The last thing I wanted to be doing was analysing the manifesto of a mass murderer. However, on Sunday, with depressing inevitability, it began emerging that links were being made with the Oslo atrocities and violent video games. I won't be re-treading old scientific arguments here. But what follows is a run down of every mention of video games in the manifesto and the context in which it appears.

Too Long Didn't Read

No one is expected to read all of this. All quotes from the manifesto are in italics and mentions of games are in bold - just scroll to those. The extra information is given so that there can be no confusion about the context in which the games are mentioned. There are also a few parts regarding the killer's stated motives - none of which are remotely linked to gaming.

The following is long but note that the document it is based upon is over three quarters of a million words in length (769,412 according to Word). That's the size of eleven lengthy doctorate theses.

Games

He mentions six games in total: two Dragon Age games (point and click Dungeons and Dragons-type adventures), World of Warcraft (the most popular online fantasy roleplay adventure game ever), Bioshock and Fallout - New Vegas (acclaimed adventure shooters) and Modern Warfare 2 (very popular First Person Shooter game) - one of the top five selling media of all time along with Thriller, Titanic and Avatar.

The upshot is that just ten minutes scanning the document shows that all mentions of games are completely incidental to the manifesto. In most cases he uses them as a pretence for spending ages on the computer, plotting. At worst he cites Modern Warfare 2 as a training aid for target practice - but this is a minescule reference embedded in an almanac of warfare. He mentions the rest in the context of taking a break from a hard day's plotting in much the same way that most gamers would take a break and unwind from work. I do that.

For people to leap upon the needle-like gaming references within the manifesto is to demonstrate a god-like myopia towards the haystack that enshrouds them.

He mentions modern warfare extensively throughout the manifesto - but not the game - the actual 'art' of warfare with detailed schematics, shopping lists, manufacture, arms dealers and anything else you can imagine. He was doing this long before Call of Duty was invented.

Religious references

Unfortunately, thanks to the Australian Christian Lobby, it needs to be mentioned that for any 'Christian' organisation to use the manifesto as a tool for pushing its own agenda beggars belief. Despite several Christian entities already citing specific quotes from within the manifesto in an effort to distance the killer from Christianity, the document is dripping in Christian justification. At one point there is a 10-page section citing Christian and bible references to justify the atrocities. Throwing stones in glass houses? Please don't.

Stats

Ultimately, in the 1528-page document, there are nine places with mentions of World of Warcraft, (one of which also mentions Bioshock and Fallout 3). Modern Warfare is mentioned in five different sections while Dragon Age is mentioned on its own once. If anyone finds any more, please let me know. I'd be surprised if there were more than twenty in total. I'd be staggered if I missed the one which said, 'actually forget everything else, I just want to copy the No Russian level from Call of Duty.'

The manifesto

The following contains long quotes from the manifesto. Some are unrelated to gaming, others shed some light on his motivations. All gaming references are included but this is no way an exhaustive analysis of the massive document. It took four hours just to skim it!

Here are the opening paragraphs.

Italics denotes quotes from the document.

Skip to the next section if and when you become satisfied that he wasn't motivated or influenced by violent games.

"The men the European public admires most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

After years of work the first edition of the compendium "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence" is completed. If you have received this book, you are either one of my former 7000 patriotic Facebook friends or you are the friend of one of my FB friends. If you are concerned about the future of Western Europe you will definitely find the information both interesting and highly relevant.

I have spent several years writing, researching and compiling the information and I have spent most of my hard earned funds in this process (in excess of 300 000 Euros). I do not want any compensation for it as it is a gift to you, as a fellow patriot.

Much of the information presented in this compendium (3 books) has been deliberately kept away from the European peoples by our governments and the politically correct mainstream media (MSM). More than 90% of the EU and national parliamentarians and more than 95% of journalists are supporters of European multiculturalism and therefore supporters of the ongoing Islamic colonisation of Europe; yet, they DO NOT have the permission of the European peoples to implement these doctrines.

The compendium, - "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence" - documents through more than 1000 pages that the fear of Islamisation is all but irrational. It covers the following main topics:

1. The rise of cultural Marxism/multiculturalism in Western Europe

2. Why the Islamic colonization and Islamisation of Western Europe began

3. The current state of the Western European Resistance Movements (anti-Marxist/anti-Jihad movements)

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