Nintendo Live Threat Culprit Sentenced To One Year In Prison

This pleases the woomy.

Don't ever throw threats around like that, kids.

“… blaming his increased frustration at losing Splatoon 3 matches.”, you would think being brought to court might make the guy think a bit, but it seems not.

If you send threats to other people just because a video game frustrates you you deserve to be in prison

He had it coming.

What goes around, comes around.

I think the contestants need the psychology evaluation before entering the competition to avoid the meltdown and going bananas during the competition.
Think about the children audience over there.

Splatoon of all games buddy? Geez.

God Almighty. Imagine a grown man acting like a rabid dog over a video game. This guy sounds like he's never endured any real hardship in his silver-spooned life. And I know my share of people who take competitive gaming way too seriously. They're (un)lucky I'm not their father because I'd nip that behaviour in the bud real quick.

If you're no longer enjoying something, find a new hobby.

Stick and stones may brake my bones but names will never hurt me.

There are too many cases these days that reflect disparity in society. I respect this man has done wrong and some punishment is deserved but I do beleive there are many cases where people have been threatened or harrased in their lifes and only in exceptional curcumstances does literally anyhing happen at all.

Imagine going to jail because you make sore losers look bad. That's a new low.

Imagine threatening people because you lost in a video game. I can't even. Honestly, you lowly humans amaze me.

The title and subtitle seem like gpt-gibberish before having the context and that is funny.

On another note, who would have thought a lack of gitting gud would lead to such behavior. No joke, that must be the most stupid and salty reaction to losing in a game that I read for some time, maybe ever.

Good thing the internet didn't exist back when I destroyed my older brother at pretty much any game and he'd take my controller to even the score.

Being an idiot is one thing. Threatening someone because you suck at something is another.

One year? Should've been more than that.

If only the devs had addressed Splatoon 3's horrible matchmaking, this could have all been avoided. 😉

im never proud of my gamer rage moments but as someone who occasionally gets mad at splatoon, never underestimate the power of pulling back and just telling yourself its just a game

it sounds shallow but its important to remember how little is actually at stake. a rank grade doesnt matter, we're not professional players with anything to lose

@dew12333 So you’re saying that the punishment of only 1 year in prison is too severe? For multiple death threats against potentially thousands of people? Especially after the Kyoto Animation arson attack?

‘Sticks & stones may *break my bones’ only applies to insults and name-calling. Serious threats against life are in absolutely no way similar to calling someone a stinky poo-poo head

A lighter punishment than piracy.

1 year? Really?

@DeathUriel What? I knew exactly what the article would be about from reading those lol.

I hope this guy is able to find some help, the fact that he'd take a kids game that seriously means he has some real issues.

@yohn777 probably because you already knew about the story. I actually didn't even hear or read about this.

Anyway, this kind of nutjob is the example some people will use to say games cause violence. Goddammit, dude did this over Splatoon.

@Anti-Matter I totally agree with you. It's a shame that things get to this point, though for the safety of others, that would be an excellent idea.

@DeathUriel No, I'd never heard this story in my life until I happened upon it on the NL homepage.

1 year seems pretty light, but I'm American and up until a few years ago we were putting people away for years just for possessing negligible amounts of marijuana. Potentially life for repeat offenses. Also our prison system isn't for rehabilitation, it's strictly for punishment at best and slavery at worst. We're not the most brutal country by a longshot but we need reform like woah. Most of our prisons are built to generate profit.