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Death from excessive gaming?

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Read this on Gamespot today & just thought what dafuk?

I personally don't believe they actually died because they binged the whole 40hours on gaming/or it being exhaustion, it was probably more dehydration or something like that, press exagerating things alittle.

A Taiwanese man collapsed and died over the weekend after playing Blizzard's Diablo III for 40 straight hours. The Australian Associated Press reported the story, citing the Taiwanese United Daily News as the source of the information.

According to the report, the 18-year-old man entered an Internet café in southern Taiwan around noon on Friday, booked a private room, and played almost two days without stopping to eat. On Sunday morning, an employee of the café entered the room to check on the man and found him resting on a table. Shortly after being roused, the man collapsed and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

This is far from the first time a marathon gaming session has ended in tragedy. The AAP reported that another Taiwanese man died in February after a 23-hour gaming jag ended with a heart attack. In 2007, a 30-year-old man collapsed and died in Guangzhou, China, after gaming for three straight days, In 2005, a 28-year-old South Korean man died after a 50-hour gaming session. In 2003, police in Hong Kong cited a six-hour stint playing Diablo II at an Internet café as a contributing factor in a 28-year-old man's death. In 2002, a 24-year-old South Korean man died after 86 uninterrupted hours of gameplay. That same month, a 27-year-old Taiwanese man lasted 32 hours before succumbing to death by exhaustion.
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I wont lie, i & many of my friends have stayed doing 24+ hour sessions on games, but we always stock up with food/drink beforehand, i think it's fun & a good way as any to get some awesome gamage in, but i think doing it without the neccesary food/water is alittle stupid.

What do you guys think?
 
aslong as you eat/drink and take some breakes you're fine.
milkfat played hon for 72 to break guiness record and everything went fine cuz of breakes/drinks etc.
 
Never stayed over 6+ hours playing it. But its kinda risky. There are alot of disease that can be triggered by sitting for a long time. One guy even died in the gym by doing pushups. ˙(example,cuz he didin't know about it). I would do over 12+ h's.
 
Once I played Call of Duty Black Ops for straight 28 hours trying to reach 15th prestige in little time. After 28 hours of gameplay, I went to bed to catch some sleep at 4:00 AM. Woke up at 07:00 PM and next 3 days I was feeling like fainting/dazing and couldn't walk normaly. 4th day it all went normal and I'll never do it again.
And yes, I think it's too damn dangerous, especially for a guy who spent 86 interuppted hours of gameplay, that 24 years old South-Korean guy..
 
I Don't understand why anyone would not take a break.. even a 2-3 minute break get up walk to bathroom piss/shit, maybe grab a soda.. maybe a snack. Too die from sitting on your ass not moving is sheer stupidity, I don't laugh at his death but I don't mourn either. #SadTruth
 
This is really crazy, i sometimes wonder how is it possible? Ive been gaming with my friends for 2 days sometimes 3 days on LANs but you don't sit down more tahn idk 3h tops? you eat/drink/use toilet/smoke. I remember playing Grand Turismo 4 nonstop on good old playstation 2 days :D there was this 24H race which was like impossible to complete without dying in rl.
 
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1 day awake - Nothing just tired
2 days awake - Hallucinating
3 days awake - Brain dies
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Dunno if its right but i think it is.
 
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According to the Scientific American , a study following internet addicts that spent more than ten hours daily playing online games showed that excessive gaming may shrink brains up to 10 to 20% in excessive cases. The study identified addicts by asking questions such as ‘”Do you use the Internet as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving an anxious mood?” to “Have you taken the risk of losing a significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of the Internet?”‘

While those questions are related to internet usage, again, the study revolved around people who used the internet to play online games such as World of Warcraft. These subjects tended to play online games ten hours a day, six days a week. After running the subjects through an MRI scan, focusing specifically on the parts of the brain where “speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information occurs,” it was found that certain parts of the brain had shrunk from their normal size. The more severe the addiction, the more pronounced the shrinkage tended to be.

Note, however, that brain shrinkage is not inherently a bad thing. ‘”The effect is quite extreme, but it’s not surprising when you think of the brain as a muscle,” says Friston, who was not involved in the study. “Our brains grow wildly until our early teens, then we start pruning and toning areas to work more efficiently. So these areas may just be relevant to being a good online gamer, and were optimized for that.”‘

The effects of the shrinking are not concretely known. Scientific American postulates that there are many possibilities, ranging from compromising one’s ability to make proper decisions and storing and retrieving information
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DestinationSer said:
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1 day awake - Nothing just tired
2 days awake - Hallucinating
3 days awake - Brain dies
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Dunno if its right but i think it is.
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Nope, the brain doesn't start dying untill around 7-8 days. (Even then it's not really a "Serious" dying, there's cases where people have been awake for a good few months)
You start hallucinating after the 3rd.

- & for anyone wondering, when they say hallucinating they don't mean you start seeing people or people talking to you, you'll just see shadows moving from the corner of you eyes/ or odd things appearing that don't really made sense.
 

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