Man dies after 50 hours of computer games

[Titanwarrior89]

I think you may have hit the nail on the head. That would be my guess as well.[:(]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I think there is a sentence missing in the report.

"Drugs may have been involved."

If being awake for 50 hours {taking naps in that time} were enough to kill you, I would have died a long time ago. So would most of the people going through Ranger School or a few other of the Armed Forces schools.

The only two scenarios giving this any believability are drug overdose or Pulmonary Embolism {blood clot forming in lower legs due to non-movement for long period of time--then breaking off and lodging in a lung}. Perhaps a case could be made for Congenital heart defect.

[Tom Hunter]

And look, it seems to be epidemic:

A Russian teen died from a stroke after playing PC games for 12 hours in a computer club. Doctors were taking lifesaving efforts for several days, but could not save the boy. The autopsy showed the young gamer's brain to be totally destroyed.


and:


A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, Korean police have said.

The jobless man, identified by police only by his last name Kim, was found dead yesterday at an Internet cafe in Kwangju, 260 kilometres southwest of Seoul, they said.

and:

Man dies playing all-night computer game

ANANOVA:A guy died from playing Half-Life cs! Oh my god.

Here is the headline you will not see:

REUTERS FALLS FOR HOAX ABOUT KOREAN DIEING FROM COMPUTER GAMES

[;)]

[mogami]

Hi, All I can say is "Ha"
When I got my copy of UV I played for over 40 hours before passing out
I play WITP 12 hours per day everyday and have been doing so for over a year and before that I tested at least 16 hours per day 7 days a week.
However there are people who play golf just as much or couch potatoes who watch TV just as much or porno hounds who spend 20 hours a day in the castle of Doctor Jerkinstein.
If I was not playing WITP I would still be awake. If I had no computer I would read 20 hours a day. When I run out of gas I sleep for 12 hours but most of the time I can get by on just 4. I also get to where I am awake for 6 hours and sleep for 2 or 3 so in a 24 hour period I am up 18 hours but get 6 hours sleep.
When I was a chess hound I played chess for 16 hours a day. (Go to a tourny a player can spend 12 hours at the board in 1 day and have to repeat this for several days)
Now that was tiring. (It was a lot more effort to play chess for 16 hours compared to WITP for 16 hours)
I think all these reports are pure BS. Now a person might have died while playing the computer but he died from causes other then playing the computer. (King George III died taking a dump but not from taking a dump)

[Captain Ed]

Anybody notice anyone missing from the forum[:D]

[ilovestrategy]

My record for playing is 20 hours while playing this online roleplaying game called Ultima online. The things gamers will do to Grandmaster blacksmithing [8|]. But from playing console games for 15 years and comp games for 10, I can tell you from experience you can't die from it. Ive sat down on my couch and watch movies for hours and hours with no side effects. Well, an irrirated wife could be counted as a side effect...

[Bodhi]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy
Ive sat down on my couch and watch movies for hours and hours with no side effects. Well, an irrirated wife could be counted as a side effect...

You just have to learn to shift a bit as she cleans around you, that gets rid of that side effect. [:D]

[ilovestrategy]

LOL!!!

[Mike Scholl]

Most foolish I've ever been was a 39 hour session of the original CIVILIZATION over a day off.

Of course, I had just come home from work when I started, and had to go back when I finished.

Ah, to be young and stupid again......

[Cap Mandrake]

Previously healthy 28 year olds dont die of "heart failure"

The guy was amped up on something and probably had a fatal arrhythmia ...or perhaps his massive spread butt got stuck in the stall in the bathroom and his died of ashyxiation.

[Tom Hunter]

Speculate all you want, this guy is not dead because he never lived. They don't even have his name, there are no pictures, they don't say where he was playing the games.

Lee means nothing, its like Smith

Naming the city means nothing either

They don't name the actualy game parlor, because there isn't one

They don't have photos because there is no place to photograph

[Nikademus]

If it was a hoax....dont see why all the fuss....to me its not out of the realm for a person to do a 'death by gaming' incident. its unlikely, but even younguns can do themselves in with the right amount of abuse and/or neglect.

I read once a bizzare event in a small town where a 14 year oldish kid was playing around with a friend and got punched over his heart hard. Few minutes later he keeled over of cardiac arrest.

Reminds me of an old Bloom County cartoon with Binkley's dad in bad......mussing about all the thousands of complex chemical reactions that must occur within the human body every minute of every hour in order to maintain life....and if any of them were to go wrong....bing!

Binkley: "aw comm'on dad__"

Dad: "DONT JOSTLE THE BED!!!!!!"

[:D]

[Mynok]

Ah, Bloom County.......Opus just doesn't have the same effect (though it is good).

I play WITP 12 hours per day everyday and have been doing so for over a year and before that I tested at least 16 hours per day 7 days a week.

Errm.....I know you're not independently wealthy because you are always asking people to buy you beer.

[Captain Ed]

Just read an article in the paper that say`s gamers in Korea actually play for money from sponsors and can make a good living at it. Anybody hear of such a deal. It sounds farfetched.

[Arkan]

That's true, they are especially crazy about Starcraft, they have tv channels only showing SC tournaments. Some months ago I saw a documentary about it, they followed a young Canadian guy around who had moved to Korea because he could make a living there only from playing SC plus he was treated like a music/movie star.

[demonterico]

I'm 54 years old and I have arrhythmia, and cardio myopothy (enlarged heart), and do spend many hours at my computer playing UV and learning WitP, including a period of several months last year while I was off work where a friend and I played all day long day after day. During this period of time we also drove to Colorado (from Seattle) for a week to meet a couple other friends where we played UV all week, stopping only to fix more drinks.

Just saw my cardiologist a couple weeks ago and she said I was doing great. The point is if computers could kill I'd be dead already. But then maybe I'm just hard to kill.

[Oldsweat]

If this was true the Navy would have run out of OSs, AWs, STGs, STS, NFOs and CIC watch officers, not mention CTs et al, years ago. All these folks put in enormous amounts of time staring at various CRT systems (well, many are plasma now) on operations.

[Rob322]

ORIGINAL: Tom Hunter

Speculate all you want, this guy is not dead because he never lived. They don't even have his name, there are no pictures, they don't say where he was playing the games.

Lee means nothing, its like Smith

Naming the city means nothing either

They don't name the actualy game parlor, because there isn't one

They don't have photos because there is no place to photograph

Ssshhhh Tom! You're going to take all the fun out of this story if you start bringing truth and empirical analysis into the equation. [:)]

[pad152]

Man dies after 50 hours of computer games

Well, it beats dying on the craper![;)]