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Just a bit of news I heard on the radio this morning. A man in Korea I believe collapsed and died after playing a video game for 49 hours straight. Bet he wishs he made it to 50. Just kidding! Anyway it was also said that he was fired from his job a few days before for playing video games on the job, so I guess it just shows that these games can be as additive as drugs or alcohol.
 
Thats a shame. But its nothing compared to that story of that kid that was featured on 60 Minutes sometime last year. He was really into that online game Everquest. He would never leave his room unless he had to and one day his mother heard a gunshot. She ran upstairs and found her son in his room, sitting slumped over in his computer chair in front of the computer and there was a shotgun on one of his hands and blood everywhere. He was dead.

It was later determined that he had put the gun in his mouth and took his life because his character died in the game.

And the mother says she'll never forget when she walked into the room, the computer was still on and on the screen was the main menu for Everquest. She made mention how the game had become like a demon that had possessed him, and thats not far from the truth.

So yeah, games are as addictive as you allow them to be. And for some, dangerously addictive, especially RPGs or any game which is virtually never ending and requires huges ammounts of time to get any results and basically consumes one's social life if you allow it to.
 
stdave said:
Just a bit of news I heard on the radio this morning. A man in Korea I believe collapsed and died after playing a video game for 49 hours straight. Bet he wishs he made it to 50. Just kidding! Anyway it was also said that he was fired from his job a few days before for playing video games on the job, so I guess it just shows that these games can be as additive as drugs or alcohol.
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I think that guy has just invented the most entertaining way to commit suicide... :weird:
 
Yeah, saw that on the G4 message boards. If you can go out as a gamer, by all means go out with dignity.
 
dead from dedication to the game.....think this gives gaming a bad name. nother thing for parents to rant about. parents 1, gamers zip!
 
yeah mmorpg's can be addictive and its sad to see someone die. Sometimes in life, you need to take a step back, and live. Also, it doesnt help that games such as sony online entertainments everquest II sells you pizza if you type in the game /pizza as a command and an order form from pizza hut comes up. Bad bad bad, how about /fruit?, /water?
 
They really do order you pizza? Okay...as much as that facilitates people turning over their entire lives to a game...that is just awesome.
 
I fondly remember my addiction to Sid Meier's Civilization. The "just one more turn" disease. The promise to myself that I'd just put in a few turns in the afternoon trouncing Persia and then quit to do some more mundane task. The next external stimuli I recall after that was usually the sound of morning birdsong. Sadly there was no pizza. Not even if you sacked Rome. 🙂
 
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Vladislaus Dracula said:
Thats a shame. But its nothing compared to that story of that kid that was featured on 60 Minutes sometime last year. He was really into that online game Everquest. He would never leave his room unless he had to and one day his mother heard a gunshot. She ran upstairs and found her son in his room, sitting slumped over in his computer chair in front of the computer and there was a shotgun on one of his hands and blood everywhere. He was dead.

It was later determined that he had put the gun in his mouth and took his life because his character died in the game.

And the mother says she'll never forget when she walked into the room, the computer was still on and on the screen was the main menu for Everquest. She made mention how the game had become like a demon that had possessed him, and thats not far from the truth.

So yeah, games are as addictive as you allow them to be. And for some, dangerously addictive, especially RPGs or any game which is virtually never ending and requires huges ammounts of time to get any results and basically consumes one's social life if you allow it to.
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That is just sick but stupid if you ask me, why would somebody kill themselves just because a video game? And about that guy in Korea who died while playing a video game, that wasn't funny plus people should know that video games don't kill people; maybe the dude had a heart attack.
 
Tickle-Guy said:
That is just sick but stupid if you ask me, why would somebody kill themselves just because a video game? And about that guy in Korea who died while playing a video game, that wasn't funny plus people should know that video games don't kill people; maybe the dude had a heart attack.
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Well, obviously because he put all of his life and ego, personality and self-worth into this game and obviously became delusionsal and starting mixing reality with fantasy, and when his character died, he died because he was the character and the character was him. Whatever value he had he lost and his life was no longer worth living....from his perspective.
 
Vladislaus Dracula said:
Well, obviously because he put all of his life and ego, personality and self-worth into this game and obviously became delusionsal and starting mixing reality with fantasy, and when his character died, he died because he was the character and the character was him. Whatever value he had he lost and his life was no longer worth living....from his perspective.
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You're right about that but still it was stupid of that to do that.
 
Vladislaus Dracula said:
Well, obviously because he put all of his life and ego, personality and self-worth into this game and obviously became delusionsal and starting mixing reality with fantasy, and when his character died, he died because he was the character and the character was him. Whatever value he had he lost and his life was no longer worth living....from his perspective.
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Actually, I had heard he killed himself because a relationship he was having with someone who played the game didn't work out either.

I wouldn't dimiss this either. I once had a friend on Star Wars Galaxies that quit the game with threats of ending his life because his "in-game" girlfriend broke up with him. Thankfully he didn't kill himself, but it just goes to show you how real these games can be for some people.

As for the korean dude, he may have had an epileptic (sorry if I misspelled that) seizure that killed him.
 
Sad really....killing yourself over a game.


Just goes to show how addictive these games can be!
 
Don't mock it, BuddyBob!
I just had a really really bad game of Tetris...

*sob!*
Goodbye cruel pixelated world!
*jumps out window*
 
I would have punched the screen.
But suicide over a game...

Oh well.
 
Anime316 said:
Actually, I had heard he killed himself because a relationship he was having with someone who played the game didn't work out either.

I wouldn't dimiss this either. I once had a friend on Star Wars Galaxies that quit the game with threats of ending his life because his "in-game" girlfriend broke up with him. Thankfully he didn't kill himself, but it just goes to show you how real these games can be for some people.

As for the korean dude, he may have had an epileptic (sorry if I misspelled that) seizure that killed him.
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The relationship was in addition to, but not the cause of the suicide, investigators explained from what they gathered about him. Its also possible that you and I are thinking about a completely different incident and person, but I don't think so. Though this boy wouldn't be the first whose taken his life over Everquest. At least, I don't think so.
 
Vlad is right. It's the obsession and the flight from reality that pushes one over the edge. We used to hear these sort of things about the Dungeons and Dragons board game years ago. And think of all the chess players who have gone barking mad in the last century and a half. Games are not the only siren song leading some people astray from their wits. Trekkies and celebrity stalkers are a related phenomenon. And religious fanatics.
A good, rounded education is probably the best defense you can give a kid. And I don't mean just the classroom; expose him to the world in all its variety from the very cradle...music, art, literature, sport, craft, religion, work, and play. It's when a person has essentially nothing in his head that one seductive idea can penetrate and then expand to fill all the available space.
 
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