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Newswire Misreports Gamer's Suicide

Posted by Zonk on from the sad-but-not-surprising dept.

Asriel86 writes "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself. Gaming Horizon has just learned that this is completely untrue. The newswire reporter failed to check the facts, and in turn painted this simple gaming forum into cruel monsters. The forum (hosted at metalgearsolid.org) has been taken offline at the request of Government agencies following these news reports."

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  1. What? by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    The forum (hosted at metalgearsolid.org) has been taken offline at the request of Government agencies following these news reports."

    "Government agencies" can take down websites without even determining if a crime has taken place? Land of the free, hmm? I can see where this is going...

    "Hay guys, it's Bill again. I think that apple.com is actually a secret code for terrorists. You should close it for a few years until your investigation is done."

  2. "hosted at metalgearsolid.org" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well, of course they believed it - as everyone who's ever played Metal Gear Solid can tell you, playing it definately makes you want to kill yourself!

    "Please shut up, snake, and let me PLAY THE GAME again... Why, of why, can't you skip the codec sequences? I don't want to 'fast foward' through two talking heads, I want to skip it entirely - oh, wait, cutscene #3, skip, great, more codec. And another cutscene, and - more codec. Screw this! *BLAM*"

    When Metal Gear Solid is considered one of the best "all time games" for your console, you know it's time to find a new console.