Man Murders Girlfriend Over GTA
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Woman eats hot dog. Man thinks woman is having an affair. Man kills woman. Man murders Woman over hot dog.
That's not faulty logic if I've ever heard it, naaaaawwwww.
Seriously, this is really shitty journalism right here. The title implies a causation when at most you could argue a correlation. If that.
That's not faulty logic if I've ever heard it, naaaaawwwww.
Seriously, this is really shitty journalism right here. The title implies a causation when at most you could argue a correlation. If that.
James called the police after the attack. When they were on the line, his father took the phone from him and told the authorities, "I'm sorry. I think I've killed her."
After the twentieth stabbing you thought that did you? Really? I mean I would have thought after the tenth time you might have figured that.
After the twentieth stabbing you thought that did you? Really? I mean I would have thought after the tenth time you might have figured that.
Well, this is getting attention (here at least ) because of how the author of the article is putting empathis on video games.TheNecroswanson said:
For example, let's say that some psycho likes to go out and rape/torture/murder little girls. He does it for years, but is eventually caught when a gnawed human bone washes up on the beach that somehow produces enough evidence to catch the guy (queue the CSI music).
Okay this would get a lot of attention, but some reported decides he wants to make his article a bit differant than the other reporters and draw in more people. He finds out that when the police kicked open the guy's door he was playing "Final Fantasy" and had a bunch of fanboy junk for the series in his house. So he decides to focus on this little aspect of things and try and connect Final Fantasy (knowing it has millions of fans) to Pedophillia, Cannibalism, and Murder. Perhaps even going so far as to bring up characters like Selphie, Rikku, Yuffie, or (heh) Quina.
I guess my point is that the whole article is slanted and I'm not even sure if you can say she was doing anything to drive him insane. I mean moving a TV into the bedroom doesn't seem like an issue, a lot of people have them there, and couples can have one sleep while the other one watches TV. It's quite doable.
I'd personally think the guy is just a flaming psycho who thought she was having an affair, nothing described sounds like it would be paticularly maddening. Plus if a relationship can weather one person or the other acting a bit wierd for a few months something was badly messed up to begin with.
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Well, at least it wasn't a sleight at myself, which I thought for a moment. Anyway, there is a link as in the original article it mentions both the prosecution and the defence mentioning the console and the testimony alleges to GTA.Therumancer said:
What I fail to see is how she actually managed to have an affair with all that time spent, and I think that was his delusion. There's enough evidence there to exonerate the original author this time I believe, and the Telegraph is one of the better tabloids. (Though that's not saying much)
It would have been a lot easier to blame the whole thing on GTA; the fact that the media are only using it as a sideline is at least starting to bring the issue back on track, and after JT, that's gotta be a good thing. Or at least we can hope that this won't get sensationalized now that the relevant details are out at the start.
That's what I ask whenever a school shooting is the first item on the TV news headlines. If they didn't give them so much attention then that sort of thing wouldn't happen so often. Doesn't really apply in this case, just an aside I wanted to make.KamachoMcSagget said:
I think you're being a tad over defensive here.Therumancer said:
They guy was kicked out of the bedroom because his wife had the friggin' huge plasma in the bedroom that keep him up at night. Because of his, he began to think she was sleeping around, and when it eventually came to try to move out, she was killed. Not to mention GTA would have been alittle off. I doubt the paper article was titled 'GTA CAUSES MURDER!' - Our papers, for all their faults, haven't really cottoned onto the idea of blaming everything on video games yet.
bad rider said:
Well the thing is that killing someone with a knife it's quite like it seems on TV, especially if your not trained to do it. Plus the police consider a lot of things "stab wounds" that might not strike you as being stabbing.
It's like this, you come after me with a hunting knife and kill me. In the struggle I'm likely to try and deflect the blade with my arms and such to prevent you from hitting my vitals. Each time you cut my arms they are considering that an injury and honestly if I'm trying to avoid being killed that's probably going to happen a lot. Then assuming you get me in the body, your probably not going to hit me in a place where I'm going to die immediatly. Getting through the rib cage to things like the heart is harder than it sounds, so you could very easily wind up stabbing me a bunch of times in the torso before I go down, and not realize when I was dead.
Now yeah, there are very efficient ways to kill people with knives, but most people can't do that kind of stuff.
20 Stab Wounds doesn't strike me as being a lot for an unskilled murder on a target able to defend themselves. People have survived as many as 60 stab wounds.
In general I'd imagine if I was ever beaten/killed by some guy with a knife I'd have more than 20 wounds on me when it was over just going by what I've learned/seen.
Ahh well my apologies, no sleight was intended, bad communication on my part.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Well, as he was wielding two knives, I think he was far too gone by that point.Therumancer said:
I gotta say I didn't think about it that much. But I wouldn't go with against that idea it's likely he was overcome with rage and didn't stop stabbing in my mind. Then again thats an assumption, It's unlikely the details are gonna be revealed but hey Jack Thompson was right kinda, GTA causes violence, from people who don't play it.Therumancer said:
