S. Korea's Stress-Driven Online Gaming Addiction

techsoldaten writes "The Washington Post is running an article about the ever-increasing problem of videogame addiction in South Korea. From the article: 'The situation has grown so acute that 10 South Koreans -- mostly teenagers and people in their twenties -- died in 2005 from game addiction-related causes, up from only two known deaths from 2001 to 2004, according to government officials.'"

Comments

Get the fuck off your ass and go outside!

[MikeFM]

Dying because you sit in one spot for 50 hours and don't move other than for the occassional trip to the kitchen for junk food and soda? Holy fuck people it's just a freaking game. Take a break now and then. Go outside and walk around, go have sex with another person in real life, develop a bad attitude and drink a lot - do something. I'm a geek that works on computers all day and I still manage to get up eveyr couple hours and walk to the store, make out with my gf, go to the beach, etc. If you can't do that much then you have some serious issues and deserve to die from your video game addiction. You people are just sad.

Boy it's good having someone that's a bigger losser than myself to point a finger at!