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Thunderdome Prominent gamer died during live-streamed attempt to play 'World of Tanks' for 24 hours
2017 Feb 23, 6:25pm 1,463 views 12 comments
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zzyzzx
2017 Feb 23, 6:26pm
Vigneault’s passing marked one of the very few, if not the first, deaths during a marathon Twitch game-playing event. But there have been several publicized, though rare, incidents of gamers dying in the middle of extremely long sessions. In 2015, a 24-year-old man collapsed and died after playing “World of Warcraft†for 19 hours in a Shanghai Internet cafe. Three years prior, a Taiwanese teenager also died at an Internet cafe, playing “Diablo 3†for 40 hours. And in 2005, a South Korean man’s heart failed 50 hours into a “Starcraft†marathon.
Ceffer
2017 Feb 23, 7:51pm
Astronaut diapers, gallons of coffee, junk food, and cigarettes during long, interminable sessions of sitting. What could possibly go wrong?
Ceffer
2017 Feb 23, 8:05pm
Yeah, what ever happened to "get up and walk around masturbation" breaks? Maybe the uniform should include support hose.
komputodo
2017 Feb 23, 8:58pm
Yeah, what ever happened to "get up and walk around masturbation" breaks? Maybe the uniform should include support hose.
Or a circle jerk every couple of hours with the fanboys.
MrEd
2017 Feb 23, 9:08pm
Wrong again. standing kills also.
Moving is the anecdote.
Gaming doesn't kill. Sitting does. Gamers need to start using standing desks.
Dan8267
2017 Feb 23, 9:33pm
Do jokes now have to be medically accurate? Or is your humor detector on the fritz?
MrEd
2017 Feb 24, 6:05am
Standing desks are now ubiquitous amongst the computer-bound.
Maybe back in the 80's your comment would have been funny.
Now it is germane to the conversation.
Do jokes now have to be medically accurate? Or is your humor detector on the fritz?
Gaming doesn't kill. Sitting does. Gamers need to start using standing desks.
NDrLoR
2017 Feb 24, 8:57am
The same principle applies to formerly healthy older adults who break a long bone and have to be confined, then suddenly die during the recuperation because of not enough movement.
Shaman
2017 Feb 24, 9:46am
So treadmill desks would be ideal? Or perhaps bicycle desks? Walking while typing might be tricky so cycling would be the best.
zzyzzx
2017 Feb 24, 4:17pm
I hope they put died during a live-streamed attempt to play 'World of Tanks' for 24 hours in his tombstone.
Tenpoundbass
2017 Feb 24, 4:24pm
Maybe coke or meth.
Prolonged eyestrain and task concentration is more deadly than forced prolong physical activity for the same amount of time.
The guy strapped to a Gamming machine with a screen a few feet way will kill over before the guy moving a pile of rocks from one spot to the other.
I lost my better than 20/20 eyesight I had all my life during a one period where I was coding for 18 hours slepping about 4 or 5 then waking up and coding another 18 20 hours for two weeks straight when I was in Malsysia.
When I came back I needed reading glasses, and felt like I aged 5 years.
IF I had been moving rocks for two weeks, I would have looked like a Model and a few years younger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/23/va-man-died-during-marathon-attempt-to-play-video-game-for-24-hours/
Twenty-two hours into a 24-hour-long marathon video game session, Twitch streamer Brian Vigneault, 35, got up to take a smoke break. He never returned to his computer.
His fans, mainly fellow gamers who watched Vigneault play the online skirmisher “World of Tanks,” wondered if Vigneault had fallen asleep. Although it was around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, falling asleep in the afternoon would not have been completely unexpected. Vigneault, under the online nickname Poshybrid, would play “World of Tanks” for extreme lengths of time to raise donations for charity.
When a moderator messaged Vigneault a few hours after his abrupt disappearance, a Virginia Beach detective responded via Vigneault's computer on the chat app Discord, according to a Reddit post. Vigneault was found unresponsive at his Virginia Beach home early Sunday evening. He had died while raising money for the Make-A-Wish charity.
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