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I THINK someones reading Penny-arcade. :D
Posted By: ErnieDate: 4/8/02 8:05 a.m.

In Response To: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest! (REB)

Heh, they linked to this @ www.penny-arcade.com. LOL.

Either people actually LOOK for theses kind of articles on the web, or PA has a bigger readership in the Marathon community than I thought.

-Ernie

: Here's the story: Mother blames 'EverQuest' for son's suicide
: April 5, 2002 Posted: 8:13 a.m. EST (1313 GMT)

: By Fennec Fox

: The woman, Elizabeth Woolley of Osceola, Wisconsin, claims that her son Shawn
: shot himself as a direct result of the 12 hours he spent every day playing
: the highly addictive online game. She said that Sony had refused to give
: her information about her son's playing habits, which she hoped would give
: some insight into his suicide.

: "Shawn was playing 12 hours a day, and he wasn't supposed to because he
: was epileptic, and the game would cause seizures," Woolley said.
: "Probably the last eight times he had seizures were because of stints
: on the computer."

: Although Woolley admits that Shawn had mental problems stemming from before
: he began playing EverQuest, she believes some social event that occurred
: in the game caused her son to go over the brink. She has hired an attorney
: and plans to push Sony to put warning labels on their games.

: I belive the motive behind the suicide was the other way around: there was no
: social event. Why? Because the guy spent 12 hours a day in front of the
: computer. He had no life!

: But seriously, he could have decided to verify personally if there's a God,
: after somebody told him on line there's not going to be a Mac version of
: EverQuest (are you taking note, Matt?)

: Or maybe be spent too much time playing EverQuest because, after more than 2
: years of development, there are still no networking on Aleph One
: Macintosh, and on a rainy november day, he look into the mirror with tears
: rolling down his eyes, and said to himself: "Even if I buy myself a
: Mac, I'm never going to play Marathon over the web."

: Now that's something serious.

: The lesson here, people, is not to never, ever lose faith. Even at the
: darkest hour, don't forget there's always a possibility that somehow,
: someday, somebody is going to step into the light an make it possible to
: play Marathon over the web (or at least fix the flashing HUD problem).
: This could happen the same day Halo is released for the Mac.

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A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!REB 4/7/02 12:32 a.m.
     Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!Johannes Gunnar 4/7/02 4:23 a.m.
           Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!zudo 4/7/02 6:40 a.m.
                 Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest![Tycho?] 4/7/02 10:22 a.m.
           Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!REB 4/7/02 8:46 p.m.
                 Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!D-M.A. 4/8/02 2:43 a.m.
                       Re: L33T social skills•M 4/8/02 2:00 p.m.
                             Funny ha haaa... *NM*D-M.A. 4/9/02 2:51 a.m.
                 Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!:: Beer Can :: 4/8/02 3:14 a.m.
     Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!Tru7h 4/7/02 7:53 a.m.
     Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing EverQuest!Tynskel 4/7/02 7:42 p.m.
     Hey, I posted this at HBO!Djof 4/8/02 7:53 a.m.
           A Guy Kills Himself After Playing Marathon!REB 4/9/02 1:01 a.m.
                 Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing Marathon!Boomer 4/9/02 7:14 a.m.
                       Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing Marathon!REB 4/9/02 8:46 p.m.
                 Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing Marathon!Alfred Mordeir 4/10/02 8:51 a.m.
                       Re: A Guy Kills Himself After Playing Marathon!REB 4/10/02 10:53 p.m.
     I THINK someones reading Penny-arcade. :DErnie 4/8/02 8:05 a.m.



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