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   SPAM, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 12:56pm

   
   

   Bone... of contention!

   My (ex)wife threw my PS1 out the window of our 3rd story apartment. This kind of fighting between couples is normal--just not the murder part.

    

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   PaulT (profile), Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 12:57pm

   
   

   Given that drooling idiots like Keith Vaz are still trying to blame a murder on Manhunt (despite the fact that it belonged to the victim of the crime and the police have rejected all connections), I wouldn't be surprised.

    

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   Mark K., Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 1:01pm

   
   

   Another one.

   http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7250177&page=1
   
   Another gunman... How long until video games are blamed for this?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 1:06pm

   
   

   Re: Another one.

   http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=7249853&page=1
   Might be a better story summary?

    

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   Tgeigs, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 1:12pm

   
   

   Stop pretending there isn't a connection

   I for one can attest to the connection, and video games have been responsible for a timeline of reprehensible actions throughout my life. This is one of those times, but feel free to share your own story:
   
   6 y.o. -- As a mere 1st grader, I was caught hallucinating on mushrooms, breaking into a pet store and demanding where they kept the turtles. When the clerk looked confused, I snarled "traitor", slapped him in the face, and proceeded to the turtle section in the back. There I carefully laid them out on the tile floor and proceeded to do a semi-homosexual leap in to the air (one fist in the air and a blank expression on my face) and crushed the slimy quadripeds beneath my shoes. Apparently I was rushed to jail while screaming that someone owed me a princess.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 1:51pm

   
   

   Re: Stop pretending there isn't a connection

   I have roughly the same story, except I escaped through the sewers.

    

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   Some Italian, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 1:59pm

   
   

   Re: Stop pretending there isn't a connection

   I'll share my story:
   
   I went to pick up my girl once from work only to find out she was in a different building.

    

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   JDaddy, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 2:10pm

   
   

   Re: Re: Stop pretending there isn't a connection

   Did you have to go to 7 wrong buildings before you found the right one or did you find the warp zones and only go to two wrong buildings?

    

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   Tgeigs, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 2:10pm

   
   

   The Story Continues

   16 y.o.-- At the request of my family, I accompany them to the supermarket. While wandering down one of the aisles, a tall slender man with white hair is walking the opposite direction. He apparently knew my father, and asked him "are you coming to the reunion?"
   
   Sephiroth!, I thought. Here? How could that be?
   
   But that wasn't the time for thought, it was the time for decisive action, so I promptly crane kicked him in the nuts, reached for one of those plastic displays, and beat him to death with it, screaming "That was for Aerith you snowy son of a bitch!"
   
   Fortunately, as it was close to Easter, there was a plethora of Chocobos located in convenient nearby packages marked "Peeps". I peeled one out, hopped aboard, and rode it into the sunset.

    

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 2:15pm

    
    

    Re: Bone... of contention!

    My (ex)wife threw my PS1 out the window of our 3rd story apartment. This kind of fighting between couples is normal--just not the murder part.

    
    No, this kind of fighting is normal between people are clinically insane and/or have no business living together. On the other hand, I think I just figured out why the divorce statistics are so high.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 2:37pm

    
    

    / You beat me to the punch on that one. Touche.

     

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    Abusing the original concept again..., Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 4:53pm

    
    

    This is another blatent case of abuse. The TV was made to watch. Not to be used as a monitor for games. Had the dufus been on a separate video monitor, they would probably still be sucking air.
    
    It's all their own fault.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 10:29pm

    
    

    ROFL @ comments 5-8

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 3rd, 2009 @ 10:44pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Bone... of contention!

    SRSLY.

     

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    top, Jun 26th, 2009 @ 8:17am

    
    

    I think, as a parent I'd rather have my child be addicted to games which I have the control over with rather than my kid be involved in drugs. I have the power to monitor my kid's computer usage compared to him using drugs behind my back. I have read an article: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1421576 wherein it was discussed a game helped a student in his financial crisis in real life and it somewhat gave me a new outlook in games.

     

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