On November 30th there was one shooting in a high school in Oxford, in Michigan, and a 15-year-old was accused of being the perpetrator of the gesture, which cost the lives of three students. Well, the American site Inside Edition linked a post from the boy to Fallout 4, hinting that the Bethesda title may have it in some way inspired.
In Fallout 4’s Far Harbor expansion there is a sequence in which Nick Valentine says “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”, a phrase echoed by the alleged author of the shooting in a post. This was enough for the editorial staff of the US site to include some sequences of the game in the service.
There is only one small detail: Valentine’s character mentions J. Robert Oppenheimer, the New York physicist considered the father of the atomic bomb, who uttered that famous phrase after witnessing the explosion, in turn citing the Bhagavad Gita.
It is not clear at the moment whether the unfortunate combination between the alleged author of the shooting and Fallout 4, as well as video games in general, has found space or not in other newspapers. Certainly it is a forcing that leaves us perplexed, even more so considering the actual origin of the citation of the post.
In the meantime, it was news a few hours ago that the suspected student’s parents were arrested on charges of manslaughter, as they were the ones who gave the boy the gun with which he would have opened fire at the school.
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