The fella who did that should be locked away along with his no good parents o.o
And they should be forced to watch reruns of Fran Fine the nanny for the rest of their lives…
No, it’s perfectly reasonable to mock this situation. The idiot who takes a GAME seriously enough to do something like this should be mocked, scorned, and laughed at by his fellow gamers without even the slightest shred of respect for his actions. What he has done is in no way deserving of ANY KIND of elevated status, good or bad, and anything other than complete ridicule would do just that.
As for the person who was stabbed, he survived what are essentially miraculous odds, and the only reasonable response to that is to downplay the severity of the situation with humor. There’s no point in being paralyzed by someone’s completely retarded actions.
Because I think it is a serious matter. 
Don’t you?
I don’t agree that the situation should be mocked, however I agree 100% that the person who did this should be ridiculed and shamed. So we are, for the most part, in agreement.
However, you apparently have not read the thread before replying though, because then you would’ve known that that’s not what’s happening here. People in here are mocking the victim and what happened to him. I have hardly seen anyone mock or ridicule the person who did this yet.
The principle is pretty simple: Computer games provide fun upon mouse-clicking. Almost every time you click the mouse, something cool is supposed to happen. You fire a gun, open a treasure chest, roam the fields of Azeroth, talk to a hot woman you’d never even dare to get too close to in real life, or solve a puzzle. All by simply pushing a button.
So basically, every time you push the button, your brain provides “reward” experience by giving out serotonine, dopamine or enorphine (whatever the stuff is called). The more you play games, the more you get used to “getting your shot quickly and conveniently”. It’s like drug addiction, only that the stuff you get addicted to comes from your own brain. You simply stimulate it to give it to you. Like mental masturbation, actually.
In time, you grow more and more unable to handle frustration, grow more and more impatient. Everything you want, you want NOW. In the instant of a moment. Everything that takes longer than a moment isn’t worth doing it, because it takes you too long to “get your shot”. Prepare a meal? Too much frickin time. If there’s no food, someone’s gotta get me something. If noone’s gonna get me something, I won’t eat. I’ve got more urgent things to do - on the screen, trying to get to my next “shot”.
People become unable to handle the real life, because it is more complicated and frustrating than gaming. In the real world, you have to do more than mouseclicking. And the real world doesn’t look as awesome as my favourite fantasy world. So why should I spend any more time than absolutely necessary in this “real” world? People get easily frustrated by the easiest tasks. Because they’d be much easier in a game.
If frustration, however, finally even dominates your favourite gaming experience, because somebody who outperforms you appears and ruins it for you, your whole world is about to collapse. The game was the best thing in your life. It was the ONLY thing in your life giving you “happiness” and “pride”, and now someone humiliates you IN THE GAME. So the game becomes reality, the place where you are NOT SOMEONE SPECIAL, not one of the best, just a sucker who is inferior to others. That should not be. That MUST NOT BE.
You have thrown your whole life away to master this game, and then someone comes along and beats you at it? Even a relatively stable person would have difficulty taking that kind of humiliation. A nerdy pro-gamer with no life whatsoever will obviously freak out and go postal. Or at least do something very stupid and dangerous.
Not hard to understand. Gaming is like doing drugs. Only the drugs come from your own body. Maybe I simplified it a bit, but that’s how I see it. If you are addicted to something, and someone forces you to go cold turkey, you’d better be a strong-minded person, cause this will fucking SUCK. And yes, you CAN go cold turkey on your own body’s “reward hormones”. I think that’s why unhappy love hurts so much. It’s going cold turkey after having been pumped to the max with “happy stuff” for a while. No wonder some people talk about “being in love” calling it “being intoxicated”. It’s true.
Well, at least that’s my two cents on this story.
Hey guys, if you wanna have a serious debate over the validity of gaming infecting real life, then hows about someone make that thread over in the debate area. I have seen some great discussions on this and I wouldnt mind seeing it again.
But to be honest, I am not sure why I left this particular thread open and now I see it degenerated (is that a word?) into a thread to post the most disturbing examples of human depravity only to make fun of it. I just want to remind you guys that this IS serious business. Teen angst with guns is not a laughing matter. Lets not make it one. (Says the gal who lives 15 minutes from Columbine)
Forgive me. I am closing this.