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News Room Contributor  Posts: 8087 Joined: 12 Nov 2002     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1540 Joined: 6 Apr 2008     | Lightweight. Pfft. I mean 24hours? *rolls eyes* |
Brand Manager  Posts: 2445 Joined: 8 Oct 2007     | Good thing the father knew he was playing for that long and didn't MAKE HIM GO OUTSIDE AND DO SOMETHING. Thank God for good parenting. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3086 Joined: 13 Jul 2008     | See? This is what WoW does to people! One day, when I have my way, it'll be banned.. One day... |
Anonymous Source Posts: 4 Joined: 17 Nov 2008  | Dumb child, dumb parents. Hooray for stupid! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4000 Joined: 7 Nov 2007     | 24 hours, try a 2 day guitar hero marathon! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 901 Joined: 24 Jun 2008     | wasn't there a Korean guy who actuality died after doing something like this a while back? I think he played non-stop for a week. |
Muckraker  Posts: 316 Joined: 26 Jun 2008     | Okay, let's be reasonable here, the kid got caught up in the release hype, got excited, and played too long. It's just a mistake on his part, so let's cut him some slack. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1045 Joined: 9 Oct 2008   |
Maybe humanity will never be truly great. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 11 Oct 2008  | Not as bad as the kid who ran away from home recently, but seriously, parents need to pay more attention to what their kids are doing. I respect his father for saying that he'll start to limit his son's play time, but I don't think it should have gotten to that point in the first place. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 54 Joined: 23 Jul 2008  | It was only a matter of time. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1293 Joined: 18 Jun 2008  |
I take it you don't play? yeah, well.. I've seen some of the complaints on gamer stereotypes threads here, and I have to say that this is somewhat hypocritical. Just saying.. Sure, the kid's not too bright, should've eaten some food, or better yet; stopped playing for a while. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2633 Joined: 30 Sep 2008    | that bit about the French made me laugh XD |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1786 Joined: 1 May 2008     | Come on, this is just the culling of the weak people in society :D Notice how none of his mates collapsed, this guy is obviously not built for hardcore gaming :) |
Features Editor  Posts: 326 Joined: 11 Jan 2008    |
As a matter of fact, there was. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 369 Joined: 3 Sep 2008  | IT'S THE VIDEO GAME'S FAULT, IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF BAD PARENTING. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 387 Joined: 12 Jul 2008  |
Amen. He's a disgrace to hardcore gamers everywhere. Atleast the korean guy lasted three days, but one? I can do that standing on one foot. edit: Bad parenting? Gimme a break, the kid's 15. Why shouldn't he be allowed to LAN with his friends? Sure beats going out and getting hammered, atleast from a parents point of view I'd wager. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 920 Joined: 24 Oct 2007 |
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I didn't want to post this but I just can't help the laughter this post has caused me... |
Beat Writer  Posts: 169 Joined: 24 Oct 2008   |
This made me "lol" |
BANNED  Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | Hey, any of you ever tried to get a complete WoW addict to stop playing? Especially the week after the new expansion came out? User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 461 Joined: 15 Feb 2008    | If the kid has had seizures before they must limit his gameing time. Get to work parents! |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008  | Ohh pshh 24 hours is nothing, I've gone on flights and switched planes for longer than that. My best is 48(ish) hours. Oop sounds like we should have a competition "Who can stay up the longest." As long as the father doesn't go on some rant about how video games hurt his family and such, I think this will blow over relatively quick.
Really! I thought all gamers were chip and popcorn eaters? If I was having a WoW marathon thats what I'd be eating, while using my 15-button WoW mouse. *lol* User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2586 Joined: 27 Sep 2008   |
Well said. |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 16 Nov 2008    | I blame all the Swedish lesbians and their heavy metal. |
Muckraker  Posts: 294 Joined: 19 Jul 2008  | I actually laughed out loud when I read this title. I don't know how people can play that grind-fest for so long or maybe I'm just underestimating the appeal of having a second job you have to pay for. |
Red Guard  Posts: 3528 Joined: 18 Sep 2008   |
Indeed. Too bad parenting is more like a democracy now, instead of the dictatorship it should be. When MY dad said 'Go outside!', the only choice I had was to either go outside, or go outside with his foot up my ass. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1768 Joined: 22 Oct 2008  | Epileptic kid has 24-hour game-a-thon. Has epileptic fit. Game is blamed. Typical. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 7 Joined: 23 Jul 2008   |
I get it, you're trying to make it look like the father is a bad parent. I almost missed it. This kid is 15 Years old. He has a computer and free time and wanted to play a Computer Game. He also happens to have a Dad who said it was cool with him. Sounds pretty freaking sweet to me. Then he stays up for 24 hours (who hasn't done this?) probably eating junk food and drinking soda/energy drinks. It becomes to much for him and he has some adverse medical reactions. And you blame his dad? It's not his Dad's fault. And it's not the games fault. It is this kids fault and no one else's. By the way if you're Dad threatened you like you imply he did, I'm just glad he wasn't my father. Oooh? Was that too close to home? You don't like it when someone does this to your dad? Good thing you didn't learn anything from all this, huh? |
News Room Contributor Posts: 8087 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 | I don't think the parents can be blamed for this one. If I had a kid that age (and I'm old enough to have a legit perspective on this, I'm not some 15-year-old myself) and he wanted to have some friends over for a balls-out weekend-long LAN, I'd be all for it. It's not the sort of thing you want your kid to be doing every weekend, but once every couple of months or so? Knock yourself out. We can't judge the parents' permissiveness regarding the boy's gaming habits without knowing their level of knowledge and involvement with those habits. But I think it's fair to say that if this is the first time he's reacted like this to a semi-hardcore gaming session, then they're handling it appropriately and all is well. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 10319 Joined: 28 Nov 2007  | I don't blame the father, I blame the kid for not knowing his limits. Then again, I'm being a bit of a hypocrite, seeing as I recall playing WoW, falling asleep at the computer, and waking up an hour later to see my character running into a tree, since I fell asleep with my finger on the up arrow. |
Red Guard Posts: 3528 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 |
I actually laughed when I read this. I don't put all the blame on the father, I'd say he just as much to blame as the kid. This kid is just that, a kid. 15 or not, he obviously didn't know when to stop, take a break, and get some rest. But that's what parents are for: To guide their children because they don't know everything! Even at age 15. What?? A 15 year old doesn't know everything in the world about life?? Well that can't be! Oh wait. My dad would have been fine with an event like this (In fact, he WAS ok with it when I did it when I was younger), but he was responsible enough to poke his head in to see how things were going. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3318 Joined: 1 Nov 2007   | He callapsed after only 24 hours? What a noob... Seriously though, I think this kid just got caught up in the hype. There have a been a few times where I've played a game all though the night, I felt like shit in the morning, but thats was really good games (or WoW, oooooooohhhh snap) do to you. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 194 Joined: 6 Aug 2008  | This one time, I drank like half a red bull and played 20 minutes of pac man dude... it was wild |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 767 Joined: 30 Nov 2007 | I have to say I do feel bad for the kid. We can all sympathize with doing something you love for too long. Three runners in the NYC Marathon died of what amounted to exhaustion. Countless others collapsed. 11 climbers perished attempting to climb K2 this year. Does WOW exist on same epic scale as being a marathon runner or an Alpine mountain climber? No, but If you're not part of the elite few pushing the boundaries of the human body, I would argue that, in principle, you're no better than the obsessed WOW player. Sure your heart may be in better condition, but ultimately most of us are running marathons for ourselves. Is collapsing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon any less silly than collapsing while playing WOW? |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 356 Joined: 28 Aug 2008  | Fault of the parents. They should have been regulating his playing time, and at any rate, wasn't friday a school day. |
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Swedish Teen Collapses After Too Much Lich King
Hot on the heels of stories that it took just over a day for the first Wrath of the Lich King player to reach level 80 comes news that it took less than a week for Wrath of the Lich King to just about kill its first player.
So says the English-language Swedish news site The Local, which has the report of a 15-year-old boy from Laholm, Sweden who collapsed on Sunday after playing the game for 24 hours straight. The teenager got together with seven of his friends on Saturday for an all-night WoW-fest, but the experience proved too much for him; around 2:00 pm on Sunday he collapsed and went into convulsions in what looked like an epileptic seizure.
"They played all day and all night," the boy's father said. "Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers."
The teenager was taken to hospital by ambulance, where doctors determined that his body had been thrown of out of whack by "a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food, and too long a stretch of concentrated game playing." He is expected to make a complete recovery, although his gaming time might not bounce back so quickly; his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son can spend playing the game. Reports that World of Warcraft players from France are laughing and pointing in the general direction of Sweden remain unconfirmed.
via: GamePolitics
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