Hard on the heals of the news that Rock Music Makes You Stupid comes this breaking news that Internet Video Gaming Will Kill You
BEIJING – A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.
Again, no word concerning the involvement of drugs or alcohol. And again, it is also unclear whether chicks were involved.
The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.
Darn, that’ll be one five star rated game, once the name gets out. All the other players in the cafe ran out because of fear. This was a Chinese cafe. In America, the other gamers would fight each other for his console, and the trial lawyers would be lining up to sue the cafe for not cutting him off, or the game developer for not putting a warning label on it. Now that I think about it, this is China. It was probably a pirated copy of Halo 3… which isn’t out yet.
Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.
Let’s see, Internet, “gaming”, exhaustion, dead player… why does this remind me of that endless tape loop scene from the Natalie Wood movie “Brainstorm“?
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