Jason Jones It’s hard to give moral lessons about playing a game where you are charged with slaughtering avatars of random individuals across the globe. Even in simulated death, there must be honor amongst murderers.

On December 11th, 2007; 19-year-old Allieu Shaw, an FSU student, made specific threats against his college peers while chatting online playing COD4. Playing the game wasn’t enough for Shaw, he started telling everyone on his channel how he was going to “shoot up the school.”

Another player turned him in, FSU suspended him pending an investigation, and he found himself in handcuffs with a warranted up task-force tearing through his house and personal possessions. They didn’t find any weapons or bombs or anything suspicious so the kid should be clear on that front but what a stupid ass!

Anytime you get a bunch of hard core gamers online together, you’re going to get a breakdown of 30% stoners who are passing the time between distractions, 40% casual gamers who are blowing off steam after a productive day, 35% hardcore gamers who are hell bent on achievement within the gaming world, and 5% certifiably shit-eating crazy people.

I love the ability to talk to peers while playing although I don’t take advantage of it very often. I believe that silence is golden and typically keep my chatter focused on the game itself. I have a small but intimate Friends List on XBOX Live and I rarely play with them, opting instead to exchange text messages. I have four cousins (one of whom is pictured above) who I rarely get to see but it’s damn nice to know they’re still out there and what they’re playing and how far they’ve gotten on the games we all mutually play.

I laugh at the idiots online who antagonize everyone constantly and I often file complaints against those who make outrageous comments about race or sexuality–there’s no reason for it in my opinion but then again, I’m a thousand year old man compared to many of my online peers.

I believe head shots should speak for themselves, there’s no reason to make pixellatingly killing someone else a personal issue.

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