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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/argument-over-diablo-loot-ends-in-fatal-shooting/

On Friday 17 December Joshua G. Spellman of Amboy, WA appeared in Clark County Superior Court accused of second-degree murder (via The Columbian). The 36-year-old Spellman allegedly shot and killed 34-year-old Andrew Dickson, his friend of 26 years, following a heated argument about an incident in a game of Diablo II that the pair were playing.

Dickson apparently became upset when a random player entered the game and 'stole' a valuable piece of loot that the party hadn't collected. The game should have been password protected but wasn't, and the affidavit says Spellman told detectives that Dickson began "yelling, name-calling and cursing at him."

..he told Dickson he needed to calm down or he was going to get shot. Spellman took his gun from beside his computer and went to the main house on the property (both he and Dickson lived in smaller houses on the same land). Per the affidavit: "I asked him why his pistol was next [to] the computer. [Spellman] replied, 'Why not? This is America.'"

Dickson was shot in the torso and was taken to hospital, where he underwent surgery but died from his injuries.

 

[Elder Legend]

Humanity is pathetic.

 

[ReBurn]

Over something as insignificant as a video game

 

[Jonnie_Darko]

"Videogames cause violence" from general news media, coming soon.

 

[Con-Z-epT]

Must have been a Ber rune.

 

[rofif]

hahaha oh wow... pick your friends better ?

 

[FoundryMusic]

"I asked him why his pistol was next [to] the computer. [Spellman] replied, 'Why not? This is America.'"

It certainly is.

 

[Nautilus]

A crime that was done due to sheer stupidity of humanity, and the scapegoat will most likely be the gun.

 

[Lone Wolf]

i Won’t judge until we find out what the loot was.

 

[daveonezero]

welp that dude is going to jail.

He may have had a case if he didn't say He was going to shoot him and take a warning shot. Other guy attacked him but that doesn't matter.

 

[dDoc]

Do we want to live on this planet any more?

 

[Magnific0giganticus]

Any chance one or both of them were mods in here?

 

[Filben]

I mean, people killed and beat the shit out of each other over football, and given this was America, why not shoot that bastard who took that previous rune?? Sounds very much like the American way to settle things.

 

[Novacain]

There's an element of America that never escaped the wild west valuation of human life; in that it's about as valuable as road kill from that lens.

You really have to be a pathetic human being to first of all get into a heated argument over a game, and second shoot someone over a verbal disagreement about said videogame.

Sad waste of human life all around.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

A crime that was done due to sheer stupidity of humanity, and the scapegoat will most likely be the gun.

Too bad there wasn't a good guy with a gun in the room...amirite?

Not sure what's worse, getting shot over a video game, or being the one that shoots someone over a video game. I feel like being the victim of such an incident has to be doubly-insulting.

 

[apowhungo]

Do we want to live on this planet any more?

this retarded shit doesnt happen in canada

 

[haxan7]

That sucks. Imagine murdering your friend over pixels. These things are always so much worse than just reading about them conveys. Imagine the blood, the panic, the pain, knowing you're going to die.

This is the guy:

 

[bender]

this retarded shit doesnt happen in canada

Canada mass shooting started with assault on girlfriend

Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada. The country overhauled gun control laws after a man shot 14 women and himself to death at a Montreal' college in 1989.

www.pbs.org

 

[GHG]

And some publishers want to make loot NFT's?

 

[manfestival]

Ah yes murder someone because of online arguments. BETA MALE

 

[Dick Jones]

this retarded shit doesnt happen in canada

It may happen more in the US but don't come here claiming your own hands are clean. I could easily point to stupid shit in my own country too so now is not the time for posturing.

 

[22:22:22]

Friend of 26 years... Damn...

Btw I'm guessing the "thief" has learned of this somehow someway, right? Must be a total mindfuck for him/her =/

 

[.Pennywise]

America

 

[carlosrox]

They knew eachother since they were 10 and 8 years old and he fucking killed him over videogame loot?

What a goddamn psycho.

 

[KingGhidorah]

This is 'MURICA ma dude, not 'America'

bargain bin red-neck

 

[DaGwaphics]

What the hell is wrong with the world we live in?

 

[LOLCats]

He aint never playing diablo again. Well done

 

[sircaw]

DarkMage619

You steel my Shako, You're done!

 

[Shubh_C63]

Spellman took his gun from beside his computer and

and there's your problem.

 

[jaysius]

SOJ 4 UR LIFE? FAIR TRADE!

 

[cormack12]

That sucks. Imagine murdering your friend over pixels. These things are always so much worse than just reading about them conveys. Imagine the blood, the panic, the pain, knowing you're going to die.

This is the guy:

Could have been worse. Could have been one of those ubisoft NFTs

 

[Skifi28]

Guns don't kill people, Diablo does.

 

[chixdiggit]

Sometimes I pound my fist on my desk and yell out a "Fuck that" when playing video games. I find that embarrassing for myself to get that upset over a video game. Some dudes be straight murdering their own friends.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

A crime that was done due to sheer stupidity of humanity, and the scapegoat will most likely be the gun.

People with a low amount of brain-cells like the man from this news story shouldn't have a gun(s) readily available to him/her. Guns are not the problem, it's the ease with which any idiot can attain one.

 

[jshackles]

"I asked him why his pistol was next [to] the computer. [Spellman] replied, 'Why not? This is America.'"

 

[BusierDonkey]

We live in a world where mental illness is treated with slips of paper and apathy instead of care and attention. Clearly this kid needed the latter and was likely given the former.

Depressed? Take some pills. Angry? Take some pills? Both? Take more pills. Doc gets his kickback and retires to the golf course.

 

[alucard0712_rus]

What the hell is wrong with the world we live in?

It's not whole world, it's very small part of it.
However Diablo 2 has best loot system period, but I don't have a gun so I can't prove it.

 

[hybrid_birth]

This is why you don't devote 1000s of hours to a video game that has loot.

Can't wait for the guy to say "If the game had the loot as a microtransaction i wouldn't have killed him!"

Activisions new slogan "Saving lives by providing microtransactions since 2006"

 

[GreatnessRD]

What a bitch.

Hope they execute him by firing squad. Sounds fair to me.

 

[Kacho]

That's going to haunt him for the rest of his life. What an idiot.

 

[Jigsaah]

Do we want to live on this planet any more?

We can send all these fucks to Mars. I wanna live here damnit.

 

[Concern]

37 posts and nobody asked if it was on PlayStation or Xbox? Really? Wtf is wrong with you guys.

/s

 

[Magnific0giganticus]

37 posts and nobody asked if it was on PlayStation or Xbox? Really? Wtf is wrong with you guys.

/s

The article mentioned a PC. Clearly a behavior suitable to the master race.

 

[Leyasu]

Humanity is pathetic.

Agree

 

[Fredrik]

Cousin walked in on his life-long best friend banging his wife. That might be worth some jailtime to sort out. But gaming loot?

 

[BlackM1st]

i Won’t judge until we find out what the loot was.

 

[Valt7786]

Cousin walked in on his life-long best friend banging his wife. That might be worth some jailtime to sort out. But gaming loot?

I can't see how anything is worth jailtime tbh. The thought alone of being sent to prison scares the shit out of me, think i'd rather just die.

 

[Kilau]

The rando loot ganker reading this story.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

see - hicks play videogames too

 

[CuteFaceJay]

this guy must have had something else happening before this loot incident no fucking doubt. Shit day in the office among other things then comes back to some guy ranting about loot and thought 'Fuck it'