14 DAY TRIAL // Remember the Virginia Tech Massacre? Yes, it would have been better if it hadn't actually happened so we wouldn't have had to remember it, but as it turns out, more details on Cho's habits have emerged, giving a better clue as to what exactly influenced the young man in acting the way he did on that dreadful day. According to Eurogamer.biz "The final report of Governor Tim Kaine's Virginia Tech Review Panel shows that Seung Hui Cho [...]was not a gamer, and that games played no role in the tragic event."
The upper mentioned website refers to the fourth chapter in the report. This very chapter focuses solely on Cho's mental history, which does say a few things about video games such as Sonic the Hedgehog, making it quite impossible to link the massacre occurring at Virginia Tech in April, to video games. Here are some bits from the report in question (from gamepolitics.com):
"None of the video games were war games or had violent themes. He liked basketball and had a collection of figurines and remote controlled cars. [...]
Cho's roommate never saw him play video games. He would get movies from the library and watch them on his laptop. The roommate never saw what they were, but they always seemed dark. Cho would listen to and download heavy metal music?
?Cho went to bed early and got up early, so his roommate just left him alone and gave him his space. The only activities Cho engaged in were studying, sleeping, and downloading music. He never saw him play a video game, which he thought strange since he and most other students play them."
The report, although put together for the sole purpose of clarifying once and for all that video games had nothing to do with the VT massacre, also comes as an in-your-face! to video game critics such as Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil (TV psychiatrist).
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