Online Gamer Dies After 3 Day Online Marathon

A 30 year-old Chinese internet user dropped dead after a three day online marathon at a local cybercafe.

The man collapsed at his computer and medical personnel were not able to revive him.

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“According to preliminary findings, the length of time this man spent online might have triggered heart problems,” the paper quoted a local hospital emergency medic in the city of Zhongshan as saying.


China’s government has taken steps to combat the online problem by offering warnings within the games as well as asking online gaming sites to deduct points from gamers who play too long.

Although with companies willing to let their players pay their monthly fees by donating blood, it is likely to get worse before getting better.

Earlier this year in February, a 26 year-old obese gamer died in a similar situation and caused an outbreak of concern in China.

(Yahoo)

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64 Comments »

Comment by PC Haxor
2007-09-17 10:59:17

Did he drop any good loot?

Comment by zomg1334
2007-09-17 12:24:37

holy crap… thats the best comment i’ve seen all day… nice haxor

 
Comment by Siriquelle
2007-09-17 12:26:46

Brilliant…. Cool,…. Legend…. The Sword of a thousand truths ;ð_ð:

Comment by HolyRoman
2007-09-18 12:48:16

give me the sword!

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Comment by Random Passerby
2007-09-17 12:32:47

Hahahahahah!

 
Comment by Spiro
2007-09-17 13:00:55

That has got to be the best comment I have ever seen.

 
Comment by Spiro
2007-09-17 13:01:30

I almost peed my pants laughing

 
Comment by Frag0holic
2007-09-17 13:08:57

He dropped an Epic Ramen Cooker of Leetsauce. Quite rare.

 
Comment by logan
2007-09-17 13:09:22

Aye, but it was Bind on Pickup. FTL ;-(

But it is totally sad that someone has to die from this type of addiction.
Think you play to many video games? Find out if you have any of these symptoms
The Top Ten Signs You Need a Break from Gaming

Comment by vernes
2007-11-14 04:24:38

First sign:
Not clicking on a “Top Ten Signs You need a break from gaming” link because you already know you’re addicted.

In my opinion, Tests for checking if you’re addicted to gaming is like doing a test to check you’re on fire or not.

How can you not know?

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Comment by XeLL
2007-09-17 13:17:37

comment of the year.. definitly!

 
Comment by john
2007-09-17 13:31:48

Been done on the WoW forums soooo long ago.

Comment by jayne
2007-09-19 04:36:25

so have you!

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Comment by me
2007-09-17 13:33:25

unoriginal comment. there was a myspace page of a gamer who died, awhile back, his brother put up a message notifying the gamers friends of his demise, the first reply post said the same thing.

Comment by The Internet
2007-09-17 13:46:50

This is the internet, we don’t take kindly to the word ‘unoriginal’ (just look at the swathes of pathetic inbred blogs out there).

We call ‘em memes.

Still, hella funny!!!

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Comment by Kryhs
2007-09-17 13:46:29

The “drop any good loot?” comment was ripped from the WoW forums.

 
Comment by Kevinin
2007-09-17 13:48:18

LOL

 
Comment by Kata
2007-09-17 13:55:43

I heard he dropped SOJS

 
Comment by sensesFail
2007-09-18 06:18:32

ROFL LMAO!

 
Comment by krud
2008-06-15 16:46:00

grats you copied someone and pretended like its your own….. seriously faggot wtf.

 
 
Comment by logan
2007-09-17 11:45:43

ack!
dye –> die

 
Comment by Jesse
2007-09-17 11:46:36

Tell us what game he was playing, or it didn’t happen.

And I’m also interested in what epics would make one stay online for 3 days.

 
Comment by klix
2007-09-17 11:56:46

LOL, Can you be effing serious? this has GOT to be the funniest thing ive seen in months. i mean, dont get me wrong, death isnt cool. but you mean to tell me that this guy played video games for 3 days strait, then keeled over at his keyboard dead? maybe he took the blue pill…….

 
Comment by Paul M
2007-09-17 12:08:50

Another Darwin Award Winner!

 
Comment by The Reaper
2007-09-17 12:08:57

What they didn’t tell you…

He was playing FreeCell.

 
Comment by Andres
2007-09-17 12:14:10

he was playing pacman!!

 
Comment by Kevin
2007-09-17 12:16:46

It could happen. From sitting so long, there is chance of a thrombosis to occur and it blocks an artery and then your going to have a heart attack or stroke. Its the reason that you see suggestions of walking on a plane if your going to be on there for a long flight.

Any nurses or doctors around to enlighten us.

Comment by stephen
2007-09-17 13:17:29

its likely that he could have had a deep venous thrombosis, leading to a pulmonary embolism…less likely to actually cause an MI or stroke…but i’ve seen stranger things happen.

 
 
Comment by Monk
2007-09-17 12:17:39

I agree that we need the name of what he was playing, otherwise the title of “Online Gamer” is bunk.

 
Comment by Charles
2007-09-17 12:18:58

I don’t understand the goal of a gaming marathon.

Comment by mike
2007-09-17 17:30:11

obviously AV weekend

 
 
Comment by hyphycore
2007-09-17 12:21:12

he wasnt playing a game…. he was a myspace whore.

 
Comment by ogg
2007-09-17 12:23:36

prolly from the radiation off those old crts

 
Comment by segway
2007-09-17 12:47:30

Screenshot or it didn´t happend…

 
Comment by MattyC
2007-09-17 12:51:07

Man, I would love to be the person has to come up with what to say on that gravestone. The possibilities are endless!

 
Comment by The Lone Iguana
2007-09-17 12:53:06

ROFLSKATES!!!!!!11

 
Comment by DANK SUCKSMYBALLS
2007-09-17 12:57:34

damn n000b sausage got pwned by h34r7 pr0bl3m5 eh…

hahah

NOT SO L33T NOW ARE YA LAMESAUCE

 
Comment by ablumablagada abuhaituishwasha
2007-09-17 12:58:56

chinese ppl have no life .. and halo sucks

 
Comment by Etrigan
2007-09-17 13:20:47

i’m in ur internet cafez, lootin all ur corpsez

 
Comment by Magdelene
2007-09-17 13:22:58

roflpwnd!

 
Comment by zap
2007-09-17 14:09:01

Heres the original that haxor ripped the comment.

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8026/cccccccccccuo2.gif

 
Comment by Thoosje
2007-09-17 14:25:53

Game Over

 
Comment by Funsize
2007-09-17 14:38:07

“He died doing what he loved, “pwnzoring nooobs.”

 
Comment by Kurt
2007-09-17 16:31:36

I bet he died from playing minesweeper, I died during that game once, But my friend came over and used revive on me, so it was ok.

 
Comment by Apollyon
2007-09-17 17:16:44

Another Chinese Farmer Bites the Dust! One less ad being spammed in game Woohoo!

Now back to ganking the farmers.

 
Comment by darkwing duck
2007-09-17 17:28:58

the blue screen of death.

 
Comment by killgore
2007-09-17 19:01:40

drops came from diablo, noonbobnobnbo
:) diablo 4 lyfe

 
Comment by Halo 3 Blog
2007-09-17 20:27:40

Talk about hardcore gamer….

 
Comment by Dave Greiman
2007-09-17 21:14:39

Sum Dum Guy

 
Comment by gee-man
2007-09-18 01:16:41

Man, they gotta do something about this online addiction thing. Still, what game was it? The article didn’t say anything.

 
Comment by mikolka
2007-09-18 06:46:41

Crazy man…. =(

 
Comment by deadsilence
2007-09-18 07:52:32

/afk permanently

 
Comment by Dave
2007-09-18 09:48:59

gg

 
Comment by aldrin
2007-09-18 12:11:36

sheez

 
Comment by Q
2007-09-19 12:55:06

I’m more unimpressed with the comments here than the actual article, because people look at this thing in a very ignorant way. Deaths due to gaming are already getting common, and is a problem in that nation as people seek for virtual worlds as a refuge from life and work pressure. It’s already an ugly aspect of the Internet already and you guys keep on making fun out of it.

Comment by Vegas_man
2007-09-19 16:13:53

Oh my god. ppl make fun out of it cos its a dawin award winner, who cares what game, idiots that sit in front of a comp for that long are………well, due to drop some loot…..fuckin great line

 
 
Comment by mixand
2007-09-19 20:03:18

ive stayed up 2 days, on the second around the afternoon you feel really really weird, like when you pick something up your riding on a roller coaster and you can see around your head idk its just really weird.

 
Comment by madHatter001
2007-09-19 20:05:56

Who knows what really caused it. Maybe that Immortal Kings Soul Cage eventually dropped from Baal. :shrug:

 
Comment by sp3ct0r
2007-09-20 17:44:06

GAME OVER

New Highscore!!

 
Comment by jkjk
2007-09-21 10:25:08

hmm shoulda shouted something like “reviving potion”
maybe the guy will jump back up

 
Comment by jhzgmu vltpzixsb
2007-10-04 19:12:19

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Comment by anonymousgirl
2007-10-09 16:48:57

LMAO. these otakus freak me out!! O_O

 
Comment by nekoboy
2007-11-06 08:08:10

He’s noob! Probably forgot to buy pots and were out of them….
or he played the world and met aura 0.0 I wonder…

 
Comment by raj
2008-01-08 05:07:03

What the hell??? a game is no more then a life…

 
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