[citation][nom]hasten[/nom]I don't understand how these guys can marathon game like that. After a couple hours I gotta do something else no matter the game. I probably hit 5 hours a couple times on Skyrim this winter when I grade 3 sprained both sides of my ankle and my foot (so I couldn't walk for 2 months) and my eyes would burn on top of the headache...[/citation]
72 hours of continuous play with everquest... passed out at the keyboard somewhere between hour 73 and 77 though.
i want to say i wasn't a complete moron, drank water, and ate good food while i was marathoning the game.
now though... i usualy sit at the computer for 12 hour period of time, but never a good 24 hours... most of the time though i need to move so maybe a 5 hour straight session and 15-30 minutes of walking and back to it.
but i had no friends when i did the 72 hour thing, and i have no life so i can be at the computer 24/7
[citation][nom]jupiter optimus maximus[/nom]Why is always some Asian guy that dies from playing a computer game?[/citation]
depends on the country... but generally, its not that one marathon that kills them, its the running on energy drink alone that does, and the fact that this marathon probably came after a prior marathon and that after another one. this was the session that did him in...
you also have to imagine that some of those countries are hellish to live in, so any form of an escape is great. korean gamers have the possibility of celeberty status and the equilivant of a million $ career if they get great at starcraft, so alot play till they die trying to get that goal.