He Will Frag No More Forever.

And You Could Be Next!

No, sorry; I think not. Dead I shall surely be, but, I think, shot though the heart at the age of 102 by a jealous lover that finds me in the arms of another women. I can see that. I can feature than. But going out as one of the witless Bandwidth of Brothers, pasty, sticky-eyed and coffee-breathed?

I'll pass.

File this under: Another compulsive, digitally-masturbating lab-rat hits the “Stimulate” button until he dies.

Or what happen when ROTFLMAOTID goes horribly wrong. Again.

From the Los Angeles Times via the Chi Tribune...

COLUMN ONE
Gamers Rack Up Losses
In ultrawired South Korea, some people don't know when to leave the cyber cafe. For one obsessed man, the fantasy was fatal.
By Barbara Demick
Times Staff Writer

August 29, 2005

TAEGU, South Korea — By day, Lee Seung Seop was a skinny guy with glasses who wore a gray polyester uniform in his job as a repairman of industrial boilers.

But after work let out at 6 p.m., he would take off his uniform and head to a nearby Internet cafe. There, the 28-year-old would enter a far more enticing virtual world populated by saber-toothed dragons and purple-haired women in metallic bodices.

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One night, after a 50-hour binge playing an online game called "World of Warcraft," Lee collapsed and fell off his chair. He died a few hours later.

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But by dint of their status in cyberspace, South Koreans may be providing the rest of the world with a scary glimpse of the future.

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"He seemed like a very normal and ordinary guy," said Park Chul Jin, the office manager. "There was nothing odd about him except that he was a game addict. We all knew about it. He couldn't stop himself."

Park fired Lee about six weeks before his death after repeated warnings about being late for work. Around the same time, Lee split up with a girlfriend, a fellow gamer, co-workers say.

The last weeks of Lee's life were spent largely in an Internet cafe. The PC bangs, as they're called here, are homes away from home for many South Koreans. The cafes typically charge just $1 an hour and are open round-the-clock.

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"He just fell off his chair. His eyes were open, he was conscious, but we could tell right away that it was serious," said Kim Jin U, who was there at the time.

A police investigation attributed the fatality to excessive game playing. But gamers say Lee's behavior wasn't very different from that of countless other young men.

"If you could die from playing too many games, I'd have been dead long ago," Kim said. "I just can't believe it."

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NCSoft Corp., South Korea's largest game developer, has put warnings in its popular "Lineage" and "Lineage II" games alerting players that after an hour online, they ought to take a break for the sake of their health.

"We want a decent, healthy gaming culture. Of course, you can't force people not to play games, just like you can't force them not to smoke," said an NCSoft spokeswoman, Min Ji Seon.

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"I don't want to become an addict," said his friend, Song Ji Woo. "I want to be a lawyer."

You can’t force them not to play…says the spokeswoman for the company. Fuck you. If you’re going to run an opium den, the least you can do is hire a guy with bad teeth to poke the patrons with a pointed stick every day of so to make sure they're still breathing, and force them to take periodic pee and sammich breaks.

Still, this guy pissed away his woman and his livelihood while his friends shrugged and said they all knew he was a junkie...over a game.

He died for nothing.

That's what galls me. Quite literally for nothing. For flecks of color, and there is no digital Valhalla for those that give that last full measure of devotion for fucking pixel glory.

When you beef it so ridiculously that this could be your obit --

Godboss trained Lee Seung Seop across the gamescape, terminally debuffed him and then kicked him forever from the most persistent world there is.

He will be laid to rest along with his railgun, BFG, rocket launcher, crossbow and assorted loyal mules in a simple ceremony attended by his guild clan.

Present also will be assorted griefers, which doesn’t mean what you think it means.

-- it’s just fucking stupid.

No other word for it.

Stupid from every angle.

Stupid all the way around the block and back again.