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GameToo Much...... And Die!
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."
Journalism?! This is Slashdot!!
Please, could somebody tell us which games did he played?
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I know life isn't fair, but why can't it ever be un-fair in MY favor!?
Er, what CAN you do for 86 hours and not die? I don't think the fact that it was games made it anything special..
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Nobody forced him ... Why excatly was he sitting in one place for 86 hours again?
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
This was basically a suicide. He chose an odd way to do it, but that's probably all it was.
It's unlikely that he got "hooked" or didn't know any better.