I've said in the past that I like reading the stories that come out of EVE Online, even though I don't play the game myself, but I didn't mean anything like this. :/ It's kind of surreal.
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Here is another, more in depth look at the gaming side of this story.
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My God, the inane prattle in the comments under that article. *adds wired.com to the ever growing list of sites on which to never, ever read comments*
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Here is news on this story from a more mainstream news source.
The whole thing, generally speaking, is just completely ridiculous. Some douchebag insults Islam -> Muslim extremists completely overreact by going on a retarded murder-spree -> douchebag feels vindicated -> wash, rinse, repeat. Somehow, someway, this cycle must be broken. -_-
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Here is another, more in depth look at the gaming side of this story.
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My God, the inane prattle in the comments under that article. *adds wired.com to the ever growing list of sites on which to never, ever read comments*
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Here is news on this story from a more mainstream news source.
The whole thing, generally speaking, is just completely ridiculous. Some douchebag insults Islam -> Muslim extremists completely overreact by going on a retarded murder-spree -> douchebag feels vindicated -> wash, rinse, repeat. Somehow, someway, this cycle must be broken. -_-