| Merikh United States. July 02 2010 20:21. Posts 913 | Profile Blog # | |
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 Megalisk United States. July 02 2010 20:26. Posts 6095 | Profile Blog # | |
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| Ghardo Germany. July 02 2010 20:26. Posts 1638 | Profile Blog # |
i once punched my lifesize darth vader cardboard figure through the nuts because my mum critized me over gaming. can't imagine to snap so bad that i would hit her instead.
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| KinosJourney2 Sweden. July 02 2010 20:26. Posts 1774 | Profile Blog # |
There are sick people out there, just cause they play video games AND are mentally disturbed doesn't mean videogames are to blame.
Typical media behavior blaming it on gamers who wouldn't physically hurt anyone.Last edit: 2010-07-02 20:27:18 |
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 micronesia United States. July 02 2010 20:33. Posts 19335 | Profile Blog # |
First the article describes what happened (fine). Then the article says: "In March a 32-year-old man died after playing on the Internet for five days with few breaks. A similar incident was reported involving a 28-year-old man in 2005."
What the hell does this have to do with the story? It is so sensationalist it's infuriating.
Here let me try reporting on something.
(Seoul, South Korea) Yesterday morning at about 11am two college students attending Chobo Academy were beaten to death by an an escaped South Korean convict on a train. Also note that many people were clubbed to death in North Korea in 2009. |
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| thOr6136 Slovenia. July 02 2010 20:39. Posts 1321 | Profile Blog # |
On July 02 2010 20:33 micronesia wrote:
First the article describes what happened (fine). Then the article says: "In March a 32-year-old man died after playing on the Internet for five days with few breaks. A similar incident was reported involving a 28-year-old man in 2005."
What the hell does this have to do with the story? It is so sensationalist it's infuriating.
Here let me try reporting on something.
(Seoul, South Korea) Yesterday morning at about 11am two college students attending Chobo Academy were beaten to death by an an escaped South Korean convict on a train. Also note that many people were clubbed to death in North Korea in 2009.
yea i was thinking the same when i read that -,.- |
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| DoX.) Singapore. July 02 2010 20:44. Posts 6155 | Profile # |
| At least they don't have Starcraft on the screen. |
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| sc4k United Kingdom. July 02 2010 20:50. Posts 4413 | Profile Blog # |
On July 02 2010 20:33 micronesia wrote:
(Seoul, South Korea) Yesterday morning at about 11am two college students attending Chobo Academy were beaten to death by an an escaped South Korean convict on a train. Also note that many people were clubbed to death in North Korea in 2009.
Wow no fucking way, this guy gives a bad name to us escaped convicts 
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| unionbank Australia. July 02 2010 20:56. Posts 519 | Profile Blog # |
On July 02 2010 20:50 sc4k wrote:
Show nested quote +On July 02 2010 20:33 micronesia wrote:
(Seoul, South Korea) Yesterday morning at about 11am two college students attending Chobo Academy were beaten to death by an an escaped South Korean convict on a train. Also note that many people were clubbed to death in North Korea in 2009.
Wow no fucking way, this guy gives a bad name to us escaped convicts
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| CKSide United States. July 02 2010 21:14. Posts 195 | Profile Blog # |
| its crap like this that gives gamers a bad name... |
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| besiger Croatia. July 02 2010 21:24. Posts 2440 | Profile Blog # |
| the prosecution went for the death penalty ? Id imagine that anyone who does something like this over games is mentally unstable and should be locked up in a mental institution, not jailed. |
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| stroggos New Zealand. July 02 2010 21:34. Posts 1543 | Profile # |
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| Servius_Fulvius United States. July 02 2010 21:36. Posts 947 | Profile # |
On July 02 2010 20:33 micronesia wrote:
What the hell does this have to do with the story? It is so sensationalist it's infuriating.
The title of the article is misleading. They're using the clubbing death as proof that gaming addiction in South Korea is a problem. As further evidence, they cite the deaths of the two individuals who died on gaming binges and the two parents who left their child die to raise a virtual one. It's really all a front to say "South Korea has announced tougher rules to combat Internet gaming addiction.". Honestly, this would have been a MUCH more helpful title.
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| -Valor- United States. July 02 2010 21:44. Posts 262 | Profile Blog # |
| Why are they targeting gamers all of a sudden. The guy was obviously a lunatic if he would kill his own mother. The people who died from gaming are the outliers that had no self control. |
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| floor exercise Canada. July 02 2010 22:09. Posts 5509 | Profile Blog # |
I don't see the problem with the article mentioning other deaths involving video games, they are somewhat related to eachother and directly related to the part of the article that mentions intervention in the form of fatigue systems to stop people from going crazy over video games, whether or not they were "clearly crazy before" as the TL psychologists can determine from reading a 300 word article and the video game just pushed them over the edge or whether playing video games obsessively had some adverse impact on their sense of reality.
I think I'm at a point where people who rush to the defense of video games bug me more than sensational articles claiming they are the devil, which this one really isn't by the way. |
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| shammythefox United Kingdom. July 02 2010 22:12. Posts 284 | Profile # |
| TBH if there are only 2 cases on record of people who've managed to kill themselves whilst gaming, respective to the rest of the world that makes it pretty damn safe. |
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| 29 fps United States. July 02 2010 22:22. Posts 4875 | Profile Blog # |
| I notice that in Japanese newspapers as well. They try to connect related incidents at the end of the article. More often than not, those incidents are hardly related in any way except for a slight similarity. |
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| micronesia United States. July 02 2010 22:25. Posts 19335 | Profile Blog # |
On July 02 2010 22:09 floor exercise wrote:
I don't see the problem with the article mentioning other deaths involving video games, they are somewhat related to eachother and directly related to the part of the article that mentions intervention in the form of fatigue systems to stop people from going crazy over video games, whether or not they were "clearly crazy before" as the TL psychologists can determine from reading a 300 word article and the video game just pushed them over the edge or whether playing video games obsessively had some adverse impact on their sense of reality.
I think I'm at a point where people who rush to the defense of video games bug me more than sensational articles claiming they are the devil, which this one really isn't by the way.
An article providing an update on the legal status of a court case involving a 22 year old person who killed his mother is not the proper venue for linking this case to those of one or two people who died during gaming marathons. I don't see anything wrong with criticizing this article for that and it doesn't make us people who rush to the defense of video games.
If they released an editorial talking about how it seems that gaming addiction in SK is causing lots of problems with people such as killing mothers who criticize their internet addiction or playing games on marathons which could possibly lead to their death (microscopic chances apparently) then any one of us TLers would be rushing to defend videogames if we just blatantly discredited the editorial rather than discussing the issue. Note that this has not happened in this thread. |
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| Rodiel France. July 02 2010 22:34. Posts 572 | Profile # |
nerdz rage²
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On July 02 2010 20:26 KinosJourney2 wrote:
There are sick people out there, just cause they play video games AND are mentally disturbed doesn't mean videogames are to blame.
Typical media behavior blaming it on gamers who wouldn't physically hurt anyone.
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| valaki Hungary. July 02 2010 23:26. Posts 2193 | Profile # |
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