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Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:02 pm
by marky
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:03 pm
by DuckofTindalos
Stop spamming!
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:05 pm
by marky
[X(]
u sir have insulted my honor!
i chellenge u to a duel!
lol
jus thot it would be good to post a warning to all the hardcore gamers lol[:'(]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:18 pm
by CapAndGown
Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15. [:D]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:34 pm
by marky
lol[:'(]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:36 pm
by Mark VII
My wife emailed that to me yesterday under the heading 'warning'. When I got home from work she asked if I had read it, my response:"Yes, don't play 50+ straight hours of wargames without eating...got it...thanks"
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:37 pm
by Rob322
Sad? Actually this nitwit is a decent candidate for a Darwin Award. Losing your life over playing a video game isn't sad, it's stupid. [:-]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:50 pm
by Nikademus
totally stupid.
Then again before i feel all superior, i'll just conveniently forget that time i almost gave myself a coronary after "losing it" many years ago after a particularily unlucky turn of [the original] Steel Panthers.
After i came down i realized just how dumb it would be to die from such an event and from then on i never "lost it" over a bad wargame turn again though there have been plenty of cuss words whispered in the years following. [:D]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:07 pm
by Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown
Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15. [:D]
Hell, I can't do the first turn for the Japanese in 50 hours.
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:31 pm
by AmiralLaurent
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown
Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15. [:D]
Hell, I can't do the first turn for the Japanese in 50 hours.
So you probably never finished one because of the new patches necessating a restart [;)]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:32 pm
by 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.
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:34 pm
by DuckofTindalos
Apparently he did get up to go to the bathroom more than once. Wouldn't that be enough to stop bloodclots in the legs?
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:17 pm
by Rob322
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.
The other thing is that this could be an internet rumor/myth that got picked up by the wire services on an otherwise slow news day and broadcast. Wouldn't be the first time.
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:26 pm
by Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: AmiralLaurent
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown
Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15. [:D]
Hell, I can't do the first turn for the Japanese in 50 hours.
So you probably never finished one because of the new patches necessating a restart [;)]
Finish??!! You're supposed to
finish this game?
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:27 pm
by DuckofTindalos
ORIGINAL: Rob322
The other thing is that this could be an internet rumor/myth that got picked up by the wire services on an otherwise slow news day and broadcast. Wouldn't be the first time.
True enough, but some of the online gamers in Asia are INSANE!
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:32 pm
by RUPD3658
This is why I need my wife to bring me food and drink while I am playing. [:D] I have done 12 hours in a day.
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:05 pm
by YankeeAirRat
Snopes dot com has it as a listing of false. They say it has popped up here and there on the internet with various changes for since about 1998
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:17 pm
by marky
ORIGINAL: RUPD3658
This is why I need my wife to bring me food and drink while I am playing. [:D] I have done 12 hours in a day.
lol
ive spent days on my computer wher i literally havent turned my tv on at ALL, and as much a tv nut as i m a computer nut[:'(]
1 time i think i did 10 hours STRAIGHT or more
[:'(]
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:42 pm
by Big B
"Taking short naps" is NOT staying up for 50 hrs straight,
I agree with rockmedic109 - there was something else going on here..
B
RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:47 pm
by DuckofTindalos
If, in fact, it's NOT an Internet fable...