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Feeling exhausted when gaming lately ?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:32 am
by Grendel
May be a warning sign..
S. Korean man dies after 50 hours playing computer games
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-10 13:43
A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.
Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.
Lee was quickly rushed to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.
Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.
Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/d ... 467855.htm
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:37 am
by Duper
geez grendel .. you need a life too finding nes like that!
lol..that's too weird. never thought that "natural selection" finds its way into computers..
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:04 am
by suicide eddie
....waiting for mobius...
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:10 am
by roid
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:17 am
by Floyd
huk!
i'm surprised that cafe doesn't get sued. i remember that topic about the bartender who got sued, because some drunk dipsh!t had an accident on his way home.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:35 am
by Vertigo 99
There was another case like this, also in south korea, about a year ago, except the guy was playing Warcraft III.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:41 am
by Kyouryuu
If you've got some guy sitting in your cafe for 48 hours with no sleep and hardly eating, at what point do you just pull the plug? The guy was clearly a Starcraft junky.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:01 pm
by Top Wop
I say let em kill themselves, there will be less stupid people to deal with and theres already plenty as it is.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:07 pm
by Grax
I think amphetamines play a role in a lot of these cases. Or maybe we just hear about the occasional peeps who happen to have a weak constitution. Or both.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:14 pm
by SilverFJ
What happened to 'you don't gotta go home but you can't stay here'??
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:55 am
by Iceman
HEH! That could easily of been me when I first discovered D3
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:15 pm
by WarAdvocat
I've pulled all nighters before but never 2-dayers.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:27 pm
by will_kill
Around 1998 I played an online MP game called 'Silent Death'. A 2D space fighter very similar to Asteroids but with a variety of hulls and weps that could be upgraded with kills...kills=credits...credits=upgrades of your choosing...in the end I made it up to Lt. or something like that.
At any rate, I remember when I first got it installed I was so excited that I played it from Friday afternoon(after work, 6pmish), till Monday morning (right b4 work, 6amish)with only piss breaks and drink refills.
Exhausted and still fraught from adrenelin rushes, I pulled into work(on time)only to promptly fall asleep behind the wheel...to which I awoke around noon to find my co-workers peering in on me seeing if I was alright.
Fun!Fun!Fun!
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:51 pm
by SilverFJ
I stayed up for like 8 days once in high school...
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:48 pm
by WarAdvocat
lack of sleep will kill ya faster than lack of water.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:51 pm
by SilverFJ
Tell that to tweekers