hehe, I managed 50 hours for a uni thing, 24 hour scav hunt around the city then results then party then die about 6am two days after i last slept, I was pretty rooted, especially as i was running around Melbourne for most of that time(and I had a physics prac which was bad)sv93 said:
Swedish Teen Collapses After Too Much Lich King
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True... but if it wasn't WoW it would be alcohol or Jodie FosterLesIsMore said:Am I the only one who thinks that honestly, WoW does a service by rooting out these obsessives from the rest of the population?laikenf said:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I didn't want to post this but I just can't help the laughter this post has caused me...wordsmith said:Come on, this is just the culling of the weak people in societyNotice how none of his mates collapsed, this guy is obviously not built for hardcore gaming
well on the plus side there weren't any moose involved, my sister was bite by one once
other than that stupid kid for doing that, he could have eaten better and not collapsed
other than that stupid kid for doing that, he could have eaten better and not collapsed
The hypocrisy arises when the justification for dying during a marathon is that you never gave up. Finishing a marathon, assuming it's not for charitable reasons, is as pointless as getting an epic set of armor. There's value in running a marathon because it makes us feel good, but that's it really.Dechef said:
Most of us shouldn't even be running marathons; it was originally a sport confined to a small group of elite athletes. When the NYC marathon was first held in 1970 only 127 people competed, 55 of whom actually finished. The average completion time for a male marathoner was 3:32 in 1980. Today, it's more than 4:20. A lot of people walk the marathon, or run parts of it and walk others. They're useless to the progression of the sport, except for the fact that they grow it as an industry. Videogame players are the same way, they play for themselves, contributing to the industry only as a consumer, and its stupid to do so until death, but no stupider than the 43 year old man with 2 kids who crossed the finished line and died of a heart attack thereafter.
wow...first time I read this I thought it said "lion king" and I was like "wtf the movie?".
but this is just another stupid act of humanity, and I'd like to say something to the dad:
HEY IDIOT! Yeah you....how bout don't your 15 year old play a video game for 24 hours straight? At what point did you think that was a good plan? I like how "his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son can spend playing the game". Oh, so it only took a seizure to get off your ass and do some parenting for obviously the first time in your life?
I'm truly impressed at the scope of human stupidity and incompetence when it comes to MMORPGS.
but this is just another stupid act of humanity, and I'd like to say something to the dad:
HEY IDIOT! Yeah you....how bout don't your 15 year old play a video game for 24 hours straight? At what point did you think that was a good plan? I like how "his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son can spend playing the game". Oh, so it only took a seizure to get off your ass and do some parenting for obviously the first time in your life?
I'm truly impressed at the scope of human stupidity and incompetence when it comes to MMORPGS.
I don't blame the kid or the parents for knowing he was doing an "all nighter".
What I do blame is the fact that probably wasn't the first time the kid did that or that the probably already played 8 hours daily.
People don't just collapse like that, the kid probably had it coming.
That's my guess.
What I do blame is the fact that probably wasn't the first time the kid did that or that the probably already played 8 hours daily.
People don't just collapse like that, the kid probably had it coming.
That's my guess.
I might just be grasping at straws her, but don't you think it just might be possible that the father thought his kid could control himself, and then took steps when it became clear he couldn't? If so...that isn't bad parenting, it just means the father isn't a control freak.Skybreak said:
I second that. Only 24 hours? How have worked hard labor at Pacific Bell climbing telephone poles and fixing lines for upwards to 16-18 hours a day during winter. If you want to see real hard core labor watch "The Deadliest Catch". Those guys stay up for days hauling in the crab and make us all look like wimps. And this person collapsed after 24 hours of gaming? I would check him for drugs. Meth might be involved.GothmogII said:
Yeah, because my parents never let me do anything like that. Oh, wait, they did, because they gave me credit for knowing my own limits. The father thought the kid knew his limits. The kid didn't. Father reacts by setting his own limits. Sounds reasonable to me.Skybreak said:
thebobmaster said:
12 hours is perfectly reasonable? I would think that after the first entire half of the day, any normal parent would think "My son hasn't moved, eaten, or done anything else this entire day. I should be concerned." But no, he didn't. He decided that a 24 hour gaming session was perfectly normal and healthy and there should be no concern. Until the kid had a seizure, of course. THEN something is amiss. What could have possibly gone wrong? Oh wait. It's obvious. The guy should have stopped this stupid activity long before it became this stupid problem. But then again, we don't want another kid to get himself killed because a parent took away there video games, right? So let him get away with whatever he wants, right?thebobmaster said:
Try convincing them to play another game with you, I've got two friends who, well, they aren't addicts, but they've certainly reached 70 pretty quickly. Bastards chose a week of playing Wrath of the Lich King over a weekend of Team Fortress 2 games *Sniffs*.Indigo_Dingo said:
LULZTwaddlefish said:
epic, i played 10 minutes of DDR in the arcade on time, then my friend slapped me on principle alone, as DDR is not a real game and shouldnt be played by anone.Blind Punk Riot said:
Hmm, so many points to make.
1. What a loser. Playing WoW until you go into convulsions? You'd think he would have realized he needed to stop somewhere before that point. Loser.
2. It was only 24 hours. I've never quite reached that but I would have thought somehting like this would have taken a bit longer. He was weak.
3. This truly is what WoW does to people. It has advanced from slowly stealing people's souls and money to phyically attacking them. Horrible. The plague will spread from Sweden, people. I promise you this.
I don't think the parents are at fault though. They might be, but we don't have enough information to say so. Blaming them only on the basis that he played too long isn't fair. We blame parents for being not understanding and too constricting of video game playing, and now we blame them for being too loose? They're right to let their 15 year old sit in his room and play WoW. Maybe they could have taught him to be more aware of what he's doing to his body, but that'd be hard. Maybe he'll learn from now on.
1. What a loser. Playing WoW until you go into convulsions? You'd think he would have realized he needed to stop somewhere before that point. Loser.
2. It was only 24 hours. I've never quite reached that but I would have thought somehting like this would have taken a bit longer. He was weak.
3. This truly is what WoW does to people. It has advanced from slowly stealing people's souls and money to phyically attacking them. Horrible. The plague will spread from Sweden, people. I promise you this.
I don't think the parents are at fault though. They might be, but we don't have enough information to say so. Blaming them only on the basis that he played too long isn't fair. We blame parents for being not understanding and too constricting of video game playing, and now we blame them for being too loose? They're right to let their 15 year old sit in his room and play WoW. Maybe they could have taught him to be more aware of what he's doing to his body, but that'd be hard. Maybe he'll learn from now on.