Cy-Kill Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Some people really need to get a life, he obviously took the last train to Clarksville: One might think 19-year-old David Scherer had been training for a marathon.He began his training with some heavy swimming and running, and three days before attempting to break a Guinness World Record, he slept 16 hours per day. But rather than looking to become the world?s fastest swimmer, Scherer had his eye on a record set by Chirantan Patnaik of India for the longest continuous game play of the popular video game ?Grand Theft Auto IV? ? a record set at 40 hours and 20 minutes. Scherer topped 55 hours on Tuesday. http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20...UNITY/100106012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted January 7, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted January 7, 2010 Doing this can be fatal. And of course you're a loser if you can stand a video game for longer than a few hours at a time. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted January 8, 2010 Member Share Posted January 8, 2010 That's just sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLien_0 Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 world records used to be something great, but now they are just getting lame. congrats to him to really being a nerd i guess. what happened to real records and achievements? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Doing this can be fatal. And of course you're a loser if you can stand a video game for longer than a few hours at a time. xD You cannot die from lack of sleep. You can suffer from hallucinations and etc, but you cannot die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 8, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 8, 2010 That's just sad. Did you read the article about how he did this to raise money for his non-profit swim team? He is an avid athlete and worked on his stamina with healthy foods and strenuous exercise. There was no caffeine during his continuous play to show that this can be done without caffeine. I can't say this is the best idea to raise money, but this certainly isn't a "sad" lazy gamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted January 8, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 8, 2010 Actually you can die, but it takes quite awhile for something like that to happen. You'd have hallucinations and what not long before that point. I think after 10 or 11 days of no sleep at all you'd start to have cognitive problems. (probably sooner than that if you ask me) I would imagine people with long term insomnia would argue against that, but then again even those people still get SOME sleep even if it's an hour a week or something. As long as you have REM sleep at some point you'd be ok though, since that's the important thing for Humans. After a month or two of zero sleep and zero REM sleep, I think you'd probably want to be dead :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olemus Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 You cannot die from lack of sleep.You can suffer from hallucinations and etc, but you cannot die. IIRC you can but it takes several months of sleep deprivation which is almost impossible due to sometimes unavoidable microsleeps, but it can kill, unlikely but possible. Anyway moving on World records are a joke nowadays, I found myself watching "Guinness world records smashed" on sky 1 the other day and seriously some of the ones they showed were the most ridiculous things ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted January 8, 2010 Member Share Posted January 8, 2010 Did you read the article about how he did this to raise money for his non-profit swim team? He is an avid athlete and worked on his stamina with healthy foods and strenuous exercise. There was no caffeine during his continuous play to show that this can be done without caffeine.I can't say this is the best idea to raise money, but this certainly isn't a "sad" lazy gamer. It is for a good cause. It's just sad that it is for a "world record." To me being know as king of the video games is a sad way to be remembered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 8, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 8, 2010 It is for a good cause. It's just sad that it is for a "world record." To me being know as king of the video games is a sad way to be remembered. Agreed. Not that "largest ball of twine" is all that great of a way to be remembered. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotenks98 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Actually you can die, but it takes quite awhile for something like that to happen. You'd have hallucinations and what not long before that point. I think after 10 or 11 days of no sleep at all you'd start to have cognitive problems. (probably sooner than that if you ask me) I would imagine people with long term insomnia would argue against that, but then again even those people still get SOME sleep even if it's an hour a week or something. As long as you have REM sleep at some point you'd be ok though, since that's the important thing for Humans. After a month or two of zero sleep and zero REM sleep, I think you'd probably want to be dead :| Been there done that about a year ago. I went many nights in a row without sleep due to chronic pain. It was awful I was always tired and irritable and could not concentrate on things. The only times I did sleep was with pain killers but the sleep would only last till the pain meds got out my system. Eventually I found a doctor who wanted to investigate the problem, I had surgery to correct it and now I can sleep just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted January 11, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted January 11, 2010 Doing it for charity kinda lets him off the hook. But if you remove the charity aspect, my only reaction would be "So?"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 You cannot die from lack of sleep.You can suffer from hallucinations and etc, but you cannot die. There have been cases of Korean gamers dieing in netcafes from marathon sessions. A lot of times the cause is heart failure linked to exhaustion combined with several factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdegree Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 In the world (technology) that we live today. It is no surprise that people will set records with what they have in hand. Pogo stick jumping or jumping rope do not appeal to them. "Records The Guinness Book of World Records has a world record for text message, currently held by Ang Chuang Yang of Singapore. Mr. Ang keyed in the official text messaging sentence, as established by Guinness, in 41.52 seconds.[74] Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: Singapore student is world's fastest text messenger The Book of Alternative Records lists Chris Young of Salem, Oregon as the world record holder for the fastest 160 character text message where the contents of the message are not provided ahead of time. His record of 62.3 seconds was set on May 23, 2007.[75] Elliot Nicholls of Dunedin, New Zealand currently holds the World Record for the fastest blindfolded text messaging. A record of a 160 letter text in 45 seconds while blindfolded was set on the 17th of November 2007, beating the old record of 1 minute 26 seconds set by an Italian during September 2006." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soniqstylz Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 As irritable as I get after lack of sleep, there'd be a few missions that I'd need a new dualshock for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) As irritable as I get after lack of sleep, there'd be a few missions that I'd need a new dualshock for. I'd hate to see what would happen if you played Demon's Souls after lack of sleep... You'd probably have to go through a box full of controllers. :laugh: Edited January 11, 2010 by Xilo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Things like that call for *facepalm :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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