On-line Gaming

Ok So I don't know alot about on-line gaming..I barely have time in my busy ass life to check my email regularly but I must say that lately the rumblings around online gaming has been penetrating my little earth bubble quite a bit lately... Over Thanksgiving I got to watch this special on gaming in general it was like an MTV news special on the ever-growing "Hobby" in the special, There were living gaming conventions where competitors met up at a Hotel and the Hotel hosted this gaming convention and like I guess the best of the Best fought it out and the winner won like a prize and a title. One guy won like 900.00 dollars and mainly the special showed how some people make a living off it --winning at these like competitions and such..it was crazy to watch as someone who is completely unattached to the "fad"/ "Phenomenon". It also showed how these kids like "train" before a competition almost like a boxer or something getting ready for a big match and they have like strained relationships with their signifigant others over the gaming and such. A lot of it started overseas and I guess is just starting to hit a fever-pitch State-side. Last semseter I took a class that revolved around computer/internet hacking/pirating and such and this kid form I believe Korea did a presentation on the gaming Hoopla bt from his perspective of his homeland where Gaming is like a way of life ( A lot of these games are created there and such) He told this horror story of how one guy actually dropped dead because he was competing wioth people at like one of those Korean Internet/gaming cafe's or something with some people and he like never took a break or anything ....He just kept going and going for like 3 or 4 days or so with no breaks no going to the bathroom , no eating, no water and his body just gave out after a few short days he died while Gaming for days..... Crazy. But again out there gaming cafes exists, games are born there teh culture is festering in a revolution of thsi gaming world It's everywhere there! Hearing about this from a young kid from there made it really real for me. But againg I think it's great for some who are finding success in it..I mean if some people can make a living off it then Jack-pot! Me, I could never be a gamer.. I think your brain has to work a certain way to do it a way in which my brain does not. I can't spend hours reading gamer magazine . I don't have that kind of focus to play for jhopurs against oponent after oponent, nor do I have the patience. But I respect those who can and do.