Man Dies After 49 Hours of Computer Games
SEOUL, South Korea - A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.
Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft. Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said. Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said. Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea'home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.
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LoL!!!!!! Now thats what I call dedication!
Is there a 10-step group for computer gamers? Or maybe,someone should start one!!! David? Alex?
Wow. Just wow.
I TOLD YOU STARCRAFT KILLS PEOPLE.
i should tell jeremy that.
cover story this weeks economist magazine is about video games. what an unbelievable waste of time.
i get an hour a day tops. any more than that you have to be wasting your mind
=D Scientific studies have proven that kids who play first person shooter games have increased awareness of their surroundings and quicker reaction times =P So eat that =D
See David, you could have used "kinesthesia" or a variant in your above post!
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