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Korean gamers are hardcore. Baby killin's and all.
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I figured this might be the more appropriate place to stage such a discussion. But this was crazy.
I mean we all know how Koreans are really into their online games. Like, really really.
Well apparently these two parents decided raising a virtual baby in PRIUS Online (Like second life but Korean.) was more important than say....raising their real baby. So much so, they let their real baby die from starvation. Things like this are the reason that gamers still sometimes get a bad rep for being gamers. People like this, people like that WoW sock pooper, and like that other Korean guy who died from playing starcraft for like 2 days straight and died of starvation.
"The couple spent up to12 hours a day at internet cafes leaving their three-month-old daughter home alone at their apartment in Suwon, South Korea.
Cops say the couple had become obsessed with living online and neglected their real lives.
They raised an avatar baby through their profiles on a Second Life-style game called PRIUS, while their real daughter was given just one bottle of milk a day."
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How do people even end up like this? I mean i have friends who are totally hooked on WoW. But i've never met anyone even close to anything like this.
I mean we all know how Koreans are really into their online games. Like, really really.
Well apparently these two parents decided raising a virtual baby in PRIUS Online (Like second life but Korean.) was more important than say....raising their real baby. So much so, they let their real baby die from starvation. Things like this are the reason that gamers still sometimes get a bad rep for being gamers. People like this, people like that WoW sock pooper, and like that other Korean guy who died from playing starcraft for like 2 days straight and died of starvation.
"The couple spent up to12 hours a day at internet cafes leaving their three-month-old daughter home alone at their apartment in Suwon, South Korea.
Cops say the couple had become obsessed with living online and neglected their real lives.
They raised an avatar baby through their profiles on a Second Life-style game called PRIUS, while their real daughter was given just one bottle of milk a day."
Read more
How do people even end up like this? I mean i have friends who are totally hooked on WoW. But i've never met anyone even close to anything like this.
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Unfortunately one of these two sets of parents will be punished and one won't
Hmmm
But yeah, its only getting any extra attention because of the game aspect. There is plenty of child neglect happening everywhere everyday.
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I'm gonna regret this, but what?
Poop socking. The act of doing nothing but playing a game for hours on end, most likely for an entire day.
The name is a reference to pooping in a sock and peeing in a jar, such that you never have to leave the computer.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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Irresponsible people will do irresponsible things.
If there were no such things as games and some other arbitrary activity like... say... skiiing were just as easily accessible to them as games are now, then it would be skiing instead of games.
For every gamer in Korea that kills themselves or someone else over a game, how many "non-gamers" are throwing their babies into dumpsters.
End of line.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
What do the futurists say the next strange new thing will be? Hoverboards?
Sex with robots. I'd complain myself, but I'll be too busy having sex with a robot.
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You would think they would just play on the toilet.
I suppose that depends on the consistency of the poop in questions. It doesn't make sense economically, though...a simple plastic bag is cheaper.
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That's really what i was gearing for with the post. Was more along the lines of how people can become -that- addicted to online games. I also dont understand why this stuff always happens in Korea and not over in NA. We have a lot of online gaming here too. It just seems we are not quite as hardcore. I guess it also doesn't help that many Korean online games are set up in a way that the player has to "grind" everything for long periods of time to progress. Over here people generally like to do some quests and have fun and log out in my experience.
I wonder how that difference in the mentality behind online gaming between the two cultures sprung up? I mean grindy games tend not to do well here, but thats all they want over there.
Well, generally plastic bags aren't laying around, and you are wearing two socks (usually), so...
I guess what I am saying is "easy access"
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
...but that doesn't really hold water. People can become addicted to online gambling as easily as they become addicted to gambling at casinos.
like i can totally see how one unstable person could kind of get obsessed with some silly thing and neglect their baby.
but this was two human adults who got so fascinated with a baby sim that they let their real baby starve to death.
A testament to PRIUS' quality? Yesterday I wouldn't have cared but now I kinda want to see what this game is all about ...
They probably should never had a real baby in the first place.
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well, in 95% of cases, addiction to online gaming essentially precludes sexual activity, so overall this is a problem that basically solves itself!
That doesn't mean video game addiction is the only way babies are neglected and left to starve.
It means that in this specific case, two people who have an addiction to video games allowed that addiction to result in this outcome.
Not all people who play video games are addicts. Not all people who play video games a lot are addicts. But there is such a thing, I think, and pretending it doesn't exist is silly. On the other side of the coin, taking this extreme situation and applying it to people who play video games as a whole is equally silly.
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A toyota is like a korean gamer, they just don't know when to stop. ???
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That isn't true. It would seem that when people kill over a game it depends on the type of game they play.
Is there an epidemic of gamers neglecting their kids? I really doubt it. Extreme stories like this are fodder for the media, though.
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I think Elimination meant that people kill when they get pissed off in NA, where in Korea people die because they forget about food.
The problem here is most of us acknowledge that it exists but if we even slightly hint at it the world goes "OMFG SEE?! GAEMS R ADDICTIVE BAD STUFF THAT GAMER SAYS SOLOLPLOLO"
...I love portraying opponents as loud idiots.
If you're addicted to something it impedes your normal life to the point where it becomes your life. It doesn't matter if it's drugs or a computer game. There's deep mental issues at play in any addiction case.
Are there a lot of people neglecting a lot of other shit due to games? Absolutely.
Replace games with almost anything and that sentence holds true though.