{"id":1191,"date":"2005-08-09T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2009-09-26T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T17:49:18","slug":"death-by-video-game-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/death-by-video-game-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by Video Game Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like some poker players I know.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reuters: <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=2005-08-09T135143Z_01_KWA938635_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-ODD-KOREA-GAMES.XML\">S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on August 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.<\/p>\n<p>After he failed to return home, Lee&#8217;s mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>He died a few minutes later, it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if we can find <a href=\"http:\/\/poker.tarix.net\/\">Mike<\/a> partially liable for this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like some poker players I know. Reuters: S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-jd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}