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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: You know you've been in a PC bang too long when.... |
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...you can't separate fantasy from reality.
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Gamer stabs man to avenge character
June 10, 2005 �� An online game addict took his agressions out on a fellow gamer yesterday morning, stabbing him in an Internet cafe in Seongnam city, just south of Seoul.
The 34-year-old gamer, identified by his family name, Hwang, was in the midst of playing the game Lineage yesterday morning around 7 a.m. when his character in the game was killed, police said.
Mr. Hwang went to another Internet cafe, where he found a 25-year-old man playing Lineage with the character that had "killed" his, and stabbed him with a sharp object. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in serious condition.
"The character was like my child," Mr. Hwang, a professional motorcycle messenger, told the police. "When he was killed, it felt as if my life was taken away. I was shocked and furious."
"Game addicts tend to consider cyberspace reality," said Shin Yeong-cheol, a psychiatrist at Kangbuk Samsung Medical Center. "When their characters die, their devastation and humiliation feel real. They generally suffer from personal and emotional issues." |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200506/09/200506092240207239900090409041.html |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| hahahahahahah OMG!! what an IDIOT!!! |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Illegal item-trading in Lineage thru ItemBay has grown to be a lucrative business within the game. Hardcore types can be known to make over 5-6 million Won a month.
I'd say that ultra-competitive Lineage profiteering had more to do with this, than the guy's faux story about feeling personally attached to his character. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| That's just...sad. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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It's happening all over!!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4072704.stm[url]
A Shanghai online gamer has been given a suspended death sentence for killing a fellow gamer.
Qiu Chengwei stabbed Zhu Caoyuan in the chest when he found out he had sold his virtual sword for 7,200 Yuan (£473).
The sword, which Mr Qiu had lent to Mr Zhu, was won in the popular online game Legend of Mir 3.
Attempts to take the dispute to the police failed because there is currently no law in China to protect virtual property.
....a virtual sword!!!......The world's gone mad.....[/url] |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know, Eamo. Legend of Mir does have some pretty kickass swords. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| i've only been in one fight in my life. i must have been something like eight years old. my cousin and i got into an argument in a swimming pool. when it got heated enough, he threatened to erase the 'legend of zelda' game i had saved on his nintendo. i was pushed over the edge. i chased him out of the pool and ran after him until he tripped and fell. then i jumped on top of him and started pounding him until his older sister broke us up. |
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sparkx
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: thekimchipot.com
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| i've only been in one fight in my life. i must have been something like eight years old. my cousin and i got into an argument in a swimming pool. when it got heated enough, he threatened to erase the 'legend of zelda' game i had saved on his nintendo. i was pushed over the edge. i chased him out of the pool and ran after him until he tripped and fell. then i jumped on top of him and started pounding him until his older sister broke us up. |
I'd have unloaded on the little fucker too. It's obvious he'd been thinking about erasing Zelda all day but was just looking for an excuse to do so - it was premeditated if you ask me.
You should have buried a shank in his eye for being such a sneaky bastard.
Next time you see him (maybe Thanksgiving or Easter) i suggest finishing the job.
When he's writhing in pain, gargling on his own blood and looking at you with that stunned, terrified gaze that screams "Why? Why God, Why?" just look down at him indifferently and say "Zelda" before dicing him up like a honey glazed christmas ham. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I might steer clear of the pC bang for a while.... |
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Hwajangsil Ajumma
Joined: 02 May 2005
Location: On my knees in the stall
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:15 am Post subject: |
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What Sparkx said.
Howver, things are done a little differently in Korea. If some dog-baby in the PC bang usurps your position as Kartrider wang, utilise the wonder of public ridicule to augment the glee you're about to derive in avenging your recent humiliation.
Walk up to his PC, pull the power cord out the back, and then just as the look of surprise starts to register on his smug sickening deceitful lucky cheating miserable face, ddong-chimm him with said AC cord. He'll die writhing in 220 volts of agony, whilst you dance around him chanting something appropriate about wiping him off the high-score board, as he so richly deserves.
Then dice him up like a honey glazed christmas ham. |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:48 am Post subject: |
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You know you've been in a PC Bang too long when.....your infant dies.
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Infant Daughter Dies as Parents Play Online Game
A thoughtless couple in their 20s who left their four-month old daughter at home while they played Internet computer games at a nearby PC café have been booked by police after the child died.
According to Incheon Police Station on Tuesday, a 29-year-old man husband identified by his family name of Yu and his wife put their four-month daughter in the bedroom of their home and went to a neighborhood PC café at around 4:00 p.m. on May 24 to play the online game "World of Warcraft.
Time flew by as the couple lost themselves in the game, and when they returned home at 9:00 p.m., their daughter was lying on her stomach, dead of suffication.
The couple told police, "We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day."
Police said an investigation turned up that the couple, who wed last year, used to play "World of Warcraft" whenever they had time.
Police said, "It's unfortunate, because the tragedy could have been averted if the couple had just left their daughter with Yu's mother-in-law, who lived upstairs from them... We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death."
Major U.S. online game producer Blizzard, which grew famous with the game "Starcraft", produced the game to which Yu and his wife were addicted, "World of Warcraft." The game allows multiple players to form teams to fight battles and enjoy various adventures.
(Lee Yong-su, [email protected] ) |
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506140037.html |
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Hwajangsil Ajumma
Joined: 02 May 2005
Location: On my knees in the stall
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Major U.S. online game producer Blizzard, which grew famous with the game "Starcraft", produced the game to which Yu and his wife were addicted, "World of Warcraft." The game allows multiple players to form teams to fight battles and enjoy various adventures.
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Well that explains it all then. How is one to stick to their basic responsibilities in the face of such magnificence?
I wonder if they "enjoyed" their "adventure" to the police station, courthouse and funeral parlour? |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:22 am Post subject: |
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Time flew by as the couple lost themselves in the game, and when they returned home at 9:00 p.m., their daughter was lying on her stomach, dead of suffocation.
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i wonder if they left the fan on.
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| Major U.S. online game producer Blizzard, which grew famous with the game "Starcraft", produced the game to which Yu and his wife were addicted, "World of Warcraft." The game allows multiple players to form teams to fight battles and enjoy various adventures |
i like how they end this article "enjoy various adventures"....well...no WONDER they left their baby alone for 5 hrs...makes total sense.
That said, it could just be SIDS. How could they be charged with negligence? Actually, does anyone here KNOW of any cases of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) around their circles in korea?
A girl in my class almost lost her 8 month old brother. His father happenned to come into the room after a couple of minutes and managed to resucitate him but he had/has very severe brain damage. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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What is it with these Korean nerdlingers?
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You know you've been in a PC Bang too long when.....your infant dies.
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Infant Daughter Dies as Parents Play Online Game
A thoughtless couple in their 20s who left their four-month old daughter at home while they played Internet computer games at a nearby PC caf� have been booked by police after the child died.
According to Incheon Police Station on Tuesday, a 29-year-old man husband identified by his family name of Yu and his wife put their four-month daughter in the bedroom of their home and went to a neighborhood PC caf� at around 4:00 p.m. on May 24 to play the online game "World of Warcraft.
Time flew by as the couple lost themselves in the game, and when they returned home at 9:00 p.m., their daughter was lying on her stomach, dead of suffication.
The couple told police, "We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day."
Police said an investigation turned up that the couple, who wed last year, used to play "World of Warcraft" whenever they had time.
Police said, "It's unfortunate, because the tragedy could have been averted if the couple had just left their daughter with Yu's mother-in-law, who lived upstairs from them... We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death."
Major U.S. online game producer Blizzard, which grew famous with the game "Starcraft", produced the game to which Yu and his wife were addicted, "World of Warcraft." The game allows multiple players to form teams to fight battles and enjoy various adventures.
(Lee Yong-su, [email protected] ) |
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506140037.html |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| ...you spend your final hours shopping for a new avatar, eyes heavy from battling dragons of cigarette smoke, drinking more won 300 'milk coffee' out of paper cups^^, scribbling down lengthy, gobbledigookish site numbers such as http://arf2followZeeDx234987L/_2-imp.:/fuXuraDUMBASSfurBeingUpSoLate finally narrowing it down to 10 subfinalists when Who Gives A Damn just something to do. Meanwhile the guy beside you playing Starcraft died six hours ago. |
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