This is a perfect example of why video games are MOSTLY a bad thing.
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 14:28
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There are at least as many women on the road today as men.
It's called Deep Vein Thrombosis. When you sit for long periods with high blood pressures of gaming or flight travel you accumulate blood clots until you throw one in your brain or heart. Activity tends to break those up. Some have been the result of extreme over caffeination, and some have been due to lack of sleep or dehydration. I do recall one where a bladder actually burst.
As for the driving thing, we already had that conversation. There ARE MORE MALE DRIVERS and more males get into accidents and when they get into accidents it is in more expensive vehicles and they do more damage. I'm not looking up the numbers again. Let the girls pass, Mr. Sensitive. I'm sure they got kids waiting for them somewhere...
LOL... Whatever the name for it, I do think that this is a hilariously pathetic way to die. It only gets funnier the younger the person is.
I still can't blame that on video games. If somebody were SO addicted to video games that they actually clot up and die or their bladder bursts, these people would have had a shortened lifespan because of some other extreme addiction.
I know it sounds cold, but I don't feel sorry for anyone in this situation. The addict got what they diserved. The family, especially the children, are better off without that negative influence in their life. Humanity as a whole is better off if this person isn't around to procreate... and if we're lucky, they never did.
I still don't believe that there are less women drivers than men drivers. Maybe it's true because in rural areas women drive far less, but having lived close to Chicago or Milwaukee all of my life I just don't see it.
Tailgating is a very serious offense and should not be written off. It's completely unsafe and irresponsible.
I know you were joking, but needing to get home to your kids is no reason to risk both of our lives.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Wishi: Now I'm thinking that it's less you hold opinions of someone just not keeping up with the kids today (though I get the impression that's certainly part of it), but perhaps more that you have a serious personal life problem, for which you blame videogames. I'm sorry to hear about the situation with your husband. I still don't think you've given a good example of why they're mostly a bad thing though.
6IXSTRINGJACK: There have definitely been many articles and news reports written of people dying due to videogames. I've no doubt that some korean girl did neglect a baby at home to stay at a web cafe playing starcraft, or that a british guy dropped out of Uni and ruined his family life to play some more call of duty. There's probably an element of truth to all these weird tales, but videogames are a popular scapegoat. I'm with you though, if someone sits and plays a game until they die of starvation... well, it's their fault. People will be sad, but there is no sense in trying to blame other things.
I don't buy that we're always being given an accurate picture of what happened though, and I certainly don't think that the numbers are significant enough to be noteworthy.
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Originally posted by NAVYSEILS:
Wishi: Now I'm thinking that it's less you hold opinions of someone just not keeping up with the kids today (though I get the impression that's certainly part of it), but perhaps more that you have a serious personal life problem, for which you blame videogames. I'm sorry to hear about the situation with your husband. I still don't think you've given a good example of why they're mostly a bad thing though.
6IXSTRINGJACK: There have definitely been many articles and news reports written of people dying due to videogames. I've no doubt that some korean girl did neglect a baby at home to stay at a web cafe playing starcraft, or that a british guy dropped out of Uni and ruined his family life to play some more call of duty. There's probably an element of truth to all these weird tales, but videogames are a popular scapegoat. I'm with you though, if someone sits and plays a game until they die of starvation... well, it's their fault. People will be sad, but there is no sense in trying to blame other things.
I don't buy that we're always being given an accurate picture of what happened though, and I certainly don't think that the numbers are significant enough to be noteworthy.
If I am anything here, I'm living proof why you SHOULDN'T post while drinking, among other things.
I'm so bad that not only do most of the narrow minded women liberal types here want nothing to do with me, but even the much more even-keeled anarchist type males tell me to go to hell because I'm just that bad...
HAHA LOOK AT ME!!!!
BITCH THIS AND C*u(% THAT!
At the end of the day the only promise I can give is I WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW.
Until I get diagnosed with a terminal disease, that's just like a never-ending hand-shake promise, but i means the world to me.
I'm not Captain-Fucking-Kangaroo....
I'm sure the road will be littered with drugs and alcohol and bad decisions.......
I'm not going anywhere though :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by NAVYSEILS:
I still don't think you've given a good example of why they're mostly a bad thing though.
And that's the whole crux of the human FAIL. It's never going to mean anything to YOU until it happens to someone you care about or it happens to YOU. Unfortunately, we ALL can't experience every emotion or every problem from all angles, so we go with what we know and what we know is hopelessly, infinitesimally small.
Feeling something for other people doesn't mean you have to justify a behavior. Feeling doesn't mean YOU have to take responsibility. Feeling is just a part of understanding. It's clear a great many people here don't understand and don't feel and don't want to. It's easier to blame and then write people off so you DON'T HAVE TO FEEL ANYTHING, isn't it??
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Originally posted by NAVYSEILS:
and I certainly don't think that the numbers are significant enough to be noteworthy.
As with all these people going out with a gun and blowing away a whole block...
HOW MANY IS ENOUGH? How many rotting corpses do you need?? 10? 1000? How many would it take for you to care? How many would it take for you to just change an opinion, not to even DO anything- just change an opinion?
If every single person on this planet was addicted and useless WOULD YOU FEEL ANYTHING???
God damn us. God damn us every one. Useless species.....
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Video games can become a boon to society now. If the video game addicts will
1) never leave home,
2) live in their mother's basement sitting in their dirty underwear glued
to the computer; Mom sends the cleaning lady in once a week,
3) do not associate with real people face-to-face, do not date, marry
or breed.
If this thought doesn't make you sick, there's nothing left of humanKIND in you.
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I do care, that's why I'm bothering to have a conversation about this in the first place.
People going out with guns and blowing people away is not relevant to this conversation, that's a different matter entirely. Unless you're suggesting that as well as game designers being involved in a conspiracy with the government and wanting to break up marriages, they're also the reason for mass shootings?
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It's easier to blame and then write people off so you DON'T HAVE TO FEEL ANYTHING, isn't it??
Could I not argue that this is sort of what you are doing? Easier to blame the videogames than than feel that the you and the people you care about are responsible? Lay off the hyperbole, disagreeing with your view doesn't make me an emotionless husk. I can have empathy and see that you don't like videogames because you associate them with the situations you've seen around you. I can still think you are blaming a symptom of a problem rather than the source though.
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Fun lists of consequences of extreme game addiction.
True? I suspect so.
Worse than heroine? I think so.
Top 10 Cases of Extreme Game Addiction
http://listverse.com/2010/11/07/top-10-cases-of-extreme-game-addiction/
9 People Who Died Playing Video Games
http://www.ranker.com/list/8-people-who-died-playing-video-games/autum
n-spragg
Top 8 Most Fatally Negligent Gamer Parents of All Time
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-8-most-fatally-negligent-gamer-parents-
of-all-time/michael-gibson
As those parents of dead kids were dragged off to jail, I can only imagine
them asking their lawyers to please bring their games to them there.
Quote NavySeils, "I can still think you are blaming a symptom of a problem rather
than the source though."
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
Part of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
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If you think from reading those lists that it shows videogames as being the source of the problem, and go on to suggest the consequences are worse than heroin, then I don't really know what else I can say.
But even supposing that in each of these cases, videogames removed there would have been no problems at all. It's still not significant enough numbers to claim they're mostly a bad thing. Those stories get attention because they are so ridiculous and people read them for some kind of schadenfreude entertainment value.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm still waiting for my car insurance to decrease because women's car insurance increases. What an arcane pile of bullshit that is. There are at least as many women on the road today as men. Now I can only speak for the offence of "tail-gating" because it is my NUMBER ONE pet peeve on the road.... But seriously, 9 out of 10 times I'm being tailgated it's by a woman.
That's not how insurance works. They do the number crunching on who is involved in accidents. So here if you are under 25 your premiums go up, and if you are male and under 25 you have an extra premium.
Of all the recent shitful driving I have come across, it's been young males pumped full of testosterone, and very possibly ice. Fuckers, I wish I had a camera attached to my car.
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