Video Games Are EVIL!

[McCorvic Sucks]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/31/content_3023991.htm

Actually, the problem here wasn't video games...but rather the fact that he was 13. We all know people ages 11-17 are completely retarded.

[Yami no Kitsune]

OK, I understand that inernet and computer game addiction is a problem, but this kid in particular was just a nut. How the hell did he get it in his head that he'd meet his internet friends in the afterlife when they were still alive (unless of course, the all killed themselves at he same time)?

[Merr]

Sounds like like Serial Experiments Lain

[McCorvic Sucks]

Sounds like like Serial Experiments Lain

Bingo. So really, we should be blaming anime.

[Azure]

Poor kid he must have been really ill to think that, if he hadn't latched on to games it would have been something else.

[Yami no Kitsune]

So really, it wasn't the video games, but everyone around him who didn't notice that he was mentally ill.

[Tali]

That's awful. You think his parents would have found help when he didn't eat for 2 days.

[ClymAngus]

Tragic. I wonder what game he was playing? Bet it wasn't Manic Miner.

[Cefaclor]

I heard about a similar case on the radio, apparently this guy was addicted to Grand theft auto or something. And he went to hijack a car and got caught. Now he is not only going to sue the video game makers but PS2 as well.

I find it extremely annoying that these people choose to blame their stupidity on external stimuli like video games. I mean come on! If youre gonna sue video games, might as well sue every medium that the media uses to send out messages coz its not only PS2, its action flicks, its friends, its magazines, maybe even your own family. COME ON! sheesh.

[McCorvic Sucks]

I heard about a similar case on the radio, apparently this guy was addicted to Grand theft auto or something. And he went to hijack a car and got caught. Now he is not only going to sue the video game makers but PS2 as well.

I find it extremely annoying that these people choose to blame their stupidity on external stimuli like video games. I mean come on! If youre gonna sue video games, might as well sue every medium that the media uses to send out messages coz its not only PS2, its action flicks, its friends, its magazines, maybe even your own family. COME ON! sheesh.

Well, we should start hunting down and eating live animals and then sue the Discovery Channel, PBS, and Animal Planet for making us do it. It'll get the point across.

[ClymAngus]

So their all like: "they got in my head!!!! They played with my mind and gave me wrong ideas!!!! They mindshagged me and left me for dead!!!"

I would really not want to admit that I was that much of a spooner, that I would listen (or think to be real,) everything I saw. It's like: Hello! I'm easy to manipulate, give me money!!

Pathetic.

[Jing]

This is sad... it's not that kids between the ages of 11-17 are retards... it's just Chinese people who play games are....

[Ronin]

This is the other reason why I don't live in the states... too many nuts, who will sue people for anything...

[fukkatsu]

It doesn't just happen in the states. That is a generalization. Japan, China, and most european countries have the same problems as well. o.o;...

People are stupid everywhere. Let us not lose sight of that. XD!!!

[Yami no Kitsune]

The UK doesn't have nearly as many frivilous law suits, even though I have seen some really stupid ones here too.

[ClymAngus]

Still if you take a moment to stand back and look at this thing logically, then some kind soul should nominate him for the darwin awards.

Maybe that is the silver lining to this particular dark cloud.

[Autumn]

Eh... sometimes people forget... it's a game. G - A - M - E. That's how I always looked at it, and I'm perfectly sane.

...

^___________^.

[Henageshi]

Eh... sometimes people forget... it's a game. G - A - M - E. That's how I always looked at it, and I'm perfectly sane.

...

^___________^.

Same thing I was thinking. *shakes head*

[Deiji]

Oh man, that kid must've been really sick! I feel so sorry for him. But i think that if it wasn't games that he got overly addicted to, it would've been some other fantasy-related thing like anime, movies, some kind of tv series maybe? But i don't think something like this would be very common, unless you're mentally ill to begin with. I always see games as a way to escape reality when i'm stressed or got too much to think about or just for plain entertainment lol. Can you imagine an FFX addict running down the street screaming "SIN'S COMING!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
But seriously, that's a really sad story and i'm just surprised that his parents didn't stop him from using the internet so much.

[SeiyruRenaih]

He TOLD them he had a problem.

'Oh, he must be fine now that he realizes that. Let's go back home so you can play on the computer.'

My parents regulate how much time I'm on sometimes, and I know when I've been on too long.

I mean, that's crazy!

Me: ::shows me on the VAA, and I click on a link::

Computer screen: 'The VAA is down'

Me: ...I think I should jump off a building. ::stands up and walks off::

[McCorvic Sucks]

Well, I don't recall reading that the parents WEREN'T doing anything to try and help the kid. Most likely the kid was just really mentally disturbed in the first place and was possibly beyond help...

[McCorvic Sucks]

Well, I don't recall reading that the parents WEREN'T doing anything to try and help the kid. Most likely the kid was just really mentally disturbed in the first place and was possibly beyond help...

Lock him in a room with no computer for a week.

The dopamine will wear off eventually.

As hilarious (and tempting) as that sounds...

[McCorvic Sucks]

In a strange turn of events...

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=5197


Now THAT'S hilarious. Now it's the parents instead of te kids who done F up.

[ClymAngus]

I seriously cannot stop lolling. I swear, this is exactly like Trainspotting -- substitute drugs for games. It's so sad, and yet so funny.

As you wish........

INT. RENTON'S BEDROOM. DAY
Father shoves Renton on to the bed, then walks out past Mother, who looks at Renton for a moment before closing the door.

INT. OTHER SIDE OF RENTON'S BEDROOM DOOR. DAY
Renton's Father's hand slides three bolts across to lock the door.

INT. RENTON'S BEDROOM. DAY
Renton lies on the bed.



RENTON
I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post, that's for sure. I'm in the junky limbo at the moment, too ill to sleep, too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea, pain and craving. Need like nothing e lse I have ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on the way. Fingers itching for the joypad, ears screaming for the mind numbing 3 tone music. Leap the cravase, kill the dragon, race the car, run the gauntlet. Win the game.........


MOTHER
No. No second levels, no bonus stages. That made you worse, you said so yourself. You lied to us, son, your own mother and father.


RENTON
At least get us a handheld.


MOTHER
No, you're worse coming off that than you are with PS2. Nothing at all........

A rather short mostached plumber appears in a puff of smoke hovering over RENTON's MOTHER's shoulder.


MARIO
I let you control me, hour after hour, after all I did for you, all the firepits I jumped, the endless lives I lost, The Koopa Troopas I stamped in your name. AFTER ALL OF THIS YOUR ABANDONING ME!!!! You heartless, souless bastard!


RENTON
NOOOOOOOOO!

[ClymAngus]

So something like this then?

Choose life. Choose an extra life. Choose a joypad, Choose a f**king big joystick, Choose multiplayer, consoles, High speed graphics and surround sound.
Choose PS2, Xbox and Gamecube. Choose the latest greatest Gaming experience. Choose a handheld, polyphonic game machine in a range of f**king colours. Choose a shoot em up. Choose strategy. Choose a beat em up with scanned in graphics. Choose retro and wondering what the hell kind of pixel lated crap your playing on a Sunday morning. Choose feverishly thumbing through happy happy on-line gamer looking for your next digital pissing ground. Choose hording all your systems away at the end of it all, crashing out of the latest final fantasy god knows f**king what whilst the illiterate 5 year old sitting next to you takes it to completion. Choose VR, Choose life.