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08-29-2001, 07:31 AM
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What is the most severe injury you have sustained from playing computer/video games?
Mine would be blisters (Whoa! Pretty life threatening stuff.) on my thumb while playing Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. I was trying to learn the dragon punch move and I never got it right. 
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08-29-2001, 07:38 AM
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Originally posted by josh:
<STRONG>I was trying to learn the dragon punch move and I never got it right. </STRONG>
| ROFL I always found that if you just pressed all the buttons randomly quite fast, it might just happen coincidentally 
But in answer to your question, I have never sustained any gaming injuries, except perhaps a backache from sitting in a cheap desk chair for too many hours in a row playing BG2... 
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08-29-2001, 07:45 AM
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I probebly sound very stupid when I tell you this but I'll tell it anyway:
Once while playing a game, can't remember what, I got mad because I failed a test, I hit the table wit my fist and my right picky went out of place.
I had to push it back...  I feel so stupid right now.
Please, someone else tell your story so I'm not the only one. 
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08-29-2001, 08:45 AM
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Loss of sleep playing BG2.
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08-29-2001, 08:51 AM
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Well, I remember deliberately hoisting a giant mainframe over my head with a forklift and then repeatedly dropping it on myself, but after the first hit or two everything else in life has been, more or less, a daze...
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08-29-2001, 09:14 AM
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Fable: Rofl
Well, I haven't actually hurt myself, but I have spilled diet coke on my keyboard more times than I care to share. I also broke my desk by kicking through the back panel (it was a cheap desk)
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08-29-2001, 09:18 AM
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I went blind once looking at raunchy web pages. | | |
08-29-2001, 09:23 AM
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<STRONG>I went blind once looking at raunchy web pages. </STRONG>
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08-29-2001, 09:25 AM
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Lots of pics of a girl calling herself "Vivacious Viv". And yeah, there was livestock too.  | | |
08-29-2001, 09:29 AM
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08-29-2001, 09:33 AM
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Originally posted by Gruntboy:
<STRONG>Lots of pics of a girl calling herself "Vivacious Viv". And yeah, there was livestock too.
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But, but, I was told that those pictures were taken for 'Art'!
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08-29-2001, 09:40 AM
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*ahem*
Anyway...apart from RSI, I have had a couple of gaming injuries. At a marathon N64 sleepover I rubbed my thumb raw on that bl**dy joystick playing NBA'98. And me and a mate knew we were getting addicted to Diablo 2 when we found matching blisters on the heels of our right hands...comes from not using a proper mousemat...
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08-29-2001, 09:46 AM
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Well once my nintendo choked me, then knocked me on the head, and bit my finger off.
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08-29-2001, 11:45 AM
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One time, at home, my computor jumped me, along with the fax machine and television. Well, I the Fax machine didn't pose much of problem. The Computor and Television were a different matter. I had to be them to death with their own screens....
Suffice it to say, I managed to get the 1000 brown M&M's, and Ozzie went on stage... | | |
08-29-2001, 11:47 AM
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<STRONG>Well once my nintendo choked me, then knocked me on the head, and bit my finger off.</STRONG>
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