18 year guy found dead after playing Diablo III for 40 hours non-stop

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9 points·jhony_d··6 comments

The care taker of that café woke him up, and Chuang stood and walked a few steps, and then later he bowed. He . . . he reportedly died after his arrival to the hospital. . . the law enforcement agencies and medical guys reported that he died due to sitting for so long. His cardiovascular malfunctioned and Chuang eventually died.

Sounds like he formed a blood clot from sitting too long, and when he stood up it dislodged and caused a pulmonary embolism (or maybe a heart attack or stroke).

The sensationalist video game angle aside, this is a good story for us hackers to keep in mind. We tend toward long periods of sitting, and even a couple hours without getting up and walking around a bit will put someone at increased risk of having this sort of thing happen to them.

For a less "video games are evil" example, there's Heavy D's death following an intercontinental flight.

(disclaimer: not a doctor)

I would be interested in the autopsy results to see if a blood clot really did him off, or if it was exhaustion from 40 hours of playing a video game.

In other news, 90 people died in traffic-related fatalities yesterday.

Sorry, correction: that isn't news. Something which happens every day is, by definition, not news.

Oh wow, Taiwan. I was expecting South Korea.

Now loading final boss level!

Good case for a standing work station

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