I think we can all agree that you can die in a fire by accident.

Assassination however, is a bit harder to be happening to you by chance.

Well, I guess I can die now, because now I have officially seen everything.

The main thing that annoys me about all the anti-GTA talk is that GTA is a sandbox game - they created a world with a system of rules. It's rife for emergent gameplay. Meaning, everyone in the game world can die, you can drive all the vehicles, you can shoot the weapons, etc... It's not like the programmers spent a month putting in the "have sex with then kill women" feature. This is something that people figured out they could do within the GTA world. Do I endorse this gameplay? No. I didn't upvote the video cause I think it's lame and boring, showing the more boring and lame aspect of GTA. But do I think that it's GTA's fault? Absolutely not. GTA IV is a brilliant game, with dialogue and storyline better than most movies. The most disappointing thing about the anti-GTA conversation is that people who complain about it usually miss the wonderful satire of our world within the game. The major media would not want to believe it because of all the talk about violence and sex, but GTA is really an example of the height of games, atleast narratively speaking. It's truly brilliant satire.

But in 50 years, people won't be complaining about the violence and sex in video games. By then there will be a new form of media, maybe virtual experiences pumped straight into the brain, and video games will be forgotten just like books - and no longer censored. It's like the giant anti-violent movie sentiment of the early 90's. The media has a new competitor to flog, so for now it's video games...

I can die happy now. Thank you.

qbert, it's way more than a moral question: it's a legal one. Every one of those guys that punched the male would be found guilty of battery in a court of law. "Teaching someone a lesson" is not a valid legal reason for throwing a punch. You are only allowed to use as much force as necessary to stop the assailant and it's clear in the video that the guy is being clocked AFTER being separated from the girl.

For all the knight-in-shining-armor wannabes who seem to be posting here, let me give you a reality check. My roommate in college was best buds with one of his male cousins--they used to hang out all the time. Anyway, this cousin overhears his sister telling their parents that her boyfriend had raped her. Said cousin gets two other guys together and they go out to "teach the guy a lesson." They find him, drag him out to a deserted spot, and proceed to beat the living crap out of him. Justice served right?

Problem is, one of the guys my roommate's cousin brought along was a little overzealous. He was packing heat and when they were through beating the guy he pulled the gun and shot the alleged rapist in the head. But hey, the guy deserved it right?

Well not exactly. Turns out the sister was lying about the rape. See, my roommate was Filipino and everyone in his family is strict Catholic. The girl had gotten pregnant and couldn't admit to her parents that she'd had premarital sex. So she made up the rape story to cover.

My roommate's cousin and his two friends all got life in prison. Even though two of them didn't know the third was even carrying a gun, they were considered accessories to the murder by virtue of the fact that they had set out with the intent to cause the victim harm. So all through freshman year of college my roommate got to spend his weekends visiting his best bud in a maximum security prison. The cousin was 18 at the time of his arrest (same age as me and my roommate at the time). He basically threw away his whole life in order to "teach a guy a lesson."

Think it can't happen to you? People can die from a single punch. Maybe you didn't mean to kill the guy. Won't matter in court. You can kiss your life as you knew it goodbye with at a minimum a felony manslaughter charge. In this video, in all the confusion, someone (like some of the bystanders you can see scrambling to get out of the way) easily could have gotten knocked unconscious accidentally by a missed punch and slipped underwater before anyone realized what was happening. Is that justice?

Vigilante violence doesn't teach anybody anything. Supposing the guy in this vid truly is a chronic woman abuser, all these guys did by kicking his ass is to make him take his embarrassment and emasculation out on the next girlfriend by beating her twice as hard. Good work.

Make no mistake about it: if you're willing to jump in there to throw punches at this guy, you're not interested in justice or protecting the woman. You're interested in stroking your own ego by actualizing the over-glorified bullsh*t cultural stereotype that equates "justice" with ass-kicking. And even though you see yourself as the good guy--like my roommate's cousin did--you will be in for a rude awakening about how the world really works in the event the police do show up and start sorting things out.

Holy crap, my first top 15!! I can die happily now. Thanks everyone!!

eee... you can die from testing 9V batteries on your tongue? hmmm

Well they were trying to see if getting hit in the groin would take a persons heart rate from normal to 'red line'. In essence, could you die from getting hit in the family jewels. The answer was... drum roll please...yes. You can die.

Other than I have no idea. I posted it because I thought the guy was stupid for agreeing to do it.

MG, I guarantee you could could be killed by a cop with a can of OC. Or OC/CS or the other variants they might have been using. Sure it might be a little more extreme and used "inappropriately" but I guarantee you would be dead. Ok, maybe two cans. But you would be snuffed out. So shut it. And yes, infants can die from a little bit of OC.

Sorry I was a little late to the party.

no way that this can die. NO WAY!

Fucking. Awesome. Now I can die a happy man.
We need that *awesomesauce thing.

Mr. MLx: "I can die a happy man now."

And there you have it. *return this so it can die a natural death. Sorry, T-man. I'm not * discarding it in case you find a working embed.

I can die happy!

I can die a happy man, I have seen this version of my favorite commercial. Thank you.

This is one of the most quoted around the house...one, tooWHO, Thureeeeeee, CRUNCH! Thureeeee.