Accused Shooter Wrote on Gaming Site of His Job Woes, Rejection by Women

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Gaming appears to have been an important part of Mr. Loughner's life. In the 7th grade, he and a friend, Alex Montanaro, began playing the multiplayer online games Starcraft and Diablo, which featured complex virtual worlds where players assume roles and play against other people around the globe, Mr. Montanaro said in emails over the weekend and Monday.

On April 24, Mr. Loughner titled a new online thread: "Would you hit a Handy Cap Child/ Adult?" He wrote: "This is a very interesting question….There are mental retarded children. They're possessing teachers that are typing for money. This will never stop….The drug addicts need to be weeded out to be more intelligent. The Principle of this is that them c— educators need to stop being pigs."

Later that day, he posted a rant titled "Why Rape," which said women in college enjoyed being raped. "There are Rape victims that are under the influence of a substance. The drinking is leading them to rape. The loneliness will bring you to depression. Being alone for a very long time will inevitably lead you to rape."

Some participants in the forum suggested that he must be on drugs, while others said he may be mentally impaired. One forum participant who has read his postings says it was only in retrospect, after the shootings, that he realized that Mr. Loughner appeared mentally unstable in his messages.

On April 28, Mr. Loughner wrote: "How many stars are in the universe?" Other posters responded with mathematical calculations. Later in the thread, Mr. Loughner shifted gears: "What do Chocolate cookies taste like?"

Around the 9th grade, recalls Mr. Montanaro, Mr. Loughner abandoned the old games and started playing Earth: 2025, now called Earth Empires, a text-based game in which players assume the form of a country and develop its economy. Players form clans and battle other clans.

The game includes social networks built around the clan alliances—private online forums in which players conversed. In those forums at that time, Mr. Loughner often spouted conspiracy theories and got into heated debates with others, according to a forum participant who has been reading Mr. Loughner's posts for years. Mr. Loughner originally played under the pseudonyms Cries and Cry. At various times he also used the aliases Heroin, XTC and Erad, according to two people familiar with the matter, and played for various clans.

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This guy was definitly a bit crazy

Expect dozens of articles on how gaming is evulz to surface in no time.

Yep no doubt.

But I never even heard of this game before

Now it won't be detailed graphics of violence against humans, text-based sims are enough :)

Don't discuss with me, you know what game I'm talking about.

How many people under like... 30 AREN'T gamers?

I'd say less then are... may as well make a big deal out of the fact that he wasn't a vegetarian.  (Or was he?)

wow well okay.....eh

Which forums did he post on?

I checked Empire Earth or whatever and searched a couple of Rage forums didn't see anything

Diablo and Starcraft... Did he try to kill her for loot or did he think she was a zerg. Honestly, this is exactly what I hate about the media today.

So if someone on this forums suddenly snapped and the media turned to what they were posting and discussing.... Wow Vgchartz would come off as a pretty fucked up place.