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Posted: Jul 17 2007 02:11 am

Michale and Iana Straw of Reno, Nevada have a serious problem. MMOs can be addictive, but when you allow your 22 month old son and 11 month old daughter to almost starve to death while wallowing in their own filth and infection because you're playing a video game, it is our opinion you should be neutered in the nearest public square.

The two pleaded guilty to neglect, and boy are they guilty: The severity of their children's neglect is beyond words. Their poor little girl had a mouth infection, severe dehydration, and hospital staff had to shave her head because her hair was matted with cat urine. The boy was treated for starvation, had a genetal infection, and his lack of muscle development made it difficult for him to walk. Both children have put on weight and are doing very well in foster care.

The children are in good hands and doing well.

Posted: Jul 17 2007 02:58 am

Good god....my mom told me about this, but she said it was Dungeons and Dragons?

Posted: Jul 17 2007 05:36 am

And once again a couple of horrible people make it that much harder for ALL gamers, not just MMO players.

This is like when Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon and Chapman cited a book and people were like: BOOKS ARE EVIL! ...Wait, this isn't like that at all actually.

Anyway, this is simply terrible for those children. I hope the foster care system is good to them.

Posted: Jul 17 2007 08:24 am

PhreQuencYViii wrote:

Good god....my mom told me about this, but she said it was Dungeons and Dragons?

Yeah. The MMO known as "Dungeons and Dragons Online."

Posted: Jul 17 2007 10:04 am

Wow. Yeah, some people definitely deserve to be neutered.

Also I read that book that Chapman was obsessed with, back in high school, and it was awful.

Posted: Jul 17 2007 01:30 pm

Jesus, these people should not be allowed to walk around with normal humans. I mean, if you're too busy getting your level-47 Magical Ax of Gayness to help your infant children in THE REAL WORLD, you shouldn't be allowed to exist.

Posted: Jul 17 2007 04:07 pm

damn, im playing that game. it must be fun.

Posted: Jul 17 2007 04:30 pm

MOGHARR wrote:

damn, im playing that game. it must be fun.

Its boring as hell.

I'd recommend actual DnD, but that turns out best when one or more of your friends already plays. Otherwise, you end up hanging around complete strangers, who have an above average chance of being incredibly pathetic.

Posted: Jul 18 2007 01:10 am

RobotGumshoe wrote:

Otherwise, you end up hanging around complete strangers, who have an above average chance of being incredibly pathetic.

I resent that. Confused

Posted: Jul 18 2007 08:44 am

If you don't mind missing out on a bunch of stuff the paper and pencil version offers (and I don't mean like the social experience and such, but certain races and classes) you might want to try DD). However, I seem to remember them coming out with an RTS using the Eberron setting.

All that aside, these people should be doused in lemon juice and salt, then sliced with a sharpened game disc until they die.

Posted: Jul 18 2007 09:24 am

Part of the reason that people do shit like this is because MMO's are intentionally designed to be a timesink. When you can just pick up a game and play it without some stupid ass commitment, people are going to be less likely to force themselves to extremes like these dipshits did.

Can someone prove me wrong with a story about a guy playing some shit like Tetris until he died of starvation, perhaps? That'd be hilarious.

Posted: Jul 18 2007 09:33 am

Serious, they need to make WoW beatable or something. My dumbass friends have been back from college and I saw them twice all summer. They just play Wow all the time. Like they tell me they can't do stuff because they have a raid. What??

Posted: Jul 18 2007 02:39 pm

Murdar Machene wrote:

Can someone prove me wrong with a story about a guy playing some shit like Tetris until he died of starvation, perhaps? That'd be hilarious.

In 1982, Peter Burkowski had not been drinking when he arrived at Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois. He hadn't been using drugs either. According to the owner of Friar Tuck's, Peter and a friend walked in about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 3, and went straight to the games. Peter was eighteen, likeable, and apparently healthy. An "A" student, he had plans to become a doctor someday. Peter was also good with the games. In fifteen minutes of play, he wrote his initials at least twice in the "Top Ten" on the Berzerk screen. Then, tired of that game, he turned, took about four steps, dropped his quarter into a second machine, and collapsed. By 9 p.m. Peter was dead. The cause: heart attack.

The next day, one newspaper headline read, "Video Game Death." Was Peter, indeed, a casualty of the games? "Yes and no," says Mark Allen, Lake County's deputy coroner. Though the autopsy found unsuspected scar tissue on Peter's heart that was at least two weeks old, Allen believes, it's possible that the stress of the games triggered the attack in Peter's weakened heart.

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Knyte wrote:

Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois.

Ha! I grew up next door to Cal City, in South Holland. Never went to Friar Tuck's because I went to Wright's Barnyard (now Hollywood Park) in Lansing for arcade games. I would drive by Friar Tuck's whenever my friends and I went to the Army Surplus Store though.