• 45-year-old arrested for threatening to shoot his 11-year-old Fortnite rival
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-threatening-shoot-11-year-beat-fortnite/story?id=57910394
Four times the age, four times the rage!
I feel like this guy should be the posterchild for "raging manbaby".
I'm sure he will open his defense with "I didn't say that, my little brother hacked into my account "
Now that is the face of someone who knows they fucked up.
He face screams “I’m fucked”
now that's a heated gaming moment
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/181bf0a4-181f-4809-b86a-6103651d5c06/image.png Username fits. Why would anybody do this? It's just like swatting. I have regularly been annoyed at games when relatively young, but not anymore. In fact, I once worked for Playstation Support for the whole of the UK, and I once had a guy RAGE at me for 45 minutes, including yelling 'nigger' at me several times. I had to stop myself from cracking up. The reason he was annoyed is because his game that he'd left in his console had not been returned to him (Arkham Asylum) and he wanted it back despite not telling us when he returned his console for free refurbishment. Ridiculous. He was 47. That may violate the DPA, but fuk da police.
Not really. The vast majority of online threats are hollow, but if you SWAT someone the cops are going to turn up and there is a real chance of people getting hurt.
To be honest, you must give me that threatening an 11-year-old is at least not too dissimilar from swatting, although I accept swatting is worse.
If he could shoot the kid he wouldn't have lost at Fortnite
Kid's a pussy, the real solution is to counter threat and say: "u mad bro?" instead of running to cops.
What.
lol I don't really get what the issue is here. I constantly get told on CSGO that my family will be burned alive and chopped into kebabs by ISIS, I don't go over-reacting over it? But whatever man. I read both articles and I don't see it being anything more than stupid online threat, someone explain what the big over-reaction here is about? (Legit question)
Still seems like an over reaction
maybe it's just cause some of us grew up in the early CS and Warcraft 3 days that these kinds of threats seem common place I remember beating people in various game modes and there'd always be some ragey twat going "ima show up at your house and wear your skin like fucking pajamas bitch" or other equally cringey shit. I never took it seriously then, so I guess I don't see what's really all that different now. I don't think it should be condoned, I just have trouble reacting to it with any seriousness.
Back in the 90s, the technology wasn't at a point where people could easily find out where other people live - and if they are that messed up in the head, actually go there and fucking kill them. We are living in the era where youtubers have to hide in their bedroom closet because a pyscho fan with a knife broke into their house.
whatever happened to the days when u could threaten to cut off a childs head online and get away with it pc culture has gone mad
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