Lineage II leads to murder

[kandrathe]

Dem's fightin words! Light gun at dawn sir!

On a slightly more serious note, it could be argued that almost any game or competition between other humans is a form of ritualized combat. Human being's veneer of civilization is not that thick, so it's not surprising a competition can revert from non lethal back to lethal.

Or these guys could be just plain sociopathic a-h0les. That's also known to happen.

Then again, the news has been rife recently with senseless homicides involving people killing the ones they love. Think of the mass of humanity that plays MORPG's, and it very likely that a small fraction of a percentage are also homicidal as well.

I blame it all on global warming. No, maybe its the food additives. Or, maybe an identity crisis and lack of purpose coupled with a pandemic of social, spiritual and cultural bankruptcy telling our youth you can be whatever you want without any sense of where to go or why. In frustration and pain the disaffected resort to lashing out at anything and everything within arms reach. Perhaps the connection between MS-13, al Queda, this gamer violence, and suburban crack pots consuming their wanna-be girlfriends has something to do with that. Or, maybe its a sugar filled diet and lack of sleep.