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- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -7/+130"The average gamer also engages in vigorous exercise once or twice a week."
BURY! This study is completely inaccurate. I'm an average gamer, and I masturbate at LEAST 4 times a day. - Sirocco, on 09/18/2008, -3/+68>> although they may be less healthy mentally.
I'm pretty certain the comments here will prove that point. - gobbleplex, on 09/19/2008, -0/+58If they contacted these gamers online for the survey, then they clearly forgot to factor in that online, everyone is made of 250lbs of pure muscle, can bench press your dad and beat up your car. They'll gladly tell you so as they're telling you to come say ***** to their faces so they have a good reason to beat you into next sunday.
- rukeypoo, on 09/19/2008, -2/+42BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS!!!!
- icndvl, on 09/19/2008, -0/+31Most people who knock gaming watch reality TV 12 hours a day.
- bensully, on 09/19/2008, -0/+30curiously enough, everyone who responded was over 6'5, had slept with at least a thousand women and didn't live in their parents' basement. i guess these results have to be 100% accurate.
- warrenterr, on 09/19/2008, -0/+2630 to 60 seconds is not vigorous.
- generalsticky, on 09/19/2008, -0/+24¯\(°_o)/¯
- reyoo30309, on 09/18/2008, -2/+26They have less body fat because they have trouble getting away from the computer to get something to eat. As far as the, "The average gamer also engages in vigorous exercise once or twice a week." This is due to the brief periods of time computer gamers spend running back to their computers after a extended time away from it.
- sockpuppets, on 09/19/2008, -0/+23The 30 feet between my chair and fridge counts as exercise?
- zakbroman, on 09/19/2008, -0/+21i stopped reading after "joystick junkies".
- Richie311, on 09/19/2008, -4/+23***** YOU AND YOUR MOTHER
- D4CH, on 09/19/2008, -0/+19What? You watch him?
- ninjaturtles1, on 09/19/2008, -0/+14Totally disagree with this article. I lost about 40kgs since I stopped playing WOW.
I thank XKCD!
http://xkcd.com/189/ - Shadic, on 09/19/2008, -0/+13Are you masturbating at the same time?
- aereaus, on 09/19/2008, -0/+13And that's just the women your talking about!
- Tyrghast, on 09/19/2008, -3/+15Speaking of women, I have three of them conducting fellatio on me as I raid.
- aereaus, on 09/19/2008, -0/+12Does this new BLUE chest armor make my female priest's boobs look too big?
- TPorter72, on 09/19/2008, -5/+17*****
- LiberalKid, on 09/19/2008, -0/+11Personally I just don't gain weight, I don't know about the rest of gamers...
- noahgelman, on 09/19/2008, -4/+15***** or GTFO
- sockpuppets, on 09/19/2008, -0/+9Maybe I am and maybe I AM.
- Richie311, on 09/19/2008, -1/+10Pretty sure 4chan got to this survey.
- Terasiel, on 09/19/2008, -0/+8Shhh, they'll hear you and have to stop watching television long enough to tell you to stop playing games cause it makes you're brain all...stupid or something. Hey is that Britney's snatch?
- xkorbin, on 09/19/2008, -1/+8Interesting.
- Stevethegreat, on 09/19/2008, -1/+8I "like" how games are being chastised as being for the mentally, socially or physically deficient. We should come in terms that due to the gaming genre being vast, that there are games for different people/purposes. A videogame can be as much intellectually stimulating or even more than a movie or a book. By making a stereotype of gamers is like making the equivalent mistake that people of renaissance made of book-readers.
Those groups of people are not homogeneous and trying to make a general rule about them is futile. Games are neither childish nor for the social outcasts, at least not anymore. We live in the ***** 21st century and videogames will dominate it more than books, movies or even music and that's because it does what any type of entertainment tried to do, only better, because this time you're part of the things, and not just a passive spectator, wait for the things to come... - regicide, on 09/19/2008, -3/+9The Onion?
- inactive, on 09/19/2008, -0/+6Ceiling Cat?
- MasterGrief, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5Am I... Am I supposed to conduct with my penis?
- austang, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5You mean like my nightelf priestess?
- aftern9ne, on 09/19/2008, -1/+6Depends on what they mean by mental health.
Just because I want to ***** STRANGLE SOME MOTHER ***** doesn't mean I can't be an intelligent, compassionate person. - jtingley, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5ROFL! Everquest 2 players?!?! They must have interviewed the whole playerbase!!
- inactive, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5You're debating duration, not exertion. Sprinting towards the finish line and just walking towards it are two completely different exercises ;)
- Jeremyz0r, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5It's not all *****.
"there were more players in their thirties than in their twenties"
***** duh, it's EQ. - iofthestorm, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5Extra exorcise? Is your house haunted, or something? Maybe that's why you don't gain weight.
- vegx, on 09/19/2008, -0/+5There's a large difference between being physically fit and just not overweight.
- wolferz, on 09/19/2008, -1/+6Do they look like they could crush a small car? If not then no.
- AndrewDB, on 09/19/2008, -1/+6I'm pale because of my Scottish / Irish heritage and for the fact I can't tan for *****..
I'm over-weight just because I eat irresponsibly, but I'm power-walking three to six miles a day every single day (so far this summer) (getting ready to run the miles by the start of the autumn), and I've lost quite a bit of weight. I'm still not down to my ideal ex-Army weight of 163, but I'm down from the 220 I was. As far as the mental prowess is concerned, I'd rather not talk about intelligence quotients on Digg.. it'd feel a little odd. - Higgles, on 09/19/2008, -3/+7Haha, I actually do sprint to my garage and back when I get some pop. (NOT SODA!!)
- AndrewDB, on 09/19/2008, -0/+4Average... actually.
- Akairenn, on 09/19/2008, -0/+4Everyone's missing the point - the story mentions EverQuest II.
EQ II has like, ten players. Sample size is not valid to extrapolate proper results from. :p - Pronation, on 09/19/2008, -0/+4But can they play Crysis?
- davidrools, on 09/19/2008, -0/+4I believe I have some anecdotal evidence to the contrary!
- Twoodge, on 09/19/2008, -0/+4In other news, a recent study confirms that online gamers are four times as likely as non-gamers to lie about their physical fitness.
- dawnraid101, on 09/19/2008, -2/+6 (o Y o)
There are your *****. - donkevin, on 09/19/2008, -0/+4Do ... do I sculpt the penis?
- ParanoydAndroid, on 09/19/2008, -0/+3OR, Can they run, while playing Crysis?
- snached, on 09/19/2008, -0/+3Maybe biking a 100miles a week will have something to do with not gaining any weight... I'm just saying!
- AmericanParty, on 09/19/2008, -0/+3"The downside, however, was that the gamers reported more cases of depression and substance abuse than their compatriots"
so true, at least for me. :-(.
but WoW really did help me get over what I was going through. Probably all the drinking helped as well, lol.
But now I'm Wow free, but still drink a lot on the weekends...but who doesn't? - Belgarion, on 09/19/2008, -0/+3Dude that's awesome! How much do you weigh now?
I was in a similar situation in January, weighed 220, now I weigh 170 thanks to eating right, cardio and weight training (something you should look in to) :-P -
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