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Doc Severide Caldari Provisions Caldari State 122	Posted - 2012.07.20 01:56:00 - [1] - Quote http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/taiwanese-teen-dies-40-hour-diablo-iii-marathon-190451985.html Idiot... Can I have his stuff???
Shameless Avenger 285	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:05:00 - [2] - Quote In before "games kill people", I'm sure the news are blowing the story out of proportion. People die all the time for weird reasons, this dude just happened to die while playing on an internet cafe. He might as well had been at home reading a book. I also call bs on the "40 hours with no food or water". If there's something you will always get at an internet cafe is an endless supply of pizza and red bull. I've been online for 48 hours camping a gate, you don't die. The toon does die tho, cuz your brain gets descync and time-dilated. But you don't RL die. PS: I usually don't joke about the dead but since the story looks full of BS to me... "Did he dropped any loot?" "This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro" ~ The Story of the Ninja
Herr Wilkus Aggressive Salvage Services LLC Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service 339	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:06:00 - [3] - Quote OP should go start a 40 hour Diablo III marathon.
Linda Shadowborn Dark Steel Industries 191	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:12:00 - [4] - Quote 1. click hardcore mode 2. play. 3 ??? 4> profit?.. for the morgue
ShipToaster 169	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:15:00 - [5] - Quote 40 hours is just getting warmed up for a real sesssion. Begin
Grumpymunky Super Monkey Tribe of Danger 355	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:17:00 - [6] - Quote Diablo III? I wouldn't be seen dead playing that. Post with your monkey.
stoicfaux 1265	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:21:00 - [7] - Quote What else can you do for 40 hours straight that will kill you? You can tell me what is and isn't Truth when you pry the tinfoil from my cold, lifeless head.
Karkaroph Imperial Academy Amarr Empire 15	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:24:00 - [8] - Quote The young man died gaming. Essentially he was doing what I too love to do, and have done previously for that length of time and longer. Truly a tragedy. I have no glib comment to make. I have seen so much of it, that truly I know nothing of it, except that it embaces me. I, Karkaroph.
JC Anderson Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group 676	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:25:00 - [9] - Quote This isn't the first time that I've seen an article about somebody dropping dead after a long period of marathon gaming. Sep 17 2007 - Chinese man drops dead in internet cafe after 3-day gaming binge. Fed 3 2012 - Gamer dies in Taiwan internet cafe after 23 hour league of legends session. Body goes unnoticed for 9 hours. Aug 5 2005 - Man loses job, dies after playing starcraft for 50 hours straight. March 15 2009 - WoW gamer kicked from guild - Too dead to login. Nov 3 2005 - Young girl dies during WoW marathon, gets online funeral. This is actually only a few of them.... IE: There isn't going to be a sudden uproar after the most recent. This has been happening for years now. Don't get me wrong... I'm not trying to play it down and I agree it is sad. This is just to address any concerns that this one incident could lead to an uproar and cause any problems for gaming in general.
JC Anderson Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group 676	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:29:00 - [10] - Quote Grumpymunky wrote: Diablo III? I wouldn't be seen dead playing that. Diablo 3 is good for mindless fun every so often. ;)
Bubanni SniggWaffe YOUR VOTES DON'T COUNT 364	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:37:00 - [11] - Quote Grumpymunky wrote: Diablo III? I wouldn't be seen dead playing that. I see what you did there Christmas wish list https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=134275 Module activation delay! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1180934
D3F4ULT 147	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:44:00 - [12] - Quote And most of these are because people don't stand up and move around to get blood circulating. That's all it takes. Just a break. Creator of CCP ZULU - Incarna : Pants Online ( http://youtu.be/AObrlCf3Dcs )
Shizuken Venerated Stars 75	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:51:00 - [13] - Quote Doc Severide wrote: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/taiwanese-teen-dies-40-hour-diablo-iii-marathon-190451985.html Idiot... Can I have his stuff??? What an idiot, that is such a ****** game too.
JC Anderson Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group 676	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:54:00 - [14] - Quote Shizuken wrote: Doc Severide wrote: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/taiwanese-teen-dies-40-hour-diablo-iii-marathon-190451985.html Idiot... Can I have his stuff??? What an idiot, that is such a ****** game too. I think much of the appeal of diablo 3, at least for some of these people, is that they added in a blizzard sanctioned real money cash auction house to sell items that you farmed in-game.
Valkanisar Gogiko Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic 18	Posted - 2012.07.20 02:57:00 - [15] - Quote i played diablo 3 for 36 hours straight when it came out. though i ate and drank during that time
Macks Artilius The Circus Corp Intrepid Crossing 65	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:02:00 - [16] - Quote So what, he didn't need to pee or take a dump for 40 hours straight either? I call BS.
mechtech Ice Liberation Army 176	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:03:00 - [17] - Quote Took long enough
Ricter Jakuard North Point Navy Cannabis Legionis 0	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:03:00 - [18] - Quote Forty hours is nothing for a gaming marathon, even with no food or drink. Dude must have a medical condition or something.
Shameless Avenger 286	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:10:00 - [19] - Quote Afaik ~ "A human body can survive 8-14 days without water depending on the person and how fast sweat, urine, and tears" Lack of water wasn't it. Food wasn't it either, you can be a lot more days without food. Not moving for 40 hours? Come on! If haven't stay in bed longer than that during hangover-recovery, you haven't party hard enough. And no I don't think it was the tears. Had he been playing EVE, maybe... but it wasn't so, no. "This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro" ~ The Story of the Ninja
JC Anderson Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group 676	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:17:00 - [20] - Quote Well obviously there were other factors... With some of the other people who have passed away under the same circumstances, it was various things such as stress, aneurysm/clots, etc. I'm pretty sure that the individual likely wasn't in perfect health. MSNBC is reporting that it was a clot, but who knows. Also, he wasn't using an open terminal at the internet cafe. He had rented a private room there, so it's not like there was anybody else around to watch him or see what might have happened.
Roll Sizzle Beef Space Mutiny 661	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:24:00 - [21] - Quote If people can grow so fat as to start melding with their furniture. A gamer wont die from a week long marathon unless he has serious health issues to start with.
Lord Arakkis Knights of Illusion SquarePig Transport Empire 22	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:25:00 - [22] - Quote Was there any point in that retards mind where he thought to himself "man, my stomach is really folding in on itself, I gotta take a dookie and Im thirsty as all hell"? Is it insensitive to want to dig him up, then slap the hell out of him? Join the Knights Of Illusion STE Corporation! Casual and Hardcore gamers!
Lyskal Oskold Sefem Ortus Swift Angels Alliance 199	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:27:00 - [23] - Quote Seriously I finished Diablo 3 once on normal. Enjoyed the story, now I avoid it unless someone I know is on it and wants me to play with them. Maybe this guy was so close to defeating the Prime Evil on the super secret difficulty that Diablo reached through dimensions and killed him with dark magic? Pirates are red,buddies are blue,if you're unlucky enough to be orange,I'll f*cking kill you.
Surfin's PlunderBunny Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 1677	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:28:00 - [24] - Quote I guess the video game addiction problem works itself out
Roll Sizzle Beef Space Mutiny 661	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:28:00 - [25] - Quote Lyskal Oskold wrote: as so close to defeating the Prime Evil on the super secret difficulty that Diablo reached through dimensions and killed him with dark magic? I'd say the ponies or teddy bears got him.
JC Anderson Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group 676	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:30:00 - [26] - Quote Roll Sizzle Beef wrote: Lyskal Oskold wrote: as so close to defeating the Prime Evil on the super secret difficulty that Diablo reached through dimensions and killed him with dark magic? I'd say the ponies or teddy bears got him. Ugh don't mention that level... It gave me nightmares.
DelBoy Trades Trotter Independent Traders. 414	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:31:00 - [27] - Quote He must have died of boredom. Awful game. Damn nature, you scary!
JC Anderson Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group 676	Posted - 2012.07.20 03:53:00 - [28] - Quote You know, I just realized that there seems to be one thing in common with the majority of cases such as this. While looking over the large number of news articles about people dying in net cafes while gaming, it reveals that the vast majority of them are Asians.
Xython Merch Industrial Goonswarm Federation 1013	Posted - 2012.07.20 04:33:00 - [29] - Quote That poor, poor bastard. NO ONE should ever be forced to play Diablo 3 for more than a few minutes, yet alone 40 hours.
MinefieldS Science and Trade Institute Caldari State 64	Posted - 2012.07.20 04:52:00 - [30] - Quote Ban Diablo 3, it's for the children.

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