Poll: 20 Year old plays Xbox and dies...

[the spud]

Luckilly, my grape sized bladder should protect me from harm.

I have to break for a piss, like, every half an hour.

It is my gift, my curse.

 

[skywolfblue]

Wow, poor guy. 20 is too young to die. Sit stand/treadmill desks are a possible answer, a way of countering the apparently horrible effects of sitting on your ass all day. A set up like this could have saved his life:

That's got to seriously fuck up a persons walking/running style. Humans weren't exactly made to do steady typing while on the move.

 

[OpticalJunction]

^ better to have a fucked up walking style than be dead, no?

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

look i feel bad for the parents but you know what, if you game so long that you die from it, you were asking for it. Seriously.

 

[omega 616]

Yeah I know I got you with the tag line, but this is true. Evidently this guy got a blood clot from sitting in the same spot for X amount of hours straight playing Xbox (no pun intended). I don't know what the weight of the guy is, but I am betting he wasn't a budding crystal of fitness. But the kicker is that his family is trying to raise awareness of this issue, but I guess can't sue since there is a warning in many games to "take a break" every once in a while. Be afraid, this is going to change things, perhaps they push for a manditory feature in games that turn themselves off after 4 hours of gameplay or something. Here is the article for your digestion.

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/866-xbox-addict-dies-from-blood-clot/

This is the one your looking for, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ng-his-Xbox-for-up-to-12-hours-at-a-time.html.

He doesn't look that fat, looks like a lack of hygiene though (although, I think everybody looks scruffy with a beard).

If your sat for that long that you can get DVT then your asking for DVT, it's like working around asbestos with no PPE and expecting not to get lung cancer.

Maybe it will raise a bit of awareness that you should get off your ass and go for a walk, rather than sit down all day and stare at a screen. It won't effect games though.

 

[iblis666]

this kid forgot that he needed variety, for instance i like to go down stairs and watch tv while playing my psp, then go upstairs after it runs low of power to play my computer while i use netflix on my xbox, then when its late use my laptop while in bed until i fall asleep