Maybe he is an idiot, but how can any of us make that determination? People that exhibit addictive behavior towards games typically also have an underlying mental illness that causes it. He probably couldn't pull himself away because he was fixated on the game to the exclusion of everything else. Even stupid people know…
Most people don't play games for forty hours straight. And those that do certainly have preexisting issues that lead to such behavior. If the person in question had been into hard drugs and died from that, no one would create a media circus around it. However, video games are still considered a "toy" for children. Thus,…