German Gamers, Retailers React To Rampage
Politicos aren't the only Germans reacting strongly to last week's shooting rampage by 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer: 3Dsupply.de has this T-shirt for sale, sporting the tagline "I Choose No Killer Games," which appears to address some serious misconceptions regarding German gamers.
The accompanying sales text refers to amoklauf, or running amok, a term used in German to refer to school shootings:
With this shirt you can clear position against the one-sided condemnation of gamers as a potential running amok through the established parties.
In addition to T-shirts that defend against condemnation of gamers, German retailers Galeria Kaufhof and Saturn have both decided to stop selling 18+ games entirely.
German Anti-game Backlash Spawns T-shirt, Stops Game Sales [GamePolitics]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 19 March 2009
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Yeah, this will solve the problems. Violent video-games caused that damn WWII, too!
Oh those wacky Germans, always getting it wrong.
( I can say this, I'm part german.)
The T-Shirt actually says the contrary, "I don't vote for game killers".
True, the t-shirt says "Spielekiller" meaning game killers and not "Killerspiele" which would be killer games.
I think it is more like a pun of reverting the two parts of the word in order to show that people wearing this wouldn't vote fore politicians that are shortsighted and in the end effect just stupid about (adult) video games
Yep, it actually says "I don't vote game killers!"