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Thai video-game distributor yanks Grand Theft Auto IV off the shelves after a teenager in Bangkok kills a cab driver "to see if it was as easy as in the game"
In other news, way over 9 million people have bought GTA-IV but have failed to kill a human "to see if it was as easy as in the game." Daily Mail (London)

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Posted By: Chuck - Tue Aug 05, 2008
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I don't think it's ever been hard (technically speaking) to kill someone. Living with yourself, or getting away with it are harder than the game portrays, I think.

Actually getting healthier after sex with a hooker, on the other hand, is in direct opposition to the laws that govern reality.

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 08/05/08 at 10:42 AM

I've been playing shoot-em-ups on my PC since "Castle Wolfenstein" (the 1st 3D one) and even before that on my Commodore. Now, I've got to admit, if I had a BFG9000 I'd use it from time to time and I <<HAVE>> had some urges to do away with cabbies (being a biker in a big city) but, to date the closest I've come is with some of the comments made here.

If 9M instances of an occurrence produce X results and 1 instance produces Y results then it should be quite obvious that the Y result was NOT a result of the occurrence in question.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/06/08 at 01:00 AM

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