Just another day at Newgrounds...
The sad thing is that this Flash's greatest flaw is that it isn't particularly unique - an ultra-violent, blood-soaked, short animation with little to no point other than causing characters to die. When I saw it for the first time, I thought to myself "Ho hum, whatever." Except it's not quite a whatever - only because of what the author did. Kind've makes you wonder what so many other people on Newgrounds are thinking when they submit shit like this.
One Fucked up kid one fucked up flash.
Judging by this flash this dude did have problems and needed some help. Well it's to late now but let's hope nothing like this happens again.
Praying
This kid needed some help. If you read his MSN profile it is clear that he is calling out for help. I will pray for his soul, his family, the people he hurt and their families for the rest of my life. I know he is in hell but I hope the family well and also that someone who is going along this same path takes a good long hard look at what happened here.
It's sad.
You all can this guy, and you may want him to burn in Hell. But, if he read what he has written in reviews he's actually is, was, a very intelligent kid.
Something pushed Jeff over the edge to do that. So is it necesarilly right to hate him? Or hate what did this to him.
I'm not religious. There are no prayers for those who died. Only "regret", even for Jeff.
Good animation. Hope all the dead are at peace.
When I learned of the school shooting I was not surprised that this has happened again. There are so many reasons and different factors that send people into homicidal rages, but I knew that this, much like Columbine was something that couldn't be helped. I remember so many things that happened to me at my old high school and remember the feelings of worthlessness everyone around me made me feel, coupled with the loneliness I felt. This all mostly resulted from trying to be myself. I didn’t want to put up with all that fake social crap and decided that education was much more important than how I did on the cross-country team in high school. Many of the people whom I had known (including a best friend) wouldn’t even acknowledge my existence after all this had happened. This was just the beginning. Then later my family no longer was a family (that’s an understatement but you really don’t care to here details anyway) and my school did some horrible things to me too. And the only thing anyone or anybody would do for me is hand me antidepressants or a therapist once a week that needs to be paid for (not that therapists don’t want to help others or that they necessarily become therapists to get money or anything like that). Because of this I feel I understand some of what Jeff must have felt. For me if I had ever done something like that, it wouldn't be about being evil or just killing for mere pleasure, but about fighting back against everything/everyone around me that made me hurt so much. And if I did this, someone who was hurting me better believe I would kill them with a big psychotic grin on my face. I think this is what Jeff was probably doing and probably what the Columbine shooters did as well. Once I got to such a dark place, people liked to then make me feel or hurt (physically/emotionally) much worse by saying I was weak and ill (mentally) and maybe hurting me physically on a very few occasions. I don’t expect anyone to care about my words and I know there will be more school shootings, but this is how it is for some. We have human rights and the Bill of Rights (in the USA) to protect every individual human. But in the case of Jeff and many others in this country (USA), lots of people are stricken of their life (for some who commit suicide from others hurting them), liberty (for those punished for being themselves. i.e. when my school board ordered the police department to put me into a mental hospital for writing a fictional story where the main character in the story briefly considers/argues homicide that closely paralleled my life (this was illegal, you should know)), and the pursuit of happiness (this just happens from everyone/everything hurting one). If people like Jeff (let’s call them people-A) are stricken of their human rights by people around them (people-B), is it really right for those people-B to blame people-A completely for what they have become? This is really leading me to the question: “Then is it really fair for people-B to expect to deserve security from people like Jeff?” On a side note, I personally think that because of many factors inherit in American society, that the USA has way too many people-Bs. Of course this is just a thought, and as I get older I get the see the better people, so this is only a current thought.
I hope Jeff and all the people he killed get to all live in peace now. Life is not full of enough peace for all.