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Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:02:40 PM   
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hmmm

now THIS guy was good eh?

sad tho

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:03:47 PM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:05:03 PM   
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u sir have insulted my honor!

i chellenge u to a duel!

lol

jus thot it would be good to post a warning to all the hardcore gamers lol

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:18:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15.

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:34:36 PM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:36:32 PM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:37:14 PM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 9:50:40 PM   
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Then again before i feel all superior, i'll just conveniently forget that time i almost gave myself a coronary after "losing it" many years ago after a particularily unlucky turn of [the original] Steel Panthers.

After i came down i realized just how dumb it would be to die from such an event and from then on i never "lost it" over a bad wargame turn again though there have been plenty of cuss words whispered in the years following.

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 10:07:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown

Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15.


Hell, I can't do the first turn for the Japanese in 50 hours.

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 10:31:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli


quote:

ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown

Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15.


Hell, I can't do the first turn for the Japanese in 50 hours.


So you probably never finished one because of the new patches necessating a restart

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 10:32:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think there is a sentence missing in the report.

"Drugs may have been involved."

If being awake for 50 hours {taking naps in that time} were enough to kill you, I would have died a long time ago. So would most of the people going through Ranger School or a few other of the Armed Forces schools.

The only two scenarios giving this any believability are drug overdose or Pulmonary Embolism {blood clot forming in lower legs due to non-movement for long period of time--then breaking off and lodging in a lung}. Perhaps a case could be made for Congenital heart defect.


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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 10:34:57 PM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 11:17:21 PM   
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I think there is a sentence missing in the report.

"Drugs may have been involved."

If being awake for 50 hours {taking naps in that time} were enough to kill you, I would have died a long time ago. So would most of the people going through Ranger School or a few other of the Armed Forces schools.

The only two scenarios giving this any believability are drug overdose or Pulmonary Embolism {blood clot forming in lower legs due to non-movement for long period of time--then breaking off and lodging in a lung}. Perhaps a case could be made for Congenital heart defect.





The other thing is that this could be an internet rumor/myth that got picked up by the wire services on an otherwise slow news day and broadcast. Wouldn't be the first time.

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 11:26:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: AmiralLaurent


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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli


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ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown

Somehow I doubt that 50 hours would be enough to even finish 6 months of scenario 15.


Hell, I can't do the first turn for the Japanese in 50 hours.


So you probably never finished one because of the new patches necessating a restart


Finish??!! You're supposed to finish this game?

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 11:27:44 PM   
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The other thing is that this could be an internet rumor/myth that got picked up by the wire services on an otherwise slow news day and broadcast. Wouldn't be the first time.


True enough, but some of the online gamers in Asia are INSANE!

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/11/2005 11:32:28 PM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 12:05:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Snopes dot com has it as a listing of false. They say it has popped up here and there on the internet with various changes for since about 1998

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 12:17:13 AM   
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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

This is why I need my wife to bring me food and drink while I am playing. I have done 12 hours in a day.

lol

ive spent days on my computer wher i literally havent turned my tv on at ALL, and as much a tv nut as i m a computer nut


1 time i think i did 10 hours STRAIGHT or more




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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 1:42:23 AM   
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I agree with rockmedic109 - there was something else going on here..

B

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 1:47:41 AM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 2:22:25 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I think there is a sentence missing in the report.

"Drugs may have been involved."

If being awake for 50 hours {taking naps in that time} were enough to kill you, I would have died a long time ago. So would most of the people going through Ranger School or a few other of the Armed Forces schools.

The only two scenarios giving this any believability are drug overdose or Pulmonary Embolism {blood clot forming in lower legs due to non-movement for long period of time--then breaking off and lodging in a lung}. Perhaps a case could be made for Congenital heart defect.





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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 4:15:51 AM   
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A Russian teen died from a stroke after playing PC games for 12 hours in a computer club. Doctors were taking lifesaving efforts for several days, but could not save the boy. The autopsy showed the young gamer's brain to be totally destroyed.


and:


A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, Korean police have said.

The jobless man, identified by police only by his last name Kim, was found dead yesterday at an Internet cafe in Kwangju, 260 kilometres southwest of Seoul, they said.

and:

Man dies playing all-night computer game

ANANOVA:A guy died from playing Half-Life cs! Oh my god.

Here is the headline you will not see:

REUTERS FALLS FOR HOAX ABOUT KOREAN DIEING FROM COMPUTER GAMES



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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 6:04:54 AM   
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When I got my copy of UV I played for over 40 hours before passing out
I play WITP 12 hours per day everyday and have been doing so for over a year and before that I tested at least 16 hours per day 7 days a week.
However there are people who play golf just as much or couch potatoes who watch TV just as much or porno hounds who spend 20 hours a day in the castle of Doctor Jerkinstein.
If I was not playing WITP I would still be awake. If I had no computer I would read 20 hours a day. When I run out of gas I sleep for 12 hours but most of the time I can get by on just 4. I also get to where I am awake for 6 hours and sleep for 2 or 3 so in a 24 hour period I am up 18 hours but get 6 hours sleep.
When I was a chess hound I played chess for 16 hours a day. (Go to a tourny a player can spend 12 hours at the board in 1 day and have to repeat this for several days)
Now that was tiring. (It was a lot more effort to play chess for 16 hours compared to WITP for 16 hours)
I think all these reports are pure BS. Now a person might have died while playing the computer but he died from causes other then playing the computer. (King George III died taking a dump but not from taking a dump)

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 6:47:03 AM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 6:47:08 AM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 6:52:31 AM   
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Ive sat down on my couch and watch movies for hours and hours with no side effects. Well, an irrirated wife could be counted as a side effect...


You just have to learn to shift a bit as she cleans around you, that gets rid of that side effect.


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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 6:57:10 AM   
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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 7:02:36 AM   
Mike Scholl

 

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Of course, I had just come home from work when I started, and had to go back when I finished.

Ah, to be young and stupid again......

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 7:57:07 AM   
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The guy was amped up on something and probably had a fatal arrhythmia ...or perhaps his massive spread butt got stuck in the stall in the bathroom and his died of ashyxiation.

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RE: Man dies after 50 hours of computer games - 8/12/2005 5:40:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Speculate all you want, this guy is not dead because he never lived. They don't even have his name, there are no pictures, they don't say where he was playing the games.

Lee means nothing, its like Smith

Naming the city means nothing either

They don't name the actualy game parlor, because there isn't one

They don't have photos because there is no place to photograph

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