourg.

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Live at Media Markt, our correspondant Didier.

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Indeed, he would have killed three employees because they had not yet received the latest Call of Duty, violent game known for its mission where you were killing civilians in a Russian airport in the game named Modern Wafare 2.

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Police launched an investigation to determine which violent games he had played to get here.

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He would have declared to authorities, I quote "Violent video games do not make people aggressive you dipshit."

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Thank you, more information on the case after the investigation.