Did computer games turn you to a life of crime?

[therockbox]

A newspaper (not the Daily Mail... probably) is offering cash for your stories on how videogames made you "turn to a life of crime".

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A listing on recruitment site StarNow, a hub for actors and musicians looking for jobs, has appeared reading, "a national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person".

The listing comes in the wake of last week's Byron report, which made newspapers nationwide, some with questionable headlines such as 'computer games get health warnings'.

All you have to do to get the newspaper's cash is "write a few lines about how computer games turned you to crime and if it's something we like, we'll call you straight back". Easy Money.

We've always said gaming was unfairly targeted in national newspapers, but offering cash on a actors recruitment site for stories that are blatantly going to be at least slightly fabricated is, frankly, disgusting.

Anyway, we've submitted our application, Viva Pinata did turn us into vandals down the local allotment. We hope to be able to afford our new trainers soon.

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[SRN]

People are getting desperate.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Final Fantasy lead to a resurgence in sword violence.

[stokeriño]

More like RPGs lead to a resurgence of breaking and entering - pausing only to allow the occupant to describe a snippet of their irrelevant daily life before the criminals thieve whatever they fancy and stroll back out the door.

[brenchill]

I'm more of a film violence man myself.

[Cactus Drags]

The price of videogames made me pirate them for a while at Uni, does that count? >_>

Also, fuck the fucking Daily fucking Mail.

[Gazz]

After playing FFX, I went around for a while, throwing beach balls at people and playing with a small stuffed cactus.

No wait, that was before...

[Baddar]

After playing Scarface it gave me the urge to kill a man just as I was about to buy drugs off him, then just run off with the drugs anyway, leaving said guy in a pool of his own blood.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Everybody's Golf made me hit ping pong balls down the street with a walking stick. (I'm too poor to afford golf clubs and golf balls but hey, that's *nearly* rebel).

[Crybaby Bunting]

Playing Sonic has caused me to be banned from the local jewellers

[brenchill]

Resident Evil 4 inspired me to walk around in a trench coat asking random strangers what they were either buying or selling.

Edited April 6, 2008 by Animal Mother

[AlphaOmega]

The Sims 2 has caused me to walk around talking gibberish and taking the criminal career path.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Shadow President was probably the route cause of the time I nuked the hell out of Mexico.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Playing Medieval Total War caused me to raise up a band of a thousand hardy men with pikes and invade Wales.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Also WWF No Mercy caused me to kill my wife and child then myself.

[Colly]

Also WWF No Mercy caused me to kill my wife and child then myself.

Loooooooowww.....

Anyway, playing Railroad Tycoon prompted me to build up a transport company from scratch, making me a multi-millionaire, helping the economy, and until now ferrying Daily Mail 'journalists' around the Southern counties. They're now banned unless they're carrying Game Boys and jumping on Goombahs til there knuckles bleed.

[probablyoliver]

Playing Katamari turned me on to a lot of drugs.

[Gazz]

Populus caused me to start my own civlisation.

We were wiped out by a freak formatting error

[apsham]

I got deep into video games in my younger years.

Now all my base are belongs to them.

[Wormmaster]

I'm wishing I could say WIN!~~! to the one above, but surely someone would come up with something better right away.