Woman Goes Into Labor at QuakeCon, Chooses Skyrim Demo Over Hospital

[Sabrestar]

She could say her parents were football fans and named her after Atari Bigby...

On the one hand, I cringe at bizarre names; on the other, I am perpetually reminded of the classic SNL "Oz-wee-pay Johnson" sketch. Any name can be a target of kids if they decide to target you.

On the bright side, they were kind enough to give her a more common middle name, so that as soon as she's able she can start signing things A. Lynn.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Poor kid......

Gotta say I agree. There's fandom and then there's fanaticism. RL > Games.

Seeing how she probably had a hour or two before it started to come out I don't see the rush...

Ask your mum/dad. I'm sure they'll tell you what the rush was.
(That's not being rude by the way, just that they'll have far more experience)

He was right, there is no rush.

I'd go immediately.
Without thinking of anything?
Without thinking of anything.

I bow to experience. Check with your folks.

 

[Jake the Snake]

I...she named her kid Atari? *Facepalm* Ugh, poor child.

 

[Kelethor]

Name It Dovahkin!

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Well there goes a missed opportunity to call a child who began birth at Quakecon Dovakhiin... Well there's always next year...

havent you heard about the bethesda competitoin for babys born the 11.11.11?

Indeed i have, this article reminded me of it, which reminded me that Dovakhiin is an awesome name and should be bestowed on far more children than it currently is.

Well, if it's okay for Robin Williams to name his daughter Zelda...

 

[TheVoodooFrog]

Hey guys, lets all judge a woman we don't know for not hurting her kid at all and giving it a name that isn't normal!

Seriously guys, grow up.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

I can totally sympathize with her.
Thankfully I'm a man and won't ever risk such troubles, no matter how bad my gaming obsession gets

 

[Korolev]

Well..... I admire her ability to withstand pain at least. Not a wise thing to do, but if she can put up with the pain, then all the more to her.

But I think she might need to get her head checked later. That level of fandom should be classified as a mental illness. It's just a game after all. But your future child is your future child.

 

[Eleima]

A lot of the people in this thread seem to have a horrible misrepresentation of labor, but I supposed movies are to blame for that one. No, labor does not take 30 mins. Especially if it's your first, it can take hours. You don't just lose a gallon of water (most often than not, you don't lose your water before getting to the hospital), and suddenly start having contractions two minutes apart. It makes sense that they would've thought it was false labor.
So everyone please stop assuming that they were putting their child at risk and are bad parents.

 

[James Crook]

Okay people, so what the fuck??!
How are people supposed to think of us gamers as normal people now?
FAUX News is going to be all over this in just a few hours, I bet you.

EDIT: Oh okay, it's friggin' Skyrim, I remember. So yeah this game looks pretty fucking amazing now, and such amazingness makes us normal people.

Why Atari? Being Elder Scrolls fans I would expect them to name her Bethesda, or Beth, or maybe Almalexia.

Yeah, I still can't understand they named her Atari instead of Beth. Beth is a common, normal name and "Bethesda" would work as a nickname, too.
Beth "Bethesda" Lynn. Sounds better than Atari Lynn.

 

[Bobbity]

I can tell she'll be an excellent mother.

*4 months later*

"Baby starves to death while mother's playing Skyrim."

That or it comes out in about five minutes. Irony or tragedy demand one or the other.

OT: Massive Elder Scrolls fan myself, but not sure that I could be quite that intensely dedicated...

 

[gewata]

A lot of the people in this thread seem to have a horrible misrepresentation of labor, but I supposed movies are to blame for that one. No, labor does not take 30 mins. Especially if it's your first, it can take hours. You don't just lose a gallon of water (most often than not, you don't lose your water before getting to the hospital), and suddenly start having contractions two minutes apart. It makes sense that they would've thought it was false labor.
So everyone please stop assuming that they were putting their child at risk and are bad parents.

But then again, there's someone at my work whose wife went into labour and she dropped the sprog within about 20 minutes. I'm not saying thats common by any means but there is a lot of variation.

And if you are going to give your kid a weird name, at least make it a middle name so it can have a relatively normal school life.

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[Novania]

I can tell she'll be an excellent mother.

*4 months later*

"Baby starves to death while mother's playing Skyrim."

This

 

[Therumancer]

To the best of my knowlege "Atari" is a Japanese word that means "to hit the target" or basically "to succeed". In certain competitions someone who wins a competition might say "Atari", or annouce it after say a chess game or something when they win. I am unsure if it's commonly used, or even if this is 100% correct, just what I've heard.

That said, there are worse names for a child, the sole problem being the association with a modern business... which is sadly the intent of these parents.

As far as what happened with the child birth, I can sort of "get that" if they suspected a false labour. I've seen similar things happen when ladies at the casinos where I worked, not wanting to leave " 'cause this machine is about to get hot". Oddly I suspect this one will be trotted out as a sign of how evil and addictive video games are at some point.

That said, maybe Bethesda should give them a free collector's edition, that foot tall dragon statue would look awesome above the crib.

 

[irishda]

See, this is why the media has such ridiculous portrayals of video game enthusiasts. It doesn't matter how rare it is, as soon as it happens once, it validates their opinions.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I have nothing to add on this topic so I suppose I'll just post a funny webcomic I saw about it.

*Ba-dum-tish*

 

[Therumancer]

I can tell she'll be an excellent mother.

*4 months later*

"Baby starves to death while mother's playing Skyrim."

This

Meh, it's possible, but at the same time I doubt it. Not so much because of the mother's apparent gaming habit, but because that's a little harder to do than you might think.

I've gotten some serious lectures over the years about cultural differances between the east and west especially when it comes to child rearing. A lot of Asians who are more immersed in that culture than in that of the US tend to have no real issue with just leaving their kids for extended periods of time, which causes no end of problems. While I've been mentioning this a lot recently, one issue that we had when I worked at the casinos was Asians (almost exclusively) doing things like taking their kids, putting them in bathroom stalls, and then shutting the doors, figuring they can come back for the kid later. This includes everything from babies, to older kids. On a few occasions we've spent hours trying to find the parents of older kids, or with babies down in the resident state police office while efforts to find the parents were being made.

Child Services isn't called (and this is a bad thing about my former job) because in doing so it would slot off a lot of the Asians (as it has been tried), and the Casinos rely on a lot of the business coming in from places like Chinatown.

The point here is that even with a 14 hour gaming marathon, a baby is unlikely to starve to death in that time. We have never had a fatality to my knowlege even with kids we know were "concealed" in a bathroom or something for a substantial period of time before we found out about it.

This is not to say that she might be a terrible mother, but this alone is unlikely to result in the death of the child, unless it occurs to an unprecedented level.

Also before anyone decides to jump on me, the above diatribe is from actual experience and having dealt with the situations, and having had things explained to me on numerous occasions (including by numerous parents who insist that this is normal and acceptable).