[OT] Sniper plays D&D?

[Darkness]

Ah, reminds me of the following:

Heh. Somewhat off-topic (and luckily without any deaths), but still:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47850

Most Seizures Caused By A TV Program
Hundreds of Japanese children desperately required hospital treatment after reacting badly to an episode of a Pokemon cartoon. Some 700 convulsions were provoked when the popular kids' show was aired on the Japanese network, Television Tokyo Channel 12. That's the most seizures caused by a cartoon. The offending scene was said to be a 10-second sequence, when the character Pikachu flashed his red eyes, which was followed by an explosion of red colors.

 

[Hand of Evil]

quote from the scoop..

Jacqueline Stallone, Sly’s psychic mom, was alarmed when she heard about the Maryland sniper leaving the death tarot card. “When that card was found I thought, omigosh, this is terrible,” she told The Scoop. She believes that the shooter is “a light-haired person, in his twenties or thirties, from a good family, though he’s not that close to them.” Will they catch him soon? “Not for a while,” Jacqueline Stallone predicts. Would she consider using her psychic abilities to help catch the shooter? “I’m awfully busy lately,” she says. “But I’d consider it.”

 

[Paladin]

Interesting how it seems to have been assumed it is a man.

It PROBABLY is mind you, but strange none the less.

There are two reasons why this is a good assumption...1- women kill in the throws of passion, or are passionate about why they are killing. This killer doesn't seem to be showing a passion about anything, except just killing...2- women don't choose high powered sniper type rifles to kill, too heavy, too bulky, not very easily weilded. Paladinwife

 

[Umbran]

Consider that we here on the boards have enough problems with knee-jerk characterizations of other gamers - people who's basic psychologies we understand. Perhaps we ought to leave the profiling to the professionals, rather than engaging in meatball psychology.

 

[Henry]

Re: quote from the scoop..

Jacqueline Stallone, Sly’s psychic mom, was alarmed when she heard about the Maryland sniper leaving the death tarot card.... Would she consider using her psychic abilities to help catch the shooter? “I’m awfully busy lately,” she says. “But I’d consider it.”

Oh, goody. We're safe now.



kengar and glaurung, my prayers for safety are with you, and any of our posters in MD. Hopefully, the shooter or shooters will be caught soon. (In fact, aren't the authorities looking for a white pickup with two individuals in it, seen leaving the scene of the last shooting?)

 

[Paladin]

Also, I was thinking on the topic of the 'Scary-crazy' people that were discussed earlier. I think almost everyone out there is considered scary or crazy by someone. And, here in the south, that seems to run rampant. We don't turn our crazy friends and relatives in...we put them right out on the front porch for all the world to see, because that is the norm for us. Hell, my whole family is nuts, my husbands family is nuts, and we haven't met anyone yet whose family was the "Leave it to beaver' family, and if I had, that would be who I would turn in to the police!...PW

 

[hong]

Heh. Somewhat off-topic (and luckily without any deaths), but still:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47850

Great idea for a pyrotechnics (blindness) trap! The PCs are walking down the corridor. One of them treads on a pressure plate or whatever. Suddenly there's a flash of light, and a huge yellow animated figure starts dancing in front of them, hurling lightning bolts around, while the background is filled with swirling psychedelic patterns of light.

"MY EYES, I'M BLIND!!!1!"

 

[Kilmore]

Sadly, the potential for abuse exists in every form of human activity. Gaming is not exempt.

 

[Buttercup]

If we locked up all the scary-crazy people we ran across, (a) we'd have a dictatorship in no time, and (b) we'd have no one to game with. Your local game shop and "college" music store would be gone in no time.

I wasn't necessarily suggesting locking up people. Actually, I wasn't suggesting that society as a whole should do anything. It's just chilling, and sad too, that a person could be so mentally ill without anyone knowing, or caring, or intervening.

Please don't interpret my musings as some sort of nutty, misplaced compassion for this cold-blooded killer. Any compassion I might have had vanished when he started pulling the trigger all over the DC suburbs.

Final thought. The people I game with aren't scary-crazy. Possibly a pinch odd, but not crazy in any way.

 

[Paladin]

I suppose that it is possible that people like this killer are attracted to D&D because of what others are saying, but they soon find out that it is not the devil-worshipping sort of thing they were hoping for, and get away from it, but the fact that they may have played in the past makes all other players a target for these kinds of comments...PW