Proof that games can be bad for our children

[erjin999]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4137782.stm

Slightly skewed example, but I bet those MAVAW (or what ever they are called) types will be using this as an example.

Personally doing anything for that many hours is asking for it, but how many people play anything else for so long ?

[Dragoon Knight]

Simply put, this has nothing to do with the game itself, other than it's what occupied that sad individual in his 50 hour lapse of sanity.  It could have quite easily been a movie-marathon, or watching every single episode of "Friends" in one stretch.

It's just another example of the media trying to pin this one case on the video games industry.  "DEAR GOD!  One person out of the MILLIONS of people that play games worldwide was mentally unstable enough to play a game for 50 HOURS!  Instead of simply dismissing him as a lunatic, let's blame the GAMES INDUSTRY!" ::)

Personally, I would be more worried about the people who ran the internet caf

[exatreide]

That actully happens alot on long airplane rides, people sit to long and get blood clots or whatever.

[Dragoon Knight]

Never thought about it like that... :O

I don't think it mentions in the article that it had something to do with Deep Vein Thrombosis (the thing that happens on planes :)) but you have to wonder if that had anything to do with it.  Did they autopsy him?

I think it's likely that it was just exhaustion, but you never know; with the media hype surrounding this entire area of debate, it would be typical of the news corporations to conveniently ignore the fact that it was sitting down that killed him. :D

[erjin999]

They did say it was probably heart attack due to some sort of excessive exhaustion.

[exatreide]

He was obvioulsy playing Dance dance revolution.

[GUNWOUNDS]

exhaustion? what bullshit.... when i was in college i stayed up for 3 days straight studying for finals.. thats 72 hours.... and i WASNT having any fun... atleast he was having fun during his 49 hours... i think he had some other ailment... cause a 2 day video game binge is not insanity and its not rare... people play games for 2 days straight all the damn time and college students go for weeks without sleeping.

Something else caused his death.

I bet some other korean poisoned him cause he was hogging the computer.

[Jack Leaf]

Or maybe he was winning too much and somebody decied to erase him.  ::)

[Khan]

It also said that he didn't eat much so that was probably a contributing factor.

[Kiyouta]

When more and more people turn to the virtual world, because reality to them is so harsh, well, these are bad times my friend.

[GUNWOUNDS]

yea khan,

he probably starved himself lowering his postassium level which stressed out his heart....

[Khan]

Yeah its more like proof that stupidity can be bad for your health ;)

[TheRedDuke05]

Or maybe the gamer found out the real world was false and when the Agents found out they killed him in a way to make it look like he starved and the media covered it up  ::)

[GUNWOUNDS]

oh that was freaky.. i thought you were me for a sec redduke.

[TheRedDuke05]

I had a feeling I would arise your attention, It's just that I like the film version of Duke Leto over the boring Willam Hurt version  ;)