Regarding the Columbine RPG... interesting to note that the paradigm of "run all over the place, killing any living thing you see" isn't really uncommon in gaming. In fact, there is an entire genre of games (FPS) dedicated to just that very thing. Even consider that if the setting were the same, but instead of helpless students you were up against Nazis, ghouls, or some other "bad guys", then the game would be just another nameless face in a long list.
I guess the two things that make it distasteful are (1) that your targets are more or less helpless school students, and (2) it is based on something that really happened.
By that regard, we should be equally outraged by all the "Ripped From The Headlines" crime dramas that show up on evening television.
(I say all this without ever having played or even looked at the Columbine RPG and without ever intending to... so if I'm off on the details, that's why.)
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