He should've just muted a grown adult telling him he's gonna come to his home or school & kill him? That's your contribution to this topic?
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45 Year Old Man Threatens to Kill Child After Losing in Fortnite
- Thread starter Era of not Yakuza
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You know sometimes I forget people this grown up engage in such dumbass behaviour.40+ posts and no one posted the mugshot. You had one job, OP.
That moment when you know you dun goofed:
"I've made a huge mistake".
Below this pic he's doing a Fortnite dance
Nah... the more this kind of behavior gets recorded and reported with results ending on some form of charges the less it'll happen in the future. Maybe just maybe it'll force these manchilds to grow up or smarten up just alittle.
I'm not a snitch but I see it like this (since becoming a family man), if you're dumb enough to send me a message threatening to kill me or my own you're dumb enough to follow threw. I'll let the authorities decide your fate.
In my younger years I would've been dumb enough to try and find personal info on the guy.
Should game companies educate parents a little better on setting up a safer online environment for them? Maybe some better tools?
There needs to be restrictions that parents can easily implement and keep a lock on. Like friends only online communication and parental approval for friend requests.
Kids need to be protected from trash like this.
There needs to be restrictions that parents can easily implement and keep a lock on. Like friends only online communication and parental approval for friend requests.
Kids need to be protected from trash like this.
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^This.
The culture of sending abusive or just plain rude messages to strangers when they have won/lost in a videogame is mindboggling really.
whomst among us has not, in a heated gaming moment, threatened to kill a child
It's a combination of insane competitiveness mixed with anonymity.
It sort of reminds me of those adult soccer leagues. Every damn game is the world cup for those people. Every loss is in the end of the world. And that's when everybody knows everybody else. Take that sort of competitiveness and add in anonymity and you've got these toxic online gamers.
It's mind boggling the way people act on the internet.
Years ago we'd be in an arcade surrounded by random strangers, and you didn't have this. You'd be standing next to the person and win or lose it was all cool. Someone else stepped in to play. No threats. No name calling. People treated each other well.
Years ago we'd be in an arcade surrounded by random strangers, and you didn't have this. You'd be standing next to the person and win or lose it was all cool. Someone else stepped in to play. No threats. No name calling. People treated each other well.
A few years ago in Pennsylvania a man actually DID kill a baby who kept crying and interrupting his gaming session. Instead of pausing his game and looking after the baby he decide to hit it until it stopped crying.
This is America.
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Why is the responsibility of the victim to moderate the actions of someone threatening them? Why do you feel the need to blame the victim and defend, and yes you are defending, the harasser?
Fixed that for you because you spelled Nintendo wrong.
I'm sure it happened but it was the exception, not the norm. Anecdotally I'd never seen a single instance of violence or name calling in all of the time I'd spent at arcades.
I couldnt even fire up a round of the Blops 4 beta without seeing racism and shit on the typed chat.
I'm so glad this motherfucker got arrested, and at night ! He was talking about how he would come to the kid's house at night... Oh surprise, it's you who get some visit.
No. This guy was harrasing multiple people. Now thanks to this little fella this asshole has been arrested.
Let's talk about how quickly the cops acted on this and how come other harrasment online is not dealt with as swiftly. Does it come down to the police department? The parents raising hell? How quickly can they get in touch with Microsoft to track this shit.
I really hope you are being facetious. Because here's a thought for you, the guy shouldn't have made death threats over a video game (hell, I can't even think of anything done over the internet that a death threat would be warranted or would help prevent anything).
I'm going to guess it's because of the age of the person threatened, coupled with the more specific nature of the threat.
I suspect partly due to the police department and partly due to it was an older guy targetting a kid. If you are an adult they'd probably tell you that they can't do anything about it or that it's just the internet and they probably aren't going to do anything.
Yeah but like how do you even know who to contact at Microsift to cut through the tape.
Wonder if this will actually serve to raise awareness and lower tolerance for this shit.
I'm sure the parents contacted the authorities, then the authorities contacted Microsoft.
