Thanks to the mentally unstable like this P.O.S., this is just one more case that the "anti-video-game" lunatics can use against the gaming community. In cases like this, it makes me wonder if the parents ever thought "Hey honey, Daniel has been playing that darn Halo 3 for about 9 hours today. I think he even missed school. Maybe we should take it away before he gets addicted." Apparently not, they let the franchise sink its teeth into their child and he became obssessed. Obviously there are no rules in this household.

Verdict: I blame bad parenting.

Also, a pastor had a handgun?

Originally posted by SgtFrog

Originally posted by Waterlily

How does WoW relate to this article?

In regards to the violence in games, some developers are just looking for trouble. Some E3 trailers were just dispicable. I'm not in any way in favor of banning games because there's violence in them, but some companies (Valve) need to get a clue before they release trailers.

what was wrong with L4D trailer, E3 is a 18+ event so there was no one under age to see it really :/

Nothing is wrong with anything so long as there is some pre-empt that let's people be aware of what is going to be in something like a video game/trailer/movie/tv show before they start watching.

Which generally speaking there is some rating mark or something to that effect. If parents can't fucking control their kids then that's their own problem.

When I was a teenager (the 12-17 bracket) my parents had rules. When my grades slipped, the few times that they did, due to excessive gaming then my time was either restricted or I wasn't allowed to game at all. I had been brought up to -obey- and -respect- my parents, even though i didn't like it. Point is your kids aren't supposed to like it, but they're supposed to listen to you because you really do (are supposed) to know what's best for them.

I don't have kids, but I can -easily- spot something that kids shouldn't be watching or doing. My parents never blamed the violent movie/video game when I did something stupid, they blamed me for not knowing the difference when I should.

This kid was fucking 17 years old, plenty old enough to know right from wrong. His parents clearly didn't raise him right. End of story.

Originally posted by Waterlily

How does WoW relate to this article?

In regards to the violence in games, some developers are just looking for trouble. Some E3 trailers were just dispicable. I'm not in any way in favor of banning games because there's violence in them, but some companies (Valve) need to get a clue before they release trailers.

Maybe you need to get a clue before venturing onto the internet.

Originally posted by gan3f

Originally posted by Waterlily

How does WoW relate to this article?

In regards to the violence in games, some developers are just looking for trouble. Some E3 trailers were just dispicable. I'm not in any way in favor of banning games because there's violence in them, but some companies (Valve) need to get a clue before they release trailers.

 

Maybe you need to get a clue before venturing onto the internet.

/cosign lol

That's the reason i say over and over again i dislike PVP whenever i play pvp like socom, wow bg, i get pissed off all the time specially when they talk shit and its a 10 y/o doing it. I remember when i pvp and someone from my family talks to me i say SHUT UP allready but not kill anyone lol but im mad as hell anytime i pvp, and that guy was pvping in halo3. Thats the reason i played ffxi 6+ years and didnt get mad at anyone no pvp :)

" His wife, Susan, 43, died of a gunshot wound to the head. "

BOOM headshot

Originally posted by Albos

That's the reason i say over and over again i dislike PVP whenever i play pvp like socom, wow bg, i get pissed off all the time specially when they talk shit and its a 10 y/o doing it. I remember when i pvp and someone from my family talks to me i say SHUT UP allready but not kill anyone lol but im mad as hell anytime i pvp, and that guy was pvping in halo3. Thats the reason i played ffxi 6+ years and didnt get mad at anyone no pvp :)

Well, that's your own fault and your own personal frustration. If you were say, working on a model car for a few hours, gluing tiny pieces together and your parents yelled to you for something, causing you to drop and break something, you would do the same thing.

Your frustration. PVP doesn't have any side-effects.. it's not a drug or a substance.. lol

That kid is messed up. He deserves the sentence and I think his parents wasn't too watchful over his gaming habits. Thats sad though and my heart goes out to the parents. He has a real problem in the head. Of all people his own family.

It is sad that it will be interpreted as a "video game problem" when it could have been anything.  It is sad that a life was destroyed when his mother died.  It is also sad another life was wasted.

I never played Halo.  Never interested me.  Microsoft, etc., the obsession some people had with it.  It just never appealed to me, and it in fact repelled me.  

People need to know that their actions --all of their actions-- have consequences.  I suspect this person did not have the requisite knowledge, cogitative skills, mental stability, emotional maturity, life experiences and so forth to understand that. 

EDIT:  17 is a very young age.  People who are 17 do not understand what "responsibility" is.  It is your response, really, to any and every situation.  You are accountable to how you respond.  His response was to take a gun and murder his loving mother when his parents took-away his Halo game.  This is a generation murdering their parents for taking-away their video games and growing-up on a diet of myspace/facebook/videoblogs.  It is a generation I feel sorry for because in no time have so many convinced themselves they are at the top of the world with their narcissism, self-centeredness when they are indeed so low.  This is a lesson, I think, and less of a fluke situation.  I think it could have been anything --car, Halo, etc.-- but the response, "close your eyes, I have a surprise" and then BANG! tells ME something.

Originally posted by Bakkoda24

Thanks to the mentally unstable like this P.O.S., this is just one more case that the "anti-video-game" lunatics can use against the gaming community. In cases like this, it makes me wonder if the parents ever thought "Hey honey, Daniel has been playing that darn Halo 3 for about 9 hours today. I think he even missed school. Maybe we should take it away before he gets addicted." Apparently not, they let the franchise sink its teeth into their child and he became obssessed. Obviously there are no rules in this household.

Verdict: I blame bad parenting.

Also, a pastor had a handgun?

I think it's in leviticus.

"Thou shalt covet thy glock."

Originally posted by Brif

It said he got two headshots, dang he's good.

Most Elites don't sit still on a couch with their eyes closed waiting for a "surprise"

I have to wonder how long it will take these moron courts to realize the defense in these cases is effectively an insanity plea.