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Dad shoots at computer, saying son spends too much time playing games

—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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    • 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! :-)

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    18 years ago

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