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From the Associated Press:
August 10, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea --A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.
Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.
Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.
Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.
Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.
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Here are some of the headlines out there being used for this article by different news sites:
Man dies after 49 hours of computer games
28-year old man dies after 50-hour long gaming marathon
Gamer plays himself to death
Video Game Marathon Kills Geek
Man dies after 50 hour videogame binge
Computer games kill nerd
Korean drops dead after 50-hour gaming marathon
Death after 50 hours of gaming
Computer geek's game of death
War gamer dies after 50-hour virtual battle
All of these headlines are beating around the bush here. What really happened here is that after two days of non-stop gaming, you are digitized and pulled into the game where you become the protaganist. If you lose while inside the game, your physical body suffers lethal consequences. It's all in the movie Tron, rent it to learn more.
Apparently this is a major problem!
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2998.html
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407746465.html
August 10, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea --A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.
Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.
Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.
Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.
Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.
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Here are some of the headlines out there being used for this article by different news sites:
Man dies after 49 hours of computer games
28-year old man dies after 50-hour long gaming marathon
Gamer plays himself to death
Video Game Marathon Kills Geek
Man dies after 50 hour videogame binge
Computer games kill nerd
Korean drops dead after 50-hour gaming marathon
Death after 50 hours of gaming
Computer geek's game of death
War gamer dies after 50-hour virtual battle
All of these headlines are beating around the bush here. What really happened here is that after two days of non-stop gaming, you are digitized and pulled into the game where you become the protaganist. If you lose while inside the game, your physical body suffers lethal consequences. It's all in the movie Tron, rent it to learn more.
Apparently this is a major problem!
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2998.html
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407746465.html
posted by flowbeus at 10:10 AM
1 Comments:
haha! man, I saw this on CNN the other day and I burst out laughing. All those headlines you managed to find brought all that laughter right back. That's a ridiculous tragedy... I can imagine him standing up from the terminal, collapsing to the ground, and pissing himself right before he died... LOL!
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