Student Removed From School for Creating Video Game Map
May 03, 2007

More murder simulation goodness. in Fort Bend for creating a map of his school for Counter-Strike. You know, that amazingly real murder simulator where you learn to aim and kill and stuff. David knows the one, where you jump all the time while shooting in order to go faster.

I seriously find it amazing that they've removed a kid for something like this. I mean, any serious gamer who has ever dabbled in mapping has made a map of A) Their House B) Their Mall and C) Their School. Personally, I did my parents' basement in Half-Life - my school in Doom - and someone in California made a map of our mall in Duke3d. Last I checked, creating artistic reproductions of things wasn't a crime.

There are terrorists and psychopaths at every corner. Some kid making computer game maps, probably isn't one of them. Let Jack Thompson make up some statistics on how many "school shooters" made maps of their schools and then "trained" in them. Let's see how far he gets.

As an aside, I saw in the WSJ that we lost somewhere close to 120 troops this last month. 120 dead. That seems like a whole lotta lives are being thrown at this problem with no resolution in site.

Anyway, back to management.