Teen Killed Over Counter-Strike - Page 4

On May 07 2009 08:37 Hawk wrote:


A kid smashing the skull of another kid wouldn't make news, are you kidding me? And it would probably end up posted here as well.

"An estimated 520,000 people were murdered in 2000 around the globe. Two-fifths of them were young people between the ages of 10 and 29 who were killed by other young people."

Mathematically, that would be 520,000 divided by 365.24, which would be roughly 1423 murders per day.

And of course it's relevant that it was over Counterstrike. I mean, shit, they were at a lan center, arguing about the game just prior to the killing. It doesn't insinuate that the game made him some sick kinda psychopath, it's just what happened. I have no idea why you're like IT DOESNT MATTER THEY WERE PLAYING GAMES

On May 07 2009 09:29 pyrogenetix wrote:
god some people on bnet i would gladly brick in the face for only 4 years in jail.

On May 07 2009 05:14 CubEdIn wrote:
...so he went outside, waited for his friend to come out and beat him with a brick?


....fucking camper.

On May 07 2009 05:14 CubEdIn wrote:
...so he went outside, waited for his friend to come out and beat him with a brick?


....fucking camper.

On May 07 2009 05:37 b3h47pte wrote:
a 14 year old beat up a 17 year old? what? O.o

On May 07 2009 12:12 MayorITC wrote:
God forbid a story involving a video game is posted in a forum dedicated to a video game. Regardless of how trivial the role of the video game is (in my opinion, it's pretty important), the rarity of such circumstances makes it a newsworthy post here.

The only clear-cut thing that can be determined from the replies in this thread is that there is no clear-cut judge (aside from moderator's discretion) on whether this thread belongs here or not. So unless there's concrete facts backing up your central argument of why a thread doesn't belong here, don't speak in such an authoritative manner.

PS: I think it's pretty fucking clear that Counter-strike served as the final, if not sole, trigger behind the murder and to suggest that the kid's clothings are just as important to the story is a pathetic attempt to defend a losing argument.

On May 07 2009 10:19 travis wrote:


first of all i was talking about posted here, not the news.

secondly, think about how many people there are in the world. how many murders do you think there are?


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_murders_committed_per_day_in_the_world


so what, we should be having hundreds to thousands of posts per day regarding murders?



Just saying that it doesn't does not make it so. The fact is that headlines like "teen killed over counter-strike" DO insinuate that the game has something to do with the murder. When in reality this murder, with these people, could happen over anything. It just so happens that it was counterstrike.

I'll concede that it is relevant to the setting. But so is what clothes they were wearing, how busy the cyber cafe was, their moods that day, and a million other details.

To reiterate my original point: counterstrike has nothing to do with the murder. It shouldn't be the focus of this story. And if it's not the focus of this story, it would not have been posted here.

On May 07 2009 12:56 Hawk wrote:


You do realize that they were arguing in a lan center about cs?

That's like getting in a car accident and killing the guy in a fit of rage, and failing to note that they were interacting because of the accident. Or a dude finds his wife cheating on him and kills them, and the headline is man murders husband.