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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: COndor06 on September 17, 2007, 01:05:16 PM
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Associated Press
BEIJING (Sept. 17) - A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge , state media said Monday.
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe. The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the United States. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for days in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.
I wonder what he was playing :noid
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Lead paint on the keyboard??
Did they find a Barbie laying in the vacinity??
Soot in the air??
Pac-Man Syndrome??
:D
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I wonder how many people will die after Halo 3 is released?:noid
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Originally posted by COndor06
The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
Fear of what?
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zombies is my best bet.
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Originally posted by Speed55
Fear of what?
Everyone knows it's contagious. :O
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Well what would you expect from people living under such a represive government? I mean lets get real, they kill your kids if you have the wrong kind. Every aspect of your life is completely controlled and you have pretty much no freedom.
Imagine going decades without any joy in life then you hookup to the internet.. why stop, at least you can die with a smile on your face.
IMHO the problem is not the internet.
Later,
KayBay
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Your probably right.. all it takes is one bite, and then watermelon would really hit the fan. I've never seen a zombie killed with a keyboard so they probably did the smart thing by running.
thanks
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Originally posted by KayBayRay
Well what would you expect from people living under such a represive government? I mean lets get real, they kill your kids if you have the wrong kind. Every aspect of your life is completely controlled and you have pretty much no freedom.
Imagine going decades without any joy in life then you hookup to the internet.. why stop, at least you can die with a smile on your face.
IMHO the problem is not the internet.
Later,
KayBay
What a stupid explanation. So I guess all of those folks in South Korea dieing is a direct result of repressive government. Let's invade and give them freedom! ....oh wait.....thats already done.
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This just in. He was playing AH with two accounts at the same time and Ho'ed himself with 262's. The 640 point loss was just too much.
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Originally posted by KayBayRay
Well what would you expect from people living under such a represive government?
IMHO the problem is not the internet.
Later,
KayBay
I don't expect them to die from a 72 hour gaming binge while declaring
"That'll show those commie repressive government types."
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I recall reading of similar examples of people dying for gaming binges...loaded up on caffeine, junk food...even not using the bathroom...til their ticker gives out.
I also remember reading there was a Warcraft (or Everquest?) player so depressed over loosing his character, he killed himself. Or maybe it was that his player account was hacked and he lost a lot of earnings? Cant recall...thought the kids Mom started some OnLine Gaming support group?
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Well, anyone know if he was playing AH????? :confused: :O :O :noid
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I bet he died from coach class syndrome. If sitting still on an 8-hour flight can screw up your circulatory system, can you imagine what sitting for 72 hours can do?
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Originally posted by COndor06
Associated Press
BEIJING (Sept. 17) - A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge , state media said Monday.
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
I wonder what he was playing :noid
He was probably waiting for h2h to reappear... poor guy.
TIGERESS
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Deep thrombosis, I seem to recall the 'coach syndrome' being. Having to do w/ clots from sitting motionless for too long.
I think it's remarkable that nobody has commented on the unanswered question: Did he drop any good loot?
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Originally posted by Russian
What a stupid explanation. So I guess all of those folks in South Korea :huh dieing is a direct result of repressive government. Let's invade and give them freedom! ....oh wait.....thats already done.
Are you sure you don't mean North Korea, where the people are dieing of starvation while the government spends money on everything but it's people?
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Every time I read about another marathon gamer dieing, I'm reminded of a sci-fi book I read long ago (in the dark pre-internet ages) about people who would plug their brains into a computer network and get so caught up in it that their bodies would waist away.
Once again, fiction becomes reality.
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What a #^$'in WUSS!
I have stayed up four days STRIGHT, without anything buy coffee marijuana and ciggarettes.
Sure i was "bat watermelon crasy, after the third day but com'on!"
This sob dies from three days!?
Coward. :aok
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I saw a documentary where 4 or 5 six year old children stayed down in the basement and played WOW for days so that they could build enough points so that they could be strong enough to defeat their nemesis.
They stayed playing long enough they got fat and acne filled... It was just gross... and for what? Video game justice?
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I saw a documentary where 4 or 5 six year old children stayed down in the basement and played WOW for days so that they could build enough points so that they could be strong enough to defeat their nemesis.
They stayed playing long enough they got fat and acne filled... It was just gross... and for what? Video game justice?
IIRC, one of their moms was allowing it to happen, to the extent that she'd bring a bed pan for her son to defecate in. It was sad, and I believe it happened right here in Colorado somewhere.
:D
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Originally posted by Maverick
Well, anyone know if he was playing AH????? :confused: :O :O :noid
Ghi always did have good Missions.
:D
Mac
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Originally posted by FBBone
IIRC, one of their moms was allowing it to happen, to the extent that she'd bring a bed pan for her son to defecate in. It was sad, and I believe it happened right here in Colorado somewhere.
:D
Didn't one their dads do something that saved them and got them back into the real world?
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Deep thrombosis, I seem to recall the 'coach syndrome' being. Having to do w/ clots from sitting motionless for too long.
plus, does he had overweight?
but at then end everyone dies one day, maybe while driving, flying
or
maybe while gaming, so many chances to leave the Podium.
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Originally posted by COndor06
This just in. He was playing AH with two accounts at the same time and Ho'ed himself with 262's. The 640 point loss was just too much.
Has anyone heard from Husky/Bearkats?
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BearKitty
:rofl
Mac
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Probably a lewt farmer/seller for WoW.
Bronk
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I saw a documentary where 4 or 5 six year old children stayed down in the basement and played WOW for days so that they could build enough points so that they could be strong enough to defeat their nemesis.
They stayed playing long enough they got fat and acne filled... It was just gross... and for what? Video game justice?
i thought that was a "south park" episode?
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ya think? and what's with the friggin quotes?
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
ya think? and what's with the friggin quotes?
ok, hows this,i thought that was a South Park episode?
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This story reminds me of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGuX-LvuYw
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Guy must have been a total lightweight panzy.
He would have been laughed out of the old AW. :)
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I saw a documentary where 4 or 5 six year old children stayed down in the basement and played WOW for days so that they could build enough points so that they could be strong enough to defeat their nemesis.
They stayed playing long enough they got fat and acne filled... It was just gross... and for what? Video game justice?
I think you were watching south park...
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Originally posted by StuB
Are you sure you don't mean North Korea, where the people are dieing of starvation while the government spends money on everything but it's people?
No, he's talking about all the Koreans where they become so enveloped in their alter ego (it being millions of times better than their real lives) that they throw away their real life to play the game. They will literally play until they die. The Japanese call it becoming "closed in."
Many Korean boys die at their computers and consoles every year.
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Originally posted by OOZ662
Many Korean boys die at their computers and consoles every year.
Myth. There have been only 2 verified cases.
ack-ack
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Originally posted by COndor06
Associated Press
BEIJING (Sept. 17) - A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge , state media said Monday.
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe. The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the United States. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for days in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.
I wonder what he was playing :noid
Bah! No way. He had a health issue.
That's never hurt me before :)
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He got was he deserved.
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Originally posted by Bronk
Probably a lewt farmer/seller for WoW.
Bronk
Very likely. I've gone without sleep for 72 hours, was very tough but I never felt my life was in jeopardy. He must have had a health problem.
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Originally posted by Bronk
Probably a lewt farmer/seller for WoW.
Bronk
If he was, he was self-employed. Virtually all Chinese run "gold farming" companies have dorms in which the workers live and they don't have that much time off to spend 72 hours consecutively in an Internet cafe as most work 6-7 days, 12 to 15 hours a day.
ack-ack
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Myth. There have been only 2 verified cases.
ack-ack
I recall many more cases than just two. I read about at least 5 cases just from South Korea.
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I've played WoW, more than my wife enjoyed. It is still the addiction in computer games. I am among the brazillion experts in this so trust me insofar as I also didn't go to medical school so your trust shouldn't be quasi absolute but you can't kill yourself doing anything unless your constitution has a flaw which could be exposed in any endeavor pushed beyond the typical. Your parents will appreciate it if you don't push the limits, you can trust me on that.
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Originally posted by crockett
I think you were watching south park...
Now theres a brilliant observation.................. ................
:rolleyes:
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If your sitting three days in front of an internet game.....your already dead.
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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Every time I read about another marathon gamer dieing, I'm reminded of a sci-fi book I read long ago (in the dark pre-internet ages) about people who would plug their brains into a computer network and get so caught up in it that their bodies would waist away.
Once again, fiction becomes reality.
I hear ya...I read a short story as a child called SPADS AND FOKKERS, by the same guy that wrote Jonny Nemonic (sp?)...Anyways these ex-vets plug into this Holographic dogfighting game while hopped-up on amphetamines the military fed em during war.
Forgot about this story till I had played AHII awhile....in the MA late at night alotta people would be drunk or high.....it hit me how fiction had damn near become reality...the only thing we dont have is holographic games yet...(but dogfighting is so much better in first-person, not third-person anyway)...or the ability to bet cash on a dogfight ...
And since I started bingeing on AHII my eyesight has gone to crap...almost becoming cross-eyed, and got pain and swelling in my neck as well as back pain.....My prediction, you will soon see Lawyers advertising:"Have you suffered due to playing on-line games? then contact Suchnsuch & Soanso...We'll fight for you, and get all that you are owed for your pain and suffering!!" ...Someone here may own HTC in the future...it really isnt that far fetched...In fact U'll probly have to sign a waiver when CT finally comes!!
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Originally posted by Tigeress
He was probably waiting for h2h to reappear... poor guy.
TIGERESS
oops! *stands up and leaves room*
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Originally posted by BaDkaRmA158Th
What a #^$'in WUSS!
I have stayed up four days STRIGHT, without anything buy coffee marijuana and ciggarettes.
Sure i was "bat watermelon crasy, after the third day but com'on!"
This sob dies from three days!?
Coward. :aok
LOL
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I saw a documentary where 4 or 5 six year old children stayed down in the basement and played WOW for days so that they could build enough points so that they could be strong enough to defeat their nemesis.
They stayed playing long enough they got fat and acne filled... It was just gross... and for what? Video game justice?
you must be talking about that southpark episode making fun of WoW.