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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3310 Joined: 10 Oct 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1407 Joined: 16 Dec 2008    | Gaming can be an addiction but its never the sole cause for death in any case |
BANNED  Posts: 366 Joined: 18 Sep 2008    | I blame computer games and communism. User was banned for: Probation posts. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2794 Joined: 19 Sep 2008    | I blame the media blamers. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3298 Joined: 1 Nov 2007     |
This. 10 years ago you would stub your toe and blame communists. Now, you blame computer games. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 421 Joined: 5 Jan 2009     | I blame Yatzee. The game not the. Sorry I forgot where I was going with this. |
Muckraker  Posts: 234 Joined: 9 Dec 2008   | Damn video games and their evil ways. |
Muckraker  Posts: 231 Joined: 10 Oct 2008   | I wonder how they came to the conclusion that it was videogames. "That man swallowed saw blades?" I mean really? How could videogames ever cause someone to swallow saw blades? |
Muckraker  Posts: 286 Joined: 11 Jan 2009  | There is no way in hell we are getting even an eighth of the whole story on this one. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1850 Joined: 31 Oct 2007   | Let's get ready to stock pile our arms for the Cold War standoff between America and video games. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 982 Joined: 20 Oct 2008    | Yes, all gamers come to a point in their life where they must decide whether or not to ingest sawblades. He should have chewed them more thoroughly. |
Paperboy  Posts: 46 Joined: 12 Jan 2009  | Random! who would belive that that has to do with games? oh wait, my mom |
BANNED Posts: 366 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 |
I still do, except when I stub my toe I blame communists video games. User was banned for: Probation posts. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3915 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  | Games are the cause of everything bad in the world, remove them, and even the Taliban will hold hands with rednecks, and we will all sing harmonic songs...(!) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2150 Joined: 4 Jun 2008   | Ok...one question that still goes unanswered is what was it IN RELATION to video games that pushed this man to commit suicide? Was he not allowed to continue playing? And of all ways to try to kill yourself, why swallow saw blades? I can easily think of five better ways to do yourself in, with this in mind it is pretty clear that the person in question wasn't mentally stable (in which case, who's to say it was the games?). They haven't said nearly enough to either prove that games were or weren't the cause. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2787 Joined: 5 Aug 2008   | Whats wrong with him? Swallowing saw blades? Everyone knows you're supposed to eat those with milk. |
Muckraker  Posts: 255 Joined: 21 Dec 2008    | How could he even make himself swallow five saw blades? I think that he would have internal bleedings and lots and lots of pain pretty quickly after swallowing the first, or maybe he took them all at once... Anyway, why chose saw blades to kill yourself, why not something less painful. And obviously games had nothing to do with it. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1850 Joined: 31 Oct 2007 |
I was going to ask this same exact question before I saw you already had asked it. I'd love to know, myself. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2360 Joined: 14 Sep 2008   | Saw blades? Now that's hardcore! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3310 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 |
This is as true a statement as I have ever read. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2019 Joined: 25 Jun 2008  | I blame the publishers of the saw blades. |
On the Record  Posts: 5011 Joined: 28 Feb 2008   | In what game do you swallow sawblades? |
On the Record  Posts: 5048 Joined: 13 Dec 2008  | I don't know, theres probably a quest on Oblivion or Fable somewhere down the line where you get the choice - "Do you want to eat 5 sawblades to recieve the Sword of Mighty-Ass-Kicking?" That sort of thing... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1779 Joined: 13 Sep 2008   | Well, this is quite interesting. Obviously, half that story was censored by the Chinese government. Because they don't like people thinking that Chinese people are unhappy. Oh no, blame the video games. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 518 Joined: 15 Dec 2007  | holy shit. now this is the type of death that i'm talking about. At least he didn't experience it coming out the other end. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1771 Joined: 18 Nov 2008   | I blame the lack of warnings not to swallow on saw packaging... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 896 Joined: 2 Feb 2008 |
If I see that warning on the packaging in the not to distant future, I'm coming for you. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2814 Joined: 20 Jul 2008    |
Pretty much this. I take it you want us to move along now don't you? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1771 Joined: 18 Nov 2008 |
As long as you give me the standard 6-8 weeks warning and the violent act of my murder isn't turned into a videogame, then I will be cool with that! XD |
Beat Writer  Posts: 192 Joined: 24 Jul 2008  | Well, this is going to get read out by my mum when I try to convince her Fallout is a good thing. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1779 Joined: 13 Sep 2008 |
Yup. Move along now, citizen. Don't forget to pick up that can. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3231 Joined: 3 Aug 2008 | Maybe he was a professional sword swallower, they just wanted to blame video games for something. |
BANNED  Posts: 2513 Joined: 3 Dec 2008   | It sounds less like a suicide due to his addiction to video games causing depression or something. It sounds more like he thought: "If I swallow saw blades, think how much of a badass I would be. The internet will remember me forever." Not to sound insensitive but... there are way easier ways to go. Why choose sawblades to the inner esophagus? User was banned for: The artist in thee. (Permanent) |
BANNED  Posts: 552 Joined: 9 Dec 2008    |
I had an uncle commit suicide by decapitating himself with a chainsaw. That's hardcore. User was banned for: Archie Andrews Chooses a Bride!. (Permanent) |
Time Lord  Posts: 9978 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   |
No, that would be me. ;) But, let me think on this, how many people do you know that have been ranting incoherently about their favourite game here? ;) |
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/12/content_7387865.htm
WOW! Saw blades? That is one rough way to go. I wonder if anyone bothered to look to see if this guy had any other mental issues bedsides supposed "game addiction". It seems just like in America and other nations, China's favorite scapegoat are video games. Because as we all know, they are the root of all EVIL. What a bunch of BS. I also have to wonder what kind of relationship he has with his parents. Everyone always wants to blame something other than themselves. It is all really sad.