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[LordViking]

http://www.msnbc.msn...13/did/8888579/

What I'd like to know is what he was playing and why he couldnt get up for a Ramen break... he didnt even have to cook it...

[The iMac Man]

One guess...





......World of IHaveNoLifeCraft


Same game the couple in Korea were playing for 4 hours while they left their 4 month old baby at home alone to die.

I think WoW is video game crack.    

[Whaleman]

Diablo II might be the culprit as well. That one has taken lives before.

[KirinRiotCrash]

Remember ... there is more to life than just games.

[teflon]

Diablo? WoW? all blizzard games... seems to me that blizzard is trying to kill the asian population via adictive gaming...

[Tomatocow]

KirinRiotCrash, on August 12th 2005, 08:23 AM, said:

Remember ... there is more to life than just games.

You lie!

[the Battle Cat]

Games are harmless, it was probably the CyberCafe bill that gave him the heart attack.

[Tomatocow]

the Battle Cat, on August 12th 2005, 09:14 AM, said:

Games are harmless, it was probably the CyberCafe bill that gave him the heart attack.

Or the uncomfortable chair he was sitting in.

[Eric5h5]

The iMac Man, on August 11th 2005, 05:57 PM, said:

One guess...
......World of IHaveNoLifeCraft

Close, but the article I read said Starcraft.  But they called it a "battle simulation game."  Hmm....

--Eric

[Tomatocow]

Eric5h5, on August 12th 2005, 11:12 AM, said:

But they called it a "battle simulation game."  Hmm....

--Eric

Hey that narrows it down to a couple of games.

[LordViking]

Tomatocow, on August 11th 2005, 08:17 PM, said:

Hey that narrows it down to a couple of games.

Or maybe... he died playing Myst or something... now THAT would be amazing...

[Mandrake628]

You would have to be a buffoon/idiot/fool to not finish Myst in 40-something hours.  

Mandrake628

[Matt Diamond]

This story leaves me shaking my head. He died after playing games for 50 hours straight?! It's sad, pathetic... Why, I'm sure I could go at least 60 before expiring, and that's assuming I didn't train for it.

[Shade]

KirinRiotCrash, on August 11th 2005, 06:23 PM, said:

Remember ... there is more to life than just games.

For all of you who have wives/girlfriends I commend you.

For thoes of you who don't and would rather play games I suggest therapy.  

[Turtle]

Shade, on August 14th 2005, 02:36 PM, said:

For all of you who have wives/girlfriends I commend you.

For thoes of you who don't and would rather play games I suggest therapy. 

Wow. Turn abouts fair play sooo.. For those who don't need a wife/girlfriend to justify their existence, I commend you. But I digress...

Do what you enjoy. Play games, bike, fish, drive over people, enslave a foreign countries populace to make shoes, launch an A.I into space only to have it freak out and get a god complex. I don't discriminate. Hell people die every day, dying while playing a video game doesn't shock me one bit.

Now if he died while playing a video game, falling from 33,000 feet, while monkeys sang opera and typed out the world greatest novel...that would considerably surprise me.

[Eric5h5]

Turtle, on August 14th 2005, 11:03 PM, said:

Now if he died while playing a video game, falling from 33,000 feet, while monkeys sang opera and typed out the world greatest novel...that would considerably surprise me.

Great...that WAS my plan, but now you've gone and ruined the surprise.  

And note that this guy died AFTER playing a game for 50 hours.  Clearly the moral of this story is that if you stop playing games, you die.  So if your wives/girlfriends complain, tell 'em that you're just trying to survive.

--Eric

[the Battle Cat]

Possibly it was the shock of suddenly not playing games any more.  Perhaps if he transitioned to a handheld GameBoy as he left the cyber cafe and then a game of cell phone Tetris when he got home followed by a few hours of tic tac toe on a scrap of paper he would have survived.

[Shade]

Turtle, on August 14th 2005, 11:03 PM, said:

Wow. Turn abouts fair play sooo.. For those who don't need a wife/girlfriend to justify their existence, I commend you. But I digress...

Do what you enjoy. Play games, bike, fish, drive over people, enslave a foreign countries populace to make shoes, launch an A.I into space only to have it freak out and get a god complex. I don't discriminate. Hell people die every day, dying while playing a video game doesn't shock me one bit.

Now if he died while playing a video game, falling from 33,000 feet, while monkeys sang opera and typed out the world greatest novel...that would considerably surprise me.

So this kid enjoyed playing games so much that he died over it.  Some will say it was good because he died doing something he loved but others will say that he will no longer do that thing that he loved so dearly.

Besides - a videogame is a stupid way to go - of all the different ways of dying.

[bobbob]

LordViking, on August 11th 2005, 03:52 PM, said:

What I'd like to know is what he was playing and why he couldnt get up for a Ramen break... he didnt even have to cook it...

He was probably tweaked on something to keep him up and active.

[Tomatocow]

Shade, on August 16th 2005, 12:02 PM, said:

of all the different ways of dying.

I have this one great idea but it's ribald in nature.