Gamer dies from playing Starcraft...

MSkeezer
MSkeezer Posts: 1,183
edited August 2005 in Video Games
I s*** you not. I read this in yesterday's USA Today. A gamer died of an apparent heart attack after playing Starcraft for 49 hours straight at an internet cafe. No food, no water, just Starcraft. This bozo, identified by his last name of Lee, was 28, and had just been fired from his job because of skipping work to play computer games. I'm sorry that he died, and it's tragic, but come on. Give the effing game a break for a few hours. Eat. Sleep. Drink. Whatever. No game is worth dying over. On the other hand however, at least the guy died doing what he loved.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited August 2005
    ...and I don't even like that game

    I heard stories when I was a kid about people dying playing Dungeons and Dragons, never knew if those were for real...
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  • MSkeezer
    MSkeezer Posts: 1,183
    edited August 2005
    If I were to die from a game, I'd like that game to be Medal of Honor: Allied Assault . I want it to be right after I sneak up on a camper in a multiplayer match, and bash him to death with the butt of my rifle. I think I'd die happy.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited August 2005
    MSkeezer wrote:
    If I were to die from a game, I'd like that game to be Medal of Honor: Allied Assault . I want it to be right after I sneak up on a camper in a multiplayer match, and bash him to death with the butt of my rifle. I think I'd die happy.
    Yep - with everything that's been released since, that's still my favorite game of all time, though Call of Duty is awesome also
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  • MSkeezer
    MSkeezer Posts: 1,183
    edited August 2005
    Call of Duty was awesome. I've beaten it and the expansion pack at least twice. I was a little let down by multiplayer, though. It's fun, no doubt, but it doesn't have that fluidity that MOH has.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2005
    The only game I'm ever going to die playing is "Have a Heart Attack While Chasing Jenny McCarthy in the Nude".

    George Grand (of the Jersey Grands)
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited August 2005
    I thought this guy had a shot at this year's Darwin Award until I heard about the horse f*cker in Washington.

    http://www.komotv.com/stories/38000.htm
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited August 2005
    The guy died because he's an effin moron, not because of a game.

    People need to stop blaming their stupididty on objects that have no control over them and start taking the blame and placing it firmly on their dumb selves.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,732
    edited August 2005
    Demiurge wrote:
    The guy died because he's an effin moron, not because of a game.

    People need to stop blaming their stupididty on objects that have no control over them and start taking the blame and placing it firmly on their dumb selves.

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