Thread: Another Victim of WoW

Originally Posted by TheBenDude37

Video games are for entertainment. If you want to stay on for as long you want that means the games is very good. I say it is the kids fault not the parents. Because when he turns 20, his parents may not be there.

I'm not saying I haven't had my own marathon gaming sessions. Hell, when L4D was released, I was up for nearly 24 hours straight playing it. But the problem here isn't the kid's desire to stay up playing games, it's his failure to get his priorities in order, and/or his failure to maintain his health. When a 15 year-old collapses and dies after a 20 hour gaming session (which pales in comparison to many, many other marathons and LAN parties I've heard of or attended), there is much more than just the fact he stayed awake for an extended period of time contributing to his demise. Obesity, drugs, overall poor health and metabolism, all of these are things that parents need to watch out for for their kids, regardless of their age.

The point I was trying to make is that in these types of cases, parental neglect kills their children and teenagers, not video games. However, it's not considered "polite" or "sympathetic" to tell the parents of a dead child, "Well, you know your son/daughter would still be alive if you actually talked to them once in a while instead of just tossing them in a room with a console as soon as they come home from school. Oh, and maybe their steady diet of Mountain Dew and McDonald's should have tipped you off as well."

Well I have not seen the obtopsie, so lets say the guy is fat. If he eats and stays up he wont die because is body may be used to that. Plus if a unhealthy kid stays up all night or is on meds, that don't really put anything on the body staying up.

Take this for ex. a guy flew around the world , or Antarctica, he did not sleep for three days. Then all of a sudden he goes to sleep. Then when he heard his alt gauge ping, he woke up. It was not a good one but he woke up and felt a little better. Now back to the subject at hand.

Here. If the obtopsie come in and the kid has nothing, then something happen. Parrents do shit that others think is not polite. Like I said video games are only to pass the time. Not to learn how to do violent things or kill you. All parents have different views. If you look at his parents they were to busy do talk to the boy. If the boy had more sense ( if he had bad health) he would notice that a pain in his body. Collapse do happen suddenly but there is a moment where you get a headache, or something else.

* I am not a doc but I do watch Discovery Health and ask my mom*

extended gaming sessions can be perfectly fine if properly planned and as long as basic hygiene functions are performed. as long as you drink enough water, go to the bathroom regularly, and eat, its fine when you stop doing those things, it becomes dangerous, and only an idiot would forget to do something like go to the bathroom or not eat. in pretty much all of these cases, you see things like not eating or drinking enough and neglecting usage of the toilet. its freakin common sense. these people are idiots.

Ben...its autopsy, and the kid didn't die.

As far as the gaming marathons. It's both the kid and the parent's fault in my opinion. Kids that young shouldn't be pulling marathons like that. At the very least, the parents should have told them to get off the computers to eat something properly. The kid should have realized something was wrong well before getting to that stage. I know I've pulled some long marathons when I was that age (6 hours a day in Unreal, a few all-nighters) and I wouldn't feel hungry or tired because I was in the zone, but after a while it does get to you.

In closing, the parents shoulda made him take a break, and its his own damned fault for not realizing something was wrong sooner. When you can't really focus on the game anymore, maybe you should take a break.

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

This is making me worry for Cainun, just look at his hours on WoW!

Oh be quiet.

Originally Posted by Red_Lizard2

who the hell would play that shit game for more then even an hour straight? itss a worthless MMO, all you do is run around, wheres the strategy in that?

Now at least playing Anarchy Online for 20 hours straight would make sense, since that is actually a good game with depth and strategy.

I get the feeling someone got ganked non stop and hates the game as a result :2