Xbox addict, 20, killed by blood clot after 12-hour gaming sessions

DailyMail.U.K. ^ | 30th July 2011 | Rebecca Twomey

[Jonty30]

To win a Darwin award, you either have to take yourself out or render yourself unreproducable through activities that are obvious in their ability to do that.

On the other hand, playing video games for hours makes you usually repugnant to the female gender, so you do accomplish the objective, through the female’s inability to find it attractive for males to play video games for hours on end.

So overall, I stand corrected.

[Tolsti2]

Gotta load up.

[magellan]

I wonder if getting up from the computer every 20 minutes and running down a flight of stairs to grab another diet pop then back up again is what kept me alive all those teen years?

I am still using that system in my 40s.

[Future Snake Eater]

[TheWriterTX]

My son is a Halo fan, plays it on-line with friends. He uses a wireless hand/head set and moves around quite a bit. Read him the article; going to make sure he does more physical activity, just to be safe.

[OldPossum]

I have never understood the attraction of what I would call “solitary games.”

I can remember as a teenager being almost repelled by my buddies who spent their money and time playing pinball.

[SIDENET]

[Pollster1]

My kids own no video games at all, and they watch relatively little TV. They have tire swings, outdoor toys, fishing poles, balls, books, bikes, running shoes, and friends. I have no problem with them playing video games when they visit friends, but I’m happy to see that they would rather go outside. Mission accomplished.

[SIDENET]

People who dedicate their lives to booze, hookers, drugs, and smoking even tend to live longer than 20.

Look what this kid missed by sitting on his arse.

[null and void]

[Mike3689]

That looks suspiciously like XKCD. :D

I ate 12 pieces of bacon for breakfast this morning and regretted it about 3 minutes later. Should’ve stopped at 6, but it’s just so tasty.

[jonascord]

I guess I can't generate the requisite amount of pity. By the time I was 20, I had been out of the house for two years, and in the Corps for 13 months...

The Marines tend to keep you from sitting on your a$$ for so long that you throw a blood clot...

[null and void]

It might well be. I’ve long since forgotten where I stole it.

[GeronL]

I guess his XBox didn’t have Kinect?

[GreenHornet]

They did a very similar story on Spike TV’s “1,000 Ways to Die.”

[GenXteacher]

I limit my XBox time to a couple hours a day....except when its double-points weekend on Call of Duty....

[CrazyIvan]

At that age I was racing flat track motorcycles. I’m still
alive. (kind of beat up, but alive)

[Psalm 144]

Well over twice his age and my record is 31 straight hours on a comparable game. Unspeakably sad for the father and the boy though.

[Psalm 144]

Heh. Yep.

[SamAdams76]

Same here. I joined the Marine Corps right after I graduated high school and by the time I was 20, I had already been on my own for nearly three years. The only video games I ever had time for was a little Pac-Man or Space Invaders at the e-Club and as each game was a quarter, I couldn’t afford to get very good at either!