Are Games really to blame? (Violence, death, neglect...)

[TriniXaeno]

pretty scary stuff

goes to show, anything taken to an extreme is bad, gaming being no exception.

especially with those online rpgs with no end. They can really swallow a chunk of your life.

back in the days, men would go sweat once a week tops and run game whole night. They mightn't even touch a game for the rest of the week.

mmorpgs on the other hand, designed to have men sweatin 24/7, with no end in sight.

Somethings bound to get neglected. In this case, human life.

pressura.

[New Era Outlaw]

I've seen this story over on the Snafu forums.
And I'll say what I've said there now.

Those people are a couple of MORONS.
You don't EVER LEAVE A DEFENSELESS BABY TO FEND FOR ITSELF.

Those, my friends, are the types of people you don't EVER allow to reproduce.

[ProtoJoe]

You know, this reminds me of a couple of cases where in the states, parents would leave the babies strapped in the car seat of the car and leave the child unattended for hours and come back and expect them to be ok. I was actually supprised at the number of similar incidences in which this happened....Its almost....scary. My mother droped me on my head a couple times...but, I'm thankful she wasn't so carless...

[Kaizen]

O_o.....all these incidents over games this just comes to show you what this world is coming to
i mean we in trinidad are hardcore but damn at least carry the baby in a carriage and attend to her from in the cafe dont leave her home alone O_o THESE PPL ARE TO F@#%#@ CAREFREE!!
what u make a child for if u cant live up to the responsibility i pray for them stupid people
they should burn and be nutered but also this is the sad truth of game addicition i hope that none of my fellow Gatters are this bad into it god help us

[New Era Outlaw]

Ent?
It wouldn't even kill them to CARRY the baby with them.
Inconvenience aside, the baby would have STILL BEEN ALIVE, for the very least.

[Computerman]

Responsibility or the lack thereof is a growing cancer in society.  No one wants to be responsible when bad things happen but they want to steal the credit from hard working individuals when achievements are made.  Also, ppl don't take the time to think through a situation, they act recklessly and generally on impulse.  We are creating a society of "fast gimmie's"!

I wonder if these ppl truly understand what they have done?!

[New Era Outlaw]

If they didn't, I'd be more than happy to give them a wake up call with a 2 x 4.

[ProtoJoe]

If they are so addicited and the life of their child isn't as important as playing game, I doub't that a 2 x 4 to face would matter. Personally I would put my child's life above all else....

[TriniXaeno]

big words boy Computerman.

Makes it all the worse when good men do nothing.

[W1nTry]

I agree a 2x4 ain't gonna cut it, how bout a 6x6 applied thru the anal cavity, no sanding mind you.  *sighs* is this really a sign of things to come? has history meant nothing to the human race? why does it take a calamity for ppl to wake up? I say again, end of days...

[trinigamer]

GATTERS BEWARE!!!!

 SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on August 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.

Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.

He died a few minutes later, it said.

South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050809/80/fp7pg.html

[TriniXaeno]

We keep seeing more and more of this.

It truly highlights the need for balance.

20 years ago, this industry didn't exist. There is no empirical data on the effect it will have on humans. Socially, physically and mentally.

Obviously these are extreme cases but serve well as exclamation points. Those parents that left their kid unattended is another perfect example of the power of games to wtfpwn a person's mind.

Good post.

[New Era Outlaw]

No doubt there's going to be SOMEBODY who will blame this all on videogames, instead of good old human STUPIDITY.

Hilary Clinton, I'm looking at YOU.

[Narcissus]

i sure he get frag too much...
cuz i see men sweat whole weekend an ting in DEST back in de day... man like Chicken'n'Beer and dem

[disciple]

The fantasy world of videogame street racing may have influenced two teenage boys accused of piloting real-life luxury cars in a high-speed contest that killed a taxi driver, police said Wednesday. A copy of Need for Speed, a game that allows players to select custom cars and race them through crowded urban areas, was found on the front seat of one of the suspect’s cars following the late-night crash.

“Here we have, in real life, two guys driving high-end cars at a high rate of speed in an urban area,” said Toronto police Det. Paul Lobsinger.

“I don’t think it’s a giant leap for people to say, `Wow, how does this go together?’”

actually.. yes it IS a giant leap.. @$$holes have been speeding ever since the dawn of the automobile age.. this is just plain ludicrous..
next ting they gonna say that 'hot coffee' is the cause of teen pregnancies

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1138186924013&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
 

[greyfox]

The fantasy world of videogame street racing may have influenced two teenage boys accused of piloting real-life luxury cars in a high-speed contest that killed a taxi driver,

all i can say is those 2 rich idiots that need a friggin scapegoat.  this is getting stupid those are the kinda kids that i jus wanna grab they head and bang it on the concrete.  I can see that jack @$$ thompson is going to have a good time with this story.

[Mez]

aight guys it isnt fair to say that it didnt influence dem ... they did find a copy of the game on teh man front seat dawg.

BUT i dont think these idiots should be let free
the game has very specific warnings about that therefore you cant say that the game caused them is they own assness that did that

[TrinireturnofGamez]

    more nonsense dread ,  alot of smashed up cars have religious items in them.. but they don't go blaming jesus or krishna for the car accident  , they don't go to point out the beer bottles on the floor or the pound of weed in the backseat, no ..
   They go straight for.. THE GAME !   


 

[Jarrox]

i agree with Angelus, it isnt fair to say that the game did not influence them, just a few weeks ago i swore to myself that when ever i am playing NFS:MW i eh going and drive, because I DO DRIVE ALOT FASTER after playing NFS:wacko:

anyway the point is..they found a racing game in the car a racers, it's only understanderble that they would come to that assumption.

[W1nTry]

There are 2 well known quotes for assumptions:
1. When you 'assume' you make and AS$ out of U and ME
AND
2. Assumption is the mother of all f&*kups.
Nuff said.

That aside thats real BALLZ.... utter and complete crap, and exactly why america is swirling in the proverbial ethical radioactive toilet bowl that they are in.... WAFT:Waste ah F&*king Time...