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Boy collapses after playing World of Warcraft for 24 hours straight
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Starkie
Ironic....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meTyjOZUpYE
Sxephil, one of my favorite Youtube ranters, watch between 00:46 and 01:33, you'll get a kick out of it.
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Post by
FritzTheCat
If Blizzard really felt pressured to do anything to control its players like this, it could simply add some code to the game clock so that you're notified when you've been playing for X hours, and maybe do what games like Maple Story do and have it say something like 'You've been online for 4 hours, you may want to consider logging off' and have it be an option, so that the serious raid guys and hardcore grinders can disable it.
Of course, this isn't their fault. They have no reason to bother. Bad parenting and dumb children can't be blamed on them.
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Post by
Againigan
Lightweight.
24 hours is easymode.
Post by
Stagen
What a whimp.
I was awake and online from Thursday to Sunday after the release of the exp and I was playing with my friends all of that time.
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Post by
bwirum
This parent, seeing as it actually seems he was aware of this, should have his parental rights revoced and the string cut to prohibit him from ever conceiving another child. Seriously.
"Uuuhh...errmmm... yeah, I think I'm gonna start limit his playtime now.."
Moron.
This just amplifies the point that there should be a license to conceive. You gotta have a license to drive, but hey, conceive all you want!
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Post by
dhampir1989
I had 9 hours sleep between Sunday and Wednesday last week, and not much more until Saturday ( NOT to do with WoW, I didnt even have WotLK until Saturday).
I suspect there is more to it than just staying up all night.
Post by
PalominoMule
I find it impressive that only 24 hours were enough to make the kid this sick. People who call him a wimp are being unfair I think - it's obvious that any reasonably healthy person of a sufficient age should be able to be awake for 24 hours performing relatively subdued tasks like playing video games without suffering consequences this pronounced.
I can only assume that one of the following is true:
1. He did not begin his marathon session in a well-rested and healthy state. The 24-hour session would have been a perfect cap if he had already been eating and sleeping poorly.
2. He has some underlying health problem.
I'm also not sure it's fair to hurl insults at the parents. We have an urge to do that as gamers, because we don't want blame hurled at an entire medium that is misunderstood in grand ways, but life's not so black and white. While consistently permitting your children to commit unhealthy choices is obviously unwise, life is filled with incidents where we don't take very good care of ourselves for a little while in the pursuit of some goal. That's normal, that's natural. You often feel like crap afterward and maybe you use that experience to learn that you should avoid doing that most of the time. And really, who expects someone to get *this sick* from just a bit of prolonged activity? It's pretty unusual. Lots of other people, teenagers to older adults, probably played for similar hours and under similar conditions on WotLK's release without anything resembling this.
Obviously something went awry here. Probably the parents should've stopped the kid sooner and probably the kid should've listened to what his body was telling him (not yet being out of puberty being a slight handicap in this regard, I find). But condemning people as evolutionary mistakes or failures as parents based on what limited information we have is kinda' silly I think.
Post by
dotSEA
I stayed up till maybe 4-5AM the three days after WotLK release, not something I'm proud of in retrospect, but also not something I regret.
I made sure all my homework/projects/assignments were taken care of before I logged on and started playing, and I always got up for a small break and always had water/food next to me, so I wouldn't pass out from hunger :P
Post by
bwirum
I'm also not sure it's fair to hurl insults at the parents.
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But condemning people as evolutionary mistakes or failures as parents based on what limited information we have is kinda' silly I think.
I am a parent myself. I'd never, stress NEVER, let my children sit in front of a computer screen for 24 hours. It's not "one of those things they need to experience themselves". It's plain unhealthy and I would never voluntarily let my children do things that I *know* are that unhealthy.
I wouldn't let them watch TV for 24 hours either.
You expect a child to not have the necessary restraints, therefore it's the parents job to be the wise part.
Not ifs and no buts. That's just the way it is and the way it should be.
Post by
Draconia
I am a parent, and I can tell you right now there is no way my child would be allowed to play for 24 hours straight. Nor is it Blizzard's job to parent anyone's children. They provide a service, what anyone does with the service or how long they use it is their responsibility.
There's a reason the computers are in the main area of our house, our kids DO NOT and WILL NOT have televisions in their rooms, and we supervise what they watch/read/listen to. It's our job as parents.
If the parent isn't aware of the parental controls feature, they are still capable of setting "house rules" setting a timer, taking away the computer, discontinuing internet access for that computer, and many other very responsible options for parenting the minor in question. Sure, each one will not necessarily be "popular" with the kid. Life is tough, parenting is a hard job, and being a responsible parent is more important than being your kid's bestest buddy ever. My kids would cheer and rave if I served them ice cream and cookies at every meal. They would love to spend all day watching television and playing video games. They'd be happy as clams playing and riding their bikes in the (busy) street in front of our house... until a car crested the hill at twice the speed limit and was unable to stop in time.
They call me a mean mom sometimes when I won't give in, but that's OK. I am a mean mom to healthy kids, who hopefully will grow up, and maybe one day realize they have become mean parents in turn.
Wow you don't even let your kids read or listen to things they want to? Welcome to fascism parenting class, population you. I know from experience that the further you try and restrict your children and their activities and what they can and can't do the more they'll do what they want and rebel against you. Not only is it the parents responsibility to be aware of what their kids are watching or doing but they also have to let them live their lives, make their mistakes, and thereby grow instead of trying to pidgeon hole them into what you want them to be.
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PalominoMule
I am a parent myself. I'd never, stress NEVER, let my children sit in front of a computer screen for 24 hours. It's not "one of those things they need to experience themselves". It's plain unhealthy and I would never voluntarily let my children do things that I *know* are that unhealthy.
But life isn't that simple. There are things you don't want your kids to do and really they oughtn't to do and that's fair enough. But there's degrees of how you enforce that. There's outright physical prevention (difficult when the child in question is 15), there's verbal instructions, there's punishments, there's penalties, there's warnings, there's dirty looks, there's just sighing and disliking what they're doing but not really having the energy / thinking it's worth it to fight them, et cetera. Which you choose shifts depending on the situation, the child, your own conditions, how much you're willing to argue the point, etc.
Here. Situations from my childhood. I remember even at 13 staying up all night on rare occasion. This typically resulted from drawing intensely or schoolwork instead of gaming, but the goal in question isn't the issue. My parents obviously had the policy that I should get some sleep. This is fair. Before going to bed themselves they'd issue warnings to me that I should get to bed soon. But, focused on my goal, I don't really. An hour or few later they're up to get a drink or go to the bathroom or they're having trouble sleeping, and notice I'm up. I get a stern talking too, so I agree to go to bed. Climb into bed, turn off lights, wait a few minutes until they're back in bed and go right back to what I was doing. Some of these incidents, they *must* have known I was still up but decided to not make a huge scene out of it. Maybe they could work more to enforce their will but they've got their own sleep to work on. And, y'know, I was working on that whole...growing up thing.
No, I don't expect a little kid to have the restraints necessary to take care of themself - but this was a 15-year old. Someone fast approaching adulthood. Kids *do* have to do some unhealthy or stupid things so they can learn what life is like and what they need to do to take care of themselves. Obviously a parent can't let them do anything too disastrous, and you'd want to step in if they are consistently making the same mistakes and don't seem to be getting the idea, but we only have knowledge of this one kid having this one incident. And, typically, staying up too late one night isn't a life-altering incident. Maybe the next day you rub in the lesson a bit by making them do some chores instead of napping.
Maybe the parents this kid has didn't care at all and are in fact bad parents. Maybe they disapproved somewhat but decided to let kids have their fun because they were really excited and it was a special occasion. Maybe they disapproved and told them to go to bed and the kids were stealthy for a while and then went back to work. We *don't know*. We like to make these absolute conclusions from limited information, but that's rather foolhardy. I'm sure even the best parents have parenting incidents in their background that, if discussed in a brief paper articles designed to sell papers, would make them look neglectful or incompetent.
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