• ninjamonkey
    • 8 years 10 months ago
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    		 11:27 PM - Friday, January 20, 2006 - by Tim

    courtesy of [url]www.ctrlaltdel-online.com[/url]

    A reader has just brought this matter to my attention.

    From GamingHorizon.com:

    "Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.

    A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.

    For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.

    Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.

    Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org."

    Mr. Jack Thompson then sent in the following letter regarding the situation to MetalGearSolid.org, one of the forums frequented by Mitchell, where he was known well:

    "Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.

    There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.

    The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.

    All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.

    You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.

    Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.

    Sad. Sad for all of you."

    Here is an article written by friends and peers of Mitchell at MetalGearSolid.org.

    http://www.metalgearsolid.org/featurez/articles/mitch_article.php
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    • NickMania
      • 8 years 10 months ago
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      		 That is so Tragic, it's So Sad when this kind of thing happens. :cry:
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      • System
        • 8 years 10 months ago
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        		 Jack Thompson is a complete @$$hole. For a guy who is willing to crucify anyone who wastes their life away in front of a television, he apparently doesn't mind plopping his greasy backside down in front of his computer to troll around on gamers' message boards looking for someone to attack. I think he does that for "masturbatory self-stimulation." ..and if Mr. Thompson has a void in his heart, he surely fills it with the satisfaction he gets from beating down those who don't follow his beliefs.

        You'd think that such a devout Christian would have more pressing matters to worry about. That would involve leaving his computer, I guess.

        Sad. Sad for Jack "Big @$$hole" Thompson.
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        • System
          • 8 years 10 months ago
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          		 By the way...



          Get it here: Screw you, Jack
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          • ninjamonkey
            • 8 years 10 months ago
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            TyphoidBryan wrote:
            By the way...



            Get it here: Screw you, Jack



            you just made my day :D
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            • System
              • 8 years 10 months ago
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              		 I'm glad you brought this guy up in your topic. It's a shining example of how heartless he is.

              I've heard a lot of the questionable things he's done during his "Crusade," but after doing a Google search to learn more, I found myself to be even more enraged than before.

              He doesn't know when to quit and after reading the letter he wrote that you had left in your original post, I can see that he's still causing problems.

              I've heard of dirty lawyers, but THIS guy takes the cake.
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              • sewage
                • 8 years 10 months ago
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                		 What the
                What the @#$% is wrong with Jack Thompson???
                Can't he just stfu and see that this was a tragedy and his b.s. isn't OBVIOUSLY needed?
                I've got a very open mind, not giving a damn what people believe and feel, even if it is hateful against me, but, dude, that's just @#$%ing messed up of him. There's a time and a place, but that definitly wasn't it.

                I'm so sorry about that guy's death :( I'm sorry to say I dunno who that is, but it's always sad to hear about someone dying no matter what.
                Michaelangelo: Wise man say, "forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for a late pizza".
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                • System
                  • 8 years 10 months ago
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                  		 OMG!!!!!!!, METAL GEAR SOLID RULES!
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                  • ninjamonkey
                    • 8 years 10 months ago
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                    sewage wrote:
                    What the
                    What the @#$% is wrong with Jack Thompson???
                    Can't he just stfu and see that this was a tragedy and his b.s. isn't OBVIOUSLY needed?
                    I've got a very open mind, not giving a damn what people believe and feel, even if it is hateful against me, but, dude, that's just @#$%ing messed up of him. There's a time and a place, but that definitly wasn't it.

                    I'm so sorry about that guy's death :( I'm sorry to say I dunno who that is, but it's always sad to hear about someone dying no matter what.



                    the worst part is....he was a fellow gamer. :cry:
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                    • izumi
                      • 8 years 9 months ago
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                      		 hey i could be wrong but aint this politicas and am i the onlay one who think jack should keep on fighting the good fight
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