12hrs of straight video game playing ....

[brooklynscat69]

Originally Posted by Celcius

I read a pretyt funny ass article of some dumb f*ck starving to death because he was an active member of over 100 forums, and had over a million accumulated posts on all of them. He refused to eat, and his wife cried herself to sleep because he was too worried that if he stepped away from the computer, he would miss out of a topic and miss out in important imformation.

what a dumbass.

[RedSIinPA]

I questioned the original russian article because it said 80% of the school children were addicted to games. That number sounds way too high.

[CaliGuy]

This kid MUST have had something wrong with him. You cannot die from playing video games. I have played video games for in excess of 18 hours (with smoke, food and potty breaks) and I'm fine. Do I recommend it: no. Will you die from it no...come on people...

I know several hard core gamers that will play non-stop for days and they're still alive and well...

[gbae007]

Originally Posted by CaliGuy

This kid MUST have had something wrong with him. You cannot die from playing video games. I have played video games for in excess of 18 hours (with smoke, food and potty breaks) and I'm fine. Do I recommend it: no. Will you die from it no...come on people...

I know several hard core gamers that will play non-stop for days and they're still alive and well...

The article mentions an underlying condition that the kid had...

[brooklynscat69]

Originally Posted by CaliGuy

This kid MUST have had something wrong with him. You cannot die from playing video games. I have played video games for in excess of 18 hours (with smoke, food and potty breaks) and I'm fine. Do I recommend it: no. Will you die from it no...come on people...

I know several hard core gamers that will play non-stop for days and they're still alive and well...

Smoke as in cigaretts?

[CaliGuy]

Originally Posted by brooklynscat69

Smoke as in cigaretts?

those and :)