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12 Bizarre Deaths That Video Games Caused by Nobody: 9:51am On Mar 28, 2019
12. South Korea for Last Place
Sorry, South Korea, you're starting this list strong. In 2010, a married couple that had recently given birth to premature infant—a taboo in South Korean culture—grew hopelessly depressed.

After losing their jobs and being shunned by society, they turned to the Internet for succor (never a good place to look for that). They would routinely spend 12 hours at a stretch a local Internet cafe playing an online Sim called Prius Online.

The bizarre bit was that they were actually raising a virtual baby online. Investing so much time in their digital offspring, the parents completely forgot about their actual, living baby that it eventually died from prolonged malnutrition. Bizarre, creepy, and just plain F-ed up.

We're gonna go call our parents and maybe have some ice cream.

11. Take a Break
This one definitely counts as bizarre, but it's creepier than that, in an Unsolved Mysteries sort of way. In 2007, a Chinese man played an unknown online game for three days straight at an Internet cafe.

That's 72 hours of consecutive gaming. We don't think we've ever done anything for 72 hours straight—and we've eaten MDMA at Burning Man.

After three days, the man dropped dead from exhaustion.
What was he playing? Did he know he was going to die? Was he actually a phantom that never really existed in the first place and just came to this plane of reality to teach us all a lesson about human kindness? We have no idea, and we never will.

10. Teenager Can't Deal
Another case that has less to do with being hamstrung by addiction and more to do with being damaged goods and having easy access to firearms. In 2007, seventeen-year-old Daniel Petric couldn't deal with getting his copy of Halo 3 taken away, and instead of just sucking it up and being miserable like all 17-year-olds, he lost his goddamn mind.

Unlocking the family's gun safe and removing its 9mm pistol, Petric returned to his parents' bedroom and told them to close their eyes because he had a surprise for them.

He fired and hit both in the head. His father survived, but his mother sadly died for his idiocy.

9. Real Life GTA
This one has less to do with ignorance or obsession, and more to do with just being a plain ol crazy fu*k. Devin Moore directly cited his infatuation with Grand Theft Auto and said that he had lost the ability to distinguish reality from the virtual world.

In 2003, Moore jacked a cop car, got his hands on a gun, and open fired on the officers in pursuit, mortally wounding three of them.

When finally apprehended, Moore offered these words as justification for his crimes, "Life's like a video game. You've got to die sometime." Like we said, just plain crazy.

8. Blizzard Claims Another
In August of 2005, Lee Seung Seop, a South Korean boiler repairman, decided to say fu*k it and throw in the towel on life. Developing an addiction to Blizzard's StarCraft Seop quit his job and told his responsibilities to get bent.

He holed up in a dingy Internet cafe and began a 50 hour session that would prove fatal.

After suffering from exhaustion and dehydration Seop collapsed from heart failure around the 40 hour mark. We know Koreans love their StarCraft but we can't think of anything worth dying from exhaustion for. All right, a few things.

7. FarmVille Fail
Farmville is fun for about 15 minutes before you realize that Facebook has tricked you into wasting more time on their site. An addiction to FarmVille would seem amusing if it weren't for the homicide involved.

In October of 2010 Alexandra Tobias was suffering from a crippling Farmville addiction, totally not a real addiction, when all of the sudden the sound of her hungry, crying baby caused her to discard any remaining shred of her humanity.

She shook her three year old son to death and is now facing 25 years in prison. We think she should've gotten more.

6. Florida Surprises No One

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Re: 12 Bizarre Deaths That Video Games Caused by Tapout(m): 10:32am On Mar 28, 2019
this thread reminds me of my days with God of War Ascension... After several unsuccessful attempt to pass the trial of Archimedes, I just gegely deleted the game b4 fustration will kill me. Besides my pad was already wearing out.
Re: 12 Bizarre Deaths That Video Games Caused by Nobody: 1:33pm On Mar 28, 2019
Tapout:
this thread reminds me of my days with God of War Ascension... After several unsuccessful attempt to pass the trial of Archimedes, I just gegely deleted the game b4 fustration will kill me. Besides my pad was already wearing out.
mine was tomb raider i just broke d cd, i cant fit shout

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