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Man dies after 3-day gaming binge
BEIJING, China (AP) -- A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.
The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.
The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S.. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.
Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed "Internet addiction" in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.
Just make sure to stay hydrated with some Mountain Dew Game Fuel. 
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Orangey
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« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2007, 11:06:26 PM » |
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heheheh. Game fuel. It's LIKE soda, but gamier.
See, this is why I'm as much unenamored of people who spend their lives obsessed with video games as those who let sports subsume their personalities. Life is about moderation, pipples.
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« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2007, 11:13:22 PM » |
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But isn't that why we have moderators on the web? Sounds like someone isn't doing their job.
Yeah, I tend to forget to eat when I'm alone and on the computer/gaming consoles. But honestly, if you play games for so long that you die from it, then you deserved to die.
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« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2007, 07:40:17 AM » |
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Chine have stopped this happening to kids, by placing time limits on the games. If you stay on for so many hours, you get a warning, and stay on even longer and poof, you lose points/stats.
They obviously didn't count on adults not having enough common sense to remember that you're obviously going to suffer some damage from taking a three-day gaming binge.
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« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2007, 09:33:49 AM » |
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4 days and counting!!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2007, 01:50:22 PM » |
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Yeah 2 days is long enough.  I did some all-nighters in college and stayed up 35 hours or so but that was my limit... and that was without caffeine or any other stimulants. |
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Orangey
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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2007, 07:56:48 PM » |
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Stimulants are for chumps. Any-one that can't last 30 hours without artificial chemicals DESERVES to die during a gaming binge.
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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2007, 10:09:26 PM » |
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ooooo Orangey, you harsh!  |
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2007, 10:26:04 PM » |
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"Now prop your lazy bones on those getaway sticks and shake a leg, mister! Everyone get in the flivver or this trip's for biscuits, see?"
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-Stan, American Dad
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2007, 09:39:38 AM » |
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does sugar count?
I can stay up about 20-26 hours without it
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2007, 07:32:21 PM » |
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Bah! Sugar is for- *falls asleep*
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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2007, 07:56:35 PM » |
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Once, I was up for 72 hours. I worked 3 shifts, edited a local wrestling fed's 2 1/2 hr dvd, and wrestled in a title match for that fed. I slept for 13 hours afterwards. I could do it again, but I wouldn't want to. lol
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« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2007, 07:59:32 PM » |
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zzzzzz-*snork*
...huh... did somebody say fed?
Ah! The Feds! They're after me! *runs away franticly*
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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2007, 08:02:21 PM » |
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LOL. No, I mean federation. I'm a pro wrestler as a hobby.
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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2007, 08:05:28 PM » |
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I know, I was just being silly... or was I?
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« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2007, 10:43:02 PM » |
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But...the game fuel is gewd...
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« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2007, 12:46:03 AM » |
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sour green apple is moar awesome
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« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2007, 06:22:57 PM » |
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Bah, that guy was a wimp. I can go a week, easy.
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« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2007, 06:53:28 AM » |
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LOL. No, I mean federation. I'm a pro wrestler as a hobby.
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And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination.
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