After 20 continuous hours in front of the computer screen playing WoW, a 15 year old Swede went into convulsions and collapsed from sleep deprivation and hunger.  The boy is expected to make a full recovery and his father has vowed to limit the amount of time he can play from now on.

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only 20 hours... pussy!..

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Originally posted by gan3f
only 20 hours... pussy!..

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I agree, I used to push 60+ hrs as a youth. Pizza and caffeine is all you needed.

Before I came to uni i'd sleep about 2-3 hours aday spending the rest of the time in college/ gaming

Something about 10 years ago I have spend about 48 hours playing Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games.

I survived it, my old CRT monitor has not...Contemporary youth is so fragile...

wow only 20 hours? so weak.

I don't wanna comment on the original news, since it is quite tragic.

But 20 hours is not a big deal, of course is not normal, but is not so extreme.
Probably he played much longer than that

Originally posted by gan3f

only 20 hours... pussy!..

no shit, eh?? What ever happened to 36 hour power-gaming sessions?

If only I could find a game WORTHY of that kind of thing anymore.

Let  them fall...WOW and subscribers are like a Hydra and its heads...for every 1cut off...10 others spring up to take it's place. All part of the business strategy.....of course I'm kidding. Just funny the father will only limit the amount of gametime....if  my kid played a game to such a degree  that it risked his health...he would not be able to play that game..period..at least not in my house.. Of course..I don't have kids so...that's not saying much.

Originally posted by ste2000

I don't wanna comment on the original news, since it is quite tragic.

But 20 hours is not a big deal, of course is not normal, but is not so extreme.
Probably he played much longer than that

Yeah, perhaps he told his Dad it was only 20 hours, when it was actually longer.  Or he might have some kind of ailment like diabetes or something that would make eating food necessary to prevent collapsing.

Wow, what is wrong with you people? 20 continuous hours of gaming is unhealthy and absurd. If you do this regularly you seriously need to go out and get a life before you end up like that guy in Korea who died of organ failure.

Some people are more susceptible to such things.  I get headaches from FPS games with good graphics much faster than anyone I've met.  Your average person could handle gaming for over 20 hours with no sleep or food, although I imagine that it wouldn't be easy.  These kids did get at least some sleep and ate some food. 

Of course, gaming for 20 hours and not bothering to eat or sleep is silly even if you don't almost drop dead. 

Originally posted by Timberwolf0

Wow, what is wrong with you people? 20 continuous hours of gaming is unhealthy and absurd. If you do this regularly you seriously need to go out and get a life before you end up like that guy in Korea who died of organ failure.

/fail

It reminds me about those two other cases:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1557480/Couple-play-computer-games-as-children-starve.html

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

Nothing new. Happend 50000 times and they still write about things like this just to make it seem bad.
Very old news btw, this was like 3 weeks ago.

And btw, 20 hours aint that long. I've pushed it over 45 hours straight, only water and amphetamine does the trick tbh. Thats how pro gamers do it, you want to be first to level 80 you gotta do it hard!

lolololol.

Originally posted by Timberwolf0

Wow, what is wrong with you people? 20 continuous hours of gaming is unhealthy and absurd. If you do this regularly you seriously need to go out and get a life before you end up like that guy in Korea who died of organ failure.

There may be a fortune to be made for whoever can invent a machine that keeps your vital signs stable while you just sit and vegitate in front of the computer.

A teen collapsing after 20 hours of gaming. And? There are worse things happening across the world.

I didn't sleep for three days once.  I was working my way through college, and between work and school I didn't have time to sleep.   I started to hallucinate which at the time was a bit scary but in retrospect was kinda cool.

One hallucination was a black horse riding out into the middle of the street.  Then I blinked and it was gone.  The other thing I saw was a man staring at me from across the street wearing a full body yellow raincoat with the hood pulled over his head.  I blinked and it actually turned out to be a yellow pole about waist high.

Later when I finally made it home and was able to sleep, I was dizzy and nauseas.  I jerked upright atleast three or four times wretching, but luckily I didn't vomit.  When I fell asleep it felt like being smothered to death.  I awoke maybe 18 hours later with what felt like a hang over...head ache, nausea, malaise.

Not something I would ever want to repeat.

"Sleep is for babies, gamers stay up all night"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAhR1N5oJNA

Originally posted by gan3f

only 20 hours... pussy!..

Agreed. What kind of pansy was this?