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Topic: Man kills himself over EVERQUEST....mom blames VI.
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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 01:11:04 PM
Just got done reading an article (I think it's pretty recent, not sure though) about this guy who was obssessed with Everquest and had quit his job and stoped going to school just to play eq, and eventually killed himself over the game. His mom is sueing(sp) VI now...Lol I'll post the link to the lengthy (somewhat) article when I get home from school...
Cadga
Quite Insane
posted 06-06-2002 01:11:54 PM
yep its about time for another BS EQ kills person article

too bad its not true

Professional Sinner/Heretic
My mindless dribble
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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 01:15:45 PM
quote:
Iron Chef Cadga got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
yep its about time for another BS EQ kills person article

too bad its not true


Yeah I was wondering how much truth there was in the story. It could be true though...it's a report by CNN, and I can't imagine them putting out news that isin't true.

KaLourin
Illanae's Stooge!
posted 06-06-2002 01:16:58 PM
*cough* Drysart *cough* hehhhe
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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 01:19:18 PM
hahaha
Dr Cysa
Angsty Mcangst
posted 06-06-2002 01:21:33 PM
on a yearly basis how many articles do you think there are about people who kill themselves over Ever Quest?
I don't discriminate...I hate everyone.
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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 01:24:02 PM
I have no clue...how many?
Dr Cysa
Angsty Mcangst
posted 06-06-2002 01:34:22 PM
I don't know either, thats why I was asking.
I don't discriminate...I hate everyone.
Naota Nandaba
Don't ask me about any goddamned bannings!
posted 06-06-2002 01:38:32 PM
Lots. They're called soccer moms, aka VERY public attention whores. Sometimes there's truth to it. Sometimes.
Nothing amazing happens here.
Only the ordinary.
Admiral Darndo
Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 01:39:26 PM
Not as many as Everquest is a tool of satan to convert good christian kids into druid/pegan/hethens I find when look at christian web sites for some cheap laughs.
but more that the my soccer loves everquest.
but should be less than ,but isn't, the soccer mom are evil evil people ones.
(ok the last two our out of spite, but I hate soccer moms)
(Crap.I used the humans language again.) -monkey
Cadga
Quite Insane
posted 06-06-2002 01:41:12 PM
quote:
From the book of Admiral Darndo, chapter 3, verse 16:
Not as many as Everquest is a tool of satan to convert good christian kids into druid/pegan/hethens I find when look at christian web sites for some cheap laughs.
but more that the my soccer loves everquest.
but should be less than ,but isn't, the soccer mom are evil evil people ones.
(ok the last two our out of spite, but I hate soccer moms)


lets lay off the Christian bashing please.
Being uneducated is different than havign a varied belief. I wonder that your problem is?

Professional Sinner/Heretic
My mindless dribble
Khyron
Hello, my mushy friend...
posted 06-06-2002 01:45:09 PM
http://www.gucomics.com/d/20020403.html

Yes, this is somewhat old news, but at least woody made a funney out of it.

Admiral Darndo
Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 01:55:35 PM
quote:
Iron Chef Cadga probably says this to all the girls:

I wonder that your problem is?

I'm a horible Catholic thats all.

(Crap.I used the humans language again.) -monkey
Dr Cysa
Angsty Mcangst
posted 06-06-2002 01:59:37 PM
You see christian nutjobs should be kicked in the nuts, set on fire, and thrown off a 50ft. cliff.
I don't discriminate...I hate everyone.
Naota Nandaba
Don't ask me about any goddamned bannings!
posted 06-06-2002 03:34:39 PM
They claim to be Christian. We call them fuckchops. They don't worship Christ, they worship the Judicator. Also known as the God of the Old Testament.

DIVINE JUDGEMENT SHOULD BE ENACTED UPON THE HEATHENS type attitude.

Nothing amazing happens here.
Only the ordinary.
Lashanna
noob
posted 06-06-2002 06:02:18 PM
Generally the whole "Magic: The Gathering/D&D/EQ/GenericFantasyThing is a one way trip to Hell, you know, they're corrupting your soul" Christian groups are mostly the problem...
Like parts of the Southern Baptist Church who burn Disney tapes because "Disney supports homosexual deviancy."

So Cadga, calm down, I mean, Jesus H. Christ, it's not that they're bashing all Christians, it's just that it takes to long to specify which ones, , and it's implied by the context.

Dad's going to kill you. Really. He is.
Naota Nandaba
Don't ask me about any goddamned bannings!
posted 06-06-2002 06:37:58 PM
I agree with Lashy.
Nothing amazing happens here.
Only the ordinary.
Steven Steve
posted 06-06-2002 07:03:21 PM
This kind of thing is so pathetic. What about the other 250,000 people or whatever signed up for Everquest? Like, 2 or 3 people have probably ever killed themselves "because of the game." Does anyone else find this odd?
"Absolutely NOTHING [will stop me from buying Diablo III]. I will buy it regardless of what they do."
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- Silvast, Battle.net forums

Zabe The Confused
Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 07:12:17 PM
This was on the 10 o'clock news a *while ago... it did mention that someone the guy was dating in EQ either quit or dumped him or something like that... but I dont quite remember the story because it was so long ago
All I want is a life time supply of cookies.
Vorbis
Vend-A-Goat
posted 06-06-2002 07:12:41 PM
quote:
The logic train ran off the tracks when Iron Chef Cadga said:

lets lay off the Christian bashing please.
Being uneducated is different than havign a varied belief. I wonder that your problem is?


Can we bash Satanism?

Dr Cysa
Angsty Mcangst
posted 06-06-2002 07:15:06 PM
I find it odd that no one reconizes that these christian nutjobs are suffering from some from of mental disease.

If you ran around telling people that if they did things you don't like something bad will happen to them, people would think that your crazy right?

They just hide behind their "religion".

I don't discriminate...I hate everyone.
Dr Cysa
Angsty Mcangst
posted 06-06-2002 07:16:19 PM
quote:
Vorbis of Pie impressed everyone with:

Can we bash Satanism?

They don't complain to much though

I don't discriminate...I hate everyone.
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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 08:07:11 PM
Okay I'm home and I got the link...CLICKAH!!!


Enjoy

Mightion Defensor
posted 06-06-2002 08:13:37 PM
quote:
Liz Woolley just started setting up an organization called Online Gamers Anonymous and a Web site to help people like Shawn -- with plans to use any money she might get from a lawsuit to help fund the organization.

Oh, the irony....

[ 06-06-2002: Message edited by: Mightion Defensor ]

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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 08:23:01 PM
quote:
ACES! Another post by Mightion Defensor:
Liz Woolley just started setting up an organization called Online Gamers Anonymous and a Web site to help people like Shawn -- with plans to use any money she might get from a lawsuit to help fund the organization.

Notice how it doens't post her Gamers Anonymous Web site? Lol I wish it did...I'd like to look at it...and laugh even more.

Maradon!
posted 06-06-2002 08:38:02 PM
As a parallel to her "Online Gamer's Anon." support group, she'll also be fronting a related "Incompetent Parents Anon." support group and recipe swapping/bridge club.
Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 06-06-2002 08:47:29 PM
[/rant on]

quote:
She believes Sony intentionally added features to Everquest to keep players online for hours at a time.

This shows that the lady is just stupid.. I mean, Naaaaaaah, why would an ENTERTAINMENT company actually try to entertain its customers? ONO!@$!# EBIL COMPUTER! TV R MUCH L33T3R BCAUSE TI R LES CHLLEANGINGING@!@$!

quote:
Such games allow people to effectively live shadow lives, divorced from flesh-and-blood existence.

No... they let you run around with a pretty little avatar with nifty armor and weapons. Essentially, you get to play dress up, only more sophisticated.

quote:
A longtime epileptic, Shawn also struggled with seizures, which his mother says computer time only aggravated.

Ever notice how all these people who kill themselves over EQ are epileptic? I mean, come on, you have a computer connected to the net and you're epileptic. And stupid. And ignorant. I hate stupid, ignorant people.

quote:
"He was an adult," his mother says. "What could I do to stop him?"

He was an adult. Why does she want money when he killed himself, on his own, with no real affiliation with her in any case other than being a blood relative? What, he didnt leave her his l33t loot on EQ Legends?

quote:
Shortly after, she dug into his computer files and found a list of the last few EverQuest names he'd used. Among them was the name "ILUVYOU," which he stopped using in late October. It was one of a few clues that led to her theory that he'd been hurt by an online love.


Oooooh, I see. He was one of those annoying pricks who make up stupid names and get mad when you dont laugh at his wittiness. It all makes sense now. So, is she going to sue all the other big name chat room programmers and whatnot? Cause, I mean, people fall in love over IRC every day.

quote:
"I can't just sit here," she says. "I cannot let him die in vain."

The guy shot himself. In a filthy apartment. Surrounded by his own dirty clothes and garbage. He did it because of personal problems about a game he couldnt handle. Were it not the game, it would have been cocaine. Or alcohol. Or any other sort of drug or obsession. Heck, he could have gotten a girlfriend and been dumped in real life and killed himself.

I wonder if she would have set up "Dumpees Anonymous"? You know.. those evil, evil people who decide they dont want to spend their lives with a boy who is so childish as to the point where he neglected all else in favor of his pasttimes?

I know its rough, cause my brother did that.. but man, if my brother decided to kill himself over the game, its not the game's fault. Its the fault of the person who picked up the gun and pulled the trigger.

Yeesh.

[/rant off]

"Age by age have men stood up and said to the world, 'From what has come before me, I was forged, but I am new and greater than my forebears.' And so each man walks the world in ruin, abandoned and untried. Less than the whole of his being"
Rabin Crabmink
YES
posted 06-06-2002 09:18:01 PM
Ask his mom if you can have his account.
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Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 10:24:48 PM
quote:
Rabin Crabmink had this to say about Robocop:
Ask his mom if you can have his account.

LOL!

Palador ChibiDragon
Dismembered
posted 06-06-2002 10:36:45 PM
quote:
Vorbis of Pie was naked while typing this:

Can we bash Satanism?

Not all Satanists worship Satan. Some of them are members of a group that called them selves that to contrast themselves against the rigid thinking of the Christian hardline. It was intended as a bash against Christianity, as well as a way of declaring themselves to be free of the rigid thinking of the hardliners.

Of course, the ones that DO worship Satan not only give the others a bad name, but they're also a bunch of dumbfucks. (Kinda like the people in this story, only with more candles)

I believe in the existance of magic, not because I have seen proof of its existance, but because I refuse to live in a world where it does not exist.
Eleene
Pancake
posted 06-06-2002 10:47:02 PM
I bet the guy found out his in-game blonde wood elf date was in fact a 50 year old balding man.
Vorbis
Vend-A-Goat
posted 06-06-2002 10:49:47 PM
quote:
Palador ChibiDragon spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Not all Satanists worship Satan. Some of them are members of a group that called them selves that to contrast themselves against the rigid thinking of the Christian hardline. It was intended as a bash against Christianity, as well as a way of declaring themselves to be free of the rigid thinking of the hardliners.

Of course, the ones that DO worship Satan not only give the others a bad name, but they're also a bunch of dumbfucks. (Kinda like the people in this story, only with more candles)



Last I knew, Cadga is a Satanist. Thus the joke.

Palador ChibiDragon
Dismembered
posted 06-06-2002 10:52:54 PM
quote:
Vorbis of Pie wrote this stupid crap:

Last I knew, Cadga is a Satanist. Thus the joke.


Ah.

I'm a Virgo myself. Discordian too.

(I used to BE one of those asshole hardline Christians, thank half-a-dozen pagan gods that I never really got the chance to shine as one.)

I believe in the existance of magic, not because I have seen proof of its existance, but because I refuse to live in a world where it does not exist.
Fizodeth
an unflattering title
posted 06-06-2002 10:55:54 PM
quote:
the online virtual reality game he'd been playing for well over a year.

wuss... 3 or 4 years and Im still alive...

this is pitiful.. people blame a GAME COMPANY for having GOOD ADVERTISING... if he was stupid enough to take it to suicide then how long would it have been before he killed himself over something else?...

I mean jeez... its sad that this dude died but its annoying that his mother is pointing the finger at the wrong target...

Ocyrrhoe Trazere
Bootylicious!!
posted 06-06-2002 11:05:27 PM
quote:
Lashanna had this to say about Optimus Prime:

So Cadga, calm down, I mean, Jesus H. Christ, it's not that they're bashing all Christians, it's just that it takes to long to specify which ones, , and it's implied by the context.


Our parents are Christians. It tends to bother him a bit when someone generalizes like that.

"Come at me. Every inch of me will resist you."

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Dark Elf Pimp
posted 06-06-2002 11:09:38 PM
quote:
This insanity brought to you by Eleene:
I bet the guy found out his in-game blonde wood elf date was in fact a 50 year old balding man.

You mean they aren't all? So that's why Rinaria didn't like me calling her a SLR!

Nicole
The hip-hop-happiest bunny in all of marshmallow woods
posted 06-07-2002 12:20:27 AM
The guy killed himself. The game was just there. It's like suing the government if your son jumps out of a government building. Also known as JUST FUCKING STUPID.

I can understand about resenting her son's death and looking for a reason. But damnit, she dosen't have to go suing the first thing she sees.



I just spent
my last cent
purchasing this poverty.

Eleene
Pancake
posted 06-07-2002 12:33:33 AM
quote:
The logic train ran off the tracks when Empress Eisuye said:
I can understand about resenting her son's death and looking for a reason. But damnit, she dosen't have to go suing the first thing she sees.

Moneeeeeeeeeeeey!

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Pancake
posted 06-07-2002 01:11:40 AM
Yeah she needs money to get her Online Gamers Anonymous organization started lol...
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