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Old January 16, 2003, 02:44   #1
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Computer games can kill you!
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...990184576.html

Too much Diablo2 is not good for the body.
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Old January 16, 2003, 05:48   #2
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Lol a lot of people play games.........chances are some of them are going to die whilst playing through random chance. I want more info.....was this guy prone to any illnesses, was he physically fit.

The article says he only played for 5 hours.......somehow I don't think that alone (or even continued playing over time) can be the sole cause of death.
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Not another casuality!

Diablo2 has taken it's first steps towards complete annihilation of human race...
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Old January 16, 2003, 05:51   #4
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He played 5 hours of Diablo2 - the article doesn't say what he did previously... Played Quake3 for 12 hours... ?
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Old January 16, 2003, 05:54   #5
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I don't think the implication was he played other games before playing Diablo.
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Playing until 1am? Like everyone here hasn't done that - or more - before.

I'm suspecting something other than playing the game caused his death.
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Poor overall health, lack of vitamins, unhealthy diet, frustration caused by too good MP-opponents and poor AI.
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Old January 16, 2003, 07:59   #8
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What puzzles me is why no one at the game centre told him to stop playing, maybe they thought he was just sulking when he was "slumped" on the computer. Theres probably some legend with that terminal now, about it being cursed by some character in Diablo II, if not then there should be.
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Old January 16, 2003, 08:08   #9
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Yeah, this guy probably had a certain hart failure or something (it happens not only to the elderly, some people simply have a weak hart or so)...

I remember a CS player in Asia that died after a marathon of 48 consecutive hours of gaming or so... simply the combination of the lack of sleep, no food, and the stress of playing CS made him crumble after a while..


but that's just sick, when I am at LANs I usually don't really sleep the entire weekend, apart form an occasional hour with me head on the table But I still eat, and I don't play stressy games around the clock, plenty of other fun, such as shows, leeching, watching movies, or taking pictures of ppl sleeping in front of their computer screen which is showing a dirty porn movie
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Old January 16, 2003, 10:29   #10
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I would admit to 8 hours civ2 sessions.....SP and MP. Think I should see my doctor?
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I wouldn't be worried, DrSpike.

1) Civ2 has nothing to do with the devil (some might disagree )
2) It's not RTS
3) Doctors couldn't help you anyway.
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Old January 16, 2003, 10:47   #12
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3) Doctors couldn't help you anyway.
Oi!

/me slaps aaglo with a large piece of haddock.
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Second person died playing games. I hope they at least die hapily.
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Ya it's a nice way to die.... I mean I've seen pictures of people molested by trains, and mauled by various industrial machines... I think dying in front of your computer is a very relaxing death
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frustration caused by too good MP-opponents and poor AI.
As a programmer, I am often grateful that my errors cannot kill, but now I know otherwise I will have to be more attentive.
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Well it's a decent way to die. But I'd rather die having 5 straight hours of sex

I have played civ2 once for an entire day. And by day I mean when I woke up I started playing until I went to sleep 17 hours later. I think I ate left over pizza from the night before and drank soda. Of course I did get up to use the restroom.
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I remembered I played rogue for an entire week with very little sleep many moons ago. I was quite zonked-out most of the time.
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I have never played Diablo but I'll admit to playing other games on the PC or console for longer than five hours at a time!? There is something fishy behind the incident, I don't believe CG can kill you, they are able to destroy you though !

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Yeah I think its more likely that very long sessions (like the Counterstrike guy) leave you more open to problems you otherwise would have had a chance of facing anyway. I await the autopsy.
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* DrSpike slaps aaglo with a large piece of haddock.
/me is not worried at all, because he doesn't know what haddock is

I wonder what his parents think about the death ... Are they suing the company who made the game, or perhaps the game hall...
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Old January 17, 2003, 06:08   #22
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Definitely not the game........every game has "do not play excessively.....take a 15 minute break each hour" etc. I expect the hall have similar disclaimers.
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Millions of people die at work every year. I think it should be banned on medical grounds
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Suicide at the terminal.

Games can be additive.

So one has to remember that one is just playing a computer game.

Whatever will happen if vitural reality came out. And in some places, that has been done also.

The second hand smoke probably is what killed him.
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Certain people will stop at nothing to prove that gaming is a terrible habitat. I just don't understand it. People have died doing everything imaginable from sex to watching television to eating to sleeping to reading a book. This does not mean those activities kill you - only that you died doing the activity. It seems in most cases it is a coincidence and should be treated as such.
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Perhaps the level of reality in FPS has become too high.
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i spent the better part of 58 hours straight playing civ2 a few years back, only breaks were to pee/make food, all of which was in the mircrowave and done between turns, it was more than one game though.....

needless to say, i was so wiped out that i collapsed on my bed...didnt' play well at the end either, had too many other handicaps going on
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Or in TBS . . .
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or even fantasy, after all thats what computer games are, an escape from reality...
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