Quick Jump Daily Digest
Thank you for your interest in the Quick Jump Daily Digest. Get notified of all new content on QJ in our free Daily Digest. To subscribe, enter your email address below and click the subscribe button.
Has Gaming Ever Negatively Affected Your Life? |
Listed in: News Tags: EverQuest, Starcraft, super mario bros., video game addiction
Has gaming ever negatively affected your life? We all probably remember the story about the guy in Korea that died a few years back playing too much Starcraft. While most of us don't know people that have taken it that far, we probably all know someone that has let gaming take over their life to a degree that it has an adverse effect on them.
For me, the first time I had ever heard of such a thing was back in the 80s. A neighbor woman of mine actually played Super Mario Bros. on the original NES so much that she had to have surgery on her thumbs. I was too young to properly grasp exactly what happened at the time, but it has since actually been given a name - "Nintendo thumb." And now I'm getting old enough and playing enough games and typing on the keyboard enough to know exactly how that feels. Carpal tunnel, yippee!
I also knew a guy back in the heyday of Everquest that literally lost everything because of that game. He stopped going to work to play Everquest, so he lost his job. He actually tried to make a living by leveling up characters in Everquest and selling them. Well, you can guess how that went. He then lost his house/apartment (I can't remember which he had) and had to live out of his car and eventually move back into his mother's basement. I think that was his wake up call.
Video game addiction has not yet been formally diagnosed or recognized, but really you can be addicted to anything - as evidenced by people literally killing themselves over it. Do you know anyone in such a predicament or has video gaming ever affected you in such a way?
| 80% of voters think this story ROCKS! |
|
|
Comments
If I sit down to a lot of gaming for a day, the next, I get sore, achy, sensitive joins in my first two fingers on my right hand... could be carpel tunnel... I dunno. W/e it is, it sucks :S
A co-worker of mine can't play guitar hero anymore because his hand has MAAADD arthritis. If he attempts, it just destroys his hand for days.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
...oh well.
Reply
I think thats the worst case senario.
Reply
Reply
Reply
She just doesn't understand
Reply
Reply
Ruined college and caused me to take 2 extra years (extra tuition) to graduate.
first girlfriend at 24, virginity lost at 24. But girlfriend is really hot Don't know if this is even considered negative.
Now working at an IT company. Life is alright overall. If it wasn't for video games, I could have had the focus to push even university and therefore a higher paying job.
Don't play video games much, just Starcraft 2 and random old school games I missed out.
Reply
Reply
xXNiqqa-BoyxX_01 is a cheater on Red Dead Redemption for the Playstation 3. This punk uses a modded PS3 console with an aimbot, a modified controller and several in game glitches. This is also his second PSN account. If anyone knows any of his other usernames let us know so we can expose this cheater. xXNiqqa-BoyxX_01 can usually be found in a posse with a number of known cheaters including svente2010, julytorres, elloko06_ and luigi_gamer. Some of these punks are also know to cheat on Modern Warfare 3.
Reply
Reply