—Dad shoots at computer, saying son spends too much time playing games (Tampa Bays 10 News)
Guns don’t kill video games. Angry parents with guns kill video games.
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LOL
Sometimes I want to shoot my desktop just to put it out of its 256MB RAM misery, but then I remember in graduate school there is not enough time to do gaming justice.
Since I play games mostly on a laptop, I’ve got the additional temptation of wanting to hurl the computer across the room.
Actually, it’s usually a Windows problem that gets me really angry, not a setback in gaming.
We’ll I shot at my computer last night but only because the WoW server was down and I finally figured out what to do to finish a quest! :-)