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Why So Curious?
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Ahh, here we go again!
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=6001
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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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.
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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. |
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As over as Crystal Pepsi
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QUICK!!!! SOMEONE GET JACK THOMPSON ON THE CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
![]() Seriously, sucks for the dead kid, but you cannot pin this one on video games. Chop this one up to bad parents. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Chop?
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I am the cheese
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so stupid
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Pelvic Sorcerer
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If only it was a Wii, he would be badly beaten but still alive.
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As over as Crystal Pepsi
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I think the kid would still be alive if he had a PSP or a DS.
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Soundly Defeated Wadding
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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. |
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Pelvic Sorcerer
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The old, "I've tried buying my childs love with things, but now my child is a spoiled brat addicted to objects" defence.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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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. |
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With a name like Brandon Crisp it was all down to bullying probably. Brandon cRIsP.
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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. |
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BAY BAY
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I didn't realize running around calling anyone on an online service "fag nigger" qualifies as being social
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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.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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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. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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I'm not entirely sure that's true.
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That's alright.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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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.
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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. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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I'm gunning for "crazy old cat lady" in my later years, and even I socialise with real people in facetime.
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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. |
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#24 |
Ron Paul 4 EVA
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np;dr
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BAY BAY
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no paragraphs;didn't read
or nigga please;didn't read? |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Noid Post; Didn't Read.
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BAY BAY
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There's no need to mentally scar Kalyx Although I do not doubt someone already got there first
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I am the Last Dragon.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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I am the last of the Mohicans.
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Please, I saw one at Wal-Mart last week.
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The Satanic Mechanic
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He's Here
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SUPER DRAGON!
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