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Guess the parents wouldn't want the "Cramp" the kids style by checking on them
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Guess the parents wouldn't want the "Cramp" the kids style by checking on them
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for the love of god, even in the article it says "they may have slept, and they ate".
Its a freaking special event, they don't launch an expansion every day, its a big thing for WoW fans and they got together to play, when friends bring over their computers, you have 6 comps setup for alimited amount of time you're likely to play a lot. Same way people that take their comp to a lan want to get the most out of it.
he had an EPILEPTIC fit for gods sake, which could clearly happen at any time its such a complete non story tbh, as for not checking on your kids, other than again its a one off, you can't predict when an epilepsy fit will happen, checking in would have done, nothing at all to prevent it.
People go to a sleep over party you tend to stay up ultra late and barely sleep, go to a lan, you play a lot of games. My friend from uni setup a gaming group who , can't recall think had a lan every 2 months in one of the semi convention rooms, I went to one of them for a bit of tourney fun, guess what we played games almost constantly that day. Outside of that day I'll be unlikely to play any game more than a couple hours a day.
This story so wants to be more than it is, it wants to be about that kid who starved himself by forgetting to eat because he plays 20 hours or WOW every day or his life, but its not. Its a one off and he had a fit not remotely close to caused by it.
Its a freaking special event, they don't launch an expansion every day, its a big thing for WoW fans and they got together to play, when friends bring over their computers, you have 6 comps setup for alimited amount of time you're likely to play a lot. Same way people that take their comp to a lan want to get the most out of it.
he had an EPILEPTIC fit for gods sake, which could clearly happen at any time its such a complete non story tbh, as for not checking on your kids, other than again its a one off, you can't predict when an epilepsy fit will happen, checking in would have done, nothing at all to prevent it.
People go to a sleep over party you tend to stay up ultra late and barely sleep, go to a lan, you play a lot of games. My friend from uni setup a gaming group who , can't recall think had a lan every 2 months in one of the semi convention rooms, I went to one of them for a bit of tourney fun, guess what we played games almost constantly that day. Outside of that day I'll be unlikely to play any game more than a couple hours a day.
This story so wants to be more than it is, it wants to be about that kid who starved himself by forgetting to eat because he plays 20 hours or WOW every day or his life, but its not. Its a one off and he had a fit not remotely close to caused by it.
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The headline is completely ridiculous, replace
"Boy collapses after playing World of Warcraft for 24 hours straight"
with
"Boy dies of cancer after playing World of War 24 hours straight"
he had a damn seizure, a pre-existing condition, his dad could literally have been sat by his side the whole day and not been able to stop it and not been aware it was coming till the second it happened.
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oh dear
I think I have actually become too old, I actually wouldnt allow my kid to play a video game for 24 hours anyway
I dont think they would tell you if they where doing it
You could prob tell afterwards tho lol.
I dont think they would tell you if they where doing it
You could prob tell afterwards tho lol.
I suspect I am a decent enough parent to know if my kid is up for 24 hours playing a game in my house (even more so if they had 5 of their mates with them
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I suspect I am a decent enough parent to know if my kid is up for 24 hours playing a game in my house (even more so if they had 5 of their mates with them
exactly i blame the parents for what happened not WoW. i remember me and mates staying awake for 48 hours and drinking alcohol during one of the school trips. if my parents were there it just wouldnt happen....
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I think I have actually become too old
Would you stop your kids, anywhere from age, i don't know 10 to 16yr old, from staying up uber late when having friends over for the night, birthday party/sleep over? no. Would you stop your kid playing Warcraft 24 hours a day every day of the week months on end, of course.
Would you stop your kid doing it ONCE, in a clearly not every day situation when all his friends bring their computers over and its essentially a lan party? I wouldn't.
Remember if you read the story he, firstly, did sleep at least a bit, secondly, the dad knew they slept a bit and ate at LEAST twice that he knew about and thirdly, his convulsion is not down to the gaming, at all.
Has everyone on this entire forum had at least one ultra long day when eating a little less than normal, yes, without question, thats life, so no its not a deadly thing to do. Did his father check in on them, clearly he knew they ate, knew they slept at least a few hours, wheres the problem here at all, I just don't see it.
Instead of answering the questions for me, its polite to let me answer them.
The answer is no, I wouldnt let my 10-16 year old daughter stay up uber late or play for 24 hours even once. I just dont think its the right thing for a young teenager to do. Then again I am a much stricter parent than most modern parents.
You are definately right that the child in this case actually had an epilectic seizure, which may not of been related to the game play session (although the doctor seemed to think it was). I say may not rather than your definitive "not, at all" , because at the end of the day I dont have the facts in this particular case to conclude with certainly whether or not the seizure was related to the game session or not. It may well be that it was just a coincedence, in which case the parents checking in wouldnt have helped much. I was talking a little more generally when I said that I wouldnt let my kid play for 24 hours on a video game (actually I wouldnt let my kid do anything for 24 hours , not just gaming). As I say though, I have slightly different values and parenting methods than most these days.
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Pfftt, when i was 15 at I events i could go 2 days without sleep sometimes. Amateur!
This weekend ive already done a full 24 hour, but that was for other reasons i wont go into on here
This weekend ive already done a full 24 hour, but that was for other reasons i wont go into on here