just pathetic, in many senses

[blackhole]

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PATHETIC - some kid collapsed after played WoW for a 20 hour stretch.

what ever happened to riding bicycles, playing ball with your boys, general fun stuff that kids used to do - i guees they don't do this anymore. they play video games 24/7

EVEN MORE PATHETIC - the fact the he collapsed from it.

how hard is it to sit for 20 hrs in front of a computer - for real???? it may cause some back stress, but nothing major. the fact that this kid actually collapsed from 20 hours of sitting is more pathetic than why he collapsed. it indicates that he gets no physical conditioning at all - nothing. how out of shape do you have to be to sit for 20 hrs and collapse????? i bet than anyone on this board could sit for 20 hrs in front of a computer if they HAD too - with no problems.

in fact if any of you recall, there was natabolic who was a post whore on here (like 25 post per day). OTH once made a post showing all natabolic post times for one day. they were spread out over 20 hrs - he didn't collapse lol


so it is what society coming to? people who are so incredibly unfit that sitting all day makes them collapse? whats next? sleeping makes you collapse.

 

[Mash1]

This,

is why I thank god I was born in rural Georgia. Not only did it teach me manners and life lessons I will always treasure...but it taught me how to be a man. EVERY morning and afternoon I was doing manual labor on our acres of land or having football or baseball games/practice. I could play video games like 2 hours a week TOPS...and that would be on Sunday. Not that I even wanted to. There was always something physical I'd rather be doing.

Me being only 18, I witness this first hand. The majority of teens and kids nowaday are RIDICULOUSLY lazy. I have to beg some of my friends to even leave their house.

I am forced to spend 4-6 hours a day on the computer for school, research papers and my computerized software that's teaching me Spanish. I DON'T like it one bit, I'd rather be surfing, playing ball, etc....It kills me how some teens LIKE to spend every waking minute on the computer/video games.

Ok, I'm done with my rant, haha.

 

[homonunculus]

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PATHETIC - some kid collapsed after played WoW for a 20 hour stretch.

what ever happened to riding bicycles, playing ball with your boys, general fun stuff that kids used to do - i guees they don't do this anymore. they play video games 24/7

EVEN MORE PATHETIC - the fact the he collapsed from it.

how hard is it to sit for 20 hrs in front of a computer - for real???? it may cause some back stress, but nothing major. the fact that this kid actually collapsed from 20 hours of sitting is more pathetic than why he collapsed. it indicates that he gets no physical conditioning at all - nothing. how out of shape do you have to be to sit for 20 hrs and collapse????? i bet than anyone on this board could sit for 20 hrs in front of a computer if they HAD too - with no problems.

in fact if any of you recall, there was natabolic who was a post whore on here (like 25 post per day). OTH once made a post showing all natabolic post times for one day. they were spread out over 20 hrs - he didn't collapse lol


so it is what society coming to? people who are so incredibly unfit that sitting all day makes them collapse? whats next? sleeping makes you collapse.

Sounds to me like he didn't sleep or eat for 24 hr (they said 24 in the video report, but 20hr in the headline they pictured), which triggered an epileptic seizure. Sounds like he had a pre-existing condition.

I dunno, but I would imagine that playing continuously without food (esp. if the game is a adrenalized one) for entire day would be pretty tough. Try posting, one post after another on different bodybuilding boards from now until the same time tomorrow, without stopping to sleep or eat, and I bet you'd feel like shit. (I would.)

OTOH - I'm TOTALLY with you on the point that many kids are supplanting regular play / exercise with video games...

-S

 

[bm11]

Reminds me of that south park...

 

[VanR__]

Wow is crack for D&D nerds like me.

I know I'll get hooked if I play it so I never have.

My sister's b/f has 8 characters at level 60 and up on WoW. Fucking guy has not had a job since I've known him and he's mid 30s.

 

[Kane]

My sister's b/f has 8 characters at level 60 and up on WoW. Fucking guy has not had a job since I've known him and his mid 30s.

His parents must be proud.

 

[FordTurboDiesel]

whats next? sleeping makes you collapse.

Yes. It's so dangerous, you have to lay down to do it.

I agree with you 100% Mash.

 

[j8282]

is why I thank god I was born in rural Georgia. Not only did it teach me manners and life lessons I will always treasure...but it taught me how to be a man. EVERY morning and afternoon I was doing manual labor on our acres of land or having football or baseball games/practice. I could play video games like 2 hours a week TOPS...and that would be on Sunday. Not that I even wanted to. There was always something physical I'd rather be doing.

Me being only 18, I witness this first hand. The majority of teens and kids nowaday are RIDICULOUSLY lazy. I have to beg some of my friends to even leave their house.

I am forced to spend 4-6 hours a day on the computer for school, research papers and my computerized software that's teaching me Spanish. I DON'T like it one bit, I'd rather be surfing, playing ball, etc....It kills me how some teens LIKE to spend every waking minute on the computer/video games.

Ok, I'm done with my rant, haha.

Go GA! I was raised in the country so I really never had time to get into games with football, hunting and fishing available. I grew up in the country and my brother grew up in the city. Its like night and day between us. He plays alot of video games and his maturity levels way lower than mine. I love to work he doesnt. When I was in the military there was a guy who died from exhaustion from playing games for so long. When I do play games like halo its very addictive!

 

[VanR__]

His parents must be proud.

Parents are dead of cancer and old age.

 

[gymrat215]

i have no audio so i coudnt view the video but i know a kid here whos whole family is crazy into video games.. ya know..they were the ones to have the NEW system the day it came out and the cool new game the day it came out and thats what they excelled in..video games? so hes collapsed a bunch a times i guess playing video games lol.. i guess it was similar he usually collapsed after playing the game straight for hours on end and i guess it was usually an arcade game so he HAD to keep playing straight since you cant hit pause like at home lol..so i have heard of this before lol
and uhhh ya i used to play them but i also played every fucking real sport as well and excelled in football wrestling lax.. i stopped playing video games in 5th grade or soo i just couldnt get into them at all.. i will only play super mario games now and thats what once every 3-4 yrs a new one comes out.. super mario galaxy for the wii i think it was called was the last game i played and im just amazed at how awesome games are these days and i barely finished that game i got to bored with it and i felt like it was a fucking JOB to finish it! lol i wish i was into games tho man theres a lot of cool shit these nerds got to keep them occupied haha but serioously long gone are the days ill sit at friends house and just WATCH them all play the latest "COOOOOL" game and not join because of how boring i thought it was and it seems too much like work for me i guess nowadays ya know? its like these kids have to dedicate their lives to just finish a fuckin game! haha..but seriously i always finish something i start so i know if i ever got into playing one of these games like gears of war or whatever its called id have no fucking life! lol
ok theres my rant

 

[Chrysler]

What they don't tell you is that the expansion just came out and he's probably been playing 20 hour sessions consecutively for the past couple weeks.

 

[Muay Thai]

he is a product of poor parenting and delusional normal teenage activities

i have no sympathy for him or anyone like this

your body is a temple, treat it that way

he might as well have been snorting lines for those 20 hours, just about as embarassing. now he will be teased forever in sweden, but may be a legend on the bad ass online community

embarassing. i would go ostrich with it if iwas him and stick my head in a hole and never come out (thats what he has been doing anyway right?)

 

[VanR__]

What they don't tell you is that the expansion just came out and he's probably been playing 20 hour sessions consecutively for the past couple weeks.

The 2nd expansion to this series, after the Burning Crusade.

It added a whole new continent I guess and class, the Death Knight. To become a death knight, you have to already have a character level 50 or 60 (can't remember) that takes months to make.
That's why so many people are grinding at it for hours every day, so they can have a death knight if they don't have a high level char.

There is a built in fail-safe. The game rewards people with more experience if you log off and rest more often, but alot of people don't give a shit and play through the rest times and take the exp penalty.

They should code in a timer so you can only play for 10 hours a day. I think this incident will press the issue again.

 

[bus]

Yes very sad. A co worker i had at one time was found after having a heart attack. I guess he was high on meth and jerking off to porn for 3 days straight. Just as bad in my book.

 

[FeverishFlux]

You can't imagine how addictive World Of Warcraft really is. People say it's just a video game, what's the big deal. I've given some copies of the game to ppl who've said that and they all because seriously drawn into the game.
I'm going to say WoW(world of warcraft) is the most addictive video game of all time. You just need to play for a small bit of time, 1-2hrs and you're hooked. I've a friend at work who can easily play 24hrs in one sitting.
To put it bluntly, it's main-lining in a video game form. You don't need to be into video games in the slightest bit to get hooked on that game.
A friend of mine's kid went from bad grades to straight A's because he held WoW over the kids head, no A's - no WoW.
Don't quote me but I believe there's over 10million American's subscribing to WoW at $15 per month, so the game is big business. That's 1 out of every 25 Americans hooked on a video game. That's a crazy statistic until you try the game and realize how entertaining it is.

 

[blackhole]

Yes very sad. A co worker i had at one time was found after having a heart attack. I guess he was high on meth and jerking off to porn for 3 days straight. Just as bad in my book.

omg thats messed up. are you serious?

 

[aoj]

I find it funny and hippocritical of yall to say that the kid has no life and is a loser because he is playing a game he loves and as others have said the reason he played for such a long continuous time was because a new expansion just came out so everyone is playing much more than normal to get to level 80 the old max was 70, as well as to try out all the new content. That being said how many of you would go do a 20 hour workout if you knew you could put on 10 pounds of solid keepable muscle? This is basically the same thing in video game terms. Maybe instead of judging others for doing what they enjoy and love you should step back and realize we are just as fucked up as that kid in most peoples eyes. Anyway this just reminds of how all yall bashed homosexuals in a thread not too long ago. For people that want others to accept our lifestyle yall sure are judgmental of others.

 

[the_warrior]

I find it funny and hippocritical of yall to say that the kid has no life and is a loser because he is playing a game he loves and as others have said the reason he played for such a long continuous time was because a new expansion just came out so everyone is playing much more than normal to get to level 80 the old max was 70, as well as to try out all the new content. That being said how many of you would go do a 20 hour workout if you knew you could put on 10 pounds of solid keepable muscle? This is basically the same thing in video game terms. Maybe instead of judging others for doing what they enjoy and love you should step back and realize we are just as fucked up as that kid in most peoples eyes. Anyway this just reminds of how all yall bashed homosexuals in a thread not too long ago. For people that want others to accept our lifestyle yall sure are judgmental of others.

First of all, I think that you are coming off a bit harsh in this post. Secondly, while people have the power within certain limits to determine their own "lifestyle" that certainly does not insulate them from criticism. For myself, if someone questions my choice to pursue bodybuilding, I respond with arguments in favor of said choice and do not simply reproach them for judging me.

More broadly, arguments against judging others in most cases stems from a position of moral relativism. Unfortunately, moral relativism is a self-contradictory principle: it claims that there are no moral absolutes, but that statement in itself is a moral absolute, hence a contradiction. It is thus a philosophically indefensible position.

 

[VanR__]

Maybe instead of judging others for doing what they enjoy and love you should step back and realize we are just as fucked up as that kid in most peoples eyes. Anyway this just reminds of how all yall bashed homosexuals in a thread not too long ago. For people that want others to accept our lifestyle yall sure are judgmental of others.

Addicts do what they enjoy and love...a whole lot.

I'm a video game nerd so I understand the stigma, but this kid played so much he collapsed. This is going past the parameters of a hobby or lifestyle.

And he's not the only one. If you can play responsibly, fine, but a lot of people can't. They get sucked into their role playing char like some kind of in depth, never ending fantasy.

I won't dare open an account. I let myself join the Hellgate: London mmorpg because the company closed and the server goes down next month. 2 weeks before I head back to school. I have watched Wow be played for maybe 15 hours. Looks incredibly fun, but...

 

[blackhole]

I find it funny and hippocritical of yall to say that the kid has no life and is a loser because he is playing a game he loves and as others have said the reason he played for such a long continuous time was because a new expansion just came out so everyone is playing much more than normal to get to level 80 the old max was 70, as well as to try out all the new content. That being said how many of you would go do a 20 hour workout if you knew you could put on 10 pounds of solid keepable muscle? This is basically the same thing in video game terms. Maybe instead of judging others for doing what they enjoy and love you should step back and realize we are just as fucked up as that kid in most peoples eyes. Anyway this just reminds of how all yall bashed homosexuals in a thread not too long ago. For people that want others to accept our lifestyle yall sure are judgmental of others.

hmmm i guess the point i intended was missed. i am not bashing him for playing an online game, i myself play an online game, not WoW. soemtimes its enjoyable on the weekend to talk with people online, all over the world instead of going out and mingling with skanks.

my point was specifically this to put it blunty - How much of a p***y ass loser out of shape f**k do you have to be to pass out from SITTING for 20 hours.

SITTING!!!!!!! this is unbelievably pathetic than a teenage human could allow themselves to be in such a sad state. it is beyond my comprehension that anyone could be like this. some of you compare it to addiction, well with drug addictions they can PHYSICALLY alter your thinking, with playing this game, there is no outside influence chemical making you do this, you just gota be a lame ass weak minded individual.

SITTING, sorry i cant say it enough. is this representative of many teens today? i hope not. what would this say of our future as a race, when sitting for long periods of time is deemed as hard labor

i just drove to north carolina (from new york) to buy some used seats at a junkyard for my car. yes this seems extreme for seats but its ivory leather and REAL hard to find. well i work everyday, also workout and cardio, i drove for almost 30 hours straight down and back, while SITTING. also i had to remove the seats once i got there and work when i got back with no sleap for 2 days. i didnt pass out. i bet any of you could do this too without problems.