MW3 Blamed for Norway Massacre?

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

@ Thee Odball

Sociopath might be any easy label, but his testimonies etc indicate that he does have a social conscience - the very reason he did what did (according to him) was, in his view, to protect society.





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"He said he played online fantasy role-playing game World of Warcraft as well as shooting simulation Call of Duty, which he said helped to hone his strategies for what he believed would be a suicide mission.

"Some people dream about sailing around the world, some dream of playing golf. I dreamt of playing World of Warcraft," he told the court.

He insisted the game was a social, not very violent strategy game, which was "pure entertainment [and] has nothing to do with July 22".

Breivik said he played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as actual training for the shooting spree.

"It is a war simulator. It gives you an impression of how target systems work," he explained, adding he used it to practice "shooting other people".

"The plan was to not surrender before the whole plan had been carried out," he told the court.

"It was a suicide mission where the probability of survival was equal to zero."

On the day of the attacks last July he arrived in Oslo's city centre and was surprised life did not imitate art.

He told the court: "I expected three or four officers to come out and get me".

But Utoeya survivor Tore Bekkedal says linking war games addiction to acts of terrorism is a knee-jerk reaction.

"I've played the same violent video games and I don't go round bloody shooting kids. I mean half the people in Utoeya played the same games," he said."



read more -> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-1...-utoya/3961532



Perhaps the video game association was shot down by comments from one of the survivors?

I tried to find the video I'd seen but can't seem to get it any more. Unfortunately, when there's developing news on the BBC they chop and change the contents and titles of articles so it's near impossible to find again. Couldn't find it in my history either. Either way, I don't think it was from that exact passage you quoted, since Breivik himself wasn't there, it seemed to be that they were only questioning the prosecution as to why they deemed that necessary information and as far as I remember it, only WoW was mentioned. If that's the actual court transcript from when Breivik was in court though, that'd make sense why all the papers had jumped on CoD.

[Wolf_Rider]

The quote is from an article in one of the local newspapers down here and, when it comes to what goes on in a court room, can only quote what was said. They can't give what they thought was said, for example, for penalty of interfering with due process. (I forget the exact term)
The Breivik statements quoted in the article, would be what he said and the survivor comments are unclear as to where they came from -testimony/ interview?.
Needless to say, the defence has something from one of the witness which they could possibly use.

I'm curious to see your video

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

The quote is from an article in one of the local newspapers down here and, when it comes to what goes on in a court room, can only quote what was said. They can't give what they thought was said, for example, for penalty of interfering with due process. (I forget the exact term)
The Breivik statements quoted in the article, would be what he said and the survivor comments are unclear as to where they came from -testimony/ interview?.
Needless to say, the defence has something from one of the witness which they could possibly use.

I'm curious to see your video

I'm curious to see my video too I can't find it any more unfortunately, which is seriously starting to bug me. I definately saw it on the BBC yesterday morning, but can't find it any more. It may have even been live proceedings or something, since I literally can't find it anywhere and translation was being done by one woman on the fly, or at least it seemed that way. What I meant in that last post though was that you are probably right, since in the video I had it may have only been them summarising what was said and therefore they only mentioned WoW and not CoD.