We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

All that matters is at least the boy was saved in time, and hopefully both the boy and the mother have learned a valuable lesson from this; The importance of self-control and monotor the use of technology in your household.

Self control? Bah! Bring me more pizza wrapped in bacon!

I'm a little disapointed you didn't add extra cheese and double the meat on that order

Don't forget to deep-fry it.

stuffed crust!

I think you're taking this all a little bit too seriously, ashout. As for the whole rock thing, It's usually me that's championing that 'we're flawed and we've really got to accept it if we're to get anywhere as a species' philosophy. It's one of the many reasons I find myself opposed to many major religions.

I agree. I'm sure all of us have done a few stupid things during our time on earth so far but it is common sense that going 4 days without water and sleep is really bad. Just like it is common sense that if you stick your hand in fire, it will get burned. The kid is just stupid. I hope after this, people don't start blaming the video game addiction. It wasn't the addiction that made the kid collapse. It was being stupid.

Back in my days we used to snort magnetic tapes, Solo Flight was a major trip... oh, not that kind of game addiction? Ah.

On a more serious note:
Blame parents, not games, it's their responsibility.
Either the kids a game Olympian or there's something seriously wrong with him. Does he have a audio file playing "breathe in, breathe out" looped by any chance?

Sometimes intelligence just increases our capacity for stupidity. Ashout's polished rocks have zero intelligence, but don't do any incredibly dumb shit either. A beetle wouldn't starve itself to death because it almost entirely relies on instinct. We've moved away from that. Which means that it's technically possible for us to do some really stupid things if we don't think them through. That's why we need to substitute instinct with common sense. But unfortunately common sense is a bit of a misnomer.

all i'm asking is that you have a heart, and think about what your saying before you say it.