A schoolboy collapsed and went into convulsions after playing a new version of the World of Warcraft computer game for 24 hours straight.
The 15-year-old boy and his friends were playing Wrath of the Lich King when he suffered what appeared to be an epileptic seizure, it was reported today.
“They
played all day and all night. Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They
ate a little food and breakfast at their computers,” the boy’s father told the Kvällsposten newspaper in Sweden.
Doctors told the father that his son’s bodily systems had been disrupted by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food, and the prolonged period of concentration playing the game.
The teenager and
six friends are reported to have gathered at his home in Laholm, western Sweden, on Saturday to play the new version of the game which went on sale on Thursday. He collapsed at around 2pm yesterday.
The boy is expected to make a full recovery but his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son is allowed to play computer games.
Here is where I realized the story must be fake:
The teenager and six friends are reported to have gathered at his home in Laholm, western Sweden
Teenagers that would play WoW 24 hours staright do not have six "RL" friends
When reached for comment, King3vbo said
"He is my hero"
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These people are the idiots that hated net nuetrality months ago but they are so dumb for Obama fever that they wont say a word we he gets it to pass. I mean, they are the kids in Sweden.
PS I just found out last night that Taylor Swift wasn't a guy. My world has been shattered.
Is that a real picture of all the goths with santa?
If so, it's good.
Thanks for stealing that picture of me and my crew off my MySpace. Dick.
Let's take a moment to lawl at this kid.
Also, needs moar goth kids.
Ron Workman listens to Slipknot when he works out because they are so brutal.
Garison: Request granted.
This is magically delicious
Weeaaaaaak. Asians died over this game. Collapsing is the white way out. Lazy Caucasians.
Oh Cheapy D, only you would stay at such a hotel in Japan.
Can't even handle a 24hr gaming sesh----NEWB.
Im not goth I'm Sith.
Crazy Swedes! Maybe it's why I'm so nuts...
As for 24 hour straight marathon of a shitty game, let them kill themselves on it so I don't have to deal with 'em.
Also, goths are hilarious.
I cant think of anything witty. So lay it on me. What did those kids ask for, for Christmas?
And that is why I'm afraid to go anywhere near WoW.
GOTH TOM PETTY DISAPPROVES
(Psst...the kid on the bottom secretly wishes to be Nathan Explosion.)
pwnd
MARC IS NOT SURPRISED BY THIS NEWS
At least he wasn't standing when he "collapsed" He might have hurted his head.
......the fuck, his father KNEW he was playing the game obsessively ans STILL did nothing about it, I'm sorry but that is FUCKING BAD PARENTING, full stop.
Also, after his son nearly died and had a seizure, he decides to limit the amount of time playing on games, no surprise there, the fucking tool.
The kid is a tool for playing a game non stop, and WoW, and the dad is a stupid arse tool for not being more of a good parent.
Too bad for those kids, they made Santa's spooky list.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
NO WAI
Just another case of Asians do it BETTER
Chinese man drops dead in Internet cafe after 3-day gaming binge
Damn. Shit like this gives any decent MMORPG gamer a bad name. What happened to people enjoying the game instead of the uber rush rush rush level level level bullshit? While this story is actually pretty calm compared to mother's letting their children suffocate in a car when she went inside to tell someone in her guild something...and came back out three hours later. Regardless, this crap is sick. The kids need smacked, and the dad needs a swift dragon punch to the gentials.
What mix said. Why, when I was young(er), we were playing StarCraft for longer than that and suffered nothing worse than this thing called "getting tired" (at which point we dipped our heads in snow and carried on). This weakling must live further south in this penis shaped country o' mine.
Why didn't he just take a nap?
POUR ONE OUT FOR MY HERO
well, is sweden, is dark there, nothing to do.
Pussy.
This is why Jesus hasn't returned.
OBAMA!
@Danshir: Because the rush rush rush level level level is all WoW is about. PA pretty much nailed it with their new strip.
I VOTED FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE WILL BRING HOPE AND CHANGE
I voted for Obama because they* tell me that his future is so bright he glows in the dark.
*MSNBC.
CheapyD's Happy Fun Crazy hotel experience. Previously on the CAGcast...
Cheapy's flickr of all his sex hotel pictures made me want to cut my wang off.
why would anyone who wasnt some kind of philosophy 101 purist libertarian - and yeah, sorry, i know of those people tend to hang around these parts - be opposed to net neutrality?
and wait there's more.....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheapyd/sets/72157608620208781
"his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son is allowed to play computer games."
Wtf... After that, he's STILL going to let him play WoW? You can't be serious.
"his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son is allowed to play computer games."
From now on only 23 hours at a time.
that cheapyD photo is amazing...