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more about #library CrazyStorm: My wife is a librarian. Her thought on this is: "As long as he is in a library, I'm okay with it". more » RageKage: ""some nerd fighter game" I would love to see that more » mordennight: He probably just got kicked out cause of the yelling. Playing a game using their wifi seems pretty harmless. Could be a LOT worse. more » Psychopathic Assassin: I don't see where this is wrong. Unless he was disturbing other people by cussing out people on xbox live or just talking too loud. Unless maybe it ... more » Showmeyomoves!: "What the fuck you fucking noob I'll fuck you up your asshole motherfuck-- What? No, I'm just reading the New York Post... this economy just gets to m... more » InconspicuouslyConspicuous: Bummer... what a really dumb mistake, the whole yelling part... more » Tch0rT: I don't see a problem with this as long as he wasn't disrupting other guests of the Library. 10 years ago when I went to college and used the compute... more » Altima NEO: Whyd they kick him out? more » Knoxximus ver. 5.66: Geez...if you're gonna leech off of a library's wi-fi...play something single player, you fucking toolbox...not something that requires you to communi... more » Polite Society: I suspect he probably got kicked out for making too much noise more than anything else. :P more » -MasterDex-: You can steal free wifi? How can it be stolen if it's free? Also, nice to see Joe public still not having the slightest clue about video games. "So... more » dowingba: The woman to the left of him in the picture is Lashonda (sp?) from Jackie Brown. more » KefkaXI: Sad, desperate attemp to use public *education* resources for nefarious gaming. Pretty tame compared to my experience though. About two years ago I w... more » teeuwen: how exactly does someone play three games in two minutes? more » CHEEZCOLA: I feel bad for this guy. It is obvious that he needed a gaming fix and not only that he cant get it. He was kicked out. We need to stick together agi... more » KaneRobot: Looking at the Twitter of the guy who took this pic, he has zero room to be talking down to "nerds": [twitter.com] more » Invisible-Echidna: If he was yelling out instructions, makes you wonder why he needs to cover up the controller in the first place. more » Modus_Operandi: "The guy above brought in a monitor, Xbox, wireless router, what looks like a Turtle Beach Ear Force gaming headset (I have one), and an external hard... more » thursday2: i bet this guy's previous repertoire of blockbuster journalism consists of high school lunch specials and CNN ireporting. Way to step your game up cam... more » RexMaximus: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you need a paid Xbox Live account to play Halo online, right? If you can afford Live, but not broadband internet... more » -
#oddities
Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he's only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo. More » -
#wellplayed
Libraries Got Game
There are, perhaps, few more disconsonant scenes than of the austere silence of the library and the boisterous play of video games, but a growing movement is starting to put the two under one roof. More » -
#seriousgaming
Librarians Explain: Why Video Games At the Library
Why exactly should libraries carry video games? Or music or movies for that matter? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of free gaming, but I can't help but question the increasing multimedia nature of libraries.
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