Echo Arena fire Hundreds of cars destroyed

huh? a carpark on fire reminds you of GTA V? I assume there is a specific mission etc in the game that resembles this real life incident?
 
Thekwango said:
huh? a carpark on fire reminds you of GTA V? I assume there is a specific mission etc in the game that resembles this real life incident?
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IIRC in one of the older GTAs as well there is an achievement for chain blowing up cars where the explosion of one sets nearby ones on fire, repeat.
 
String said:
Your post title is textbook Betteridge's Law.

Get a grip.
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Seems like most of the posters here haven't spent a lot of time playing the GTA games - this kind of thing is a staple of them since at least GTA3:


His thread title is alluding to the self-satisfied smugness of the person setting it all off (in the video signified by the flexing of interlocked fingers).
 
50 years ago the fire brigade would have broken into the cars just outside the fire zone, hot wired them, and driven them to safety thus creating a firebreak that would probably have prevented the fire from spreading to the rest of the building.

As has ever been the case, the only people who are significantly inconvenienced by vehicle security are the legitimate owners (And in this case, the owners of the car park and the surrounding buildings as well)...
 
i think the op is wondering at the logic of how things that we enjoy in common media (not just games, but films etc as well) such as blowing stuff up, burning down buildings etc are the exact same things we don't want happening in real life.

the gtav link is simply to try and describe a game in which you would for no reason other than "fun" blow up a multi storey car park (there's no in-game mission that requires it iirc)
 
adolf hamster said:
i think the op is wondering at the logic of how things that we enjoy in common media (not just games, but films etc as well) such as blowing stuff up, burning down buildings etc are the exact same things we don't want happening in real life.
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A bit like an exploding firework factory.

It is a staple in cartoons, but on the occasions when it happens in real life it really isn't very nice at all....
 
Orionaut said:
A bit like an exploding firework factory.

It is a staple in cartoons, but on the occasions when it happens in real life it really isn't very nice at all....
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indeed, it's probably a thread all unto itself how things we find abhorrent in real life (war, torture, murder, violence in all its forms) are perfectly fine and indeed prevalent in popular media yet things that are common and good in real life are either less common or even taboo.

although i'm not sure that debate is the topic for this thread, well, as far as i have any idea what the op really intends the topic of this thread to be.
 
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