Ok, so, last night I was watching CSI: Miami on A&E. It was a [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CSI:_Miami_episodes#Season_4:_.282005-2006.29]Season 4[/URL] episode called Urban Hellraisers. Here's the descripton:
[quote]Delko is at the bank, following an ATM taking his debit card, when three robbers wearing ski masks rush in. Delko knows he can’t win against the three robbers but when one of them tries to rape a girl it ends in a shootout. The security tape leads them to University of Miami and to the robbers next target and Horatio manages to arrest one of them. The trail leads to a videogame named Urban Hellraisers and when Ryan starts playing it, it seems there are a lot of similarities between the game and the actual crimes. It’s up to the team to catch the robbers before they commit a crime much more serious than the last one.[/quote]
Granted, that description is pretty tame, but the episode played out as if He Who Shall Not Be Named had written it. A Game Developer pays a bunch of college kids to recreated the scenes in his GTA-ripoff game. And of course the college kids go around robbing banks and invading crime labs. The best part was where one of these punks was holding a lab tech at gun point and started yelling '5000 points!'.
Another awesome part about it was when the CSIs were interviewing a suspect who was uninvolved with the crimes, and was saying 'I'm not one of those gamers' or 'They won't even look at you if your not a gamer', as if being a gamer makes you guilty by association.
They even had a dead kid who died from playing games for over 70 hours, much like that kid fron South Korea who kicked the can from playing too long. They had the energy drinks and piss-filled bottles to boot.
Though, at least they were open-minded on one part. The worst college kids, the one with the most points because of killing more people, was female.
Don't you love the depiction of gamers in the media?
And I didn't know where else to post this. We used to have a Games & The Media forum, but that seems to have gone a-wall.
