When gaming gets real. Sad day folks in gaming..

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100344-Boy-in-Chile-Kills-Brother-for-Turning-On-PlayStation

I just don't ....

a few years back a man beat his son to death when the kid switched off his Xbox360 while he's playing. i'm sure some of you remember that case...

i'm not saying gaming will induce violence. but i do believe there's a connection and some - many - gamers are taking their hobby way too seriously.

Well that wasn't very... knife

God that sucks. Its so sad hearing kids die the most unreasonable death ever

There was a link on that same page that said something about a Chinese study saying that 80% of prisoners are gamers. But I'd say that's a convenient stat considering probably 80% of people are gamers. Blaming games and consoles for crap is ridiculous. People who are going to snap are going to do it regardless. Why do the rest of us have to be pigeonholed because of it? What was the excuse in the dark ages when we were drowning and burning people left and right? We have a violent and disturbing history that's been here well before video games. The only thing that's changed is we're held mroe accountable since we're globally connected. If anything that's making us less violent. Would we all line up to burn people alive with different religious beliefs if we knew we'd all be on CNN and youtube afterwards? Not likely.

Game over I guess lol.GrandJury

It only does homicide.

(Too much?)

Floppy_Jim

jesus, at least let them bury the kid before making such jokes :lol:

Haha ive been here. Im 26 and my brother is 25. He pissed me off one time when i told him i felt the PS3 was getting to hot and would like it to cool down. Well i step out the room and soon as i come back hes turned on the PS# completely disrespecting my wishes in my own house. I got a little mad yea, but i didn't stab him. I turned it off and told him like a child i said NO! Of course this started an argument and some words did fly :)

I couldn't imagine losing control over anything to get to that point, but thats human nature. We get blinded by rage to the point were rational thought is gone for that moment.

[QUOTE="GrandJury"]Game over I guess lol.ExoticAnimal

Haha!! Owned!

Where is my heart :(

MrJono789

Very sad indeed.

A few of the comments that some users in this thread made are also sad.

Wha a sad story that is, there is no way I would murder my own flesh and blood over anything.

Wow thats crazy. Me and four brothers live together and we share a PS3 and we never had any problems even remotely close to this.

There was a link on that same page that said something about a Chinese study saying that 80% of prisoners are gamers. But I'd say that's a convenient stat considering probably 80% of people are gamers. Blaming games and consoles for crap is ridiculous. People who are going to snap are going to do it regardless. Why do the rest of us have to be pigeonholed because of it? What was the excuse in the dark ages when we were drowning and burning people left and right? We have a violent and disturbing history that's been here well before video games. The only thing that's changed is we're held mroe accountable since we're globally connected. If anything that's making us less violent. Would we all line up to burn people alive with different religious beliefs if we knew we'd all be on CNN and youtube afterwards? Not likely.

CDuG

Either it was satan or god that told them to do it :lol:

Video games are the easiest thing to point at because it's misunderstood and demonized. Just as how Rock n' Roll used to be.

People snap/kill regardless. It's the finger pointers constantly voiding resposibility that are the real problem here. People get away with too much and people are far too lazy and incompetent to solve the actual issue at hand.

even though i get mad when somebody touch my ps3 i would never take it this far.

Not fair really.

The bastard used Commando. How the HELLdo you beat Commando?

Not fair really.

The bastard used Commando. How the HELLdo you beat Commando?

supa_badman

Yeah, and he probably stabbed him from the kitchen too, the freaking noob.

Not fair really.

The bastard used Commando. How the HELLdo you beat Commando?

supa_badman

Yeah its not about a console, its about something else. Sepewrath

Yet another wasted life and potential...

Kinda reminds me of that kid that was totally invested in WoW or MW2 or something online, and when his parents told him that he had to turn it off because he needed to do homework (grades were slipping and such) he ran away and died from hypothermia. This was like a year ago in a Canadian winter, the 'tard. But anyways, some people do take their gaming to such an extreme. I game, and I game a lot, but I don't get stupid over it.

Kinda reminds me of that kid that was totally invested in WoW or MW2 or something online, and when his parents told him that he had to turn it off because he needed to do homework (grades were slipping and such) he ran away and died from hypothermia. This was like a year ago in a Canadian winter, the 'tard. But anyways, some people do take their gaming to such an extreme. I game, and I game a lot, but I don't get stupid over it.

Khadaj32

Kinda reminds me of that kid that was totally invested in WoW or MW2 or something online, and when his parents told him that he had to turn it off because he needed to do homework (grades were slipping and such) he ran away and died from hypothermia. This was like a year ago in a Canadian winter, the 'tard. But anyways, some people do take their gaming to such an extreme. I game, and I game a lot, but I don't get stupid over it.

Khadaj32

Yeah. You know what though? He actually was mentally handicapped. And he was like 11.

Well the one who got killed was obviously trying to play Rogue Warrior and the other brother just was looking out for the one who was trying something stupid.

Which is why mental people shouldn't play games in the first place...

Well the one who got killed was obviously trying to play Rogue Warrior and the other brother just was looking out for the one who was trying something stupid.

Megaman5364

I think it went a bit further than "just looking out for" him :P

There was a link on that same page that said something about a Chinese study saying that 80% of prisoners are gamers. But I'd say that's a convenient stat considering probably 80% of people are gamers. Blaming games and consoles for crap is ridiculous. People who are going to snap are going to do it regardless. Why do the rest of us have to be pigeonholed because of it? What was the excuse in the dark ages when we were drowning and burning people left and right? We have a violent and disturbing history that's been here well before video games. The only thing that's changed is we're held mroe accountable since we're globally connected. If anything that's making us less violent. Would we all line up to burn people alive with different religious beliefs if we knew we'd all be on CNN and youtube afterwards? Not likely.

CDuG

a few years back a man beat his son to death when the kid switched off his Xbox360 while he's playing. i'm sure some of you remember that case...

i'm not saying gaming will induce violence. but i do believe there's a connection and some - many - gamers are taking their hobby way too seriously.

[QUOTE="Khadaj32"]

Kinda reminds me of that kid that was totally invested in WoW or MW2 or something online, and when his parents told him that he had to turn it off because he needed to do homework (grades were slipping and such) he ran away and died from hypothermia. This was like a year ago in a Canadian winter, the 'tard. But anyways, some people do take their gaming to such an extreme. I game, and I game a lot, but I don't get stupid over it.

CDuG

Yeah. You know what though? He actually was mentally handicapped. And he was like 11.

That is just sad to be honest..

Cant really say much. I mean, I've heard of these stories before and its all the same reaction - wtf.

[QUOTE="CDuG"]

[QUOTE="Khadaj32"]

Kinda reminds me of that kid that was totally invested in WoW or MW2 or something online, and when his parents told him that he had to turn it off because he needed to do homework (grades were slipping and such) he ran away and died from hypothermia. This was like a year ago in a Canadian winter, the 'tard. But anyways, some people do take their gaming to such an extreme. I game, and I game a lot, but I don't get stupid over it.

supa_badman

Yeah. You know what though? He actually was mentally handicapped. And he was like 11.

Are you sure? I swear the kid was younger than that and he had a mental problem. I'm gonna have to look for this later too. If I'm wrong then my bad but I was pretty sure that was the case.

I keeps it real. Brother was a noob sniper anyways.