This is a forum for discussion off the topic of video gaming, not general idiocy.

Wow, I didn't hear about that one, wouldn't happen to have a link to it, would you? I'd be interested in reading the article. Some people sure do have some issues though, like the guy who committed suicide after hearing a plot spoiler for the new Harry Potter book. Anyways, I'm getting off topic in this already off topic post...

 

the harry poter suicide isnt true.

 

This wasn't a big deal. It's Assemblers forum, and if he feels the need for himself to save 40 bytes, whatever. Life goes on.

As for the post being pointless, none of them existed outside of MINUTES. It is what is called an "open topic" for "open discussion", something most of you should have done in school. I somehow gathered that this was a bit of a "geeky" forum, but apparently in a different sense than what I am used to. Lord knows we have had some pretty great topics generated on programming boards and newsgroups from the exact posts I made here.

What I am suprised at is all of the ACTUAL huff. Youd swear I was posting mobid pictures of little girls killed by Katrina.

 

I read the link at one time, but now I cant find it. I did manage to find the text reposted, however.

"Matthew Kingsley, 16, committed suicide by hanging himself in his
basement after, reportedly, spending too much time playing the game
"Star Wars Battlefront 2". According to Kingsley's friends and mother
who witnessed him playing the game, he rented the game for the weekend
his friends said.

In
a suicide note Kingsley left in his room, he wrote how depressed he
became when he was betrayed by his teammates and attacked over and over
again. He said he felt betrayed for the last time in his life, the team
members who he mentioned he played with in the note was friend Xfactor,
and two random players Mvbroli and Jimthepimp.

In his final
note, the Warren High School sophomore made particular mention of one
"scene" in which he was sliced to the ground and forced to watch his
friend get shot to death with a shotgun over and over again by the two
team killers. The note also mentions the entire game itself made him
feel depressed on how life is.

"This is the material our
children are being exposed to on a daily basis." Says Kinglsey's
mother, Helen. "They play these games loaded with depressing content,
its enough to make anyone want to end it all."

Helen Kingsley,
a math teacher at Warren High School, is petitioning to have content in
all video games reviewed and if possible censored.

 

wait...who are you again?

 

Don't pretend you don't understand what we're telling you. Yes your posts technically fit into "off topic." The point is they were lame.

So stop making lame posts. Like I said there has to be something to "discuss" in some way about your post, else it ends up like this:

Post #1:

"Vote for pedro!"

Post #2:

LOL! ROTFLMAO!

Post #3:

Who is Pedro?

Post #4: Will you fucking dumbasses cut this out?

Posts #5 through 147:

Some stupid flame war that ruins the boards.


So quit playing dumb. Nobody's telling you to leave or diliberatley picking on you. Just quit posting stupid bullshit.

Somebody close this thread or esle this will go on forever.

 

I think that everything that needs to be said has been said.

I vote to close this topic.

 

Geeky. Not socially inept.

And you're right. This wasn't a big deal. A pointless topic (where the sole post was an inside joke that half of the members didn't recognize, I might add) was deleted. That was no big deal - it's happened many times before, and it's not like there's a big red stamp that gets put on a user's avatar that says, "I created a topic the mods deleted!" Everybody goes home, life goes on, the end.

No big deal.

The big deal starts when a new thread gets opened. A user doesn't get the reason why their post was deleted, but instead of taking the issue to the mods over PM, they create a new topic to rail on about the perceived injustice (and I must say that though I'm sacreligiously flattered at the thought of being the 'almighty', I must confess to being but a humble mortal...). Here's where the big deal starts, where reputations of 'troublemaker' or 'irritating' can be mentally filed under a particular username by other members. Before, it wasn't a big deal, but now it gets kinda hard to back down out of.

So at the risk of sounding pompous, I'm offering a solution: I close the topic. We all go back to our regular posts and threads, and nobody's put off or annoyed or bothered. Everything starts back from square one, except this line of discussion, of course, which stops here.

No big deal.