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darkpower

11-05-2008, 10:00 PM

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=6001

Boy found dead, parents blamed Call of Duty and video game addiction (http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=6001)

<small>November 5th, 2008 Posted in General Nintendo (http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?cat=19), News (http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?cat=11), Written by Valay (http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?cat=3)
</small>Brandon Crisp, a young boy, had been missing up until today when he was found dead. Brandon ran away (http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/531082) from his home after his parents took away his Xbox 360. His parents took possession of the console after they decided Brandon had become addicted to Call of Duty 4. Initially, Brandon’s parents believed that the boy’s disappearance was somehow related to his addiction to video games. It was only after investigators analyzed Brandon’s Xbox 360 analyzed (http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=935453) that the link between video games and his disappearance were no longer tied together.
“It’s still being analyzed a little further, but at this point we have no reason to believe there is any connection to date between the Xbox and his disappearance,” Sgt. Goodbrand
Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family commented (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/11/05/magazine-profile-missing-gamer-focuses-game-addiction) on the situation and strongly states that video game companies do not want to address video game addiction.
“I don’t think [video game companies] want to touch addiction with a 10-foot pole. It raises all sorts of liability issues for them. And my interpretation is that their strategy is to ignore it and hope it will go away. If you talk to front-line counsellors in places like universities they’ll tell you that this is a huge issue. The way people are viewing this is changing quickly."
Seriously, how many times do we have to DO this damn thing to get parents to figure out that this is "the game made him do it" excuse will not work?

I don't want to think that people are this fucking STUPID, but sometimes I wonder....

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Brandon Crisp, a young boy, had been missing up until today when he was found dead. Brandon ran away (http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/531082) from his home after his parents took away his Xbox 360. His parents took possession of the console after they decided Brandon had become addicted to Call of Duty 4. Initially, Brandon’s parents believed that the boy’s disappearance was somehow related to his addiction to video games. It was only after investigators analyzed Brandon’s Xbox 360 analyzed (http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=935453) that the link between video games and his disappearance were no longer tied together.
“It’s still being analyzed a little further, but at this point we have no reason to believe there is any connection to date between the Xbox and his disappearance,” Sgt. Goodbrand
Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family commented (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/11/05/magazine-profile-missing-gamer-focuses-game-addiction) on the situation and strongly states that video game companies do not want to address video game addiction.
“I don’t think [video game companies] want to touch addiction with a 10-foot pole. It raises all sorts of liability issues for them. And my interpretation is that their strategy is to ignore it and hope it will go away. If you talk to front-line counsellors in places like universities they’ll tell you that this is a huge issue. The way people are viewing this is changing quickly.”
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Kane Knight

11-05-2008, 11:09 PM

I disagree that there is no connection between the XBox and his disappearance. The XBox has a history of kidnapping and executing children. Microsoft insists that this is merely a precursor to the RROD, but a couple of programmers have come forth and insisted that Microsoft rushed it to market without properly testing the Asimov logic chip.

Kalyx triaD

11-05-2008, 11:50 PM

I've followed this story for a while.

He went missing after his father took his XB360 away for playing too much CoD4. The boy went missing for about 20-something days before news broke today that he was found dead. Instead of combing the countryside... they were combing his XBox hoping to find a clue. The father is also lessening his involvement in the boy's actions - as getting your console taken away would not make a kid run away from the house.

FourFifty

11-06-2008, 03:07 PM

QUICK!!!! SOMEONE GET JACK THOMPSON ON THE CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:
Seriously, sucks for the dead kid, but you cannot pin this one on video games. Chop this one up to bad parents.

Kane Knight

11-06-2008, 04:51 PM

Chop?

Destor

11-06-2008, 04:56 PM

so stupid

BigDaddyCool

11-06-2008, 05:34 PM

If only it was a Wii, he would be badly beaten but still alive. :'(

FourFifty

11-06-2008, 08:35 PM

I think the kid would still be alive if he had a PSP or a DS.

Nark Order

11-06-2008, 08:42 PM

Way to steal BDC's joke, YOU PIECE OF SHIT.

j/k

Anyway, yeah. Clearly not the video games at fault here. People are getting a bit ridiculous nowadays.

BigDaddyCool

11-06-2008, 08:55 PM

The old, "I've tried buying my childs love with things, but now my child is a spoiled brat addicted to objects" defence.

Kane Knight

11-06-2008, 09:13 PM

Jon Kano

11-07-2008, 08:17 AM

With a name like Brandon Crisp it was all down to bullying probably. Brandon cRIsP.

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2008, 02:57 PM

I'm curious as to whether or not there are actually professionals out there who believe this issue of addiction to games to be a real issue. The statement that "front-line counselors" makes me wonder how many would agree, and how many of them are legit. I'm yet to see a single counselor say anything like that, and the mental health community thus far have rarely backed up the claims against video games. More often, they show little or no effect on gamers, so I wonder what they'd say in this case.

I'm guessing that video games are addictive only in the sense that almost anything pleasurable can be addictive. And if that's the case, I'm betting extreme sports are probably a bigger killer in terms of addictions.

In this case is CoD4, a very popular online game. I'm betting the kid didn't spend hours beating it over and over again. So infact this 'addiction' was really the kid being social over XBLive, and perhaps the father didn't understand how that could work.

This leads to the broader state of today's social network in young people and we don't have time to discuss that. But yeah, just wanna say its the father's fault again.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-07-2008, 03:01 PM

I didn't realize running around calling anyone on an online service "fag nigger" qualifies as being social

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2008, 03:30 PM

Kane Knight

11-07-2008, 04:45 PM

LOL but it does - it does. Degenerates aside, XBLive is one of the healthiest things to come for most gamers. The stigma of the loney kid sitting in a dark room playing games all alone doesn't apply (as much), but alot of groups still view even online games as people with a problem.

An online social network is nice, but at the point it actually replaces other social circles, there really is a problem.

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2008, 04:49 PM

Then again, many of these gamers on XBLive wouldn't have any social anything otherwise. I figure some form of networking is better than nothing at all. Some people have both, some one or the other, but pity for those with neither.

But before I'm misunderstood, physical social interaction is the better of the two.

Kane Knight

11-07-2008, 07:57 PM

I'm not entirely sure that's true.

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2008, 08:04 PM

That's alright.

Kane Knight

11-07-2008, 09:01 PM

I think technology is really isolating us in ways it never did before. A lot of people turn to the internet because it's a social quick fix as it were. But it's not alone. With mobile phones, text messaging services, MP3 players, etc., we are slowly cutting ourselves off from real human contact. It's simply not necessary, even if you're a loser.

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2008, 09:25 PM

Yeah, its a shortcut that's over-played. But is human contact overrated itself? When I was a pup in K-1st grade I rarely interacted with the other kids. This, way back when, pretty much meant something was wrong with you. I was placed in counseling with 3 other 'loons' because I wasn't as enthusiastic about being social as the others. They tested us with little projects and such and found that two of us were 'bright'. In the 3rd grade my mother decided to come to lunch with my class for the week and just sit with us. She wanted me to make friends by rubbing off the 'cool mom' thing. It worked, but I still felt all that attention wasn't required.

I don't like people. I get along with them just fine, but I never felt a need to connect beyond a few friends and family.

So the question to me is whether being social is even beneficial to the individual. I don't think being social in a non-virtual setting is universally positive. What this has to do with the post above - I don't know. Just felt like sharing.

But I see how tech has this ironic property that has we're connecting in evermore elaborate ways we are infact trapped in this box. We may feel that when we're outside at work, school, whatever - that that's when we're inside. We can't wait to get home and check our messages, etc. If the internet were to shut off tomorrow the suicide rate would go up in a flash.

Kane Knight

11-07-2008, 09:36 PM

I'm gunning for "crazy old cat lady" in my later years, and even I socialise with real people in facetime.

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2008, 09:48 PM

I'm gonna be the old guy who leaves outside of town alone. All the kids of the town would come play baseball in a field near my estate and one day the ball gets knocked through my window. The kid would try to apologize but notices I have this extensive katana collection. He'll be like, "what the Hell is all this?" And I'll be like, "GET THE HELL OUT!" But the kid would come back cause he's all curious and he'll sneak in my katana room and I catch him. He begs me to tell him about my collection and we form this friendship where I teach him how to use katana. Conveniently after I teach 'everything he needs to know'... in like a 2 minute montage, I'm killed because my past as a triaD comes back to haunt me (Clox maybe). So the kid swears bloody revenge and travels around the world learning about my secret life in TPWW and killing off anyone who had something to do with my murder.

Yeah, that's my future.

Kane Knight

11-08-2008, 08:12 AM

np;dr

#BROKEN Hasney

11-08-2008, 08:24 AM

no paragraphs;didn't read

or

nigga please;didn't read?

Kane Knight

11-08-2008, 08:51 AM

Noid Post; Didn't Read.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-08-2008, 08:54 AM

There's no need to mentally scar Kalyx Although I do not doubt someone already got there first :shifty:

Kalyx triaD

11-08-2008, 11:08 AM

I am the Last Dragon.

Kane Knight

11-08-2008, 01:12 PM

I am the last of the Mohicans.

Kalyx triaD

11-08-2008, 01:18 PM

Please, I saw one at Wal-Mart last week. :roll:

Funky Fly

11-08-2008, 08:45 PM

I am the Last Dragon.

You ain't no Ultimo Dragon. You trying to piss me off? :mad:

Xero

11-08-2008, 10:42 PM

SUPER DRAGON!