Sonic made him do it
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, crime, death, guns, Jack Thompson, politics, Sonic, Tae Kwon, videogames, Virgina“He was enrolled in a Tae Kwon Do program for awhile, watched TV, and played video games like Sonic the Hedgehog.”
“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.”
Poor Jack Thompson, his ammo has been taken from him in this incident. Though… in Sonic Adventure Sega did introduce guns. Or perhaps it was simply the terrible Sonic games (like Adventure) that drove Cho to snap. This was expected but it is nice to see it become publicly acknowledged. Media may give people ideas, it may help push someone to perform an act, it does not make someone commit the act nor change their potential.
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September 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Is it a coincidence that Cho is so close to Chao the adorable little guys from Sonic Adventure? I think it’s a Sega conspiracy. Since we didn’t buy enough of their hardware Sega programmed Cho to do what he did. They raised him to be an evil Cho.