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He is.... very, very lucky that none of what he did ended up with the police shooting somebody.
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He's obviously a very disturbed individual but I wonder if him liking League will open up negative opinions of League from non-gamers perspectives. The reality is more people in North America will care about this far more than your typical asian guy plays at a PC cafe for 3 days and dies of a heart attack kind of story.
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This would probably be a bigger deal if 1) it happened in America and 2) he had been playing a "murder simulator" like Call of Duty.
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Meh, not really. In fact, the line I would draw if I were making a ban system is making threats of out of game crimes. Its a highly reasonable line. Plus, this is really not a Lol case, so much as it is a social media/stalking case. This guy probably still has his Lol account.
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I thought of the same initially, then I re alized that he was mostly targetting female streamers.
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On May 23 2015 08:40 Sufficiency wrote: I thought of the same initially, then I re alized that he was mostly targetting female streamers.
I don't see how that is some sort of Lol-specific problem, he could have had creepy stalker-crushes on female Dota streamers or youtubers who do "unboxing" videos. Lol is just extremely popular so its statistically very likely for him to stalk a Lol streamer. It has basically 0 to do with the tribunal or new chat ban thing.
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On May 23 2015 00:57 Zdrastochye wrote: He's obviously a very disturbed individual but I wonder if him liking League will open up negative opinions of League from non-gamers perspectives. The reality is more people in North America will care about this far more than your typical asian guy plays at a PC cafe for 3 days and dies of a heart attack kind of story.
Doesn't matter what game it is when something like this happens. People who think video games are evil and corrupting the kids will target any game.
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In the end though, this guy was going to be piece of shit with or without any games. I hope people recognize that and keep it in mind, and I hope the little bastard gets tried as an adult.
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On May 23 2015 23:04 Disengaged wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2015 00:57 Zdrastochye wrote: He's obviously a very disturbed individual but I wonder if him liking League will open up negative opinions of League from non-gamers perspectives. The reality is more people in North America will care about this far more than your typical asian guy plays at a PC cafe for 3 days and dies of a heart attack kind of story. Doesn't matter what game it is when something like this happens. People who think video games are evil and corrupting the kids will target any game.
Maybe this is too much of a nuance but I was moreso talking about the general public who don't have any real opinion of gaming as a whole. Not those crusaders of morals and ethics who want video games to be banned or everything like an educational game for smaller kids at school.
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On May 23 2015 09:04 cLutZ wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2015 08:40 Sufficiency wrote: I thought of the same initially, then I re alized that he was mostly targetting female streamers. I don't see how that is some sort of Lol-specific problem, he could have had creepy stalker-crushes on female Dota streamers or youtubers who do "unboxing" videos. Lol is just extremely popular so its statistically very likely for him to stalk a Lol streamer. It has basically 0 to do with the tribunal or new chat ban thing.
His stalking cannot be proven to be through LoL - it was actually through Twitch. This decreases Riot's responsibility.
And yes, it could have happened for dota streamers instead of LoL.
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On May 23 2015 23:04 Disengaged wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2015 00:57 Zdrastochye wrote: He's obviously a very disturbed individual but I wonder if him liking League will open up negative opinions of League from non-gamers perspectives. The reality is more people in North America will care about this far more than your typical asian guy plays at a PC cafe for 3 days and dies of a heart attack kind of story. Doesn't matter what game it is when something like this happens. People who think video games are evil and corrupting the kids will target any game. There once was a time this was true. I feel like gaming has ascending to such a state where people don't conflate the two. Especially since LoL isn't an FPS or like a SWAT simulation game. In a not-so-perfect analogy, it's like Tiger Woods cheating on his wife being linked to Golf. Is what all golfers are like?
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