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A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said yesterday. The jobless man, identified by police only by his last name Kim, was found dead at an Internet cafe in Kwangju, 260 kilometres southwest of Seoul, they said.
Quoting witnesses, police detective Oh Myong-sik in Kwangju said the man had been virtually glued to the computer since late last Friday and had no decent sleep and meals. The man collapsed in front of the counter early yesterday but soon regained consciousness. He then went to the toilet where he later was found dead, the police officer said. Initial investigation ruled out the possibility of murder, police said. An autopsy was planned.
Source Article can be found in The Sydney Morning Herald
In related gaming news: sam_handelman writes "In an article on the front page of the online edition, (free reg required) the new york times takes a rather negative look at the rise of broadband gaming in South Korea. The author, Howard W French, is a Times staff writer, with a background in staggering human tragedy, which may help to explain why he thinks my hobby is an epidemic. There was a wired article about Korean broadband (summary: they have lots), which we already discussed."
Geez, dude needed to work on his stamina...
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A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours
Well, so much for that week long LAN party idea...
-Tolerate my intolerance
Thats the geek way of dieing with your boots on.
In Republican America phones tap you.
With the winter coming, and only me and quake 3 at home I might be next.
Oh well, worse ways to go.
Medevo
He then went to the toilet where he later was found dead
why wasn't this story called "Go to the toilet... and die!?"
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
If the guy puts in a quarter quick enough, he may be able to resume where he left Earth...
...I mean off. :-)
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
Unless he was playing Super Mario Bros. 1, and got stuck in minus world. (Yea, I bet nobody remembers that)
free ipod? yeah.
Hmmm... I don't know about that. Suspects include: (but not limited to) Orcs, Night Elfs, Zerglings, Hydras...
He was fine when he was playing games. Obviously it was going to the crapper that killed him!
can I have your stuff?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells, "The Outline of History"
"John Romero Is Going To Make You Kick the Bucket"
. . . pours a bit of Red Bull on the side walk in memory of his homie. I hope I go down in glory like dat.
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
Was it the first time in 86 hours that he had used the restroom? That would kill anyone.
He played for 86 hours, as in the X-86 architecture. So what's next? The new Apple Ad?
It went like, beep beep beep, and then I died
.noitacidem deen uoy siht daer nac uoy fI
now he's in heaven shouting "OMFG that was such bullshit!"
Wouldn't it be funny if he was trying to beat Doom II? Or some other old game that everybody's beaten? And especially if he didn't make it past the first level or didn't know how to switch guns or something.
Well, I guess it would be more tragic than funny, but due to the fact that it would be so darwinically sad, that it might get a chuckle or two.
You like that word "darwinically"? I just made it up, hehe.
THERE IS NO DATA. THERE IS O
It'd be such a waste if he didn't. All that effort for nothing...
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This is why they need computers in the Bathrooms! geese!
But then, if he was a true gamer, he obviously died from "natural causes"
W00t! Computer games as an instrument of natural selection, you've gotta love it. And you thought we were doomed as a species....
Confucious say gamer man who die flushing one down need 1-up
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
... I think I know him!
...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
You think it might be that he didn't EAT OR DRINK or maybe a prior medical condition that he knew about want wanted to spend his last few days blasting some ass.
It's a hard lesson to learn, but that's what happens when you don't take enough bathroom breaks while gaming.
I mean, what a way to "go" . . .
(Was it number 1 or number 2?)
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Game Over man.
He died? Really?
YES!!!! I won!!!
He owes me 20 dolla.....hnhuigfuhvwieuh
Gives a different meaning to the phrase "Game Over"
Young Korean needs food...badly.
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-- The Doctor, "Doctor
I want in!
Empire earth's 13 hour marathon was the longest I've gone non-stop I think.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Good thing we Americans are made of stronger stuff.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive
"Water taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody."
--Mark Twain
He's probably either:
1.riding on the meat-wagon
or
2.has been resurrected by the Necromancer.
I am, and always will be, an idiot. Karma: Coma (mostly effected by
He was sitting at a browser endlessly refreshing slashdot!
a ^= b; b ^= a; a ^= b;
It is all these darn new games. You see, they keep requiring faster and faster hardware to run them but not everyone can keep up. Take this internet cafe, I bet it was a machine that was at 2 years old.
I doubt that he died playing anything, I think he was still waiting for it load up past the introduce cinematic, or he was trying to see some booty on a Flash web site, the load times on something like that would kill anybody.
Replace CS with Tribes/Tribes2/Diablo 2.
...
Rinse, Repeat. Thats the story of my first and only 3 semesters at college.
Step 1 Gaming
Step 2
Step 3 Degree!
Failsafe against 86 hour fatal gaming runs is built into Windows, its called BSODs.
Microsoft intentionally put them in there to make you go get a snack while rebooting, or conversely take a nap.
This fellow was clearly using Mac OSX or Linux.
Somehow I don't think his parents are going to be using a computer to read Slashdot anytime soon...
The jobless man, identified by police only by his last name Kim
A Korean man named Kim...that certainly narrows it down!
Finally, proof that I'm not as addicted to the computer as my wife claims!
Thank's Slashdot!
Man, can you say "Darwin Award"?
If anyone deserves it it's this guy!
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
HOW IN THE HELL?!?! does that get modded Interesting?!
What, are you curious about the precise methodology of feces extraction that was used?
How many of you would have clicked through if there had been a link "Would you like to know more?"
Sickos.
Game over man!
Life is too short to proofread.
if he was gaming for 86 hours straight without a break he couldnt have been running a windows game then, thats for sure ...
> why exactly was he sitting in one place for 86 hours again?
It's called Camping.
Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
just another 3 million experience points and I'll be level...
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Um, last time i checked, fruits make you go. What kind of fruit are you eating? (ketchup on fries doesn't count)
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I wonder how long until the Weekly World News carries this story. "Man catches Computer Virus and Dies"
Get a free ipod.
Game Awards - Warcraft 3
- Best CG Cinematics (tie) - Gamespy's Best of E3 2002 Awards
- Editor's Choice (10 out of 10 rating) - Game Chronicles
- First game to actually kill somebody
Hey! Who put that last one in there!...oOOo..'(_)'..oOOo...
I intend to die in a highly amusing manner, thank you very much. Not sure exactly which way yet, but I don't want to just throw my death away like that.
As opposed to the conservatives who just want to lock you up for any mistake unless you're the governor's daughter?
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
he had spent those 96 hours doing "one-handed typing"; using the Internet as it was intended to used as a vehicle for healthful physical activity and not frozen in some endless game.
Personally i hate games in which you completely defeat them and you get a nice big dick in the ass "Game over". That is what happens when you die from not being good enough at the game. "The end" is a reward from mastering the game and not being able to go any farther, hence "the end". Not to say this person reached the end of the game, and not to say he didn't deserve a "game over", but i am venting my frustrations with such games such as final fight for snes, or super smash brothers
Funny how chrisd lets this one through the submission queue right around the same time Wired runs an articleabout him leaving VA to go start up a gaming company.
This is not what I would call a good way to start the publicity.
-transiit
Of course it was the games -- he died after he got up to go to take a break.
Clearly, he died of withdrawl.
everyone knows script kiddies go to hell..
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86 hours at the computer? That's nothing! I used to watch windows defrag!
bluHatter
I'm guessing I'd feel a bit squooshy..
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Police later searched for the closest respawn point in hopes of getting more answers to no avail.
You are a huge nerd, assembled from parts of lesser nerds
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
More people have died jumping off bridges than playing computer games. They are obviously a hazard to society! We must destroy all bridges and make it illegal to build any more!
After that, we should ban all use of cars, guns, knives, electricity and fire.
It's about time the gov't gets hip to the perfect army it has in its own borders. In the USA, millions train everyday on various systems in the electronic art of FPS. It IS an art, it IS a skill and most importantly it IS addictive. Today's youth drafted would fair poorly on an actuall battleground, but controlling robots through various familiar and popular games as their GUI and they would be unstoppable. Imagine the teamwork of CTF Quake or Counterstike fully realized on a battlefield while the controllers sit back comfortably smoking bongs, drinking soda and ordering pizza.
"It's funny because I don't know him"
--Homer Simpson
He needs to get a life. Oh, err... sorry...
He was trying to get to the end boss in Tetris.
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"Warrior needs food, BADLY!"
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The other gamers in the place looted his corpse.
d00der: "Fake ID +5 to fool police? This guy sucks. I already have a Authentic Looking Fake ID +9!"
3l337H4X0R: "Is there a blacksmith close? I need to repair these shoes before I sell them."
MrKim224: "Stop stealing my stuff I'm only unconscious! Wait until I respawn, I'll get you bastards!!"
SYSTEM: No one hears you. You are unconscious.
// harborpirate
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He was obviously just trying to get out of paying his bill. Seems he was quite successful in that respect.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
I've been warning my friends still hooked on EverCrack and DAOC that they're throwing their lives away... maybe this will convince them.