Sometimes ya' need ta' jack out

You've been warned Kids. Remember to unplug your brains occassionally.

How could the IC get him, he was only using a 'trode net!

My god the corps are getting more and more powerful!

One line particularly bothers me int hat article. "He quit his job so he could play more games" That's rather scary.

Like we all wouldn't if we could...

Nah, I wouldn't quit my job to just play games, then again my job let's me sit here and hit refresh on dumpshock most of the day...

Nikoli, what job? I want in. You should buy Laser Squad Nemesis, it's an awesome but simple game that can be played in windowed mode.

fifty hours? jesus, what a wimp. the last dude to do it went 78 hours, as i recall.

They just aren't making gamers like they used to. Sad.

Anyone else getting a Lain vibe here?

At the risk of getting blasted for stereotyping, Korean gamers in multiplayer settings have a (well deserved, IMO) reputation for being out of their freakin' minds - or at least way too serious about this stuff, so over-competitive it's unhealthy, and hostile... So this is hardly surprising.

50 hours? That's nothing. I used to do that on a regular basis. I play for 2-3 days straight then sleep for a day or two, then do it again. Once I even went 5 days, but I really can't remember anything from the last day and a half of that (a bit too much sleep depravation I guess). And I never had any problems.

Of course, then I got a real job and had to sleep regular hours. That didn't stop me from getting gaming in at work though.

WARNING
The link in the first post caused my anti-spyware program to pop up 2 messages informing me that it had blocked the automatic download of 2 programs.

msnbc? I'm sure they use cookies, but dl programs?

They sell ad space to a company that sells ad space to a few companies that sell ad space, ad naseum eventually you get to a jerk who likes spam.

As I hear or read from someone else some time ago, he died as soon as he stopped playing.

NP. I just figured I would let y'all know what I had encountered so you would have a heads-up to run addware scanners.

I noticed that he died after he stopped too. Was he the victim of some sort of psychotropic effect, or did a killer virus find it's way into his headware/skillwires?