What is wrong with people today...

[Razor Sharp]

... is that they have no accountability. No one wants to be responsible for anything anymore, not even their own choices!

Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker, Says He is ‘Unable to Function’

A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and friends.”

Craig Smallwood, the plaintiff, claims NCsoft of South Korea should pay unspecified monetary damages because of the addictive nature of the game. Smallwood claims to have played Lineage II for 20,000 hours between 2004 and 2009. Among other things, he alleges he would not have begun playing if he was aware “that he would become addicted to the game.”

Smallwood, who did not immediately respond for comment, alleged that the company “acted negligently in failing to warn or instruct or adequately warn or instruct plaintiff and other players of Lineage II of its dangerous and defective characteristics, and of the safe and proper method of using the game.”

Released in 2003 as a sequel to the original Lineage game, which was a national phenomenon in South Korea, Lineage II is an immersion 3-D MMORPG that gained a reported 600,000 users within a few years, and is still being regularly expanded and updated six years later — all the better to turn more vulnerable Americans into bleary-eyed shut-ins.

U.S. District Judge Alan Kay refused to dismiss parts of Smallwood’s complaint this month, possibly clearing the way for a trial. ”In light of plaintiff’s allegations, the court finds that plaintiff has stated a claim for both negligence and gross negligence,” Kay ruled (.pdf).

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This is hilarious - he is suing that company for negligence when he is the one neglecting himself. How this case was not thrown out from the jump is a mystery to me, but one thing is clear: the system is seriously f*cked if we can't hold people responsible for what they do.

It also says a lot about the state of our culture, and manhood. We see this same mentality on these forums all the time

Things went bad, she must be bipolar.. for sure!

Totally, it's not like there is even the remotest chance that you messed up somewhere along the line, you know, what with you being perfect and all. So your diagnosis makes a world of sense.

I see a LOT of guys putting women in the lesbian/psycho/hor category, and granted quite a few do belong there - but when this diagnosis becomes systematic, you run a very real danger of turning into a douchebag like this guy.

Own what you do - be a man about it. The only way to excel at anything is to be painfully aware of your weaknesses and what you need to work on.

Anything else is just pure delusion.

 

[BigJimbo]

If you think that American women are not the crazy ones I am laughing at you. Spend a few years in Eastern Europe. Then tell me that American men are not screwed over.

 

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

^^I would never live in sh1tty eastern Europe. Isnt like fourty percent of the population living in poverty? Of course women over there arent going to play head games, they are too busy trying to survive.

Eighty percent of American women are crazy. No, more than crazy, they are complete psychopaths; no one here is going to argue against that. Good thing that twenty percent left over means hundreds of thousands of eligible women for me to fvck. And until that number reaches 0% of the population im thankful every day for living anywhere besides eastern europe. lol...

Honestly buddy you should save up for a plane ticket asap and head over to the USA. We dont let our citizens starve to death and our government isnt in shambles.

 

[horaholic]

The REAL question is: what the fvck is wrong with these judges??? People would take accountability a lot more, if these inhuman judges could ever see things clearly, and not rule in the side of the REAL criminal time and time again. there is noone to hold judges accountable for bad judgement, and thats one of the biggest downfalls of this country right now.

judges that rule in favor of the burglar who injures himself breaking into a home should fvcking hang by a damn tree.

 

[Razor Sharp]

@horaholic: I could not agree more!


@BigJimbo:

Then tell me that American men are not screwed over.

That's a pretty myopic way to look at this situation, especially considering that the irresponsible behavior here is coming from a man. IMHO, it's not american men that are fuct, its the american people. Sure it's no fun having to deal with women who have entitlement issues, daddy hang-ups and gold-digging agendas. But I'm willing to bet it's not much more fun dating chump after chump, who worships your good looks, never challenges you, is terribly predictable and incapable of satisfying you. The victims here cannot be isolated based on what's between their legs.

Now I haven't been to Eastern Europe, but I have traveled to Western Europe and Asia, and I have to agree that gender relations are a whole different ballgame, and that the players involved tend to live up to their more traditional (and natural) roles.

But even that is changing.. why? Because every other country on the planet wants to be the US. They love our culture, our jeans, our music, our POWER. As a result I have noticed things changing over the years. People are straying from their traditions in favor of a Western model. Capitalism, secularism and all the other isms that make America both great and terrible have begun to permeate other countries. We will see this happen at an alarming rate over the next few years until one day your viewpoint will be obsolete.

Then what will you do? Scour the heavens in search of a planet where females don't give so many headaches?
At some point we have to stop running from our problems and face them head on. If every man in America followed your advice, they'd abandon ship and let woman take over. Hmm maybe that's part of your evil plan? Turn America into less of a sausage factory so you can sweep in and enjoy a favorable ratio?

I'm onto you :trouble: