Computer games can kill you!

[Dis]

Well it's a decent way to die. But I'd rather die having 5 straight hours of sex

I have played civ2 once for an entire day. And by day I mean when I woke up I started playing until I went to sleep 17 hours later. I think I ate left over pizza from the night before and drank soda. Of course I did get up to use the restroom.

[Urban Ranger]

I remembered I played rogue for an entire week with very little sleep many moons ago. I was quite zonked-out most of the time.

[War4ever]

if its your time to go, its your time to go.....

[The Pioneer]

I have never played Diablo but I'll admit to playing other games on the PC or console for longer than five hours at a time!? There is something fishy behind the incident, I don't believe CG can kill you, they are able to destroy you though !

So long...

[DrSpike]

Yeah I think its more likely that very long sessions (like the Counterstrike guy) leave you more open to problems you otherwise would have had a chance of facing anyway. I await the autopsy.

[aaglo]

* DrSpike slaps aaglo with a large piece of haddock.

/me is not worried at all, because he doesn't know what haddock is

I wonder what his parents think about the death ... Are they suing the company who made the game, or perhaps the game hall...

[DrSpike]

Definitely not the game........every game has "do not play excessively.....take a 15 minute break each hour" etc. I expect the hall have similar disclaimers.

[Grumbold]

Millions of people die at work every year. I think it should be banned on medical grounds

[Raion]

Suicide at the terminal.

Games can be additive.

So one has to remember that one is just playing a computer game.

Whatever will happen if vitural reality came out. And in some places, that has been done also.

The second hand smoke probably is what killed him.
Or smoke!

[tniem]

Certain people will stop at nothing to prove that gaming is a terrible habitat. I just don't understand it. People have died doing everything imaginable from sex to watching television to eating to sleeping to reading a book. This does not mean those activities kill you - only that you died doing the activity. It seems in most cases it is a coincidence and should be treated as such.

[Traianvs]

you're absolutely right

[DrSpike]

Perhaps the level of reality in FPS has become too high.

[War4ever]

i spent the better part of 58 hours straight playing civ2 a few years back, only breaks were to pee/make food, all of which was in the mircrowave and done between turns, it was more than one game though.....

needless to say, i was so wiped out that i collapsed on my bed...didnt' play well at the end either, had too many other handicaps going on

[Mr. President]

Perhaps the level of reality in FPS has become too high.

Or in TBS . . .

[War4ever]

or even fantasy, after all thats what computer games are, an escape from reality...