Details Don't Add Up In Story About Mother's Game Addiction

[BlackStar42]

According to The Daily Mail

As soon as you see that, you can safely regard the rest of any story as a lie. They're worse than Fox.

 

[Jaebird]

Seems to me that some writer was getting tired of whatever story he/she was being stuck with, and chose to go out and "cry wolf," so to speak, in order to get some credibility. That's just my speculation from what I can tell from this article about the story. And if that were the case, then let's consider this "journalist" fired and blackballed from working in journalism.

The problem is, in the Daily Mail journalists like that get rewarded.

Well then... Let's hope Karma stops by and visits this person to deliver a "reward".

 

[Antari]

The people who make this newpaper and the people who take it seriously need to be stoned to death. With old CRT monitors.

 

[T-Bone24]

This was a front page story on the [sub]cough Metro cough[/sub]. Okay, so the Metro isn't the most reputable source, being a free newspaper they give away on buses, but front page news with outright false information? I think this needs to be straightened out.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

How do these tabloids still have any credibility?

They don't.

Sooo Fox News's creepy uncle?

Creepy Uncle that thinks Hitler was too soft.

It's almost like England has it out against the US and gaming.

Never equate us with the tabloids. It'd be like equating Americans with Pastor Richards.

It astounds me that the whole country of England/UK-land hasn't put their newspapers under a magnifying glass yet, they have a really bad history of doing this stupid stuff. i.e. making up alot and reporting alittle.

We know it. The Tabloids are read as a joke. In fact they're very rarely read apart from to laugh at.

But c'mon, you lot have Fox News. Fair's fair.

 

[Irridium]

Did the kids not know how to cook or clean for themselves?

It is absolutely possible. I know plenty of people who are even older and don't know how to cook/clean/ect.

 

[jamesworkshop]

The people who make this newpaper and the people who take it seriously need to be stoned to death. With old CRT monitors.

http://www.smallworlds.com/login.php?login=true
http://www.nostalgiaforinfinity.com/2010/09/daily-mail-videogame-dumbassery/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/13/mail-implicates-unrelated-games-in-tragedy/

The story is actually true

 

[Buizel91]

Is it sad that the only pieces of news i trust is the Escapist, TVG and Yahoo?

If you all wonder why, then i suggest reading the article again =P

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I'll just leave this here

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Loves half naked celebrities. Especially young ones.

actually daily mail is the only newspaper designed with women in mind, so there are none of the page 3 ladies. take it from a paper boy.

As an American, the notion that, for folks in your neck of the woods, a newspaper that does not include gratuitous nudity is an exception to the rule? I find that endlessly amusing - it's no wonder kids these days don't read newspapers here!

 

[dragonslayer32]

I was reading this article today and realised that stuff didn't add up. It just proves the argument even more that news papers can't be trusted...

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

Is anyone else a bit confused how they've banned pets but not children? Or am I mistaking them for two different things?

But yeah, does sound fishy once you look at it.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Loves half naked celebrities. Especially young ones.

actually daily mail is the only newspaper designed with women in mind, so there are none of the page 3 ladies. take it from a paper boy.

They're sneaky about it though. How many pictures of Miley Cyrus, Emma Watson or Maddie were PLASTERED across the pages - with their notorious school-girl style next to the paedophile warnings.

As an American, the notion that, for folks in your neck of the woods, a newspaper that does not include gratuitous nudity is an exception to the rule? I find that endlessly amusing - it's no wonder kids these days don't read newspapers here!

There's a reason us Brits are so goddam cynical at times.

 

[Mr. Omega]

*sigh* There's going to be some idiot somewhere who still things this story is true, and use this as their rallying cry for their anti-gaming related activities. People will laugh at them, but still.

 

[jamesworkshop]

*sigh* There's going to be some idiot somewhere who still things this story is true, and use this as their rallying cry for their anti-gaming related activities. People will laugh at them, but still.

http://www.smallworlds.com/login.php?login=true
http://www.nostalgiaforinfinity.com/2010/09/daily-mail-videogame-dumbassery/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/13/mail-implicates-unrelated-games-in-tragedy/

The story is actually true

UPDATE: We may have reached the bottom of this, speaking to Roger Pearson who wrote the apparent origin-story up for Mercury Press Agency

 

[etherlance]

Daily mail
fox network
the sunday times
etc.

what do all these things have in common??
they all love to print stories that make people they barely know look bad, or they try to hype up the truth of mundane stories.
but mostly they take a subject that most people have strong feelings about, make it look awful and when people start to ask where it all started (after the person, group, company etc is ruined) they waltz forward head held high singing "It was us we spread the truth first,LOVE US, LOOOOOOVE UUUUSSSS"!!!!

 

[Tarby]

Could it be this game?

http://www.smallworlds.com/login.php?login=true

never mind, beaten to it! Browser open showing only one page, now over two pages

 

[nuba km]

The people who make this newpaper and the people who take it seriously need to be stoned to death. With old CRT monitors.

http://www.smallworlds.com/login.php?login=true
http://www.nostalgiaforinfinity.com/2010/09/daily-mail-videogame-dumbassery/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/13/mail-implicates-unrelated-games-in-tragedy/

The story is actually true

that explains some things like how they got it mixed up with a board game of similar game but how could they get it get confused with warhammer and how come the kids didn't mention the rotting dog to any one also if they don't know how to stick something in the oven or micro wave by the game of 13 the mother already has done a bad job also the daily mail only mentioned small world and talked about it being a fantasies world of trolls and orgs and then include a picture of warhammer so I think they made the mix up intentionally and added stuff to make video games look bad or they completely mate up the story to make games look bad because they haven't done that for a month. this is what I think has happened a mother got addicted to small worlds she neglected her kids and dog the dog died and the kids where sick a neighbour or teacher checked out what has happened they found the dog but to late the mother went to court and you can guess the rest some one at the daily mail heard this and then decided to blow it out of proportion and replace social networking side with video games that have trolls and orgs.

 

[Byere]

Two words.
Daily , mail

Also even if it isn't true, we all know this will proberly be used against gaming some way or another.

I hate to say it, but this story was also in The Sun... not that that makes it any more believable, of course.

I agree though that it's bullshit like this that gives gaming a bad name

 

[jasoncyrus]

The sun, daily mail, daily star and news of the world are run by the same group and are a load of ballock. Anyone who actually belives or even reads them is a complete idiot who needs to be shot into space.