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Gamer drops dead playing Diablo III for 40 Hours

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Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#21 - 2012-07-20 03:24:42 UTC
If people can grow so fat as to start melding with their furniture. A gamer wont die from a week long marathon unless he has serious health issues to start with.
Lord Arakkis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-07-20 03:25:52 UTC
Was there any point in that retards mind where he thought to himself "man, my stomach is really folding in on itself, I gotta take a dookie and Im thirsty as all hell"?

Is it insensitive to want to dig him up, then slap the hell out of him?

Your still a child in the eyes of the universe
Lyskal Oskold
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-07-20 03:27:02 UTC
Seriously I finished Diablo 3 once on normal. Enjoyed the story, now I avoid it unless someone I know is on it and wants me to play with them.

Maybe this guy was so close to defeating the Prime Evil on the super secret difficulty that Diablo reached through dimensions and killed him with dark magic?

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2012-07-20 03:28:09 UTC
I guess the video game addiction problem works itself out P

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Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#25 - 2012-07-20 03:28:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Roll Sizzle Beef
Lyskal Oskold wrote:
as so close to defeating the Prime Evil on the super secret difficulty that Diablo reached through dimensions and killed him with dark magic?


I'd say the ponies or teddy bears got him.
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#26 - 2012-07-20 03:30:56 UTC  |  Edited by: JC Anderson
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Lyskal Oskold wrote:
as so close to defeating the Prime Evil on the super secret difficulty that Diablo reached through dimensions and killed him with dark magic?


I'd say the ponies or teddy bears got him.


Ugh don't mention that level... It gave me nightmares.

And even if you were just joking, yes there is in fact a cartoon pony level hidden in d3.
DelBoy Trades
Trotter Independent Traders.
Disaster Strikes
#27 - 2012-07-20 03:31:00 UTC
He must have died of boredom. Awful game.

Damn nature, you scary!
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#28 - 2012-07-20 03:53:22 UTC
You know, I just realized that there seems to be one thing in common with the majority of cases such as this.

While looking over the large number of news articles about people dying in net cafes while gaming, it reveals that the vast majority of them are Asians.
Xython
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2012-07-20 04:33:00 UTC
That poor, poor bastard.

NO ONE should ever be forced to play Diablo 3 for more than a few minutes, yet alone 40 hours.
MinefieldS
1 Sick Duck Standss on something
#30 - 2012-07-20 04:52:26 UTC
Ban Diablo 3, it's for the children.
Dalmont Delantee
Gecko Corp
#31 - 2012-07-20 05:22:17 UTC
Back in Uni I did a 72 hour gaming session without sleep or food (poor student) and just water from the taps in the uni computer rooms sink. I then went back to my room and packed my stuff for my father to pick me up for the summer.

I didn't die (I didn't finish my degree but thats another story) and was probably awake 4 days total. I did however have things crawling at the edge of my vision.

This was the day of MUD's so I had to think the whole 72 hours too, not press lmb over and over and maybe rmb and 1, 2, 3
Dalmont Delantee
Gecko Corp
#32 - 2012-07-20 05:23:30 UTC
Lord Arakkis wrote:
Was there any point in that retards mind where he thought to himself "man, my stomach is really folding in on itself, I gotta take a dookie and Im thirsty as all hell"?

Is it insensitive to want to dig him up, then slap the hell out of him?


Not at all.

I think this should be done to all darwin awards failures
Adalynne Rohks
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2012-07-20 05:50:23 UTC
DelBoy Trades wrote:
He must have died of boredom. Awful game.


Nah. He just id'd his 4000'th unique item, and still didn't have anything worth selling on the auction house. Dropped right there on the spot.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2012-07-20 05:59:34 UTC
Shameless Avenger wrote:
Afaik ~ "A human body can survive 8-14 days without water depending on the person and how fast sweat, urine, and tears"

3 days without water, give or take 12 hours depending on how they have previously treated themselves.
7 days is average for no food, but if done properly, you can survive up to 2 weeks with next to no nourishment.
Holy One
Privat Party
#35 - 2012-07-20 06:04:02 UTC
I just played crusader kings 2 for 29.6 hrs and all I got is this pain behind the eyes and a furry tongue ..

:)
Halete
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#36 - 2012-07-20 06:07:56 UTC
People die marathoning things all the damn time. In-fact, you know what else people die doing? Endurance marathons. I guess exercise kills people.

Also, wrong sub-forum.

"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin" - The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
Evelyn Meiyi
Corvidae Trading and Holding
#37 - 2012-07-20 06:38:58 UTC
Shameless Avenger wrote:
In before "games kill people", I'm sure the news are blowing the story out of proportion. People die all the time for weird reasons, this dude just happened to die while playing on an internet cafe. He might as well had been at home reading a book.

I also call bs on the "40 hours with no food or water". If there's something you will always get at an internet cafe is an endless supply of pizza and red bull. I've been online for 48 hours camping a gate, you don't die. The toon does die tho, cuz your brain gets descync and time-dilated. But you don't RL die.

PS: I usually don't joke about the dead but since the story looks full of BS to me... "Did he dropped any loot?"


This is actually a true report: there have been cases reported (and widely so) about gamers from Korea and China literally 'playing themselves to death'.

If he was taking Red Bull, by the way, it may have contributed to his death -- besides the caffiene, taurine is an adenosine inhibitor (adenosine is a chemical that puts your brain into 'sleep mode'; going without adenosine long enough can cause convulsions, seizures, and heart attacks.
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#38 - 2012-07-20 06:53:41 UTC
It article says that sitting still for the long period could have created blood clots, that may have ended up killing him. While it's not impossible but highly unlike that sleep deprivation will kill you, unless it's drug induced, and same goes for dehydration and starvation.

A 97 year old man survived 7 days without food or water. Going without food, water or sleep for 40 hours may not be healthy, but it should not kill a otherwise health teenager.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Sarah Atkinson
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#39 - 2012-07-20 07:16:32 UTC
I can't believe how many sick people are in this thread making fun of a dead 18 year old kid.

Pickles!
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#40 - 2012-07-20 07:24:36 UTC
Sarah Atkinson wrote:
I can't believe how many sick people are in this thread making fun of a dead 18 year old kid.


Apathy is easy, empathy is not, it takes effort and makes you look weak.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.