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Currently, it is not easy to be an Internet junkie him PC gamers, Internet junkie or a PC. Either one is killer or pedophile, at least then, if one knows the “controversial Counterstrike” not only from television or behind a DNS lock believed but no medical intervention in the own gene budget. Reports about how the public think experienced PC users, tear it, not down, and serve as a new Dynamite on an actually bombed-out battlefield.

Recently, not only the local press on a donation of the action Alliance threw Amoklauf Winnenden (AAW). Germany wide was reported. The Alliance wanted to collect the so-called “killer games” in Stuttgart and are giving away among all participants a Jersey of the German national football team. Football vs. killer games – if this is no doubt times. Seemingly has the majority of those who would have to, undertake the action but rather to the “God of war” believed and this held true. The action was their actual intention after a flop – more than a few dozen games is not met.

She flopped in particular is – wonder – when playing the PC Internet junkies – so ourselves. These ereiferten are however already in the run-up to extensively about the project and mocking it with the always same arguments. Naturally one would rather sell the games as there hineinzuwerfen, of course was the container far too big and of course none of them seriously has to go out, tens of thousands of game packs would gather in the demolition. For a wounded animal, the AAW seems to be but amazingly pertain. It even called the success of the project “Families against killer games” and wants to continue it.

It was actually a success also. How many discarded game packs can claim already to be the subject of several news bulletins, blog entries and newspaper reports? You’ve also can make contact with the player group as reported by the Alliance. And this is quite a success. On non-PC it is not easy, indeed, to some not quite inappropriate advances to the players. Even one so must have casual action as in Stuttgart is accompanied with hundreds protest emails that you read not all in order to be able to imagine that including also just that is sort of hateful E-mails, original whose creator you never wanted to be.

But how can we expect a culture of debate which we, the PC gamers, even do not want to support? One is only just the action Alliance has exactly a dozen goals, of which the “prohibition of killer games” Amoklauf of Winnenden. It may be controversial, and you can be good reasons not to comply with this populist demand. Is it however fair, only to plunge? There are no sympathy with scorn and derision.

Of course it is different. Because not needlessly, the Pirate Party was a minor hit in the last Bundestag election. Hundreds of thousands of votes are an Agnello is PC following, which will reach now also to the public and is within the rules and conventions of the society. Not without reason is the media coverage on PC-related news, also in the critical field of killer games changed. Even the ZDF, formerly the author of controversial Killerspiel posts, reported on the AAW event very differentiated and – you would think – objectively. That is the least noticed however.

Instead of yourself making an image, we leave to others there, satirical aufgemöbelt vorzubeten it us. This is not a form of opinion representation. That is herd thinking. While it would be this small starting points, you should use. If already the ZDF reported accomodating if pursue is already a set actually critical of player action Alliance, much of the route is already reached. However, the last meters are the most important. They bridged these not only protest but with content. What was previously sufficient, is now a log in the leg. You can build any bridges with opportunism, for this it needs two sides, who meet in the middle. As long as you are but the superiority of its own Internet video, hetzerischer comments and anonymous E-Mails pleased, as long as is no culture of debate on a broad front. This need also which, in order to establish PC games as accepted by everyone part of the company and at some point perhaps also as cultural property.