I live about four blocks away from where the shooting occurred. Heard what I thought to be a dozen or so firecrackers (very common in this town on a weekend night), but my fiance thought they were something different. The endless sirens for 10-15 minutes tipped us that something was off and I checked reddit and saw what was going on. Pretty crazy to have something like that happen so close. Feel awful for the people that had to die because an awkward rich kid couldn't get some.

Can Shane get banned to that single thread?

The advent of social media has added such a very odd sub-context to these types of events. You watch those vids of the alleged shooter and you can't really wrap your mind around how someone could be so out of touch with reality. You are left asking yourself whether someone could really think like this.

I was his age in the mid 90s and I can say without hesitation that anyone in my social circle who started talking like that would have gotten a cold dose of reality from any one of a number of my friends. Are times really that different or what?

I have no idea what this kid's underlying issues were, except to say that spoiled rich kid is nowhere near an adequate explanation. I grew up with a stack of spoiled rich kids; some turned out just fine and others turned out to be jackasses -- pretty much like every other category of kid.

I don't find those vids to be even slightly chilling; had I seen them before he killed a bunch of people, I would have thought they were a parody. In other words, I wouldn't even have taken his threats seriously.

Anyone that describes himself as "magnificent" or thinks of random UCSB college dudes as "lesser men" is seriously delusional. I wonder how long it would take in conversation to figure out that this guy was ****ed up.

social isolation, whether brought on by overt narcissism or not, is a killer.

ShaneG thinks we live in the Matrix and that everything around us is fake.

Sandy Hook? He says it never happened.
9/11? CGI.
This creepy guy's videos? SIMMING (whatever the **** that is).

Bdiddd,

I think it's more that the type of person that does this kind of thing and is so clearly out of touch with reality and unable to pick up on social cues (just inferring here, because there's 0 chance that a guy with this kind of money and good looks didn't have girls interested at one time or another) would make the type of friends that would do that for him. People that arrogant generally don't make those kinds of friends and surround themselves with enablers and people who will feed their delusions.

If errbody just ignores ShaneG he will STFU

What`s his name on 2+2 ?

yeah, engaging shaneG should be a bannable offense

milk hath done just shot out of thine nostrils.

His videos show clear signs of clinical depression ("...my life is a living hell..."). He complained about not having a girlfriend but there was a deeper issue going on. It didn't matter how affluent you are when you have a psychiatric disorder. IMHO his actions were an elaborate method of suicide.

BACK IN MY DAY

Selfies are masturbation.

Come on guys, at least try to counter the points i've made. There's not a drop of blood to be seen in that pic. And computer simulations these days are of a pretty high standard so you shouldn't rule out the possibility that this character is a sim.

Here's a video that talks about the uncanny valley and gives you an idea of the level of technology that we're approaching on this.

Why Human Replicas Creep Us Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ar7WO1T5Cs

you convinced me... nothing more than a game sprite.

Ban please^^^

Every thread I click on has this guy blabbing about talking lizards and leprechauns and how they live on satellites or some crap

So are you saying that he wasn't sick and was normal?

Some of you are seriously out of touch with reality if you think this is just because he was brought up with money and spoiled.

I for one feel sorry for the kid. Can you imagine being so lonely and unwanted by people that you feel the need to go shoot people?

Maybe if people began to accept mental illnesses and not make fun of people or label them as "crazy" etc people with these mental illnesses might talk openly about their problems or at least try to get help. If everyone labels you as something and goes out of their way to avoid you because your different maybe you start to believe they are right and you are worthless.

I've always had empathy for people like this because they obviously have issues and have been unable to receive help for them and eventually are driven to the point where they can't take it anymore. Does it make it right or am I standing up for them? Absolutely not but that doesn't mean I can't try to see something from their point of view and what might have driven them to the edge.

Life isn't some Disney movie that always ends with a happy ending. Some of you probably live amazing lives and should be thankful for that because at the other end of the spectrum you have people like this that no matter what happens life still sucks. **** ain't sweet in the real world.

I think you have it completely backasswards...

the one who lacks empathy is this idiot... Elliot Rodgers.

can you even begin to imagine the narcissism necessary to formulate the idea that you are entitled to something in life merely because you are Elliot Rodgers?

Entitlement is a serious disease...

Suprisingly not the first time this has happenned in Isla Vista. Possible copycatting here.

"The killings evoked eerie similarities with a 2001 rampage by UCSB student David Attias, who raced his car down a crowded Isla Vista street, killing four young people and injuring another.

Attias was acquitted of driving under the influence but convicted of four counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Nicholas Bourdakis, Christopher Divis, Elie Israel and Ruth Levy. The jury then declared him legally insane."

It's chilling to watch him talk. Kinda the same way I felt when NBC was airing that VA tech shooters video (though they had very different temperaments of course).

He's the son of the Assistant Director for the Hunger Games. He must have been on another level of creepy to never get chicks, I feel like having a dad who is a director on the most popular film series with teenage girls should make things a lot easier.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...lling-six.html

And it's a fact that every generation ever thinks the one that follows it is worse and constantly pine about the "good old days."

Yesterday it was the Beatles causing kids to kill people, today it's video games/social media/twerking.

It's a cold world, yo.