Daily Mail claims Sonic made a boy have a heart attack
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[quote]Britain's favorite home of right-wing xenophobia and jubilant misogyny had a lot of fun using the death of a boy with a heart condition to make videogames look bad -- part of its long running obsession with taking craven secondhand swipes at the game industry. Writer Kerry McDermott exploits the personal tragedy with surgical precision...
...Rather than a focus on the heart condition, we instead get rent-a-doc Sanjay Sharma saying, "There is a definite risk in predisposed young people playing video games that causes surges of adrenalin in the blood." [/quote]
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I'm shocked to see the daily mail comments being -reasonable-...
that's no good
[editline]17th July 2013[/editline]
he probably got confused and played sanic instead
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7EHKFNMQg[/media]
He must've REALLY not liked Sonic 2006.
Somehow reminds me of this thread [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1210099[/url]
I think the kid's heart beated[sp]Way to fast...[/sp]
I'm not surprised.
[video=youtube;9Yw5jkAHgME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yw5jkAHgME[/video]
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Sudden: Jake had been playing a Sonic the Hedgehog game on an Xbox console while visiting his grandmother when he collapsed
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:downs:
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;41493798]:downs:[/QUOTE]
tbh it could've been an original xbox - he was at his grandmother's house after all
i find it unlikely though considering that I doubt his grandmother would have wanted to give up an entire floor of her house to fit it in there
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41493820]tbh it could've been an original xbox - he was at his grandmother's house after all
i find it unlikely though considering that I doubt his grandmother would have wanted to give up an entire floor of her house to fit it in there[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41493820]give up an entire floor of her house to fit it in there[/QUOTE]
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Gotta go fast :(
[QUOTE=Ezhik;41493656]He must've REALLY not liked Sonic 2006.[/QUOTE]
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'Sonic the Hedgehog was his favourite. He would get over-excited, jumping up and down, screaming at the screen,' she told the Sun.
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Yeah that's a normal reaction to sonic 06
His heart went too fast.
It was all those chilli dogs.
hey at least most of the comments in the article are actually sensible.
Sounds like the kid was a ticking time bomb with just about anything that gives you adrenaline.
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41493644]that's no good
[editline]17th July 2013[/editline]
he probably got confused and played sanic instead
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7EHKFNMQg[/media][/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=The_Marine;41493784]I'm not surprised.
[video=youtube;9Yw5jkAHgME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yw5jkAHgME[/video][/QUOTE]
Hey lets reuse an old joke from a different thread that doesn't even make sense in this context! Thats clever and original right?
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