YOU THINK I'M CUTE!?
Jesus, it's that bad?
"A closed mouth doesn't get fed. An open mouth swallows 8 spiders a year." - Don Zabu
In the name of the POWER, I will punish you!
Exactly how do they claim that a simulation of raising a puppy that has noting resembling violence in it "caused" the dog to bite the girl?
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" Futurama, Godfellas
.......
Am I the only person who isn't having a kneejerk "LIES AND SLANDER" reaction here?
Seriously, people, my dog has gotten excited from hearing dogs bark on the TV, and dogs, by and large, are extremely territorial animals. This really isn't that hard to believe.
Now, this doesn't mean that it's 100% the game's fault— very few people seem to have any understanding of how you're supposed to train a dog, so I would assume that the owners didn't train it correctly. But that still doesn't change the fact that the sound of the dog barking could very well have upset the animal.
Geomancer
^Did you miss the part where she kicked the dog?
edited 30th Sep '10 7:29:05 AM by Marioguy128
You got some dirt on you. Here's some more!"it is understood that she told police that Megan may have kicked Saracen and that is why he attacked her"
This is may be true. But it's clearly not any concrete evidence. And how does that change how credible the idea of dogs getting upset at nintendogs is?
Geomancer
Well it just seemed a little hasty to blame a video game.
You got some dirt on you. Here's some more!
:V
I think the because is related to the girl thinking like Nitentdogs.
"Destroying" is generally a term referring to the "putting to sleep" of an animal for a reason other than medical.
I got bit once, and got my cheek torn off, because I was trying to feed my dog rotten oranges. There was no malice behind it, I was very young, and for essentially no reason tried to do it, I think I didn't realize it was rotten or something :X. Its not a given that the animal will be put-down, but if someone gets maimed, yeah that dog is going to be killed.
Well he's talking about WWII when the Chinese bomb pearl harbor and they commuted suicide by running their planes into the ship.
Chaotic Greedy
Worse is when an animal from a Zoo somehow ends up out of its cage and maims/kills someone. They'll kill it, even if it's obvious that the actual criminal is the one who (by accident or malice) let it out.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
THE NEWSPAPER MAKING THIS CLAIM WAS A TABLOID.
WHY ARE YOU ALL TAKING THIS SHIT SO SERIOUSLY?
Well it just seemed a little hasty to blame a video game.You misunderstand me. I'm not trying to lay the blame on the game. I'm responding to all the people in this thread who are dismissing the idea of the dog responding to the game out of hand.
Dogs do not think the way people do. No other animal in the world thinks the way humans do. I think the people who are going "No way that happened!" are forgetting this little fact.
:V
Charlatan, get out of my anus I'm trying to talk about dogs here.
Well he's talking about WWII when the Chinese bomb pearl harbor and they commuted suicide by running their planes into the ship.
I'M TRYING TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL CLARITY.
Always Right
I'M TRYING TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE GIRL MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DESERVED GETTING MAIMED. SHE MAY HAVE KICKED A DOG ****ING DOG, AND RESULTING IN THE DOG GETTING DESTROYED.
"Next week! We show you a documentary about woodpeckers! Look, as the woodpecker OBLITERATES that tree bark in order to find insect. See, as the woodpecker ANNIHILATES that tiny grub."
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."
Caissa's DeathAngel
This article enraged me.
I'm a Trustee of Gamers' Voice (www.gamersvoice.org.uk) which is a recently created lobbyist group hoping to respond to, and ultimately stop, bullshit attacks like this by the media.
We have published an article about this story, and issued a complaint letter to the Daily Mail. They won't respond, but at least they know we're pissed.
Would you kill your best friend, can you save yourself?
@Signed:
HOW ABOUT AT THIS POINT WE JUST AGREE THAT AT VERY MINIMUM THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS FUCKED?
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Or, as Charlatan said earlier, take everything posted by the Daily Mail with a grain of salt a face to the palm.
gamer
who cares anyway , nintendodogs still sells , and if you give them the article they're gonna laugh they're asses off , and maybe make nintendodogs + vicious bears
Face Time
In response to the above: LOUD NOISES.
EDIT: Anyways, blaming a videogame is an automatic total loss of credibility. And if "destroy" means "put down," then I think I found out how Evil Overlords should operate.
edited 30th Sep '10 4:54:13 PM by RocketDude
"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel
now i wanna play nintendoviciousbears
Trainspotter
Dammit Nintendo, I want a copy of Nintenoctopuses!
Formerly known as Crow T. Robot.
Face Time
Das kann doch nicht sein!
For reference, I wouldn't even play Nintencats, although cats are my favorite animals.
edited 2nd Oct '10 8:44:16 AM by Nyarly
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
Trainspotter
I love octopuses! They're so cute and huggy! 
^OCTOPUSES ARE TRUE CREATION OF THE HOLY OCTOGOD! THEY WERE CREATED BY HIM IN HIS IMAGE!!
edited 2nd Oct '10 9:58:03 AM by SpookyMask
Which, for reference, is not even allowed to call itself a newspaper anymore.