65 points

an extreme example of a phenomenon that academics call “internet banging”

Really? We call it that?

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For “academics” read “two guys we found in the cafeteria at a local university” unless otherwise specified.

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Today I learned a term “academics” pulled from their asses to describe “being a fucking psycho” and “attempted murder.”

Not sure why they charged him with murder 2 - this is clearly some premeditated shit.

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he had the travel to calm down and think how stupid it was but still went all the way there. That is hard to understand

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Anyone is capable of being violent with enough provocation in the heat of the moment. It’s the people who are willing to be violent while calm and having had time to think about it that are truly dangerous.

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The game was ArcheAge.

This is the line the victim said to the attacker once the attacker was subdued:

Leeper quipped that his only answer to Kang was: “It will be a long time before you play video games.”

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Oh god. I played that when it came out but when I finally realized how much housing and the in game market mattered, I noped out. That’s to say, I don’t play it long because it was obvious very quickly.

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How do these people figure out where their opponent lives?

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Modern social media that demands irl info and dumbasses who can’t figure out how to fill in false information into them. If I got into an online dispute like this, I’d just give them the address of some police barracks. Let them have fun with charges on an attemped swat on the cops.

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8 points

Obviously he went there to bang the other player’s mom, and decided to take it a bit further.

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4 points

Shorsey approves.

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This is horrible… but of course it was a Korean MMORPG

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What do you mean “of course”? If I had to guess the game in question, I would have said CounterStrike or Call of Duty.

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Oh come on, MMORPG players have always been the worse of the two. I mean, most people of both camps are really nice. But playing a shooter vs pretending you’re a wizard? Way more chance to drop off the really deep end.

(Please don’t take this too seriously.)

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Yeah MMO players will actively change their life just to get back at players in game for months or years.247 no time off. When I saw the title, immediately knew it was an MMO.

Source: wow sod player

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I thought it was going to be CoD or CS. Years ago, there was a CS dispute that ended in an arson attempt.

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I’ll be honest: I think this only made the news because it wasn’t league of legends. I was shocked.

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