WoW's pitiful attempt to beat our divorce story :)

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=668081

15yo collapses after 24hr session playing latest World Of Warcraft expansion....

He should have at least taken a Kool Aid break

you are so bad. i love that about you.

heh real gamers know you gotta eat during marathon sessions, that an an IV of red bull heh

heh.. lightweight.

I've done 72-hour sessions a few times, and 24-hour ones still today.

Things start getting trippy after 72 hours awake, though.

Of course, I remember to EAT and DRINK, as well as STRETCH every little bit.

And always remember to log in and stay in the forest...killing boars.

(Okay..for all you Newb's that was a reference to South Park..Make Love not Warcraft..)

Live to Win..

Perre..

I can't help it. I've been at this forum for 22 hours straight.

48 straight is my best online, never again, but a Korean guy died after 72 hours at an internet cafe ob Ubreal Tournament, promting laws in Korea forcing MMO companies to limit online time..

bleh only 24 hours..
i've done 24 hours in half that time.newb!!

There is actually a sad story involving WOW players. A couple met in game and then got together in RL. The moved in together and married . The Female had a 2 year old child. One day this child was found floating in the ocean in Texas. Folded up in a box dead. The story unfolded and they found whom the child belonged to. As it turns out the boyfriend beat the child to death so they could spend more time in game. The most sickening story i have ever seen.
Here is where the story first broke
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/02/body.found/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313001,00.html
Baby Grace

Murder all because of a stupid game

Wow has it all beat and i hope to god nothing like that ever happens again .

I have done a number of long term stints at the computer in the past 20 years, usually when my 'mild' clinical depression isn't so mild, however a warning, in one such stint I got Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and now I have to take Warfarin everyday for the rest of my life, and that's a bummer.

So look after yourselves out there.

One must assume he did leave the computer to take a dump or to urinate so he should have taken his Kool aid break then. Unless of course WoW's new expansion is so great he sat there and soiled him self rather than move.

That would be a great marketting slogan:

World of Warcraft;- It's so great, you will shit in your own pants!

Could always install some garden hose and a funnel to a hole in the wall, like I've seen one long distance driver install in his 4WD.

We still haven't beat the WOW player who offered RL sex in trade for an ingame flying horse.

Or the Age of Conan Moderator (think Linden) who was busted having cybersexxors while on duty, with a guy pretending to be a girl pretending to be a guy.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=29415

"A West Nyack, N.Y. man was found dead at his computer apparently the victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums. Childress H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office. Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years, who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them.

"He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating." She added that Wanamaker's last words were "OK Picard, stick that in your pipe and smoke it..."

Wow I was shocked that the link was legit.

Thats a very prudent warning to anyone displaying OCD tendencies.

Real gamers keep a bucket by the chair

Actually, SL already has a practical solution:

lol Great pic too btw

Yeah, you can't stay logged on for 24 hours if your life "Depends" on it.

I like the suits. Where did you get them?

I've been up a week straight...that's my record. it wasn't all necessarily on the computer because I had school and such but most of it was.

I ate and such though (not that much but enough to get by), I don't understand how you can forget to eat/drink.

Seeing Brann in a spacesuit, looking at that box, did anyone else have this pop into their mind?

"The Orlando police allege that Nowak drove 950
miles from Houston to Orlando wearing adult diapers used in space and disguised herself in a dark wig, glasses and trench coat to confront Shipman in the parking lot of Orlando International Airport, according to a police affidavit. Nowak considered her a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut, Bill Oefelein, according to the affidavit. "

The longest I've played unreal tournament is 3 hours......

Privateer Space (RIP)
Very nicely made suits complete with a bubble helmet. Free, too!

And no, Chris, they don't come with spaceman diapers.

Shit, now I have to change my shirt. There is Root Beer all over it!