Man Dies After 50-hour Gaming Marathon

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 9, 2005 @04:17AM from the quit-making-us-look-bad dept.

Orbital writes "CNN is reporting that a South Korean man has collapsed and died of heart failure just minutes after wrapping up a 50-hour gaming marathon during which he only took short breaks to go to the bathroom or a quick nap on a makeshift bed." From the article: "Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe. After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported."

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push push push by Dachannien · 2005-08-09 04:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

As it turns out, if you wire up the part of a mouse's brain that generates sexual gratification to a switch, and then give the mouse access to that switch, it will repeatedly push that button to the abandonment of all other necessities of life (food, sleep) until it dies.

Apparently, all it took in this case was a game, and the game didn't even involve sex. I wonder what that says about humans.