Fredrik Posted May 8, 2003 Just saw aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,302893,00.html ]this (Swedish) article. The essence of it is that two 14-years-old boys were arrested yesterday for having hewed someone in the stomach with an axe last week. The most of the article, including the ingress, focuses on the fact that the kids had been playing a role-playing computer game during the evening, and further mentions that the boy who confessed had seen the victim as a "game enemy". The last paragraph discreetly mentions that the kids were in the clouds on unknown amounts of Rohypnol and alcohol. Certainly that's just a minor parameter. 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted May 8, 2003 Heh did they wound their victim? I could imagine you have to have a pretty sharp axe and a lot force to hew into somebodys stomach (through clothing and stuff). 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted May 8, 2003 He was sent to a hospital but there's no word on how serious the wound was (probably not near-lethal). 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted May 8, 2003 Christ, this is so annoying to hear. When is the media going to grow up? Games don't make people kill people. If they did, there'd be 1,000,000,000 murders a day. 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted May 8, 2003 Funny how alcohol and other sorts of drugs suddenly become irrelevant when a kid has played a game. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted May 8, 2003 Heh, "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger." I think that can carry over here. =P 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted May 8, 2003 I shot some one cuz I play doom! Gezz people are so damn stuped. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted May 8, 2003 *sigh* Guns make you kill people, drugs make you kill people, alcohol makes you kill people, sex makes you kill people, Beavis & Butthead make you kill people, Tom Green makes you kill people, Teletubbies makes you kill people, goatse makes you kill people, eggs make you kill people, cholesterol and carbohydrates make you kill people, homosexuality makes you kill people, Godless idolatry makes you kill people...now games make you kill people!? Man, how come being pissed off doesn't make you kill people? Are people so pathetic that they can't admit they were just really PO'd? Or do they need a scapegoat evertime? Geez. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted May 8, 2003 Next they're going to start saying that games cause cancer too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted May 8, 2003 Nanami said:Next they're going to start saying that games cause cancer too. These days, everything causes cancer. : / 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted May 8, 2003 Job said:These days, everything causes cancer. : / I believe some friends and I concluded that not having cancer causes cancer. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted May 8, 2003 Nanami said:I believe some friends and I concluded that not having cancer causes cancer. Well said...how long till they say that having sex causes cancer? And that the best way to avoid getting cancer is to have it already? Kind of like the mob protection thing. If you already have some other form of cancer, the rest stays away, since we all know that cancer respects the turf of other cancers. My advice: go out and get a non-malignant form of cancer today, like fingernail cancer! 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted May 8, 2003 Or maybe get several types of cancers. They might be so busy fighting over territory that they won't even bother trying to destroy your body. Of course, death doesn't cause cancer...well, not yet anyway. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted May 8, 2003 If death caused cancer, we're really be in for it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted May 8, 2003 Nanami said:If death caused cancer, we're really be in for it. Yeah, I'd be pissed if I had to have that crazy bald-making cancer treatment after I die. I mean, hey, I want to look good for the worms and grave robbers. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted May 8, 2003 Next,thay will be saying milk causes cancer. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted May 8, 2003 Rotting Corpse said:Next,thay will be saying milk causes cancer. But it does! 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted May 8, 2003 boris said:I always knew it! COWS KILL PEOPLE! Indeed. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted May 8, 2003 Thank God that they didn't kill the kid. Anyway, it is very obvious that sometimes, nutty people get ahold of a video game and take them way too seriously and absorb the game into their own reality. That's not the game's fault, that isn't even the kid's fault, because they have some kind of mental disorder. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted May 8, 2003 BBG said:Thank God that they didn't kill the kid. Anyway, it is very obvious that sometimes, nutty people get ahold of a video game and take them way too seriously and absorb the game into their own reality. That's not the game's fault, that isn't even the kid's fault, because they have some kind of mental disorder. Thats veary true. Some times the parents egnore the signs that some things wrong. Parents need to pay more attantion to there kids. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted May 8, 2003 my mother "i really dont want you playing that game" (refering to doom a doom alone Me "so what, i am 18 and cant site down and watch porn. and u are worried about doom? come on you showed me the game and got me to play it when it came out. mother agian "there are so many evil demons. the devils lives in that game" me "how can you be so stupid to think the devil lives in doom? I am tired of this, nuff said" she shut up. she hates doom because there are 'demons' in it. jesus christ it is ONLY a game. Be sides its 10 years old and u are killing demons. i swear the human race is getting dumber 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted May 8, 2003 Doom is 9. And if people still think Doom is violent, they should open their eyes. Lots of other games are 1934018948239018x more violent than Doom ever was. 0 Share this post Link to post
NailGunner Posted May 8, 2003 Sounds rather familiar, although my mom changed face when I after her first Deathmatch. After that it was clear sailing... 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted May 8, 2003 *sigh* And yet again, games are under attack because some moron(s) couldn't distinguish between game reality and normal reality. Go figure. Oh, and cheese kills people too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Epyo Posted May 8, 2003 Yeah man, but I'd probably do the same thing if I was a newsdude. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted May 8, 2003 Epyo said:Yeah man, but I'd probably do the same thing if I was a newsdude. No you wouldn't. 0 Share this post Link to post