Ohio boy hospitalized after 4-day Xbox Live marathon - Jesus loving Christ.

[Cybertails1998]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/xbox-marathon-boy-collapse-150928818.html

I'm likely not the first to rant about this, but god loving dammit this is the pinnacle of suicidal stupidity.

If I myself was holed up in my room through a weekend I'd at least have a motherloving bottle of water or two and some food. This kid, ate and drank ABSOLUTELY loving NOTHING OVER 3 GODDAMNED ALLNIGHTERS. And it's like the parent is the kid's errand boy, in a way that he can't on his own choose whenether to buy a baby a M+ game or not.

Jesus forget.

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[SpreadsPlague]

but snacks and drinks are .. necessary ..

what was he thinking ..

[Flamecannon]

i mean come on no inbetween procrastination sessions to check if there's a hint of zinc?!

[heedicalking]

wow what a lame way to go. xbox sucks big time. it's like collapsing from a heart attack watching the smurfs 3d

[ShadowYoshi294]

Good god, how many people are this dumb to play games for several straight days?! I've heard 2-3 stories of the same thing during this summer vacation alone and now I wouldn't be surprised if some idiot was playing a game for 69Oh, shut up. hours straight.

[carolcat]

why didn't his parents make him take a break
(excuse me if im wrong here because my ds won't load the article)

[BanishedLetters]

MW3, seriously?

AND ON XBOX?!

Did he really think he could sit on his ass for 3 days straight with nothing to eat or drink and then be totally fine?

[Cybertails1998]

i mean come on no inbetween procrastination sessions to check if there's a hint of zinc?!

"Oh look a kid was hospitalized over a marathon, let's make a fap joke!"

Hospitalized means "put in a hospital bed upon suffering a major injury". The major injury in this case is dehydration. I'm probably "taking a flamecannon joke seriously" but it's just gut-wrenching when people do this.

[Kobewarrior]

I don't see how entertaining a first person shooter with no replay value could be.

[carolcat]

@cybertails: yeah it's bad but this is the blockland forums
what do you expect

[SpreadsPlague]

I don't see how entertaining a first person shooter with no replay value could be.

gotta get dat eleventy billion and oneth prestige.

[CpW]

You see, this is why I hate my 'generation'. And for that matter, the Xbox Live community and generally kids and their parents today.
If this kid's parents really cared about him, then they would have stopped him from playing nonstop to take breaks and watever. They probably didn't know that the 360 has a family settings function either.
And this kid basically symbolizes near enough the entirety of the Xbox Life community. They practically spend their entire lives hiding away playing Call of Duty, Battlefeild and Halo nonstop, and pick on the less experienced gamers because 'they suck' and whatever.

And in general, parenting is starting become more carefree and crappier, and some kids becoming dumber in general (For example, the kid in the article).

Rant over.

[Tokthree]

People like this are so stupid that it's unreal.
I mean, I'm not one to tell someone else that they have no life, but the most I'll do is 48 hours without sleep and I at least keep myself fed, hydrated and I go to the toilet properly.

I'm glad this happened to him, maybe he'll start thinking for once after he gets out.


All that being said, I'm more frustrated about the parents, they could have easily dragged the little sod away from his god-damn Xbox, sounds to me like they were scared that their precious little bundle of joy would hate them if they even tried to do that, pitiful indeed, it's parental inaction like that which breeds the wrong kind of attitude in kids these days

[keonesan]

I don't see how entertaining a first person shooter with no replay value could be.

I like how a boy is hospitalized and everyone's first reaction is, "OMG WHY WUS HE PLAYIN COD?!".

It's actually not that bad of a franchise, the community is just stupid. Either way, I have no clue how a child could play a game for that long. Did he use the bathroom at all?

[Clone v.117]

Hardly news, people are hospitalized from gaming daily in South Korea.
People there have,
1. been fired because they never left an arcade for over a week
2. had their baby starve to death because they were playing games and neglected it (not to mention one of the games was taking care of an online baby, irony)
3. Been arrested for playing in an arcade (was pregnant,) going into the toilets and giving birth, putting the baby in a plastic bag and then into the dumpster outside and going back into the arcade to play more.

Get with the program Ohio.