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Idiot 'WoW' Player Suffers Seizure After 24-Hour Session Of 'Wrath Of The Lich King'

Posted by Raymond Padilla - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:03 AM

A 15-year old Swedish boy collapsed and went into convulsions after a 24-hour session of the World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. According to Times Online:

"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."

Unfortunately, politicians and annoying activists will use this story to illustrate the evils of gaming. The focus will be on how this wicked game sent this poor boy into epileptic seizures. The focus should be on what a moron this kid is for neglecting his basic bodily needs and what a crappy father he has for letting him end up in this condition.

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Posted by kevkong360 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:12 AM

haha. i bet he was a fatty (no offense to the other fatties)

Posted by AgentDrickel - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:23 AM

hey I submitted this..though it was from Fox News...and they had their usual slighted view of video games...but yeah do not blame the game for making the kid not take a break..it is the kid and his parents fault..whether its from Halo, WoW, Metal Gear Solid...stop blaming the game and blame the parents who do not look in on their children

Posted by r_pad - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:32 AM

@kevkong360 I'm going to generalize -- every Swedish person I've met has been pretty fit. It's a credit to their superior culture and tennis abilities.

Posted by marowin - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:39 AM

Oh course it is Blizzard's fault that this kid has an addictive personality and possibly a mild case of epilepsy.

Posted by syphercx - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:43 AM

Man... I was hoping to be the first to have seizures from wrath... 2nd will do.

Posted by neoix - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:52 AM

see, this is why I don't play WOW, or any pc mmo for that matter...

Posted by ed9oh - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:55 AM

playing wow is bad enough but this? man that kid is gonna hear about this for a long time

Posted by dominion76 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:06 AM

amateur. Anything short of death is not ever news worthy :-) But seriously, where were the parents???

Posted by anonomousperson - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:50 AM

Hahaha. Its like Crack.

Posted by tarshimo - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:13 AM

*sigh* can you rename this article to "stupid kid and bad parenting=seizures" cause I play wow, and I have wrath. And a few of my friends play it, and we all agree that this is stupid, its not wow, its the stupid kid and the stupid parents.

Posted by r_pad - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:17 AM

@tarshimo That's a good title, but it's not ideally SEO'd.

Posted by ShaStOne - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:34 AM

Further encouragement that MMOs should not be sold to minors without parental consent.

Posted by Jamagh - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:40 AM

24 hours? Don't the people in the Asian netcafes take about 72 hours to drop over?
And yes, I blame the parent, for not paying attention to the child. Or teaching self control.

Posted by Ieyke - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:42 AM

Crap like this that proves how dumb WoW players are. They may not all be up to his epic level of dumb, but their level of dumb is a lot higher on average.

Posted by Brandonana - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:44 AM

Further encouragement that MMOs should not be sold to anyone...

Posted by r_pad - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:49 AM

@Jamagh Asian gamers have superior gaming stamina. Swedes play better tennis.

Posted by MaxDragon7 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:51 AM

Well, thats what happens if you don't eat your broccoli.
I would at least take a break, Lol.

Posted by dinohunterx - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:53 AM

Damn right!

Posted by hellrazer360 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:09 AM

WOW everytime i read an article like this i laugh my @ss off...i wish that kid would have died a slow painfull death for bieng such an idiot

Posted by TheWolfMI - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:23 AM

It's the kid's fault! He's just not HARDCORE enough! SUCK IT UP JUNIOR!

Posted by Smartguy81 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:45 AM

@AgentDrickel
i submitted it to them as well from foxnews. the moderators here have a bias against anything from foxnews. in fact every article i send them is from foxnews. they must hate the fact that fox gets the news first. idk.

Posted by Tman88 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:51 AM

This is another case to where the parents should have stepped in but didn't. The kid's father should have done something and really the father could have easily done something but for some reason he neglected to do so.

Posted by happystatic - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:43 PM

the convulsion achievment. impressive.

Posted by KorwynKU - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:19 PM

as a gamer, I wouldn't let my kids play vdo games for over 5 hours straight. It's not healthy. I admit I did play Dragon Quest IV for over 24 hours straight when I was 15.

Oh and if they are going to blame vdo games on the matter. Tell them to do some research on everything else.

e.g. have a teenage go study the same subject, swimming or even go work for 24 hours straight. I would believe that most of the time we would get the same result. It's not vdo games it's lack of food and rest. so by the same result would tell that schools, sports, and work are not good for health and we all should stop those as well as vdo games?

Posted by Ikarus - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:32 PM

I'm a Zoology major and I know natural selection when I see it. The kid is to stupid, he ignores his basic bodily needs. This behavior is selected against in nature, as species that do this are more likely to die compared to other species who eat and use the bathroom are more likely to survive. The same can be said for this moron's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Idiot.

The parents either 1) are not good parents, allowing their child to die, therefore have less success in nature and their offspring have less of a chance to survive (so their genes will not be passed on, thankfully) or 2) Recognize that their child is weak and will die anyway, so much like hamsters eat their weaker young, their parents are merely letting their young kill itself, since they were full anyway. This actually makes the parents successful parents in nature.

Hm. I should remember this for my ecology test next week.

Posted by LucasFFXI - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:47 PM

That's what happens if you spend your life on World of Warcraft.

Posted by Apsalus07 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:11 PM

Don't all video games have seizure warnings?

Posted by dantekratos300 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:46 PM

Crazyyy, 24 hour of gameplay without eating

Posted by Kagez28 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:32 PM

Too bad the kid didn't die...

i just pray that he doesn't reproduce (which for most world of warcraft players doesn't happen anyway) so we don't have people this stupid in future generations.

everyone is blaming the parents, and yes they deserve a swift kick in the gonads, but a 15 year old kid should no better. i mean come on most 15 year olds can't go 20 mins with out jerkin off let alone 24 hours.

Posted by Kagez28 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:42 PM

Too bad the kid didn't die...

i just pray that he doesn't reproduce (which for most world of warcraft players doesn't happen anyway) so we don't have people this stupid in future generations.

everyone is blaming the parents, and yes they deserve a swift kick in the gonads, but a 15 year old kid should no better. i mean come on most 15 year olds can't go 20 mins with out jerkin off let alone 24 hours.

Posted by Kagez28 - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:52 PM

Too bad the kid didn't die...

i just pray that he doesn't reproduce (which for most world of warcraft players doesn't happen anyway) so we don't have people this stupid in future generations.

everyone is blaming the parents, and yes they deserve a swift kick in the gonads, but a 15 year old kid should no better. i mean come on most 15 year olds can't go 20 mins with out jerkin off let alone 24 hours.

Posted by Silky08 - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:09 AM

This is just sad.

Posted by Namtopia - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:02 PM

puh-lease, you gotta be kidding me? 24 hours is NOTHING...
Step it up kid!!! You're not a real gamer

Posted by Namtopia - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:16 PM

puh-lease, you gotta be kidding me? 24 hours is NOTHING...
Step it up kid!!! You're not a real gamer

Posted by Namtopia - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:41 PM

puh-lease, you gotta be kidding me? 24 hours is NOTHING...
Step it up kid!!! You're not a real gamer

Posted by jadescarab - Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:54 PM

Definately blame the parent for not making the kid get up and move every so often. I wonder if the kid even got up to go to the bathroom (which could be another cause of a seizure...)

Feck, back when I was 15, I pulled a 92 hour MUD session (Technically 98 hour, I subtracted 6 hours for reboot time/ bathroom break, etc) with no sleep and just pulled a rip-van-winkle for a couple days.
Parents were on vacation. I had no life.

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