Woman Killed Over PlayStation Addiction

[spanner_razor]

[citation][nom]aracheb[/nom]what doesn't make sense for me, is that she was 46 and they been together for 30 years,,so that means that she was 16 or less when they move together..[/citation]

That's what struck me at first, hardly a typical healthy relationship.

 

[resonance451]

Your articles suck. You're as much an idiot as Jack Thompson, and that argument is OVER. He has been disbarred as an embarrassment to the legal system, and you've no need to bring it up. Obviously there were more serious issues in play, and video games might have only had a cursory effect if any.

If you're going to talk about the level of violence in video games affecting people, give an example in which they directly cause a crime. End of story. Shame on you for writing this article!

 

[etrnl_frost]

Grizzly death? There was a bear involved?

Anyway, dysfunctional family begets dysfunctional son. News at 11.

 

[resonance451]

Also, your speculation is ridiculous. Do you even read what you write? Jesus fucking Christ.

 

[matt87_50]

I think its more the fault of the TV for being too bright.

 

[tipoo]

[citation][nom]etrnl_frost[/nom]Grizzly death? There was a bear involved?[/citation]


*Tries disparately to withhold a chuckle*

that's just terrible.

 

[demonhorde665]

his is f-ked up , don't you love how they still manage to blame video games for this. and tom's youa re warped for allowing this article to be pblished in the statre it is in .. this is not amatter to make light of yet this article clearly does.

 

[Tindytim]

Another case that proves that video games are evil

If this woman hadn't of played these games she could have defended herself when husband tried to kill her, rather than simply pressing x not to die.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]aracheb[/nom]what doesn't make sense for me, is that she was 46 and they been together for 30 years,,so that means that she was 16 or less when they move together..[/citation]
yeah wow .. lol eitehr this article is giving estimations or these two shoudl never have been together

if they were together exactly 30 years she would have been 16 and he would have about 32 (46-30 = 16, 62 - 30 = 32)

2008 - 30 = 1978

correct me if i am wrong ... but i do blieve this amkes thier early relation ship a case of child molestation /date rape ect ect. the alws regarding age diferences and sex were written around the 1950's if i'm nto mistaken so i'm sure the laws in 78 were the same ones we have today in this regard.

this means one of 3 possiblities

A) the author of the article is about as precise as a blind kid trying to play base ball (ie he gave a guess-amation on how long they were together instead of an actual figure , perhaps teh actual figure is really 20 soemthing years not 30 )

B) the author has the exact figure , and this creep should have been leagaly delt with in 78 when he was playing in the kiddy pool for his dates.


C) the girls parents need to be hit on the head cos they obviously didnt care that thier 16 year old daughter was dating a 32 year old man




you ask me i'd have to say mostly likely answer is A though , and this is jsut a case of lazzy - a--ed reporting. COME ON tom's christ , If i turned in shoudla half a--ed answer in oen of my english classes i'd get flunked out of that college class (online college even)
this lack of research into your writing is inexcusable on any level ... i'm not even in a writing major i'm just on a game art design major. this is jsut pathetic research into the article you are writing. GET EXACT figures geez-us

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]ChaosGS[/nom]I feel so sorry for that kid having to watch her mom brutally killed, that man will never get the justice he deserves. For a murder you only get 14 years but child porn gets you 30, what a world we live in.[/citation]


yes the system work sthis way cos child porn is more provable than murder in most cases . and pedophiles that deal in child porn , most of the time will eventually decide to feed thier habbits physically and not just with pictures. adn how long the perp is in prison wil be determined by how teh trial goes , this giuy could easily get 14-60 + years in prison depending on the otu come of the trial , and given the fact the man confesed , as well as they have all evidence (body ,weapon used ect ect) it is very likely this old man will spend the rest of his life in prison. but eyah i get teh point youa re making but comparing it with child porn offenders is nota good comparision as legit child porn pervs NEED to be in prsion for the terms they give them if not longer. Woudl youre allyw ant one of those guys living in your neighbor hood with your daughter and/or son acessible to them?

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]fuser[/nom]"As Scott suggested, the reality is that games suspend disbelief"Huh? Games don't suspend disbelief. Suspending disbelief is something that we humans do in order to allow ourselves to be drawn more fully into a world that is created for us. That created world may be in a book, movie, video game or some other media, but the act of suspending disbelief is performed by the viewer/reader/game player. Not the other way around.[/citation]


i agree , growing up i was often grounded by my step dad for various reasons , so my escape mechinism was reading , and i was able to suspend disbelieve quite easily with many contless fantasy and sci-fi novels. i'm sick of every new form of media taking crap from politicans jsut because it is "NEW" they did teh same crap with movies , comics , and music , now it's video games ,eventually soemthign new will come along later after video games ahve goteen acceptance , and thenIT will start taking the fire.

 

[Balshoy]

[citation][nom]Liandros[/nom]He clearly is from Europe if he dialed 999 to confess.[/citation]

More like Britain, to be more precise... Europe's emergency number is 112 😀

 

[hercules]

wow I am dumb founded.

 

[bone squat]

She had it coming to her and maybe the kid will grow a pair and learn to deal with it. What a little wuss. That skank should have been in the kitchen making him dinner or birthing babies or something womanly like that. She should NOT have been playing GTA 4 without her man's permission. Chicks don't play GTA - no wonder he thought she was having an affair - prob with another chick, only gay chicks have violent tendancies. Nice article. I hope the kid gets over it and doesn't cry like a sissy. Gj old man for killing that useless ho - teaches all women that your jobs are to produce babies, cook dinner for men and other stuff. =] (totally not joking...)

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]bone squat[/nom](totally not joking...)[/citation]
I was going to +1 you until I read that.

I'd prefer someone I enjoy having a conversation with. The ones that will soley cook and clean usually end up saying something stupid, and I lose all attraction to them.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

"Games help us escape the harsh reality of the real world"
So true

 

[solymnar]

Games...books...movies/TV...sports...advanced snuzzles...

In general any given hobby that draws the majority of your attention and is not related to a given person's responsibilities.

The eternal irony of course being that any hobby that isn't x person's is often condemned if y person spends to much time on it...even if x person spends the same amount of time on one of theirs.

If this hypocritical notion is exposed then x person usually tries to find some (usually poor and biased) statistics to bolster why their excess is OK and the other person's is not.

Easy example, it never fails to amaze me when I see a parent who watches roughly 20 to 30 hours of TV a week criticize a kid for playing 20 to 30 hours a week of video games.

Pot...kettle...black.

 

[bounty]

Best solution? Multiple choice:

1. Bring out the guillotine for pedo's and killers.
2. Drop them all onto a deserted island surrounded by sharks with lasers.
3. Let em go free since jail isn't going to change most of them anyways.
4. Lock them up for 15-30 years in a criminal haven, where their only contact is other criminals.

 

[bounty]

Or

5. Change the 8th ammendment to allow cruel and unusual punishments such as cutting of hands.

 

[tiredwolf]

welp the author didn't even know if it was his wife/ girlfriend/ or whatever so im guessing that the " of 30 years" was probably just thrown in there without thinking about it. I doubt that she was 16, I don't think many old man 16 year old girl relationships last 30 years. Anyway, its like what someone else in here said earlier. The lawyer just threw that in because he was trying to use anything he could have as a defense. This story is... kinda gay.