Crazy that this kid was actually thinking this
Just that the kid made this flash movie, and then made it real just sends chills down your back...
Reviews for ""Target Practice""
A decent movie.
It's a decent movie. It has smooth animation, with a lack of visual detail, sound, and variety. It was short, simple, decent.
Now, on to my 2 cents about this whole situation:
To all of those titling this individual as a "monster" or "psycho" or "mad man", remember this: you did not know this man, you did not know what he went through in his everyday life, you did not know of the high magnitudes of social isolation or ostracisation he underwent, or how his family had treated him, or how many nights he had spent alone, on the internet, trying to find an escape from it all.
Who's to say, if you had grown up in an environment similar to his, and you were treated by most as most had treated him, day after day, that you would not one day become sick and tired of it all, and give up on yourself, on others? If one only knows of sorrow, of strife, of punishment, without and understandable cause, and if one must spectate day after day, the lives of countless, more priveladged others, would one not find his/her life LESS MEANINGFUL? LESS IMPORTANT?
He did not kill without his own personal cause, as we do not kill without our own "just", national cause. Just because you cannot see his motivation, as he saw his motivation, does not make you any more "sane", but less experience in the field of despaire.
No, I did not ever come into contact with this individual. And no, I am not supporting "senseless" murder. I am simply stating that, none of you, not I, nor Tom Fulp, nor the media, knows the entire story behind the events that had occured in that school, in this man's home, and what twisting effects they had had on that man's perspective of himself, of others, of his bleak future, and of his insipid past.
Get over yourselves, and your "morality", for you know nothing.
Really?!
I never heard about this guy, must have happened in America (I'm Australian.) Why do people do that sort of thing, is it pure insanity?! do they simply hate there school?! or do they just want to commit suicide and they thought they might take some people with them.
Maybe this guy simply played so many violent video games or watched so many violent movies that he got the idea it would be alright. Looking at his responce to a review by YoinK_VineS he said "I'm a big fan of overkill." And many other review responses talking about him liking violence.
This actually points out that Newgrounds is extremely violent and of poor taste... But then again I guess that is the reason i still come
here.
Short, not bad..
Couldv'e used a little more practice in the art,
A bit short,
Sounds was good....for what there was.
I'd say keep trying, but I guess he can't now.
Frightening Really
Well personally I just read the NewsWeek and Time articles on this man who submitted this piece of flash animation. After watching it I must admit it is sad to think measures and actions this person took just for the cause of hate. 4StringPoet I must say that just because you don't agree with what he did doesn't mean you should condem him completely. For those who knew him they said he was was "The nicest person you'd ever hope to meet", "He'd always try to help others with their problems.". Depression takes it toll on people and Prozac mixed with teenage hormones and the enzymes that cause depression have been said to cause suicidal and homosidal thoughts. Not to say what he did was even close to good, just defending the defenseless, it's my job. "Remember the dead for who they were in life not for what they ended up as before they died". A wise man once said, this adolecent decided death and suicide were his only options for a full death. This is what drive the killers of today. Remember that he felt pain, and that he died doing what he though was right. Again I say I do not condone his actions, I just defend him because he is dead and cannot defend himself.