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10:01 am, February 24, 2017
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http://wtop.com/virginia/2017/02/gamer-dies-while-attempting-24-hour-stream-for-charity/
Police are investigating the death of a popular Virginia gamer who died during the home stretch of a 24-hour marathon video game session he was streaming online to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
News outlets report that 35-year-old Brian Vigneault was about 22 hours into playing “World of Tanks” on Twitch.tv when he stood up from his computer early Sunday to take a smoke break. He never returned.
Vigneault was found unresponsive at his Virginia Beach home later that evening and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Virginia Beach police spokeswoman Tonya Borman says police don’t suspect foul play in his death. His cause of death is unclear.
Vigneault’s Twitch profile says he had raised nearly $11,000 for various charities during his 5-year streaming career.
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Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:06AM
10:01 am, February 24, 2017
60°
http://wtop.com/virginia/2017/02/gamer-dies-while-attempting-24-hour-stream-for-charity/
Police are investigating the death of a popular Virginia gamer who died during the home stretch of a 24-hour marathon video game session he was streaming online to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
News outlets report that 35-year-old Brian Vigneault was about 22 hours into playing “World of Tanks” on Twitch.tv when he stood up from his computer early Sunday to take a smoke break. He never returned.
Vigneault was found unresponsive at his Virginia Beach home later that evening and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Virginia Beach police spokeswoman Tonya Borman says police don’t suspect foul play in his death. His cause of death is unclear.
Vigneault’s Twitch profile says he had raised nearly $11,000 for various charities during his 5-year streaming career.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
troll insurance
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:17AM
Sad story, but how the hell does playing video games raise money for charities? Doing any one thing for 24 hours is never a good idea.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
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many such cases
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:26AM
troll insurance Wrote:
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> Sad story, but how the hell does playing video
> games raise money for charities? Doing any one
> thing for 24 hours is never a good idea.
They stream it on twitch or whatever and people donate throughout the day. This isn't the first case of someone dying during one of these marathons either, I remember a little while back some dude died after trying to play for 3 days straight
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> Sad story, but how the hell does playing video
> games raise money for charities? Doing any one
> thing for 24 hours is never a good idea.
They stream it on twitch or whatever and people donate throughout the day. This isn't the first case of someone dying during one of these marathons either, I remember a little while back some dude died after trying to play for 3 days straight
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
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More stupidity
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Date: February 24, 2017 11:15AM
His heart probably exploded from drinking tons of redbull and using similar unhealthy shit to stay awake.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: February 24, 2017 11:59AM
This happens all the time in Korea; gaming binges for 24 hours killing people.
Gaming for charity is stupid; if you want to donate to charity, do it. You don't have to watch a guy play a lame ass game to donate money.
Even more stupid is Twitch. Who the hell watches another dude play games?
Gaming for charity is stupid; if you want to donate to charity, do it. You don't have to watch a guy play a lame ass game to donate money.
Even more stupid is Twitch. Who the hell watches another dude play games?
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
4G7LJ
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Date: February 24, 2017 12:15PM
Fox News Wrote:
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> a popular
> Virginia gamer
REALLY? With whom was he 'popular'?
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> a popular
> Virginia gamer
REALLY? With whom was he 'popular'?
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: February 24, 2017 12:23PM
4G7LJ Wrote:
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> Fox News Wrote:
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> > a popular
> > Virginia gamer
>
>
> REALLY? With whom was he 'popular'?
He had over 100 viewer
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> Fox News Wrote:
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> > a popular
> > Virginia gamer
>
>
> REALLY? With whom was he 'popular'?
He had over 100 viewer
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: February 24, 2017 12:28PM
I wonder if anyone has died while on a Fairfax Underground posting binge...
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Gerrytarded
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Date: February 24, 2017 01:29PM
eesh Wrote:
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> I wonder if anyone has died while on a Fairfax
> Underground posting binge...
Gerry is a prime candidate. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
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> I wonder if anyone has died while on a Fairfax
> Underground posting binge...
Gerry is a prime candidate. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Nigslayer
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Date: February 24, 2017 01:36PM
Deep vain thrombosis is not to be fucked with he was probably trying to be the next PewDiePie faggot
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2017 01:37PM by Nigslayer.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2017 01:37PM by Nigslayer.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Nigslayer
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Date: February 24, 2017 01:41PM
Was he sitting and playing WOT on a Xbox,ps4,or PC is my question?
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
pc gaming
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Date: February 24, 2017 01:45PM
Nigslayer Wrote:
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> Was he sitting and playing WOT on a Xbox,ps4,or PC
> is my question?
He's on a PC for sure
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> Was he sitting and playing WOT on a Xbox,ps4,or PC
> is my question?
He's on a PC for sure
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Nigslayer
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Date: February 24, 2017 02:55PM
Shit I would have been more impressed if he had done it on a Ps4,would have been funny if he was one of the people I pissed off by playing moonman music from my phone into the headset;-)
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: February 24, 2017 03:55PM
eesh Wrote:
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> I wonder if anyone has died while on a Fairfax
> Underground posting binge...
It has happened to me a few time
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> I wonder if anyone has died while on a Fairfax
> Underground posting binge...
It has happened to me a few time
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
William Moreno, Anal Catcher
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Date: February 24, 2017 09:04PM
I once watched a bunch of guys masturbate into a pumpkin for 24 hours. I would have paid 1.4 million dollars for a pie from that pumpkin.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
YbbEK
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Date: February 24, 2017 09:48PM
> Police are investigating the death of a popular Virginia gamer
fucking liar
#1 police hate gamers and
#2 gamers are never popular, not even among gamers
even game makers that are popular are extremely rare - especially in the 2000 when "people just do whatever the hell they want without any intent of showing a profit" - which in my mind: should be highly illegal except after work
fucking liar
#1 police hate gamers and
#2 gamers are never popular, not even among gamers
even game makers that are popular are extremely rare - especially in the 2000 when "people just do whatever the hell they want without any intent of showing a profit" - which in my mind: should be highly illegal except after work
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
6kw7L
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Date: February 24, 2017 09:48PM
my record at that age was something like 3 days without sleep- but not gaming - working
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:05PM
6kw7L Wrote:
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> my record at that age was something like 3 days
> without sleep- but not gaming - working
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> my record at that age was something like 3 days
> without sleep- but not gaming - working
Attachments:
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
World of Tanks
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:24PM
That game is killer!
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
used to be young
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:34PM
6kw7L Wrote:
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> my record at that age was something like 3 days
> without sleep- but not gaming - working
I made it 56 hours one time with the aide of legally prescribed stimulants. World of Warcraft raid and three different finals, it was a different time to say the least.
Towards the end I actually started to hallucinate, you see "shadow figures" in the corner of your peripheral, turn around ready to fight and there's nothing there. I can easily imagine another day or two would have thrown me into psychosis or even full blown insanity or death. It's fun when you're in college but god help any of you if you were to interfere with my 8 hours a night as an adult
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> my record at that age was something like 3 days
> without sleep- but not gaming - working
I made it 56 hours one time with the aide of legally prescribed stimulants. World of Warcraft raid and three different finals, it was a different time to say the least.
Towards the end I actually started to hallucinate, you see "shadow figures" in the corner of your peripheral, turn around ready to fight and there's nothing there. I can easily imagine another day or two would have thrown me into psychosis or even full blown insanity or death. It's fun when you're in college but god help any of you if you were to interfere with my 8 hours a night as an adult
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Need Alert
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Date: February 24, 2017 10:43PM
used to be young Wrote:
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> 6kw7L Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > my record at that age was something like 3 days
> > without sleep- but not gaming - working
>
>
> I made it 56 hours one time with the aide of
> legally prescribed stimulants. World of Warcraft
> raid and three different finals, it was a
> different time to say the least.
>
> Towards the end I actually started to hallucinate,
> you see "shadow figures" in the corner of your
> peripheral, turn around ready to fight and there's
> nothing there. I can easily imagine another day or
> two would have thrown me into psychosis or even
> full blown insanity or death. It's fun when you're
> in college but god help any of you if you were to
> interfere with my 8 hours a night as an adult
Dude like you are complete badass! I wish I was cool enough to do that! How many D&D power points do you have broner?
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> 6kw7L Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > my record at that age was something like 3 days
> > without sleep- but not gaming - working
>
>
> I made it 56 hours one time with the aide of
> legally prescribed stimulants. World of Warcraft
> raid and three different finals, it was a
> different time to say the least.
>
> Towards the end I actually started to hallucinate,
> you see "shadow figures" in the corner of your
> peripheral, turn around ready to fight and there's
> nothing there. I can easily imagine another day or
> two would have thrown me into psychosis or even
> full blown insanity or death. It's fun when you're
> in college but god help any of you if you were to
> interfere with my 8 hours a night as an adult
Dude like you are complete badass! I wish I was cool enough to do that! How many D&D power points do you have broner?
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Gunlover
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Date: February 25, 2017 01:19PM
A job who have helped him.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
Well groomed
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Date: February 25, 2017 01:46PM
They should have hooked his balls up to a car battery with some jumper cables. That would have woken him up.
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
G9wvn
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Date: February 25, 2017 01:52PM
> Posted by: used to be young
> I made it 56 hours one time with the aide of legally prescribed stimulants.
6kw7L Wrote:
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> my record at that age was something like 3 days
> without sleep- but not gaming - working
"I'm a coffee achiever Max!" (Sam & Max Hit the Road)
> I made it 56 hours one time with the aide of legally prescribed stimulants.
6kw7L Wrote:
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> my record at that age was something like 3 days
> without sleep- but not gaming - working
"I'm a coffee achiever Max!" (Sam & Max Hit the Road)
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
VjCHG
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Date: February 25, 2017 02:01PM
games addict children and waste precious time (ie, not including ATARI - too boring to be addictive for most)
many people in the 1990's (mostly parents, and a few people who realized their childhoods was wasted gaming and stopped) protested Congress to make laws against gaming companies: to prohibit the making of elaborate "fatally attractive gambling games" (ie, such as battle tank games).
however, you don't hear those people's voices anymore
i most always followed the rule: never turn on a game during work hours and never play a game longer than if you'd watched tv instead - and never do both the same day; mealtime excluded. it worked fine for me. but some people are just addicted to anything and would be better off without any game system
many people in the 1990's (mostly parents, and a few people who realized their childhoods was wasted gaming and stopped) protested Congress to make laws against gaming companies: to prohibit the making of elaborate "fatally attractive gambling games" (ie, such as battle tank games).
however, you don't hear those people's voices anymore
i most always followed the rule: never turn on a game during work hours and never play a game longer than if you'd watched tv instead - and never do both the same day; mealtime excluded. it worked fine for me. but some people are just addicted to anything and would be better off without any game system
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
KbE7K
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Date: February 25, 2017 02:07PM
allot of these "games" are developed by political children and or companies who cannot say where they got money (ie, mob money, counterfeit funded)
allot of games are made by people who just start making a game with no expectation of profit "because they want to". even if making "office tool" (again during work hours when one should be working at something profitable not something proven to be a worthless crap shoot) it should be illegal to code without education on other peoples time making crap that cannot sell - but millions are/have done it!!! it was everything my instructors taught against when i took classes.
there are so many games, there are game making predators. the predators steal any useful sourcecode they can find, and then insure any 3rd party games cannot get on the market / compete. Microsoft has a record for doing that - but are hardly the only predators.
there are so many games - they intently damage software so it cannot run and compete against "newly released software" (usually is stolen from past software and relabeled to prevent lawsuits, code hidden to prevent authors from finding out who's using stolen code "it's binary")
allot of games are made by people who just start making a game with no expectation of profit "because they want to". even if making "office tool" (again during work hours when one should be working at something profitable not something proven to be a worthless crap shoot) it should be illegal to code without education on other peoples time making crap that cannot sell - but millions are/have done it!!! it was everything my instructors taught against when i took classes.
there are so many games, there are game making predators. the predators steal any useful sourcecode they can find, and then insure any 3rd party games cannot get on the market / compete. Microsoft has a record for doing that - but are hardly the only predators.
there are so many games - they intently damage software so it cannot run and compete against "newly released software" (usually is stolen from past software and relabeled to prevent lawsuits, code hidden to prevent authors from finding out who's using stolen code "it's binary")
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
MHecJ
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Date: February 25, 2017 02:09PM
overall the PC and gaming industry (as well as sofware industry) in general are the most reckloose and un-sued (but should be sued) people on the planet
the wreck everything that works, give people a pile of but and security issued from software they stole that HAD WORKED (note the practice is intentional. "everything old is new again" "i delete your reality and replace it with my own")
the wreck everything that works, give people a pile of but and security issued from software they stole that HAD WORKED (note the practice is intentional. "everything old is new again" "i delete your reality and replace it with my own")
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
GEeP3
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Date: February 25, 2017 02:12PM
I've always known (good upbringing):
TO CREATE FREE TIME FOR (OTHER) PEOPLE TAKES IMMENSE HARD WORK
THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY REGULARLY ATTACKS TIME BY INTENTLY DELETING IT FOR POWER AND CONTROL AND FORCED PURCHASES
THEY HAVE KNOWINGLY WRECKED TRILLIONS OF HOURS OF FREE TIME THE WHOLE FUCKING WAS IN A BUTT SLING IN PAYING FOR
absolutely: many of today's top "program managers" for software companies that wreck old software SHOULD BE IN PRISON
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
sz
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Date: February 25, 2017 10:10PM
I guess mommy and daddy have an empty basement now
Re: Va. gamer dies while attempting 24-hour stream for charity
Posted by:
tootguy drooling in wheelchair
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Date: February 25, 2017 10:18PM
sz Wrote:
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> I guess mommy and daddy have an empty basement now
I wish my wife and I had an empty basement, but our black hole of a son that sucks the life and energy out of everything he touches lives down there. We need to hire a cleaning crew to go down there and clean the mildew created by the Great Flood of 2013.
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> I guess mommy and daddy have an empty basement now
I wish my wife and I had an empty basement, but our black hole of a son that sucks the life and energy out of everything he touches lives down there. We need to hire a cleaning crew to go down there and clean the mildew created by the Great Flood of 2013.