10-08-2005 05:59									#1
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quote: SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said. Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play online games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said. "We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone. Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe. After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported. He died a few minutes later, it said. South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579/

Seeing as how this is apolyton I think this could have been any one of us! Now I bet somebody somewhere will try to pass a law regulating the amount of hours people can continuously play video games. A couple of thoughts...

1. What game was he playing? Battlefield 2 perhaps?

2. He quit his freaking job to have more time to play games...friends don't let friends do this (do they? :hmmm

3. AT LEAST HE FINISHED! Maybe he had nothing left to live for...

4. I know that I have played longer than 50 hours straight! Hell that's just barely over two days.

	10-08-2005 06:04									#2
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50 hours is not that long on a computer, if you do it non-stop.

So the guy must have had health problems that triggered the heart failure.

Strange that these types of news come from South Korea. I think I remember one from China aswell. But no where else in the world.

	10-08-2005 06:17									#3
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Who says that video games weren't the only thing keeping him alive?

	10-08-2005 06:55									#4
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i knew a guy who dropped out of school because of a video-game addiction. he didnt die tho.

I bet he was playing gunbound. All the kids love that gunbound.

	10-08-2005 07:03									#5
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I have a freind that I have been worried about for this very reason

and he did quit is job, basically, to play video games

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	10-08-2005 08:08									#6
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At least he died happy?

quote: 2. He quit his freaking job to have more time to play games...friends don't let friends do this (do they? )

They do. They actually encourage it. But only if said friends are also addicts...

quote: 4. I know that I have played longer than 50 hours straight! Hell that's just barely over two days.

I'm pretty sure I once played video games for 50+ hours straight without eating but I did sleep.... didn't come close to dying, even if I nearly fainted and my brain created all sorts of interesting pain signals to remind me not to do that!.
I've definitely played for more than 50 hours straight without sleeping, but that would be with eating. The hallucinations and paranoia are fun!

Clearly in this case the man died of human contact, the evidence is all there, someone talks to him, he talks back, a few minutes later he dies. Remember: Social contact can be lethal!

	10-08-2005 09:22									#7
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Déjà vu.

Haven't we heard this before?

	10-08-2005 09:26									#8
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Yeh, it's one of those "slow news day" stock pieces. Change family name. Change date. File the story.

	10-08-2005 09:29									#9
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What's strange is that this happened last year in Korea also.

I have to admit I am having a really bad addiction latley with Battlefield 2.

	10-08-2005 09:34									#10
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That's one advantage of North over South Korea; their mortality rate from excessive computer gaming is much lower.

	10-08-2005 09:41									#11
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Hmmm... what's worse? Dieing from a gaming addiction in a South Korean internet cafe or being beaten to death in a North Korean prison camp?

	10-08-2005 12:21									#12
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quote: Originally posted by korn469 source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579/ Seeing as how this is apolyton I think this could have been any one of us! Now I bet somebody somewhere will try to pass a law regulating the amount of hours people can continuously play video games. A couple of thoughts... 1. What game was he playing? Battlefield 2 perhaps? 2. He quit his freaking job to have more time to play games...friends don't let friends do this (do they? :hmmm 3. AT LEAST HE FINISHED! Maybe he had nothing left to live for... 4. I know that I have played longer than 50 hours straight! Hell that's just barely over two days.

I actually quit my job to play games.

well, not really. I quit because I didn't like it. but I did use the 2 months off to catch up on playing all my games. I did nothing productive for those 2 months. though you can argue I haven't done anything productive since those 2 months...

	10-08-2005 12:21									#13
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And I have never played for more than 22 hours. And that would be back in my civ2 days. There is no way my eyes could handle the strain.

	10-08-2005 20:45									#14
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I don't think I've ever played more than 12 hours straight. That would be a day of GTA: San Andreas and my favorite bowl of greens.

	10-08-2005 20:55									#15
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BBC said he was playing Starcraft (no surprise, huh?) on line.

Clearly its only MP that is dangerous to your health

At least he wasnt a casual gamer

	10-08-2005 22:05									#16
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At least he took himself out of the gene pool.

	10-08-2005 22:46									#17
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Wadayamean...

With the gaming fanaticism in South Korea, he would be probably be considered a genetic stud (unless he was a very lousy player)

Scratch that - since he died, he didn't have the right genes.

	10-08-2005 22:48									#18
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no offense to Koreans,

but when I played Starcraft, I hated Koreans... so annoying...

"I KOREA K K PLAY K K"

	10-08-2005 22:48									#19
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Ive got a few days off now, I take this as a challenge

	11-08-2005 06:53									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Ninot i knew a guy who dropped out of school because of a video-game addiction. he didnt die tho. I bet he was playing gunbound. All the kids love that gunbound.

I have noticed that video game addiction is cutting into the market share of drugs and alcohol at college, and perhaps now in high school and below as well. It's also expanding the total number of addicts, but gaming habits tend to be much cheaper than drug habits so in the end, this is a good sign.

Incidentally, the Chinese phrase for "internet cafe" is "web bar".