World of Tanks streamer died during the charity stream
Thirty-five year old Brian Vigneault, community digital textist known as Poshybrid or short Poshy last weekend was streaming World of Tanks in the all-day sessions. The goal was through a few 24-hour streams in a week to collect money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Unfortunately, on Sunday after 22 hours of play he passed away at his home.
Father of three children to the viewers to which he streamed said that he was going to light a cigarette and when he did not return everybody excepted that he fell asleep. But when the next day they tried to contact him through the discord they`ve received an information from the local detective who confirmed that Brian has died.
The cause of death has not yet been determined, and despite various speculations has not been confirmed or that his death was directly related to the long playing nor lack of sleep. Anyhow through the Internet circulates a warning that lack of sleep can have serious consequences to the human body and recommend are reasonable doses of video-game playing with significant breaks.
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