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Kayel ,

Modernists: confused why this happened

Postmodernist: of course this happened, the videogame is more real to them than the human is

Mango ,

We just supposed to assume that’s the whole story? Why was any of this happening? How many straws?

Lophostemon ,

Isn’t fortnight for like… 8 year olds?!

LowtierComputer ,

Just like checkers and baseball.

bedrooms , (edited )

Btw is it only my country in which people call the internet wifi these days? As an IT worker I feel my brain deteriorate every time even a company doesn't use these terminologies properly in their ads.

Dremor ,
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Well, could really have been the wifi that was cut and not the entire box.

bedrooms , (edited )

Yes, sure, I do hope the rest of the world ain't as stupid as my country.

maniel ,
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Shutting down WIFI is synonymous with turning off the router for me

archomrade ,

My ISP doesn’t even tell you if your WAN is down when you check your service status on their app. It just tells you to “check your Wi-Fi router and reset if necessary”.

If you use your own router, it won’t even tell you that, it just says “issue finding wifi 360 information”.

bedrooms , (edited )

Oh no, this is what I'm talking about. But in our case, those stupid people don't distinguish between Wifi and LAN anymore anywhere in their anything.

Edit: one day, a dubious network worker came to my flat saying they are testing the Wifi provided by the apartment. I told him I don't need it because I set up my Wifi on my own.

Then he told that's impossible because if I'm using Wifi I must be using the hardware of the apartment.

Turned out, he can't distinguish between the fiber port and a Wifi router...

I wanted to know if he was sent by the house maintenance or just another salesman. But how can you talk with a person on IT, when he continues mixing up technological terms!?

Eventually I got upset and closed the intercom.

NAXLAB ,

I’m an IT guy right with you but I’m also a linguist:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description?wpro…

afraid_of_zombies ,

It hurt a bit when the contractor I am dealing with at work kept on mixing up disk with memory. It wasn’t so much that I am being pedantic it is that he is making claims off his mixup.

I asked him politely to please search up the differences.

umbrella ,
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i was there when they started calling every type of program an “app”.

makes tech more opaque to normies, easier to control the narrative this way.

bedrooms ,

Boy, you never play Fortnite with Wifi.

Staiden ,

Yeah for real, who games on wifi? I was just invited to move in to my girlfriends place, I shoved myself down in the crawlspace to run ethernet before I even set my computer up. My motherboard has wifi built in if I wanted to use it.

BigPotato ,

He wasn’t there to win, just to talk to little kids. Wi-Fi is perfectly acceptable for that.

Viking_Hippie ,

Police charged Griest with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges.

Wtf? Cops just slap terrorism charges on every chance they get, huh?

Don’t get me wrong, the guy is a piece of shit, but terrorism? That’s not what happened here and they know it!

ImplyingImplications ,

“Terroristic threats” is a ridiculously common charge against school age children. Dozens of 10 year olds are charged with it every month in Texas

Based on an analysis of district juvenile justice referral data we received from Brownsville ISD, the district police made 3,102 student arrests over a period of roughly two and half years from May 2021 to November 2023. That’s 135 arrests per month in the school year. Fifty-nine percent of those arrests were for felony changes.

Of those arrests, 3.5 percent were for elementary school-aged children. From the beginning of the prior school year to November 3 this year, there have been 76 arrests of students 10 to 11 years old. Charges for terroristic threats accounted for 20 percent of those arrests. Most, 66 percent, were felony charges. There were no charges for aggravated assault for this age group.

Viking_Hippie ,

Holy fuck! Fucking bastards! 🤬

nilloc ,

I know! Who’d’ve thought there were so many terrorists in 6th grade.

Sweetpeaches69 ,

The devil must be so, so proud of Texas right now.

Retrograde ,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

Right? What a heaping pile of shit that state is

xor ,

first they made terrorism the biggest problem in the world, declared war on it, made tons of draconian laws against it… and then they changed what the word means.
btw, check out the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes it “terrorism” to work at a job with livestock and then secretly film the abuse other people do to them.
in some states, that is “legally” terrorism.
(its illegally, but good luck appealing that when you’re in a guantanamo style blacksite somewhere, being force fed rectally)

Viking_Hippie ,

I’d call it Orwellian, but that’s more fucked up than anything Orwell ever imagined! 🤬

harry_balzac ,

She did the world a service. If only more people would be willing to step up and cut off the wifi when someone starts playing Fortnite

Dremor ,
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Or add the Fortnite servers IP to their Pihole 😇

“Sorry, Fortnite servers don’t work at home”, and suddenly my younger cousins are a lot less thrilled to visit me for Christmas. 😂

Retrograde ,
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I support these grinch-like activities 😂

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
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451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

Sad

Deceptichum ,
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Still up for me?

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

It’s GDPR related. It’s not down.

Retrograde ,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

Someone seems to have cut off your wifi

ArugulaZ ,

Guess where you're going to be staying the next few fortnights?

empireOfLove2 ,
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Oh God it better not be tilted towers

ElBarto ,
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

I love everything about this paragraph.

Griest told police he had fallen on the television and that his wife had tried to catch him but ended up getting a cut on her neck. When Griest fell, the television broke and he got a cut on his finger. Griest told officers that he called police because the incident was “going to turn into a domestic” as his wife’s drunk boyfriend was allegedly going to stop the house the following day to assault him, Hornberger wrote in the affidavit.

Melkath ,

As a gamer, I was going to come in with an edgy "that's what you get" joke, but with this added info... I'm doubling down on a "that's what you get" joke.

Caligvla ,
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“his wife’s drunk boyfriend”

This has to be satire.

xor ,

i thought that too, but it appears to be a real news site…
i still find it hard to believe that reality has come this close to being a made-up shitpost…
but maybe, the fortnight playing convicted pedophile actually called the police because his wife’s boyfriend might beat him up…
im pretty sure this means the universe will be collapsing in on itself pretty soon…

Cypher ,

The whole story just gets weirder every sentence.

XeroxCool ,

I didn’t beleive it would but it did

Deceptichum ,
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A Mount Carmel man who is a registered sexual offender allegedly assaulted and injured his wife after she cut off Wi-fi as he was playing the video game Fortnite with young children online.

Also the stuff about the wife’s boyfriend makes me think this guy spends time on 4Chan.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug ,

I just immediately thought this guy must be a regular on /b/

wildginger ,

The “with young children” bit is definitely inflammatory and uncalled for. Unless he was playing a “12 and under only” game mode, that bit is only in there because it makes the sex offender bit sound scarier.

“Oh no, the kidz are playing with sex offenders online!” style fear mongering. The loser was playing with randos, 95% odds, and if there was evidence that the 5% predation odds was what was actually happening that would be half the article

BigPotato ,

The wife decided to cut off the Wi-Fi because she didn’t want him talking to kids online. He might’ve been in an 18+ game but the wife thought he was there to creep on kids and got a TV allegedly thrown at her for it.

wildginger ,

Is that in the article? How did I miss that

BigPotato ,

She told police she came downstairs and found Griest was talking to young kids online on Fortnite. She did not want him to have contact with the children because he is a registered sex offender, according to the affidavit. The wife then cut off the Wi-fi, which caused Griest to throw the television at her.

Fourth-ish paragraph. That’s what she told the police.

AnalogyAddict ,

Written by AI, maybe?

themeatbridge ,

The article started with Mt Carmel, so that’s just a regular Tuesday. Shit goes down on Mount Carmel.

superweeniehutjrs ,

Real gamer move

seaQueue ,
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Heated gamer moment

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