DuoMaxwellxx wrote:
PlanckZero wrote:
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yeah because someone committing suicide over a game is soooo unheard of
Yea... I'm sure the game was the one and only thing that made that guy kill himself....
Probably had nothing to do with his combination of multiple medications, ADD, epilepsy, depression and paranoid schizophrenia... those damn video games take another life...
well theyre doing a wonderful job making it look like the games fault:
"Shawn had played computer games for 10 years before he played Everquest. He had no problems with other games."
"After Shawn started playing Everquest, his personality changed. he became withdrawn, anti-social and depressed/"
"He shot himself and was found dead at his computer, which was still running EverQuest."
"Within months after Shawn started playing Everquest, it affected his real life negatively."
"Six months after he started playing it, he quit his job, then he was evicted from his place of residence because he had no money to pay the rent."
"Soon after Woolley was evicted, his mother recommended he stay in a group home to make some friends other than "online friends" and get support."
"Also, there was no computer at the group home. Shawn got better. He got another job."
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During the fall of 2001, Shawn indicated that he was in a special relationship. On October 31, 2001, on the gaming server that Shawn had been on since he started playing Everquest – Vallon Zek, Shawn created a character in the image of himself, that he named ILUVEYOU. He played that character for about 3 hours. He then left that server and never went back on it. Shawn’s mother speculates that whatever happened that day was so traumatic for Shawn, that he no longer wanted to live