CoD:WaW - AMG SAVE TEH DOGS!!1!`1

[Norellicus]

TYNGSBORO -- Breanna Lucci knows her two Pomeranians -- Fluffy and Winnie the Pooh -- would not last two seconds in "Call of Duty: World at War," the immensely popular video game in which the animated gore piles high.

But even killings of the game's vicious attack dogs have moved this animal lover to rally students at the Academy of Notre Dame against animated cruelty that she fears could turn real.

Lucci, an Andover resident and president of the school's Animal Rights Club, two weeks ago launched a petition to heighten disgust over the canine aspect of a video bloodfest she saw her older brother engaging in.
More than 100 of Lucci's schoolmates have signed the petition. She hopes to forward it to the game's publisher, Activision of Santa Monica, Calif., a subsidiary of Paris-based Vivendi.

Lucci says the game's retail price of $59.99 is another good reason parents should discourage their children from purchasing "Call of Duty: World at War," which carries a "Mature 17-plus" rating.

"Killing dogs as a form of entertainment ... over and over again. That's one of the objects of the game," says Lucci, 19, a senior at NDA. "Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment."

Barbara Vitale, an English and Latin teacher who serves as faculty moderator of the club, adds, "We don't think killing people is a good idea either."

Parental groups, citing psychological studies, long have claimed that video-game violence makes some addicted players more prone to committing violent acts in real life. The consequences of violence directed at animals are less severe than violence against humans, removing certain inhibitions and making animal cruelty a far more likely outcome of video games, fears Danielle Morin, 18, of Hudson, N.H., the club's vice president. "I fear young kids playing these games and thinking it's all right to do this -- because they do it in a video game," says Morin, a senior.

Last fall, a judge in Alberta, Canada, banned four teens from playing video games as part of their probation after they put a cat in a microwave oven, though no direct link between video games and the cruel act was established in the case.

Jen Dupras, a humane educator for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, strives to break down stereotypes of pit bulls all having cropped ears and wearing studded collars, and of German shepherds all being attack dogs like those whose necks are snapped in the video game that has drawn the ire of the NDA students.

"I feel like these video games are dangerous for a lot of reasons," Dupras says. "We can all rationalize and say it's just pretend. Even so, why pretend shooting people and dogs? They really desensitize kids and adults to what that violence signifies."

The MSPCA two years ago led a pre-emptive strike in Massachusetts to ban hunting of live animals over the Internet after the idea surfaced in Texas to use mouse-controlled rifles to kill animals seen on computer screens. Even the Texas Legislature in 2005 outlawed Internet hunting, though did so more to protect the sanctity of hunting as a sport than on the grounds of animal cruelty.

Lucci became aware of animated killings of dogs in "Call of Duty: World at War" when she saw her brother, Frank, a 20-year-old Bentley College student, playing the game.

"My little 12-pound Pomeranian, Winnie the Pooh, is sitting next to him, and I'm thinking, 'This looks horrible!'" Lucci says.

Lucci then adds, "My brother is a sweetheart. He won't be killing dogs after playing. But some people might."

Lucci and the club are involved in many animal-rights causes. Lucci volunteers at the Salem (N.H.) Animal Rescue League and is devoted to closing puppy mills where overbreeding and inbreeding leads to serious health issues and to many dogs spending their entire lives in cages.

NDA students protest video game's depiction of cruelty to animals - Lowell Sun Online

Killing dogs as a form of entertainment ... over and over again. That's one of the objects of the game

That's one of the objects of the game

objects

LOL

[Metah]

Has she ever played that game? Dogs are so fucking hardcore in Cock of Duty 5 that if you don't kill them you will die. Even if you could rationalize that it might make you more prone to killing a dog in real life, there's still a difference between a docile dog playing in the park and a dog with its teeth barred chasing after you trying to kill you.

Nonetheless, I'm sure nobody will listen to them.

[gandorf]

It's obvious she has never played COD:WAW and lost her kill streak to one of those little monsters.

[Wintermute]

I am absolutely disgusted she did not mention Batman beating up dogs as an argument.

[guartz]

Animals don't have nuclear arms. You can't hug your children with nuclear arms.

[Priran]

Breanna Lucci knows her two Pomeranians -- Fluffy and Winnie the Pooh -- would not last two seconds in "Call of Duty: World at War"

article should have stopped here, this sentence tells you all you need to know

[Ishido]

At least someone is carrying the torch for Jack Thompson.

[Onigami The Yagudo King]

Onigami's faith in humanity falls 0.3

[BRP]

People say silly things. Why repeat them?

[Okan]

People say silly things. Why repeat the...

Oh wait...

[kuronosan]

I'll remember that next time a hoard of angry German Shepards are hunting me down. Don't shoot them to defend myself. Gotcha.

[Raineer]

I enjoy that the mood of the article is DOGS are the problem to kill... oh ya and we don't think humans should be killed either.

Shoot something with electronic fur and omfuck watch out you'll piss off a girlychan with too much time on her hands. Human deaths are manageable though.

It is stories like this that make me want to go eat an extra hamburger today. With bacon.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Lash out, make it a Baconator.

[Cjskater]

http://i41.tinypic.com/6i4fno.jpg

A scene from the "Call of Duty: World at War" video game.

Besides pointing out the laughable compression and the oh-so-dramatic black and white (you can almost hear court tv), that is CoD4.

[Raineer]

Lash out, make it a Baconator.

I'd call that sandwich the "PETA Surprise"

Baconator is never bad advice.

[Blabj]

http://i41.tinypic.com/6i4fno.jpg


Besides pointing out the laughable compression and the oh-so-dramatic black and white (you can almost hear court tv), that is CoD4.

W@W players only wish they could get silencers on their pistols.

I did wonder if this would have any effect on animal cruelty, since it does make you hate dogs quite a lot. I have a german sheperd, and every now and then when I was playing W@W I felt like getting up and stabbing him for what he did to me SO MANY GOD DAMN TIMES.

>.>

[Darkprophecy]

I guess this moron has never played Oblivion, Fable, WoW or anything that's a RPG set in a semi normal world either? This is such a joke, kinda like saying "Videogames cause shootings in school (colombine "sp.") I'm now waiting for the re-entry of the "I killed these people cause I played to much GTA IV" >.>

[Okan]

"Videogames cause shootings in school (colombine "sp.")

Parents refuse to accept responsibility for their inabilities at teaching their children the right and wrong things to do, so the media blames the next thing.. Music (Manson) and violent video games. C'est la vie.

[Rokku]

Parents refuse to accept responsibility for their inabilities at teaching their children the right and wrong things to do, so the media blames the next thing.. Music (Manson) and violent video games. C'est la vie.

Nuh-uh, vidja games breed homicidal maniacs, didn't you know?

But in seriousness, I wish more people (especially the media) would adopt standpoints like this on the topic, but in truth it's easier to pick a scapegoat than it is to say the parents fucked up.

[Brill Weave]

Fuck that shit. I ran from the dogs. Where's my semi-political activist group that will protest the fear that has unjustly been instilled in me by evil german shepherds?!!