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post Aug 9 2005, 02:40 PM
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LOL... my goodness. he played games for 50 hours ... then died. ROFL. heart failure... very scary. and this was in korea lol. i better watch out rofl.

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The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on August 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.

Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.

He died a few minutes later, it said.

South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.



link to this news: http://cnn.org/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/ga...reut/index.html
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:42 PM
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Rofl. sad.gif Poor guy.
Wow thats so long to be on the comp.
I heard a couple of stories before like this ermm.gif
Killer computer.
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:43 PM
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damn....thats LONG
i cant stay on for 50 hours....i hav a life...
unlike him...
he quit his job jus to play games? rolleyes.gif
wtf...
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:45 PM
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Wow, I don't know what to say here except:

WATCH OUT KIDS VIDEO GAMES WILL KILL YOU DEAD!
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:48 PM
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Now, that's just sad.

I don't feel sorry for him. It was his own fault. stubborn.gif
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:53 PM
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QUOTE(brownsugar08 @ Aug 9 2005, 12:48 PM)
How is someone dying of heart failure, "ROFL" and "LOL" worthy, Susan?

It's actually pretty sad.
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it's funny because he's from my country.... mellow.gif
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:55 PM
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QUOTE(brownsugar08 @ Aug 9 2005, 1:48 PM)
How is someone dying of heart failure, "ROFL" and "LOL" worthy, Susan?

It's actually pretty sad.
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She's not laughing at the heart failure...she's laughing at what caused the heart failure. And because it was an asian like her.
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 02:56 PM
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Wow. It's pretty pathetic of that guy to be playing video games for that long. But I do feel sorry for him. :/
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:00 PM
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Well I'm sorry.

I laugh at everything even if it's something really sad. I don't know why I use the word ROFL a lot... when I know it stands for rolling on the floor laughing. It's just that I'm addicted to these words. I can't stop.

Only if you were a moderator, do you want to erase all my ROFL. I'm too lazy to erase it meaning I don't want to erase them.

ximxjustaxgirlx --- thanks for understanding i think.
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:01 PM
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I'm sorry but that is just funny. Yes it's sad, but come on. he played games for 50 hours and then had heart failure.

Does anyone else see the irony in that?
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:04 PM
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Man that sucks....*goes back to playing games*
 
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lmao...i dont mean to be mean, but thats kinda funny...
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:07 PM
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QUOTE(RiC3xBoy @ Aug 9 2005, 1:04 PM)
Man that sucks....*goes back to playing games*
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lol. yeah... i would do the same thing. hmm the longest time i played the game is like 14 hours... wow if it wasnt for this news, i would've been dead if i played more than 14 hours lol. i played maplestory for 14 hours -_-;; it feels like 3 hours, but it went to 14 hours T__T;;;;;; no wonder I lost pounds augh.
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:12 PM
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argh. i need to watch out! pinch.gif
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:43 PM
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lmao.
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 03:50 PM
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Hah XD that's hilarious in the saddest, most pathetic way!
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 04:00 PM
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seriously, that's sad. it irrates me for some reason.
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 04:03 PM
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wooow....I guess internet can kill
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 05:02 PM
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damn that sucks for him... lol he quit his job to play video games... dumbass
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 05:14 PM
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What an idiot. That's funny, in an odd sort of way. Maybe he should've done something better with his time.
 
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QUOTE(ximxjustaxgirlx @ Aug 9 2005, 2:55 PM)
She's not laughing at the heart failure...she's laughing at what caused the heart failure. And because it was an asian like her.
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So, if I sprouted wings, flew over to South Korea, farted, and the entire population suffocated, would it be funny?
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 06:09 PM
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wow; quitting his job to play more games? i cant believe the store people allowed him to do this.
 
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Wow poor guy, and i thought 13 hours was alot cry.gif
 
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how is that funny? it's sad. poor guy..
 
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post Aug 9 2005, 06:30 PM
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It's his own fault, I feel more pity than sorrow. *smug*
That was like me once when I was addicted to GunBound. I skipped dinners just to play. >_< But now my internet connection is too crappy to play.

QUOTE(kryogenix @ Aug 9 2005, 5:15 PM)
So, if I sprouted wings, flew over to South Korea, farted, and the entire population suffocated, would it be funny?
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I didn't think the video-game-heart-failure thing was funny, but I kinda find that fart thing funny. O_O I mean, how bad can it smell?
 
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