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Computer addict dies at screen
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| 3/9/2004
Posted on 03/09/2004 3:53:07 PM PST by Born Conservative
A computer game addict in western China collapsed and died at his screen after playing the popular online game Saga non-stop for 20 hours, a news report said today.
The 31-year-old began playing the game regularly at an internet cafe in Chengdu, Sichuan province, three months before his death, according to the South China Morning Post.
An employee at the cafe said he would play for more than 10 hours a day and was found dead on Saturday morning after a marathon 20-hour session, the newspaper said.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: videogames
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To: Born Conservative
Hope he didn't have any time to reproduce. Outa the gene pool!!
To: Born Conservative
20 hours! My wife rags on me for playing Battlefield 1942 for 3 hours...
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:54:23 PM PST
by
Born Conservative
(conservative click Guerilla extraordinare)
To: Born Conservative
I was thinking about buying Doom 3 when it is released. Maybe I shouldn't.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:55:10 PM PST
by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: Born Conservative
Twenty hours! Must have had a heck of a five o'clock shadow on his palms.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:55:51 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: martin_fierro; mhking
Ping
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:56:06 PM PST
by
Born Conservative
(conservative click Guerilla extraordinare)
To: Integrityrocks
There has been other reports. IIROC it has to do with of blockage of an artery due to sitting for so long.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:56:59 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(Free Martha)
To: Born Conservative
Good Riddance!
To: Born Conservative
I keep trying to tell people not to play with the permadeath option on, but they just won't listen.
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:57:23 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: Born Conservative
My wife rags on me for playing Battlefield 1942 for 3 hours
Now you're going to hear "If I was in Chengdu, China there wouldn't be a funeral right now!"
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:57:46 PM PST
by
lelio
To: Born Conservative
Oh.. thought from the title it had to be a Freeper. ;-)
To: AfghanIraqVeteran
That's not nice!
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:58:23 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
("This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!")
To: Born Conservative
Snow Crash?
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:01:28 PM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
To: Born Conservative
Sounds like me and Quake 3 Arena.
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:03:29 PM PST
by
spodefly
(The kinder, gentler spodefly.)
To: daviddennis
something for you to look forward to.
(just kidding)
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:14:55 PM PST
by
ambrose
("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
To: evilC
So... was he still logged in?
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:23:28 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in Kerry)
To: Born Conservative
playing the game regularly at an internet cafe in Chengdu, Sichuan province mmmmm . . . makes me feel like getting some fiery Kung Pao chicken. Yum!
To: Born Conservative
To: So Cal Rocket
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:43:38 PM PST
by
JOAT
To: 2Trievers; albee; annyokie; Bloody Sam Roberts; Born Conservative; BraveMan; Chad Fairbanks; ...
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posted on
03/09/2004 4:45:42 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
("If there's one thing we actors know, it's ... er, what do we know again?")
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