Killer Game?

Here's a story about a Chinese dude who died by playin too much Diablo 2 at a Cyber Cafe....

Killer game?

May 30, 2002

HE often stayed back after work to play computer games.

So when colleagues found Lai Pui-sun bent over the table at 8am after his work shift at a cyber cafe in Hongkong yesterday, they thought he had fallen asleep and did not disturb him.

But it was a slumber that the 17-year-old computer game enthusiast was never going to wake up from again.

The teen died after apparently playing an online game for hours in the cyber cafe where he had worked for about two months, reported South China Morning Post.

Lai started the role-playing game Diablo II between 3 and 4am, said a staff member.

Another colleague said they often played games or slept during overnight shifts when there were no customers.

Lai, who reportedly was in good health and did not have a drug habit, fell to the ground when a colleague tried to wake him at about 9.30am.

He had already lost consciousness when the ambulance arrived and was declared dead at the hospital.

Lai, who left school after completing Sec 4, lived with his parents and two triplet brothers.

Dr Choi Kin, president of the Practising Estate Doctors Association, said the flashing light from the computer screen might have caused Lai's sudden death.

He said a long-term concentration of flashing light was dangerous, adding that computer game enthusiasts should let their eyes rest for a few minutes every hour.

In a similar case in Thailand last August, factory worker Thanet Sommoi, 22, died of a stroke after a marathon all-night session of online games at a cyber cafe in Chiangmai.

Then it's true.
Violent games really do kill people.

lol "long term concentration of flashing light".... i didnt see any of that when I played diablo!!

It's called Hz, or screen updates. You might have a 75 Hz screen, which means that it would "flicker" 75 times per second. In other words, having more than 75 FPS on a screen like that would be completely useless.

I heard that like 600 kids were rushed to the hospital after watching a pokemon cartoon.

*moved*

Originally posted by tacoX I heard that like 600 kids were rushed to the hospital after watching a pokemon cartoon.

Epilepsy... there was apparently strobe-like flashing and it cuased people to have seizures. The same is if you have shitty refresh rate on your monitor... which Chinese cyber-cafes do.

90 Hz does kind of sound more dangerous than 20 Hz, even though it really isn't. In other words, a disco light flickering extremely fast would be less dangerous than one that blinks at a high rate, say, 19-22 times per second.

But then again, photons have a distance, so we would be experiencing a MASSIVE flickering light, no matter where we are.

Why are you soo damn smart ya nerd!

im tellin ya its those jap`s eyes, if they opended em a little more they might be able to take the hz`s.. (no offense to any azn people)

just tryin squinting and playin diablo for a few hours and see if u have a seziour...or how ever it is spelled im very tired...