Hey, don't you dare presume to speak for me. I want to tell him myself.

Holy shit. The kid who got arrested could not be more of a caricature of what I figured a SWATter looked like.

Yes. Police never escalate a situation under control in such a way that it leads to an innocent man's death.

A cursory google search using the words police, escalate, and death will turn up nothing.

Dear sir,

Did I miss the part where he talks about wasting taxpayer money and taking the cops away from actual important things?

The fault lies with the person calling in the fake threat, not the LEOs responding to it.

Considering I have read countless stories of innocent people, even children, accidentally or deliberately shot and killed during swatting incidents gone bad, I can never and will never view "swatting" as anything other than attempted injury and harm from the culprits.

Its only a matter of time before someone is killed because of this.

I would pay good money to watch one of those assholes crying for his mommy when the judge gives him 20 years in federal prison.

Evolve is, by its nature, repetitive.

Somebody needs to go outside once in a while.

"Ha, Ha, Ha... I was really just pushing your buttons, because I like trolling."

Edited for clarity:
"So instead of simply being confused about what parental responsibilities are and where video games fit in, you're a "LoL player" who likes getting a rise out of people by saying insulting and idiotic things."

Sounds like LoL players to me.

Excellent posts by the way. Reasonable and real. I am in agreement.

Or you could step away from the computer long enough that you regain hold of your senses and stop thinking that you should give parenting advice to others based upon a fear of your statistics being messed up.

I'm sorry, but Penny Arcade replied far better than anyone else here with, "First off, you're totes adorbs. But Tyndamyre isn't real." Your parents, however, who own the damn computer and gave you life are.

> If a game is in progress, do not interrupt it unless it is an emergency. You are affecting up to 10 people, not just your child.

FUCK YOU.

My kid. My computer. My house. My god damn rules.

I don't think this should be an issue the parent should and will give a f*ck about. They should pen a letter to the dev instead requesting some kind of indicator for players that tend to AFK. So they lose or get some kind of rating. Once the kid has been downgraded for going MIA repeatedly s/he will soon learn how to…

Here's a fun little thought exercise: pretend this was written about racist/sexist/homophobic trash-talk instead of time management. "Now look son, you really shouldn't repeatedly call your opponent a 'fag', and in 20 minutes we're going to have a serious talk about it because we don't want to waste other people's time…

I don't play League or hardly anything online, but I'm old enough to be a grizzled internet veteran and have a (hypothetical) kid that is a big online gamer.