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"Strange Gamers"

I was looking around the web and I found a story about a 22 year old man dying of heart failure after playing counter-strike all night without any breaks. It also went on to say that in the Far East some gamers are actually gamers as a living and can earn similar amounts to footballers.

But the best bit was a story about a man whos character was killed by a workmate while they were playing counter-strike. He jumped out his seat and started shouting "who killed me", a young guy confessed saying it was his character. The man then went over and started to fight with him and then stabbed him in the back. The man was then jailed for 6 years.

Is this normal behaviour? I know that when I play against my mates things get pretty heated but nobody goes crazy like this. The other day my friends and me were playing knockout kings 2001 on the PS2 and we all took it serious. After beating my friend to become heavyweight champion he decided to take things personally and try have a go at me, but everyone else decided to jump on him. All friendly fun of course and nobody really got hurt. So whats the worst you have done or have seen? Got any violent sore losing friends?

Oh, you have to download a translator thingy.

http://www.kpgl.net/gamain/gamain.htm

2 people! theres got to be more violent gamers in the world than that! + proffesional gaming is a good job to be in, mostly programmers though, I think?
Whenever I play games it's never serious, if I play a game on the N64 I take it easy because I know the levels pretty well while my mates don't, visa versa, if i'm playing a Playstation then my mates take it easy while I run around trying to kill them or ram them with my car, but I get laughed at normally so if I loose a game, I don't take it personaly :)

Yes, and apparently games don't cause violence...

That is strange, stabbed for killing someone on the net?

Those sort of people NEED help.

FantasyMeister wrote:
The guy in Thailand who died
> playing CounterStrike was just plain silly, sitting at his keyboard
> without a break for ages then suffering heart failure because of the
> stress.


How many hours a day did you say you spent on the net? ;)

I was playing ISS Pro evo 2 with my Bro on PS1, i always win him. Anyway he decided that he was going to have a paddy after loosing very easily and through my flippin pad on the floor and broke it. The fool!

Quazimodo wrote:
> Well i was playing road rash jailbreak withg my brow i kicked hima
> nd he went berserk it was kinda kool, we had a fight and i wooped
> him big time.

How can you play against your brow? Was the little bit of hair above your eye using a specially-designed controller or something?

Or did you mean bro?

Quazimodo was the hunch back of Notre dame's name.

Hye Quazi, where did ur name come from. I heard it on a WCW tape.