quote: A sad reminder tonight that video games don't always end up in good times: a 15 year-old boy from South Korea has murdered his mother then killed himself following "a fight over Internet games".
The boy, from Busan in Korea's south-east, got into an argument on Monday night with his mother when she "scolded" him for playing video games.
As tensions escalated, the boy strangled his mother to death before hanging himself.
They could have stopped there but then the writer adds:
quote: The Associated Press story reporting the crime did not specify which game the boy had been playing.
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I'm guessing one of their bajillion Korean MMOs. No Korean mother would scold their son for playing Starcraft.
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i remember a story not too many weeks ago about a woman killing her child because it interrupted her playing farmville... you know how serious those facebook games can be....
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Maybe it's the fact that I can bearly imagine a 15 year old boy strangling his mother..... who would let someone strangle them.....(dot dot dot)
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Ecthalion- I saw that story too. I play farmville and that is one slow game. Being distracted during it improves the play. Of course, I also don't really understand hitting a kid for crying. You hit a kid, they cry louder.
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You should play Farmtown. No waiting.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: I'm guessing one of their bajillion Korean MMOs. No Korean mother would scold their son for playing Starcraft.
It's their national sport!
Anyways remember that video game related violence is always because of the person already being unstable, any other obsession could have possibly caused this.
I would like to make a dare to find even one case of a well mannered normal person in perfect mental health suddenly snapping.
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: I would like to make a dare to find even one case of a well mannered normal person in perfect mental health suddenly snapping.
If I played mother teresa in Guilty Gear for more than ten consecutive minutes, she would have easily put my head through the monitor and then kicked me to death. Guaranteed.
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quote:Originally posted by scholarette: Ecthalion- I saw that story too. I play farmville and that is one slow game. Being distracted during it improves the play. Of course, I also don't really understand hitting a kid for crying. You hit a kid, they cry louder.
Minor point, but I believe with the Farmville woman, she didn't hit the child, she shook it to death.
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My guess is their problems went deeper than him playing a video game. That just happened to be what he was doing when the argument started and he snapped. we are not getting the whole story.
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quote:Originally posted by Yebor1: My guess is their problems went deeper than him playing a video game. That just happened to be what he was doing when the argument started and he snapped. we are not getting the whole story.
Yes, precisely. We shouldn't be too quick to believe that proximate circumstances around a crime are to blame for it.
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Kotaku's statement about the game not being mention is a remark to the fact that most news outlets see video games and blame the games. If the kid had been found playing Grand Theft Auto, the headline would have read "Grand Theft Auto causes murder and suicide." And/Or because Kotaku posted the story since it deals with video games and people would have asked what game.
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quote:Originally posted by scholarette: Ecthalion- I saw that story too. I play farmville and that is one slow game. Being distracted during it improves the play. Of course, I also don't really understand hitting a kid for crying. You hit a kid, they cry louder.
Minor point, but I believe with the Farmville woman, she didn't hit the child, she shook it to death.
yea the story i read was that the woman got angry and shook he child, then played the game for a bit then went abk and shook te child again... either way its... disturbing to say the least...
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they need to do way instain mother. who kill thier babbys. because these babby cant frigth back?
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quote:I would like to make a dare to find even one case of a well mannered normal person in perfect mental health suddenly snapping.
Well of course. But I think a more relevant question is does obsessive video game usage lead to healthier or less well adjusted states of mental health? MMOs seem extremely good at replacing healthy goals and social experiences with less fulfilling video game goals and social experiences. Do video games directly cause mental illness? No. But could video games help foster an unhealthy way of living that enables mental illness? Absolutely.
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It beats manhunt in terms of juvinile gore so take it as a reccomendation if you need to see a mangled neckstump before you can get it up.
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