Damian Spinelli died as he lived – quietly.

The twenty-three year old 7-11 cashier who had just enrolled in journalism classes at Hudson County Community College was found dead Monday inside his apartment complex’s laundry room.

“I found him with an empty bottle of detergent in one hand and an iPod in the other,” says James Baker, the building’s super. “It was like the beginning of one of them Law & Orders.” Baker lowers his register. ‘The kid’s all washed up,’ that’s what Briscoe would say. God, I miss that guy.”

Police believe a cocktail of laundry detergents killed Spinelli, but it was 75 plus hours of video game podcasts that motivated the suicide.

GiantBombcast, Idle Thumbs, CAGcast, Listen UP – all the big hitters – along with nearly two dozen other video game centric programs were found on the device that may have spurned Jersey City’s fifth podcast related death this year.

Police believe it was ennui that led Spinelli to take his life by ingesting a lethal cocktail of detergents midway through his Sunday chores. “We’ve seen it before with sports podcasts. The tedium, the repetition, the navel-gazing – it can all be a bit much.”

The news hits  close to home for Shawn Epstein who, an hour and a half into Major Nelson’s Blogcast, drove his pickup truck into oncoming traffic . Epstein’s days are now divided between rehabilitation and managing a Podcast Protection Call Center.

“Sometimes the video game echo chamber is so loud,” says Epstein inside his modest, New York office. “You can forget your own opinion. That’s why we’re always ready to listen – to you. Because maybe you didn’t like Flower. And that’s OK.”

Spinelli leaves behind fifty close friends on Xbox Live along with his cat, Yoshi.