@firefly,
Quote:Foundy, you've considered the influence of many factors in determining Rodger's psychopathology, but why haven't you mentioned video games?
Quote:Our analyses show that personality characteristics tend to become more negative as group membership increasingly approximates to addiction.
“We found the people who were addicted were less emotionally stable or neurotic, and generally more anxious, had lower self esteem.
“At the extremes these are personality characteristics associated with Asperger’s syndrome.”
I agree with this, in as much as anyone that gets addicted to anything that has to do with a Computer 24/7 and can't leave the house, has low self esteem, may suffer from anxiety but at the extremes they could have anything" ....
I "saw" WOW as a make believe place you can be yourself, create your own character and that you get immensely addicted to. I've read so many Threads of wives trying to ascertain how to stop their husbands being a part of it. Predominately in my opinion you can be a "hero". Violence I don't really see other than the norm.
I had mentioned and I do believe (have to look) another mass murderer was into this, "Game of Thrones" which honestly was my next step of searching. This game he was a big fan of. The critics detested it, for it's massive nudity, violence and sexual violence.
Also The Hunger Games. I wondered if that influenced him.. " They fight to the death until there is one only remaining who will then be crowned".
Then also I thought of his Grandfather, who the Chinese Military gave him permission to film the Buma Road. Concentration Camp that he talked about. When he had his face-book page which was taken down, his Grandfather was befriended on that page. His Grandfather quit working after seeing the piles of bodies..
Elliot mentions - standing watching all women starve in a Concentration Camp. He poses as someone else on You-Tube before feeling strong to pose as himself and talks of rape, killing, sluts. He talks of being "God" crowned. He quotes Garrosh and even defends characters. I didn't bring up WOW because, yes, it's a fantasy world, yes, he played it for years I believe up until 2012 but it's the Thrones I felt and as stated before, the hate Forums that he turned to after 2012, that I believe turned him.. And, alcohol. I've found some areas he's mentioned this including feeling dizzy. And, wealth, he was so angry at Peter his father for not succeeding in OMG in 2012 and so angry at his Mother for not marrying a millionaire.
As this other person on You-Tube, look below at his persona and how he raves about himself as a millionaire. Fixated on it and he states that he was as well. WOW may have given him confidence, he created a character I can't deny that it's tame.. He's taken some of his Grandfather's life, some of WOW and it's characters, some of The Game of Thrones in violence, & some of the Hunger Games " one remaining, crowned"... In my opinion.
The drug he wouldn't take was after he was pushed off the ledge after trying to push others. Risperdal.. For schizophrenia, bipolar and autism. The side effects look pretty shitty to me.
His Councellor apparently asked him to leave Isla Vista after the event but he refused to do so.
He saw an Asian talking to a beautiful blonde and he was enraged. He didn't believe blondes would ever go out with an Asian. So that poses a question to me, why did he chose what he believed he couldn't ever have.
So I still see, wealth as a huge priority, alcohol was a part and if this is correct Xanax was taken as well, he said he would take a whole lot in his video before he killed himself.. And I still believe that WOW is tame compared to The Game of Thrones he loved, The Hunger Games and what it represented and the Forums of hatred of women, so in my opinion he progressed but kept some fantasies from WOW and of his Grandfather's sightings and added them into the mix.
You may find some of this interesting.
Quote:“If I had it in my power, I would stop at nothing to reduce every single one of you to mountains of skulls and rivers of blood, and rightfully so.”
This I believe is a quote from a WOW character, called Garrosh Hellscream.
Quote:But that was only a small part of the reason why I quit. The main reason was the disturbing new player-base. The game got bigger with every new expansion that was released, and as it got bigger, it brought in a vast amount of new players. I noticed that more and more “normal” people who had active and pleasurable social lives were starting to play the game, as the new changes catered to such a crowd.
WoW no longer became a sanctuary where I could hide from the evils of the world, because the evils of the world had now followed me there.
I saw people bragging online about their sexual experiences with girls... and they used the term “virgin” as an insult to people who were more immersed in the game than them.
The insult stung, because it was true. Us virgins did tend to get more immersed in such things, because our real lives were lacking. I couldn’t stand to play WoW knowing that my enemies, the people I hate and envy so much for having sexual lives, were now playing the same game as me. There was no point anymore.
I realized what a terrible mistake I made to turn my back on the world again. The world is brutal, and I need to fight for my place in it. My life was at a crucial turning point, and I couldn’t waste any more precious time.
I excused myself as soon as I finished eating, and boy did I stuff myself on that meal. I then walked outside onto the beach. The wine had long since gone to my head, making me feel a sense of dizzy invigoration.I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
In that college town, everyone went out with at least a little alcohol in their system.
I wasn’t an alcoholic, but drinking alcohol always helped me with being more confident and sociable.
On weekend nights, I took a few shots from my vodka bottle and set out on walks around the town, desperately hoping that I would stumble across some opportunity to make friends.
I often ended up sitting alone at some café, hoping girls would talk to me before I sobered up. No girl ever did. I then went back home to lie in my bed alone.
I have always had a penchant for luxury, opulence, and prestige.
The Spring of 2013 was also the time when I came across the website PUAHate.com
Quote:I came across this Asian guy who was talking to a white girl. The sight of that filled me with rage. I always felt as if white girls thought less of me because I was half-Asian, but then I see this white girl at the party talking to a full-blooded Asian. I never had that kind of attention from a white girl! And white girls are the only girls I’m attracted to, especially the blondes.
Quote:[13 years old] After almost a month went by after getting World of Warcraft, I was finally able to play it. I made a WoW account with my father, and then I created my first character, a night elf druid. It really blew my mind. My first experience with WoW was like stepping into another world of excitement and adventure. It was a video game world, but they made it so realistic that it was like living another life, a more exciting life. I hid myself away in the online World of Warcraft, a place where I felt comfortable and secure. World of Warcraft was the only thing I had left to live for.
Quote:Once I watched the first episode, I was hooked on the story. Prince Zuko was my favorite character; he was a banished prince who was trying to regain his rightful place in the world. I always related to him. Avatar: The Last Airbender became my favorite T.V. show.
Quote:Everything’s better with some wine in the belly, as a famous character from Game of Thrones would say.
Quote:He had read all the "Game of Thrones" books and liked to spoiler future plot points on people's fan videos. Oh, and he liked Nickelback. "Valtharion" stopped posting and switched to just being Elliot Rodger on YouTube about 10 months ago, so his despicable, racist, misogynist, classist views go back at least that far.
Quote:Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodger uploaded a bunch of videos to his YouTube feed chronicling his sad, woman-less existence. He also followed a number of pickup artist (PUA) channels. But before he started planning his "Day of Retribution," Rodger had a different YouTube channel--one with his World of Warcraft screen name, Valtharion
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Valtharion
2012 a Forum 1 post only, Valtharion (aka Elliot) wrote this.
Quote:You're wrong. I think Garrosh is exactly what the Horde needed. The war between the Alliance and the Horde makes this game and story FUN. It's the whole point of WARcraft. One faction being the more aggressive villainous faction makes it even more interesting, and that faction was always supposed to be the Horde. People who like to be the good guys can be alliance, people who like to be the badass villains can be Horde. It's perfect.
And I think Garrosh as Warchief is awesome. He actually has ambitions for the Horde. Thrall is a peace-loving hippy and incredibly BORING. You want someone with Thralls vision to be Warchief? Why?? I don't understand why Horde players hate Garrosh so much. He wants to conquer the world for the Horde. It makes the Horde look more cool and badass. He has raised the Horde's cool factor by 100%. And that bomb he used in Theramore was a genius plan. He lured so many important Alliance members to one spot and killed them all instantly! Horde members should be proud. People whine that it makes the Horde evil... that's how the Horde is meant to be, and it makes the Horde look cool.
If you want a game where all the races are goody-goody holding hands and fighting against demons and dragons together, Guild Wars 2 is that way ---------------->
On a video of a half-Asian, half-white guy:
Quote:"Hahaha, I am a very beautiful man. And white people worshipped me at school. They all looked at me with envy when I pulled up in my BMW. My family is very rich, and I will impregnate lots of beautiful blonde white women and create superior Eurasian children who will grow up with lots of money and bully your ugly degenerate children if they ever cross them."
On a World of Warcraft video: "
Quote:LOL your last name is Gonzalez. That means your dad is probably a gardener or a construction site laborer. And you're calling Swifty "sad"? Haha shut up you mexican scum."
On an anti-misogyny video: "
Quote:Why does this guy defend women? Women are the ones who flock to the men who treat them badly, instead of going for the nice guys. It is women who are to blame, and it is women who should be PUNISHED. The nice guys who treat women well are the ones who are being abused, and they should realize this and start a revolution and PUNISH ALL WOMEN AND DOUCHEBAGS."
