First of all, a link to the story
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/frustrated-father-who-killed-crying-3831547
In case you don't want to rot your own mind by reading something of The Mirror then I'll give you a brief synopsis. Mark Sandland got pissed off at his 5 week year old baby who wouldn't stop crying and shook her to death. He also happened to be playing Assassins Creed 3.
The reason this story is so fucking stupid is because all these news sites are writing the story as if the killing of the baby and Assassins Creed 3 are linked somehow. Like the reason he shook his baby to death was because he was playing that game, and not because he's just a bad father/got mental problems/whatever else.
Let me share with you my favourite part of the above article.
"Police who attended the flat after Aimee-Rose was admitted to hospital on November 5 2012 found a PlayStation game controller on the sofa opposite the TV."
WELL SO FUCKING WHAT?! What does the fact that he was playing a Playstation, let alone Assassins Creed have to fucking do with anything?! The ONLY reason that was put in there is to add some fucking spin on the article so that retards who can't think for themselves start to think "OH! THOSE VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES MAKING PEOPLE MURDER AGAIN! BETTER CONSIDER BANNING EVERYTHING!"
This is an absolutely terrible story but these fucking news sites are distracting from the ACTUAL issue by making a big deal out of a fucking video game. What really caused this poor baby to die was a stressed father with a short temper being at wits end. We SHOULD be discussing how this kind of thing could be prevented by maybe providing support for families who feel overly stressed with their children or something like that.
BUT NO! OF COURSE NOT!
Instead we're just giving bits and bobs of information and shoving some references to Assassins Creed 3 in there to get people riled up about the non-issue of violent video games that I THOUGHT was swept away fucking years ago.
It's not just The Mirror who are at it either, pretty much every news article I can find on this story runs with that whole Assassins Creed angle and let's be brutally honest here; there isn't a fucking link between the two events at all.
For the last time, the fact that he owned/was playing a Playstation at the time had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. I have a Playstation and I bought bread yesterday. I ate a sandwich today, so does that mean that playing violent video games makes people want to eat sandwiches? No, of course not, don't be so fucking stupid. Video games are one of the biggest industries around now, pretty much every mother fucker has some kind of video game in their possession so OF COURSE you're going to something game related if you go to some average shmucks house.
So fuck the Mirror, fuck the BBC and fuck any other so called "Journalist" that worked on this fucking story. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for reaching Kotaku levels of total stupidity.
He could have been beating up his wife and the baby interrupted him so he shook her to death. Or he could have been watching his favourite porn movie when the baby started crying , or he could have been as drunk as a skunk. It goes on and on with every "new" invention. First novels, then movies, then TV. . "They've probably blamed lego for something at some point. They blamed rock and roll for all sorts of crimes in the 50s.
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