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  • The GIGGAS
    Timbers - Jags - Hokies
    • Mar 2003
    • 28474

    #1

    Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

    from gaminghorizon.com



    Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.

    A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.

    For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.

    Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.

    Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org.
    They have posted their own tribute:

    http://www.metalgearsolid.org/featur...ch_article.php

    Jack Thompson has contacted the website that Kuja had been a part of, and they have retaliated by posting a letter on their homepage:



    This is a truly horrible story, exacerbated by Jack Thompson and the inaccuracies of the news stories floating around Yahoo and other news sources.
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  • PdiddyPop
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    • Dec 2002
    • 21768

    #2
    Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

    Jack Thompson is a scumbag. That's all there is to say about that.
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    • XboxRocks1991
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      • Jun 2003
      • 1927

      #3
      Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

      Scary stuff. i wonder how they were able to geta hold of him.
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      • Blzer
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        • Mar 2004
        • 42515

        #4
        Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

        Wow. That's very unfortunate.

        I know about suicides, and my friends that have (whether true or not) 'failed' to talk somebody out of it.
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        • billmatic
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          • Nov 2004
          • 7365

          #5
          Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

          i dont know who the hell Jack Thompson is, but he sounds like a real douchebag.

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          • The GIGGAS
            Timbers - Jags - Hokies
            • Mar 2003
            • 28474

            #6
            Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

            Originally posted by billmatic
            i dont know who the hell Jack Thompson is, but he sounds like a real douchebag.
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            • SPTO
              binging
              • Feb 2003
              • 68046

              #7
              Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

              Hmm this Jack Thompson guy really has no scruples. Yes gaming can produce meaningless and more often then not inane conversations but just about any community based on one topic can create such inanites. Just look at the communities for sci-fi shows and current shows like LOST and 24. Why don't Thompson go after those people?!

              Anyways, a tragedy is a tragedy it doesn't do any good to make it into 'evidence" that gaming is bad. Anything is harmful in life if you don't do them in moderation.

              R.I.P. to this young man and shame on Jack Thompson for making an issue out of a community's sorrow and grief.
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              • The C
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                • Apr 2005
                • 7538

                #8
                Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

                Originally posted by billmatic
                i dont know who the hell Jack Thompson is, but he sounds like a real douchebag.

                I loved JT in GTA: Liberty City stories.

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                • SlimKibbles
                  Supporter
                  • Apr 2004
                  • 7276

                  #9
                  Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

                  It's really unfortunate someone took their own life. Very tragic. I think what irritates me the most is the erroneous reporting by whatever AFP is. The story wasn't interesting enough so they decided to spice things up by adding a few lies to it. Happens in the media all of the time, which is why I hate them so much. The only Jack Thompson I had ever heard of up until this story was the one that was a backup QB for the Bengals in the early 80's. The Jack Thompson from the link above seems like a turd who should have researched the story a bit instead of relying on the BS version before jumping on his high horse once again.
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                  • p2xgamers
                    All Star
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 4735

                    #10
                    Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

                    Originally posted by billmatic
                    he sounds like a real douchebag.
                    That's because he is.
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                    • dkgojackets
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2005
                      • 13816

                      #11
                      Re: Gamer on Another Forum Commits Suicide

                      Jack Thompson seems like real trash, but the response to his letter was excellent.

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