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Sentow, Maybe had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
I don't want a lot out of life. Just a big boss battle right before I die.
Preferably a hundred years from now =(
But when the boss inevitably returns in his second form, who will fight him then? You better make sure to level up your friends, just in case.
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So quoth Mod:
In other news, some guy somewhere died while snowboading during an Avalanche warning and some dumbass somewhere else cracked their skull open while mountainbiking with a bad tire. Those incidents only get so much press because of the "Glorious Jesus save us from those devil games"-crowd and the fact that they're so rare due to the nature of games.
Chill dude. It's just an article that I thought the EC community might find interesting. No need to go all postal about it.
Besides.. nobody said ANYTHING about the game. Just the fact that after playing video games for pretty much nonstop 50 hours, the guy died. He could have been sitting on his ass for fifty hours nonstop watching tv and died and I would have posted it.
He is a prime example of what most geeks would call uber-geek. Too bad the uber-geeks aren't smarter, if they were they would be unstoppable.
Unless you had a taser maybe.. and he was wearing chainmail.
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Nae stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I didn't realise that someone could die without sleeping for 50 hours.
I remember a similar thing happing to a man in South Korea who died after 3 days of straight EverQuesting. This was a few years ago, and I was surprised it happened again. DrPaintThinner fucked around with this message on 08-10-2005 at 06:34 PM.
I wanna see more people die from fear-induced heart attacks brought on by video games, like those two kids back in the early 80's who died while playing Berzerk.
*huggles Mort*
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Nae impressed everyone with:
I was reading about this earlier. I thought it was interesting too. I didn't realise that someone could die without sleeping for 50 hours. Maybe the adrenalin rush from gaming was too much for him to handle.He is a prime example of what most geeks would call uber-geek. Too bad the uber-geeks aren't smarter, if they were they would be unstoppable.
Unless you had a taser maybe.. and he was wearing chainmail.
I recall reading a study they did (i assume) many years ago, where essentially they would keep monkeys awake through various methods for as long as possible. After about thirty days, the moneys would go insane, and die of heart complications.
In the name of science! 
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So quoth Jajahotep:
Chill dude. It's just an article that I thought the EC community might find interesting. No need to go all postal about it.Besides.. nobody said ANYTHING about the game. Just the fact that after playing video games for pretty much nonstop 50 hours, the guy died. He could have been sitting on his ass for fifty hours nonstop watching tv and died and I would have posted it.
It wasn't directed at you, I'm just somewhat annoyed with the press trying to play any fatality that happened in the general vicinity of a computer as evil computer games murdering people, whereas playing games is among the least likely hobbies to actually get you killed.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabits doth run and play while Kait gently hums:
I recall reading a study they did (i assume) many years ago, where essentially they would keep monkeys awake through various methods for as long as possible. After about thirty days, the moneys would go insane, and die of heart complications.In the name of science!
I dunno. There was an American POW in Vietnam who was tortured in a similar manner, but he learned to sleep in 15-second intervals. . .the time it took his guard to make the rounds and check on him again. He was a bit fucked-up, but not insane.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I remember hearing on the History or Discovory channel that not getting R.E.M. sleep for so long a period of time will make you crazy or change your personality to a degree. Anklebiter fucked around with this message on 08-11-2005 at 07:32 PM.
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Anklebiter was naked while typing this:
There have been studies where people have been kept awake for 200 or so hours (mentioned here.)I remember hearing on the History or Discovory channel that not getting R.E.M. sleep for so long a period of time will make you crazy or change your personality to a degree.
I don't know, maybe it's different for the monkeys they were using, maybe something to do with how fast one's metabolism works. They did another study where they made monkeys addicted to smoking...scary x.-
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Mod wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
It wasn't directed at you, I'm just somewhat annoyed with the press trying to play any fatality that happened in the general vicinity of a computer as evil computer games murdering people, whereas playing games is among the least likely hobbies to actually get you killed.
Press is evil lolz.
They...um...reported the news. The news is bizarre, giving it more value than, say, some dumbass cracking his head open on a mountain bike. I saw nothing that attempted to make video games out to be evil.
I've seen news of people being killed in avalanches reported too. But, well, those kinds of deaths have happened for awhile. Reuters did a good job of doing the writeup of the article while avoiding anything in regards to demonizing computer games.
It's true that abnormal sleeping patterns are linked to psychotics, but they're also linked to true geniuses like Einstein and da Vinci.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Maradon! said:
Nobody understands why we need sleep, and we only have a vague grasp of the effects of sleep deprivation.It's true that abnormal sleeping patterns are linked to psychotics, but they're also linked to true geniuses like Einstein and da Vinci.
ummm...we do know why we sleep. It's a shutdown period where our body goes into a heightened state of repair and self-maintenance.
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