Date: June 10, 2015
Location: Human World, Joystick’s House

It’s summer finally, the days to go out and play. You can go swimming, hiking, hang out with your friends at the mall, go to a theme park, not worry about test or quizzes. One other option is stay inside, close the blinds, turn on your console, and play all day long. That is exactly what Joystick did. He was a Canterlot High student that was finally happy that school was over. He was an indoor person. He never left his house if possible. Didn’t have much friends except for online ones who he didn’t know in real life. He would play online every single day. He was addicted to games like crack. School got in his way, but not anymore.

One day he heard his favorite game was having an online tournament. He got ready by buying snacks to keep him fed while he played all day long. He put his headsets on and began to join any game he could.

“Attention noobs, and noobets you’re all going down!!” Joystick shouted in his headset.

Now anyone or anypony want to explain how online tournament works. Well we got a pony named Button Mash who’s a pretty hard core gamer, so lets see what this Colt knows about gaming.

“Online tournaments go like this you pick your game and you pick your category of a game say deathmatch or capture the flag. Then you can compete by yourself or with a team. An average pony or human would play about 5 to 6 hours a day. A gamer which is what I am play about 14 to 16 hours a day we also play hand held games so we can move around, or play outside to get some fresh air. Sometimes we even stay up all night playing...Which I may have done sometimes myself. However, a No Lifer as we call them play 30 hours our more. I’m glad i’m not one of those.”

Thanks Button Mash. Anyways Joystick was a No Lifer and played as much as he could. You’re probably thinking wouldn’t his parents stop him. He moved out a year ago and lived on his own. No one could stop him.

“Take that sucker your just got pwned!!” Joystick shouted in the mic when he killed a gamer’s avatar.

At night some gamer’s feel asleep and some began to play. However Joystick stayed up all night and day making him tired, but he had something to fix that. Red bull. I have no idea what that is but apparently it gives humans a kick to stay up. Joystick would stay up for hours. Now some gamer’s would stop playing to go out for some fresh air, or enjoy a bit of their summer outside. Joystick stayed inside.
Joystick kept playing since the online tournament started.

He was trying to catch up to a gamer that had a high score of 3,567,845,345 points. This legendary gamer had the gamer tag name Nightmare Moon cause she always played at night, and she was number one on the leader boards. Joystick wouldn’t stop until he caught up. Joystick didn’t want to miss one second of this tournament action.

*Knock Knock*

A knock came from the door. “Pizza delivery!!” A pizza delivery man shouted.

“It’s open!!” Joystick shouted.

The pizza man came in, and Joystick told him to leave the pizza near him, and put the pizza on his tab. He ate and kept playing. He had junk food all over his floor. Every time he needed to go number one he would use the empty bottles he drank from to go, and sat on a specially designed bucket seat to take care of the one that came out the other end.

The tournament was almost ending, but Joystick finally caught up to Nightmare Moon who hadn’t been playing for a couple of days. Joystick had been playing since the tournament began which began on June 6th and now it was June 10th. Meaning Joystick’s been playing for four days straight. Finally he caught up to Nightmare Moon then all of a sudden she came online. When Joystick saw that he decided to beat the gamer to become number one. He invited her for a talk.

“I challenge you Nightmare Moon to a death match. First one to twenty gets first place on the leader boards!!” Joystick shouted in his head set.

“Your on I will beat you easily, and still be number one.” Nightmare Moon said.

Joystick thought that Nightmare Moon’s voice sounded familiar that’s because he was playing against one of his principals from his school. Principal Luna who played video games at night. She was out with her sister on a vacation trip, but is back and ready to fight any gamer trying to take her spot. The death match started.

However, Joystick’s bad diet and terrible hygiene gave him body sores all over his body. He didn’t care. He was winning by two points, and just needed one more kill. However, Luna kept her cool, caught up, killed Joystick one more time and won the death match.

“Take that sucker you just got pwned!!!” Luna shouted in her headset as she danced for her victory.

“What!! NO!!! NO!!!!!!” Joystick shouted in his headset. Joystick finally got up, and was about to shout a lot of hateful comments to Luna until.

“Agh!!”

*Plop!! Crash!!*

He fell to the ground while trying to grab his T.V to help him, but instead it fell with him. Joystick fell down and stayed down like someone pulled the plug on his avatar.

Joystick played for so long, ate badly, had poor hygiene and sat down for a long time that he started to get massive clots in his legs. When he stood up after four days of playing they broke free and went up to his heart and to his lungs. Within a matter of a few seconds there was enough blood that was coagulated in his lungs that he couldn’t breath, and then his heart probably stopped a few minutes after that which caused him to die.

Joystick ruined his health and lived in a virtual fantasy world. However, when he lost and got his wake up call. It was his last wake up call.

To all your gamer’s out there. Don’t be a No Lifer like Joystick. Enjoy your games, but make sure to have some fun outside. Maybe have some fun inside. Move your body a bit, take a breather, or play on your hand held games. Don’t wind up like Joystick who now literally has no life...At all.

Way To Die #26: Game Stopped

Author's Note

Coming up we’re still in the Human World and see a girl who is just like Vinyl Scratch. She pays the price when she listen’s to her music all the way up, and then back in Equestria a clown that hates two clowns that took his job at a summer birthday party. Summer is here and so is death.