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Snowcrash Hoffman
Digital mind virus
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 282
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08-09-2005 18:42
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a lost user
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08-09-2005 18:51
Gotta hate it when your suppossed to be feeling sympatheitc but your laughing anyway...? /sigh
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Lance Mirabeau
Pees in the shower
Join date: 23 Jul 2005
Posts: 108
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08-09-2005 18:59
Isn't this like the third time this has happened in Korea?
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Jeffrey Gomez
Cubed™
Join date: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,522
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08-09-2005 19:04
Isn't this like the third time this has happened in Korea? Beat me to it. I was about to say, "Again?" _____________________
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Nyoko Salome
kittytailmeowmeow
Join date: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,378
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lol, i can hear it now...
08-09-2005 19:11
overly-concerned mothers everywhere admonishing kids to quit playing games... you'll have a heart attack!!
did you catch the bit about how that guy still lived at home? of course, much more common in other cultures than usually seen around america, but still kinda funny - fifty, lives at home, and his mom even called him to come home!! if that happened to me, death would probably be the preferable option...  _____________________
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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08-09-2005 20:03
Yeah. Kinda sad.
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Einsman Schlegel
Disenchanted Fool
Join date: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 1,461
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08-09-2005 20:08
I can only be on for a few hours at a time before wanting to get off. Trying for 50? my god. i couldn't even be able to comprehend.
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Kathmandu Gilman
Fearful Symmetry Baby!
Join date: 21 May 2004
Posts: 1,418
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08-09-2005 20:20
The man was 28, not fifty.. he played for fifty hours.
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Stormy Roentgen
Prim Putter Togetherer
Join date: 25 May 2004
Posts: 342
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08-09-2005 20:20
did you catch the bit about how that guy still lived at home? of course, much more common in other cultures than usually seen around america, but still kinda funny - fifty, lives at home, and his mom even called him to come home!! if that happened to me, death would probably be the preferable option... Many men are quite happy with that arrangement, and would gladly pass up a chance to grow up in order to remain in that "comfort zone." (edited) *Looks back*   _____________________
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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08-09-2005 20:31
Note to self, never scorn Stormy.
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,905
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08-09-2005 20:34
This just in: Darwin is weeding out hardcore gamers from the gene pool.
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
Posts: 2,716
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08-09-2005 20:39
This just in: Darwin is weeding out hardcore gamers from the gene pool. Isn't that alot like kicking poor people out of the Fortune 500? In, out, does it matter? I seriously doubt that anyone who played a game to their death could actually NOT be a virgin. _____________________
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Eboni Khan
Misanthrope
Join date: 17 Mar 2004
Posts: 2,133
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08-09-2005 20:50
How could 50 hours of sitting on your ass kill you? I mean seriously. He had to have a weak heart already, or hell I would have been dead years ago. Sensational Journalism at its most boring.
I think a more interesting note from the story is that there was a make shift bed in the cafe. Also, how much does it cost per hours to be in a Cafe? _____________________
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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08-09-2005 20:52
There had to have been some kind of existing condition with this guy, right?
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,905
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08-09-2005 20:55
There had to have been some kind of existing condition with this guy, right? Anti-social behavior? _____________________
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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08-09-2005 20:59
Anti-social behavior? Hell. I have that and I play SL around three to hour hours a day, more on my day off. But that's going to kill anyo-URK ***Burke Prefect Has Left RL (Reason: Connection Reset By God)* |
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,905
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08-09-2005 21:03
Hell. I have that and I play SL around three to hour hours a day, more on my day off. But that's going to kill anyo-URK ***Burke Prefect Has Left RL (Reason: Connection Reset By God)* hahaah dork. (that was a good laugh!) _____________________
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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08-09-2005 21:13
hahaah dork. (that was a good laugh!) If I can make Hiro laugh, then my job is done. |
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Green Fate
Social Conundrum
Join date: 5 Dec 2003
Posts: 79
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08-09-2005 22:37
How could 50 hours of sitting on your ass kill you? I mean seriously. He had to have a weak heart already, or hell I would have been dead years ago. Sensational Journalism at its most boring. I think a more interesting note from the story is that there was a make shift bed in the cafe. Also, how much does it cost per hours to be in a Cafe? http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/mosby_factsheets/Deep_Vein_Thrombosis.html _____________________
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Eboni Khan
Misanthrope
Join date: 17 Mar 2004
Posts: 2,133
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08-09-2005 23:24
Or maybe he was doing coke or something else to stay awke? if he was getting up to go to the bathroom, he was moving enough to probably not have DVT. Due to some past extensive travel schedules I have been in emergency more than once becuase it was suspected I had DVT, but it takes a lot of non movement and some other symptoms. He would have noticed the massive swell, well, hopefully he would have. _____________________
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Stormy Roentgen
Prim Putter Togetherer
Join date: 25 May 2004
Posts: 342
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08-10-2005 00:15
Sleep deprivation will cause heart arrythmias. By sleep deprivation I don't mean not sleeping "enough" each night. Staying awake long enough will shut you down. It wasn't what he was doing. It's what he wasn't doing.
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Nyoko Salome
kittytailmeowmeow
Join date: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,378
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whups, my misread
08-10-2005 04:59
The man was 28, not fifty.. he played for fifty hours. thought i'd read that he was also (coincidentally) fifty... geez, he really must've not gotten any exercise, like, at all. then again, when kids are dropping dead at disneyworld... coke? i doubt that - friend of mine works over there, and says that the drug penalties are even stiffer than america. (and, gee, taking cokebreaks would've just interrupted the dude's gameplay... p.s. hehee and sorry; i didn't mean to slur anyone who might have a very nice living-with-folks arrangment. _____________________
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Digi Vox
Registered User
Join date: 10 Apr 2005
Posts: 25
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08-10-2005 06:19
Reminds me of the book, "Infinite Jest," in which there's a plot thread that involves Quebecois separatist terrorists unleashing a video that is such perfect entertainment that those watching can never stop and end up entertaining themselves to death.
Seemed pretty farfetched when I read it, but lo and behold. _____________________
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Zack Cline
Registered User
Join date: 22 Jun 2005
Posts: 59
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08-10-2005 06:21
I pitty the Second Life member.
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Richie Waves
Predictable
Join date: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,424
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08-10-2005 06:30
I pitty the Second Life member. Look around you dude...soak up the lonelyness... mmmmm aint it sweet? _____________________
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