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anarchicq ([info]anarchicq) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2009-12-02 12:04:00
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*Facepalm* WHo says videogames don't influance people?
Man believes himself to be in Silent Hill and cuts power to an entire hospital looking for toothbrush that would solve a puzzle.

And he's found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Found after it was posted in the LJ Silent Hill comm here.

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[info]lady7jane
2009-12-02 10:13 pm UTC (link)
Ah, the infamous Dirty Teeth puzzle. It's a toughie.

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-12-02 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Someone please dress up like Maria and go over there and flirt with the poor sod.

OK, that made me laugh.

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[info]tarash
2009-12-02 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Hoooooooooly shit! And in the Netherlands, in a nearby city even! O_o.

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[info]overlord_mordax
2009-12-02 11:04 pm UTC (link)
I C&Ped it on the comm, I'll C&P it here as well, because I think it needs to be said:


"If this guy believes he is in Silent Hill so much as to cut power to the hospital looking for a toothbrush... he lives in a scary, scary world, my friends. He is being kept in a hospital full of demons and monsters and nobody around him believes him. They tell him hes being crazy.

I mean, at this point, the guy is living in the real life silent hill. There is no game anymore for him. The whole idea of Silent Hill being something that you're trapped in and affects you differently while you're removed from the real world is REAL to him."

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[info]purple_sammich
2009-12-02 11:41 pm UTC (link)
That's so terrifying. :( I feel so bad for this guy. I'm a nervous wreck just playing the games, I can't imagine living in a state where Silent Hill is reality.

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-12-02 11:56 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I have to admit that really gets to me. Believing you're stuck in Silent Hill must be pretty horrific, to say the least.

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[info]kosaginolegion
2009-12-03 03:41 pm UTC (link)
There's an area of Dayton, OH, that my friend and I joke is Silent Hill.

But the thought of actually living in a place that shifts from complete run-down neighborhood to total living hell just gives me the creeps.

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2009-12-03 04:54 am UTC (link)
Yeah, of all the delusions/hallucinations to end up with... :(

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[info]blue_penguin
2009-12-02 11:07 pm UTC (link)
Well, it's not exactly the videogame's fault that the guy's crazy.

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[info]ereshkigal
2009-12-02 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Yep, sounds pretty crazy to me. The fact that he was a psyche patient even before the incident is a pretty big indicator too.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-12-02 11:55 pm UTC (link)
*glances over comments*

Man, I can't wait until 'crazy' goes the way of 'retarded' as far as respectable speech goes. Sets my teeth on edge something awful.

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[info]sqbr
2009-12-03 12:36 am UTC (link)
I don't have a mental illness myself, so it may not count for much, but: personally I'm less bothered by callous but somewhat accurate statements like these (ie it does sound like he has a serious mental illness) than the constant "those X sure are crazy" "More crazy under the cut!" etc at [info]fandom_wank.

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[info]xero_sky
2009-12-03 12:56 am UTC (link)
I have a pair of them, yet it's never occurred to me to be offended by the general use of 'crazy' like that.

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[info]unoriginality
2009-12-03 01:08 am UTC (link)
Same here. I actually joke about it frequently. My family sometimes gets offended when I do and I'm like "... I'm the one with the issue, guys. :|" It's just... I dunno. I don't think much of the word 'fag' either, and I'm gay. Maybe I am just too laid back for my own good? I rather doubt that, considering how worked up over stupid shit I can get.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-12-03 01:28 am UTC (link)
It's all personal. I can learn to keep my butthurt to myself in the future, it's probably a good lesson.

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[info]xero_sky
2009-12-03 03:20 am UTC (link)
There's nothing wrong with you being annoyed by it. I was just getting in on the "This is my TMI and this is my opinion" action.

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[info]sqbr
2009-12-03 03:05 am UTC (link)
Fair enough. Certainly I'm not going to get majorly up in arms about it, there's enough crap that attacks me personally and/or is unambigously hurtful out there to rail against.

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[info]sandglass
2009-12-03 04:15 am UTC (link)
I almost said, "I have a mental illness and I'm not offended!" Well, not really, but it never occurred to me to be offended either. I could see why, but I'm more bugged when people use the word crazy/insane/mentally ill in a way that implies it's the sufferer's fault. Because it's really not. But to me crazy doesn't always mean mentally ill, in the way that retarded does mean mentally disabled, or gay does mean homosexual. YMMV.

Plus, I scrolled down and found someone else had said it!

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2009-12-03 04:49 am UTC (link)
Same here. Hell, that's the consolation prize for having a mental illness: getting to joke about it!

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[info]atalantapendrag
2009-12-03 12:36 am UTC (link)
So it's not just me?

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-12-03 01:40 am UTC (link)
Heh, I'm glad someone can relate. I was beginning to feel like a bit of a pearl-clutcher.

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[info]smashingstars
2009-12-03 12:25 pm UTC (link)
It bothers me too, and it always seems to go hand-in-hand with the "I have diagnosed this wanker as bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic based on 2 wanky posts" sorts of comments. Which I see more on other forums than here on JF, but that's not to say it doesn't happen here as well.

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[info]veleda_k
2009-12-03 12:52 am UTC (link)
Given how frequently I hear "retarded" (a whole fucking lot), I think you're setting your sights too low.

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[info]puipui
2009-12-03 07:56 am UTC (link)
I just saw an icon using it less than 20 minutes ago at FW, and FW is one of the least tolerant places I know of when it comes to that kind of thing, so... yeah. I'd say it's still pretty accepted by most people, given that I probably see and/or hear it at least once a day (at least) and it never fails to piss me right the fuck off.

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[info]unoriginality
2009-12-03 01:05 am UTC (link)
I suffer from schizoaffective disorder, a disorder that lies between schizophrenia and severe mood disorders. I am beyond NOT offended by the casual use of crazy. I frequently joke about how off-my-rocker crazy I am when I'm not on my medication. (Medication makes alllll the difference between batshit looney and functional. It's just a matter of finding the right medications and the right dosages, blah blah blah.)

My older brother and one of my cousins were profoundly mentally and physically retarded. I am also beyond not offended by that word and have used it myself.

Why don't you leave it to individuals who suffer from and are affected so personally by these conditions to decide what's offensive in what context and what isn't, hm? (I am assuming that you do not, and if you do, my apologies, and I'm sorry if it offends you, but if that's the case, you don't speak for me or the rest of us like us, so the point remains.)

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-12-03 01:24 am UTC (link)
Apologies, I didn't mean to speak for anyone else - I only meant for myself, the word grates.

And I'm schizophrenic, for the record.

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[info]spacelogic
2009-12-03 01:42 am UTC (link)
Speaking as a gay person who's very tired of explaining that having one gay friend who doesn't mind it doesn't mean I can't or shouldn't mind the use of "gay" as a slur, I take issue with the idea that any individual not being offended means that a term is acceptable. If it hurts anyone, barring really odd cases (the guy who thought "vandalism" should be avoided as a slur on the Vandal tribe for instance) it's offensive.

That said, I think "crazy" has been used as a general descriptor for various kinds of excessive stances/actions far too long to be reclaimed, especially since it's used less and less for actual mental disorders (AFAICT anyway.)

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2009-12-03 04:28 am UTC (link)
you don't speak for me or the rest of us like us,

No single person can speak for an entire group, not even if they're a member of it. You can't speak for "the rest of us," either.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2009-12-03 03:03 pm UTC (link)
Apparently they can, because they are more specialer than everyone else, and a better/more mature/sexyfuncooler/more worthy person because they're not like the rest of us touchy whiny blah bluh-blah blah bleh blibbity blah etc.

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[info]lied_ohne_worte
2009-12-03 12:23 am UTC (link)
And he's found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Well, I'd certainly hope so.

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[info]xero_sky
2009-12-03 12:45 am UTC (link)
Well, at least he didn't rape anyone.

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[info]kijikun
2009-12-03 09:12 am UTC (link)
Well, he didn't think he was pyramid head.

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[info]lil_miss_stfu
2009-12-03 12:50 am UTC (link)
Wow, that poor guy :(

(Also, what hospital that has an ICU doesn't have generator back-up?)

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-12-03 11:39 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I wondered that. How can one guy cut the power to a whole hospital?

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[info]mmanurere
2009-12-03 01:16 am UTC (link)
There's a particularly important sentence in the linked article:

Noone was hurt.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2009-12-03 01:25 am UTC (link)
I was very happy about this. It must have been so frightening for him.

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[info]stella_polaris
2009-12-04 12:04 am UTC (link)
Oh no, was it serious?!

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[info]sandglass
2009-12-03 04:17 am UTC (link)
Show of hands, who else initially found it kinda funny? I feel like such an asshole.

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2009-12-03 04:52 am UTC (link)
I lolled at the toothbrush thing, because WUT. But I guess that would seem less random if I was actually familiar with Silent Hill.

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[info]overlord_mordax
2009-12-03 04:56 am UTC (link)
At one point in Silent Hill you get lightbulbs out of a sealed can of vegetables.

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[info]anarchicq
2009-12-03 04:59 am UTC (link)
And in Silent Hill 2 you use a needle you got from a stuffed teddybear and a strand of hair to make a fishing hook and get a key(?) from a slimey drain.

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[info]overlord_mordax
2009-12-03 05:01 am UTC (link)
It was a key, or maybe a ring.

The point is yeah, the toothbrush made perfect sense to me.

...that might not be a good thing.

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[info]sandglass
2009-12-03 06:11 am UTC (link)
Ditto on being unfamiliar. It's probably a lot less funny if you know what's going on.

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[info]stella_polaris
2009-12-04 12:06 am UTC (link)
If you just think about it from a pop-culture-reference-surrealistically-funny POV, then yes, it is kinda funny. I mean, seriously. Obviously the situation was potentially dangerous, and I mean, that poor guy, but the basic story is just WTF funny.

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[info]skypirate
2009-12-03 08:44 am UTC (link)
Holy shit, the Sophia children's hospital? Because that's part of the academic hospital I go to. O_O

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[info]skypirate
2009-12-03 08:50 am UTC (link)
Oh wait, the Sophia hospital in Zwolle, not Rotterdam. Never mind that then.

Still, O_o

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