aselys ([info]aselys) wrote in [info]girl_gamers,
@ 2008-01-31 14:26:00
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This is truly horrible...
As a mother and a gamer I don't know how anyone could react this way.....

http://gameinvasion.comcast.net/gameinvasion/news/article/1201794900546_xboxobsessed_father_convicted_of_childs_death

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[info]duchess_of_crab
2008-01-31 07:43 pm UTC (link)
how heartbreaking. I have to go hug my kids now.

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[info]mandyiam
2008-01-31 07:46 pm UTC (link)
That poor child. It was an accident that she pulled down the Xbox. There was no reason for the father to get that angry about it.

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[info]arklan
2008-01-31 08:21 pm UTC (link)
there is no reason for anyone to get that angry about anything... :(

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[info]mandyiam
2008-01-31 09:52 pm UTC (link)
I agree. :(

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[info]aselys
2008-01-31 07:48 pm UTC (link)
I know. I am going to give my daughter a hug when she wakes up from her nap. I would never react that way.....Oh it makes me sick....

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[info]aerysta
2008-01-31 07:51 pm UTC (link)
What a terrible and tortured short life she lived. I hope she has peace now and he suffers for the rest of his days.

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[info]jgoreham
2008-01-31 07:59 pm UTC (link)
Just awful. That poor little girl.

How does anybody play 7 hours of video games a day?

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[info]i_am_pellucid
2008-01-31 08:12 pm UTC (link)
How does anybody play 7 hours of video games a day?

When their life is awful enough that they need that much of an escape, or if they're particularly addicted or if they just have nothing better to do. I can frequently log 7 hours in a particularly slow day, myself.

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[info]arklan
2008-01-31 08:26 pm UTC (link)
i've often done this most of my life, i must say. i mean, school or work or hanging with friends take priority, of course. but if i have nothing to do i could easily play for the majority ofthe day.

and now, heck. i play 8 hours a day as my job, then go home and play a couple more a few nights a week.

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[info]simplysolitary_
2008-01-31 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Not that hard, actually. I've gotten so sucked into games that I haven't noticed eight to ten hours being played... my boyfriend and I played this one Xbox game, which name escapes me, straight one Thanksgiving.

It's no big deal. :)

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[info]jub1lee
2008-01-31 09:05 pm UTC (link)
I've done it when I 'm sick or find myself caught up with things for the day. Sometimes I don't realize I've played that long untill someone says something to me.

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[info]giove_dea
2008-01-31 09:54 pm UTC (link)
I don't think its hard every once in a while to get sucked into a game like that. I think its the 7 hours a day every day kinda thing that you really have to worry about.

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[info]hydrosk
2008-01-31 11:19 pm UTC (link)
One time I played WoW for 13 hours straight O.o

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[info]quilombo
2008-01-31 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Wow I'm surprised no one's tried to put a spin on this yet. Xbox crazed father? I think dude was pretty nuts before he even got an Xbox.

Either that or John Madden is no joke.

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[info]paradox528
2008-01-31 08:56 pm UTC (link)
Just wait. It's a matter of time, I'm sure.

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[info]raven_rabit
2008-02-01 08:19 am UTC (link)
The fact that they felt the need to mention multiple time how much he played the XBOX is like them using bait to lure someone like Jack Thompson.

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[info]i_am_pellucid
2008-01-31 08:14 pm UTC (link)
This disgusts me. There are two small children who have done similar things while I was playing (pushed the reset button to be specific), but it never once crossed my mind to beat them even once, let alone to death. God, I wish we could sterilize people at birth and then un-sterilize them once they've shown an ability not to be morons.

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[info]paradox528
2008-01-31 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Here, here! My friend and I have often spoken of a parenting license but have yet to see it come to fruition.

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[info]glowfly
2008-02-01 04:43 pm UTC (link)
I always thought it was a good idea. You need to be a certain age to vote or drink, have to have a license to drive, but anyone can just pop out a baby and do whatever they want with it.

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[info]paradox528
2008-02-01 04:50 pm UTC (link)
Well, I think people who are against birth control and abortion wonder how we would police t hat. I have no problem with either so I say "mandatory birth control until you can prove yourself". But then, some people don't believe that's ok so- :: shrug :: We end up at a stand still.

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[info]i_am_pellucid
2008-02-03 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Actually the people who are against birth control and abortion would be more likely to support parenting licenses than people who are in favor of birth control and abortion, since the people who are against birth control and abortion also tend to be against premarital sex. Those who favor birth control and abortion usually consider themselves "pro-reproductive rights" and would see you revoking their "right" to have children whenever they want as an affront to their civil liberties.

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[info]just_tonight
2008-02-03 04:19 pm UTC (link)
kids don't realize what they do. hell, on thursday i had played final fantasy 3 on ds for 2 hours in an attempt to level up. my son came home from school, grabbed the ds, and popped the game out so he could play something else. i hadn't saved it, so i about died. but obviously, i didn't beat him. its just a game.

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[info]i_am_pellucid
2008-02-03 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Had you left it sitting out and on, or did he grab it from your hands? If he grabbed it from your hands, I'd punish the crap out of him if I were you. xP

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[info]just_tonight
2008-02-03 10:31 pm UTC (link)
it was sitting on the bed. he's been grabby before and he knows not to!

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[info]simplysolitary_
2008-01-31 08:36 pm UTC (link)
That disgusts me. Clearly, there was something seriously wrong with this man long before he touched a video game, or helped make a child. He needs serious help... poor, poor child.

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[info]deronimo
2008-01-31 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Seriously. An xbox is worth less than $100. Not worth anyone's life, let alone a little girl.

Where were those social workers? Apparently the parents were already under suspicion. How do you MISS a broken arm?

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[info]flyingwild
2008-01-31 09:36 pm UTC (link)
I like the fact that the article does not even touch on the fact that the guy was clearly unstable and abusive to begin with...those sorts of outbursts don't just happen out of nowhere.

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[info]giove_dea
2008-01-31 10:01 pm UTC (link)
There are plenty of ways to kid proof electronics. You either put the system high enough that they can't reach it and then use wireless controllers, or you put something in front of the system so that grabby fingers can't get to it.

What was done was horrible...and the only justice I see is that when he does go to jail and the others find out why he's there, he'll be beaten to a bloody pulp by the inmates.

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[info]cumpig
2008-02-01 06:07 am UTC (link)
or raped, which is awful.

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[info]chicknstu
2008-01-31 10:32 pm UTC (link)
The Xbox involvement is a little beside the point here.

Truly sick.

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[info]fegli
2008-02-01 01:01 am UTC (link)
From a politic point of view, the XBox involvement part sounds like yet another attempt to pin the blame for violence on video games.

From a sympathetic point of view... Jesus, of course that asshole deserves 20-40 years in jail. He deserves more than that.

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[info]tinuviel
2008-02-01 01:19 pm UTC (link)
Dear Lord! I have gotten annoyed at a small kid for pressing the off button on my gameboy, when I was in the middle of playing, but that went no further than a glare and a "You are not meant to do that. This is my toy, you have your own". I don't get how anyone could possibly react any stronger than that. I mean beating a child, who doesn't know what it is doing, for something stupid like a fallen console?! What sort of mind do you have to have, to do that? I am surprised it wasn't first degree murder.

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[info]banana_turkey
2008-02-01 01:43 pm UTC (link)
this just makes me sad and sicker then i already am at this current time :(

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