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[monster]

Found this article at
http://english.pravd...5672_games.html

Turn out playing games for hours on end can kill you afterall.

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Boy dies of stroke after playing computer games for 12 hours non stop
06/20/2005 16:33

Computer games launched the development of the brain pathology, which the boy was suffering from, having thus provoked stroke

A teenager died in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg after 12 hours of playing computer games. The boy died from stroke after he had spent a half of his day playing games in a computer club. Doctors were taking lifesaving efforts for several days, but could not save the boy. The autopsy showed that the brain of a young gamer was totally destroyed.

According to the information from the press service of the city's healthcare administration, the tragedy occurred last week. The boy stayed in the game club longer than safety regulations allowed. When the boy returned home, he showed quite inadequate behavior, which made his mother call an ambulance. The boy was hospitalized, stayed in the reanimation department for seven weeks and died. Doctors concluded that computer games launched the development of the brain pathology, which the boy was suffering from, having thus provoked stroke.

Doctors of the city hospital say that they start receiving information about computer game addiction developing among teenagers on a regular basis. According to sociological research, up to 80 percent of schoolchildren of 12-13 years of age suffer from addiction to computers in Russia. Children may spend whole days sitting in front of computers without food, water and rest.

Children's addiction to computer games in Western states gradually takes the scale of alcohol and drug addiction. Such children are excessively short-tempered, irascible and emotionally unstable. They always experience a dire need of playing computer games, although they realize practical uselessness of such pastime. As a result, computer addicts suffer from inner contradictions between the real and the virtual egos.

Doctors say that serious addiction to computer games negatively affects both physical and intellectual development of children, causing depressions and psychological disorders.

[NipLick]

Thats bullsh*t. The kid probably ate some radiated berries at chernobyl. f*ckin russians

[Aziz]

HEY, im russian! so shhhh. berries from chernobil are good!!! *drops dead*

[Kass]

if i knew what a 'brain pathology' was it would make better sense

[Wingman]

Screw that. I've played video games since I was 6 and I turned out fine. Now leave me alone. Gotta go play more CSS before the sky falls.

[monster]

if i knew what a 'brain pathology' was it would make better sense

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Pathology is the study of diseases. So brain pathology is the study of brain diseases I guess. Maybe he was doomed to begin with or something? It sounds flaky, but I suppose anything is possible.

[Kass]

so he had a brain study of diseases.... which kicked in and killed him.. f*cking ridiculous

[monster]

Well... not really... to quote the article:

"The boy died from stroke after he had spent a half of his day playing games in a computer club."

I think this kid had it coming and anything more than a flashlight would have set him off.... lol



I guess that Chernobyl thing explains aziz then? lol j/k

Edited by monster, 24 June 2005 - 03:38 PM.

[Kass]

this is why you don't allow your kids to play that much games. have them learn real sports and things to do with real people

[tonytnnt]

What's this real world you guys keep talking about?

[Wingman]

"The Real World" is a show that they have on MTV. Its this fictional thing where they have people live together in a house with no video games and you get to watch them go crazy. Kinda like a horror tv show. freaky.

[Kass]

sometimes if you throw them a shiny red apple they will fight to the death

[angrybrit]

f*ck you motherf*ckers yo mamas sucks dick I am so angry arggghh you all suck donkey buncha' cheaters.

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[NC Derek]

i rather die in counterstrike than in real life still

[Constantine]

What a load of garbage.........and brain pathology means a deviation from normal in the brain. This load of crap on the net pisses me off. I conclude is must be radioactive berries......and I wouldn't ever see a doctor in the U.S. who got his degree in USSR....lol Go in with a headache and he'll rub your toe.

[Aziz]

Well... not really... to quote the article:

"The boy died from stroke after he had spent a half of his day playing games in a computer club."

I think this kid had it coming and anything more than a flashlight would have set him off.... lol
I guess that Chernobyl thing explains aziz then? lol j/k

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well, dude, ive never been to chernobil, so i wouldnt know, that place is f*cked up.... and C, you're right, unless you go to a private doctor, you get your ass treated instead of your eye.. or some weird sh*t like that.

[J.Pizzack]

i once saw a ninja kill a man for opening a window.....totally!

[HockeyNutzz]

He prabally already had some thing wrong.

[Mr.E]

He prabally already had some thing wrong.

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^^^ What he said!

[secondshadow]

the media trying to post that games pollute our minds...which is bull