Gaming is bad for you....

[rasoforos]

ok see this :

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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.

Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.

He died a few minutes later, it said.

South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.






And he is not the first Korean to die this way....

[Cygnus X-1]

I feel a more appropriate title would be "Stupidity is bad for you"...

[Sjakihata]

teh best death eva

[Navaros]

I feel a more appropriate title would be "Stupidity is bad for you"...

if the original poster's story didn't convince you that gaming is bad for you, then maybe this one will. it's a few months old but it's still a goodie

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily newspaper said, creating a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.

Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his "dragon saber," used in the popular online game, "Legend of Mir 3," a Shanghai court was told on Tuesday.

"Legend of Mir 3" features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords.

Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to Zhu who then sold it for 7,200 yuan (US$870), the newspaper said.

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.

"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him," the court was told.

The newspaper did not specify the charge against Qiu but said he had given himself up to police and already pleaded guilty to "intentional injury."

No verdict has been announced.

More and more online gamers were seeking justice through the courts over stolen weapons and credits, the newspaper said.

"The armor and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them," Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing's Renmin University of China, was quoted as saying.

But other experts are calling for caution. "The 'assets' of one player could mean nothing to others as they are by nature just data created by game providers," a lawyer for a Shanghai-based Internet game company was quoted as saying.

[edyzmedieval]

Idiots.....

[Byzantine Prince]

ROFLMAO!!!!

That is the funniest thing I've ever read.
"A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And yeah I've herad a lot of peopel Korea play Starcraft till they drop dead. Theya re really fanatic about their gaming.

[Silver Rusher]

ROFLMAO!!!!

That is the funniest thing I've ever read.
"A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And yeah I've herad a lot of peopel Korea play Starcraft till they drop dead. Theya re really fanatic about their gaming.

It seems funny at first, but look how much that sword was "worth"

[Taurus]

I read about this somewhere else or it may have been a similar case.