Three days into video game session, Chinese man dies
We've all heard the horror stories, often emanating from the neighborhood of the far east, of people who take their online gaming a little too seriously. These are folks that get real-life revenge for in-game defeats, like the guy who murdered (in real life) an online opponent for stealing his in-game weapon. There have even been cases, reportedly, where folks who were otherwise healthy just up and died while playing online games. Apparently, the trend continues. Today, CIO Insight reported that a Chinese man died after playing Internet games in a Net Cafe for three straight days, ostensibly one that stays open 24 hours a day. If the case was like the previously mentioned Korean case, the one must wonder why, if starvation and dehydration were the culprits, the proprietors of the cafe didn't kick him out for being a bum and not ordering something to drink. Exhaustion was the stated reason for death, but even then--don't you think you'd fall asleep before allowing an Internet game to exhaust you? Perhaps not if you play with this level of intensity.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Yayaja said 4:11PM on 9-17-2007
It's comforting to see that Darwin is alive and well in the hearts of these pathetic misfits. I have no sympathy for them because their end-of-the-bell-curve behavior tarnishes the names of products that give well balanced self-control exhibiting people a good experience.
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Jordan Running said 5:20PM on 9-17-2007
As I understand it, these 24-hour places have private cubicles, so if the guy had a running tab (and he seems like the sort who would), the proprietors probably didn't know or care what he was up to until it was too late. As for how one could actually play one's self to death, I have no idea.
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mustra said 7:32PM on 9-17-2007
Reminds of that catana kid that slashed its family because of FF7 or something...ha whats the point... I could die of starving and dehidratation trying to promote my blog Lol...for a lousy 10 views a day...loife sucks...dye playing it !
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nizzy1115 said 2:12AM on 9-18-2007
mustra...maybe your blog would get more views if you didnt put 147.32 KB thumbnails on your website...seriously save us all some bandwidth with optimization.
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