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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 12 2005, 09:25 AM
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OH yea I heard about this, it seems kinda weird =/.
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 12:35 PM
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damn.
poor dude.
how could you be on the computer for that long ?
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 12:40 PM
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Heh. Sounds pretty sad/dumb to me.
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE(BrokenDream @ Aug 12 2005, 6:42 AM)
I am just speechless  ohmy.gif.
the computer is a killer?!

wow. and I thought I spent too much time on the computer.
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Yeah computer can lead to death. I once posted about computer death. Keyboard can shock you if your hands get verrrry hot. Same goes with wearing jewerly or hot hand while putting gas into your car >.<;
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 02:32 PM
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wow that's weird. :o
i wouldn't want to die like that. he played for a long time O_O
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 02:37 PM
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wow. jeez. makes me kinda glad that i'm not a computer game junkie. mellow.gif
 
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this is the real reason why games are bad for you. hurting your eyes is only the beginning, watch your life
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 03:08 PM
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how stupid. mellow.gif
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 09:09 PM
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he was obsessed. i mean come on he quit his job...
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 09:23 PM
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QUOTE(azn_r4pf4n @ Aug 10 2005, 12:20 AM)
this isn't surprising... especially since i've seen this a lot in one day  blink.gif .

what also makes this non-surprising is that south korea is big for lots of it's gaming. lots of popular games are played there (i.e. : Starcraft, WoW (World Of Warcraft))

there was also another incident in south korea where 2 parents were really obsessed with world of warcraft. left their 4 month old baby at home by himself while they played World Of Warcraft at an internet cafe.

he died of SIDS.

its also hitting china too. there was this one guy in china, he killed this other guy for not giving him some video game items.
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it wasn't really the parents' fault that the baby died, no one knows what causes SIDS nor does anyone know how to prevent it.


QUOTE(miss barnes @ Aug 12 2005, 10:09 PM)
he was obsessed. i mean come on he quit his job...
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it's not always an obsession, he could have been sponsored to play video games. people will sponsor you if you're really good at something so the company can get publicity.
 
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That is not something to laugh about. Its a sad way to die.
 
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post Aug 12 2005, 09:45 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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Exactly what I was thinking.. Poor guy. That's terrible. LOOK WHAT TECHNOLOGY HAS DONE TO US!!
 
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QUOTE(chii @ Aug 12 2005, 10:23 PM)
it wasn't really the parents' fault that the baby died, no one knows what causes SIDS nor does anyone know how to prevent it.

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The point remains that the parents left a 4-month-old home alone because they were too busy playing a videogame.
 
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post Aug 13 2005, 01:12 AM
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QUOTE(simplicityxx @ Aug 12 2005, 7:29 PM)
That is not something to laugh about. Its a sad way to die.
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It's funny because he died because he was playing way too much computer games. He even quit his job just to play games. Think about it. You don't think that's stupid and funny? Forget about his death. It's his own fault for playing too much.
 
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This is why we need a life other than going on the computer.
 
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what's up with people these days??
I mean 50 hours!

I thought playin too much video games would only ruin ur datin life... guess I was wrong blink.gif

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post Aug 17 2005, 10:06 PM
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so many internet/video game related topics ...
 
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I can top that... when I hit 60.
9 more levels wewt!

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hi jose.
 
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Hi sean.
How are you?

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