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Here we go again the industry is about to take a beatin

by Donald "Yadot" Harris · in General Discussion · 09/17/2007 (9:55 am) · 6 replies

Http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/17/internet.death.ap/index.html


A man dies after 3 days of gaming.... somehow this will be our (industry) fault.
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
09/17/2007 (10:14 am)
"The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet."

One hour is too many...

Associate Chip Lambert
Crusader Games
#2
09/17/2007 (10:19 am)
Shouldn't have someone, maybe an employee of the Internet cafe, noticed he had been there for so long and did something? Isn't this the second one of these deaths in about a year, or was the first guy Korean?

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Jessick
#3
09/17/2007 (10:31 am)
Compared to the risk of travelling back and forth, staying longer at the internet cafe is probably statistically safer ;)

Torque 3D Owner Donald "Yadot" Harris
Marveloper
#4
09/17/2007 (10:33 am)
Well you know every part of our industry is nothing but money grubbers /Sarcasm

@Chip
Someone at that place should be fired.. but I guess the laws are different over there.

Torque Owner Brian Richardson
#5
09/17/2007 (1:48 pm)
I'm fairly sure this exact story ran like 3 years ago. The only reference I could find was this old irc log though:

http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/2005/2005-11/2005-11-13.html

Torque 3D Owner Donald "Yadot" Harris
Marveloper
#6
09/17/2007 (1:50 pm)
No this just happens a lot. :(