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Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the need-wearable-computing-to-multitask dept.

loserMcloser writes "Another Chinese man has died after spending three days in an internet cafe for an online gaming marathon session. He apparently fainted and died at the cafe from exhaustion. '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."'"

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  1. He was playing... by Skiron · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...minesweeper on Vista. It takes like 4 hours a click to actually do anything.

  2. Description of the man by king-manic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm going out on a limb and predict this mans life.

    single (never married or recently divorced).
    No job prospects (recently fired or newly graduated).
    Lives alone or with parents.
    Few if any friends.
    Pale, scrawny, bad hair cut.

    I know I pretty much described the average slashdotter but it seems these guys tend to fit a certain mold. Time will tell if I'm right about this specific case.

    --
    "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
  3. Re:Chinese != Korean by DragonWriter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did I miss something? As far as I've heard, the only other case of death from gaming exhausting happened in Korea, but the submitter says "another Chinese man"...


    "Chinese man" identifies a nationality, gender, and age (adult).
    "in Korea" identifies a location.

    It is not impossible for the two to be accurate for the same event.