Seriously.KishinZero said:
Consider the amount of people beaten or killed over drugs or alcohol, and the amount beaten or killed over videogames. Not even close, even though videogames are so popular.
It's bullshit
Seven-Year-Old Girl Murdered for Videogame Money
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Consider the amount of people beaten or killed over drugs or alcohol, and the amount beaten or killed over videogames. Not even close, even though videogames are so popular.
It's bullshit
Holy crap, what a psycho. That's incredibly disturbing.
It's not even an issue of "did video games cause it or didn't they". It's a case of "holy fuck that 15 year old is insane".
It's not even an issue of "did video games cause it or didn't they". It's a case of "holy fuck that 15 year old is insane".
FOX News now has more fuel for its "gaming is the shiny devil" fire. The kid is psychotic, not addicted, were it over any other medium he'd be called a psychopath and not a book addict, or movie addict, or couch addict. Yet, since it was possibly for an online game, he's a video game addict and that's the only problem.
Stupid people these days, I swear.
Stupid people these days, I swear.
Well, I agree with one thing, that kid certainly has a problem. I don't think video games are to blame directly, because otherwise we'd be seeing cases like this in North America, and we don't.
Does this surprise anyone? The more people who play video games, the more likely this is to happen. It's only a numbers game really.
There is no link between video games and addiction. But there is probably a definitive link between people with addictive personalities and video games. That is not the industries fault in any way. These people could be addicted to anything at all, it happens to be video games in this case. Then there is the obvious problem here, he is clearly a mentally unbalanced kid. The industry or it's spokespeople should never have to make excuses for stuff like this.
There is no link between video games and addiction. But there is probably a definitive link between people with addictive personalities and video games. That is not the industries fault in any way. These people could be addicted to anything at all, it happens to be video games in this case. Then there is the obvious problem here, he is clearly a mentally unbalanced kid. The industry or it's spokespeople should never have to make excuses for stuff like this.
Wait, what? Sorry but I disagree with that, of course you can get addicted to games, loads of people are addicted to games, and there are always stories like, for example, the woman who was addicted to farmville and let her child die.RT-Medic-with-shotgun said:
Hell, even I know I am slightly addicted. I know I can get off my ass and do other things, and use my time much better than I currently do now, but I don't. Why don't I make better use of my time? I can't, or it's hard to do so. Granted its not so bad that I am really horribly lazy, or even start murdering little girls for money, but it is a small problem no doubt.
OK EVERYBODY STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW
Escapist take this article down. Make no mention of it. If FOX, the daily mail or the guardian just hears the words "video game" "Murder" and "girl" in the same sentence they will hear it as
"A group of 1000 gamers are committing genocide across Vietnam because they saw it in a VIDEO GAME. we now turn to some fat gamer we picked off the street to defend gaming and our sack of shit expert to tell us how 99.9% of gamers are murdering rapists".
Escapist take this article down. Make no mention of it. If FOX, the daily mail or the guardian just hears the words "video game" "Murder" and "girl" in the same sentence they will hear it as
"A group of 1000 gamers are committing genocide across Vietnam because they saw it in a VIDEO GAME. we now turn to some fat gamer we picked off the street to defend gaming and our sack of shit expert to tell us how 99.9% of gamers are murdering rapists".
I live in Vietnam. This is terrible (ghê quá). Every country has it's problems but it's unfair to blame the game; it's hard to understand the motivation behind this but it's not the country they live in, it's the mind set of the people. MMORPGS are addictive and can lead to this sort of behaviour. It's not the fault of the MMORPGs but the fault of those that take it too seriously.
I'm sorry for what she's going through, but equating games to drugs without batting an eyelid damages her stance somewhat.attackshark said:
One most definitely can become addicted to games, not because of inherent addictive qualities in games themselves, but because of behavioral addiction [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_addiction].RT-Medic-with-shotgun said:
This is sick. If someone was to tell me that this would happen a few days ago then I would ignore them.
It's easy to blame something you vaguely know about. The mother/father probably knew he liked this game, and, hey, maybe even knew a bit about it. The kid probably wasn't right in the head, and there was some other problem. Maybe kleptomania?