OCT
9
2002
News
Excessive Gamer dies
Take a break people
A 24 year old jobless South Korean man has been found dead after a marathon-and-a-half 86 hour gaming session in an internet cafe. The man is said to have collapsed due to lack of sleep and food, and then upon regaining consciousness visited the toilet. He was found dead a short time later.
Police in the town of Oh Myong-sik in Kwangju said that suspicious circumstances had been ruled out, and that an autopsy was planned.
Gamers are persistently warned of the dangers of excessive gameplay, indeed most games carry health warnings with regard to this. The popularity of MMORPGs, where the game is played as practically a virtual life, can only lead to more incidents like this.
Comments
Well come on this wasent entirely his fault.. 86 hours? whay wasent the establishment looking or watching this? i mean 86 hours didnt they think somehting was wrong?????
Sounds like he had serious issues. NO person goes 86 hours in a game/LAN without eating or doing the necessary things. This just goes to show that we as a society need to keep things balance and not focus only on gaming. Yes Games are fun but you have to step out of the virtual spot and get a real life.
hahaha omg, I think this is Darwin saying he wasn't meant to win irl.
Haha, what a n00b
What a noob? Sure he dont have a life but dont call him noob when he died, thats just disrespect.
that dumbass should realize that halo in the confides or your own home should of been better
This is just sad...
If a human being can become so absorbed into a GAME, then they deserve to die...
Whoa, talk about speaking ill of the dead. Have a bit of respect
Whoa, that's intiguing. And very un-healthy.
That guy must have had serious self-control and addictiveness issues. With all due respect of course.
I also agree the owners/staff of the cafè should have done something to stop him. A death wouldn't be very good for the rep of that cafè, nor would they want anyone to suffer from playing there.
A sad story, and a story that once again will give gaming a worse reputation among the mainstream media and 'adult' groups of society.
But let's not have that overshadow the main thing in this, a casualty. Rest in peace.
How does someone become so involved in a game they can sit for 86 hours like that? I mean, damn, you'd think he'd have to get up to at least pee, ya know? Ja, it's pretty sad, but it's Darwin at work, people who are too stupid to live, die, it's the sad truth...
Rust in peace
Käpitan LokI
Wow. When I first read this, my heart skipped a beat. How terribly sad and also, how symbolic of our generation. Don't harden your hearts and laugh about it. I for one saw a little bit of myself when I read this. He must have been terribly depressed in general. Not only is the Internet cafe partially at fault here, but where was his family? If I were to disappear for over 3 days, I should hope someone would come looking for me, and I am definitely grateful for that. I don't think I am going to play any computer games for a while. Anybody who reads this, please say a prayer for our departed brother, and don't get angry at the rude comments from others.
damn thats just too bad , its hard to find dedicated gamers these days its just too bad this guy went to the bathroom and now hes dead, and he sounded pretty dedicated to his game
to me this guy was a true gamer my friends and i try and go for 24 hours and its hard to do 86 hours is amazing he is a true gamer to me he is a legend never to be forgoten by any gamer hes the #1 gamer in the world rip
Once again, idiot n00b.
My favorite saying; "People get what they deserve"
That's all thank you drive through.
Yeah people will get what they deserve, feel lucky punk?..
But it wasn't the game that killed him, the lack of food and water. I think he probably intended to kill himself by doing this in the first place. He must also have been on something, no one can stay awake for 3 days much less constantly play a game during that time.
Probably Everquest, or the like
i wonder what game he was playing?
Ok TWO Things first after 72 hours a healthy average human will be delerious, swollen tongue, and unable to controll his autonamic functions. And how in the name of the cyber gods did ha manage to rack up 8600$ figure average being 10hr for a decent INET Cafe without one single person noticing it HHhhhmmm? April Fools Kiddies
Of course it's sad when a person go like this.
It's kinda scary for me to read this, as I can usually go for 50-56 hours, when drinking serious amounts of coffe/espresso and programming something that really catches me. After that I almost literally pass out and sleep extremely heavily for some 14-16 hours.
Speaking out of experience, I can honestly say that this is plain stupid. When I've been going for +48 hours I can't think straight anymore, I can't focus on anything that's not right in front of me (both regarding sight and concentration).
I usually get easily startled (probably a combination of delerium and an huge dose of caffeine). Actually it's a terrible experience, but none the less I still go for ~40 hours every once in a while when I'm consumed by what I do. (Usually programming - I'm not really into games.)
This is seriously bad for your health and your weak and tired the following days.
Doing this either takes a lot of training (I've been up for 30 hours now.) or one would have to do some amphetamin or something.
Personally I've just trained myself up to staying awake for a long time, but there is pretty darn far from 56 hours (which is my record) to 86 hours. So my guess is that he was probably doing some drug alongside the gaming.
When doing amph, you can't feel when your body says stop, so you obviously just go on - and that's when your body craps out on you and you collapse. The lucky few survive...
I seriously have to admit that I think it was his own fault.
I know the crew at the net-cafe should've probably done something, but seriously... Don't blame them... They're not there for helping people who don't know when to quit...
When push comes to shove, he was the one sitting there for 86 consecutive hours. He was the one choosing NOT to go home and to bed, even though I can't imagine he hasn't felt tired at some point.
The morale of this rambling long comment?
Don't wait up... Get some sleep and enjoy it.
People calling this guy a hero for killing himself by stupidity only show the lack of brains and care for self that haunts this generation. (I'm a fine example of this too, I smoke heavilly and stay up for very long.)
Consequences doesn't cease to exist just because we choose to ignore them. They just have a much harder impact, because we're totally unprepared for them. Like in this case, where a guy actually kills himself by denying himself one of the most basic needs of any human being.
I won't claim that this has taught me anything, cause as so many of my generation, I choose to make my own mistakes, gain my own experiences instead of learning from other peoples faults and experience.
I have no idea as to what people should gain from reading this, but at least I got twisted the thoughts around a little.
Well, better stop now, 3 cigarettes poorer, a thought richer and the earth a soul shorter.
Thank you.
MAYBE IN HEAVEN HE CAN PLAY THIS GAME ALL HE WANT ROFL!!!!
What kind of dumbass plays a video game for 86 hours and deserves to live? Good thing he did die cause he was taking up space on this earth.
dude this guy was screwed up or he didnt have a life !
he was a nut the only game i have played excessively is Counter-Strike:Source and that was for 8 hours.
Now thats the way way I wanna go out!!! :)
you can die from staying awake for more than 36 hours. sleep the the human bodys way of sorting itself out producing different chemicals while you sleep without these chemicals being devolped you can suffer from DVT, IF,swolen brain, swolen blood vessels, internal deyhdration, internal bleeding etc.