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   An excuse for corny names

   

   Slackr, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 6:55pm

   
   

   She's just a noob. Everyone knows it takes hours of practice to build resistance to these sorts of injuries...I think the Drs just revel in the ability to try and come up with a new condition and call it something 'snazzy'.

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   The Frak?

   

   ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Feb 26th, 2009 @ 7:23pm

   
   

   Is this essentially a pre-callus? It sounds like it.

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 7:26pm

   
   

   Yeah, that 12 year old girl needs to man up!

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   We've got to do something to protect the children

   

   eleete, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 7:35pm

   
   

   "While doctors and Sony both say this is the first case of its kind they've seen, don't be surprised if politicians start railing against sore palms as another danger video games pose to kids."
   
   Before I even got to that line, I had already gone there. Funny how clueless polluticians are capable of imposing a law on 330,000,000+ people in a country that has never experienced an incident. I contend that our government exists to reduce our liberty and rights.

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 7:54pm

   
   

   Won't somebody think of the children!!!!

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 8:54pm

   
   

   another DANGER for the children is when I have to stuff the controller up their arse to get them to put the game down for 2 seconds.
   
   Controllerarseidis anyone.

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   Paging Captain Obvious: You're Needed

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 9:05pm

   
   

   They're called blisters. They're the result of repetitive mechanical stress on the skin. This is one of the dumbest stories I've read in a long time.

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   That explains it!

   

   tb, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 9:42pm

   
   

   I'm so relieved! I thought the sores on my palms were from the other activity my parents warned me about!

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   .....

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 9:53pm

   
   

   Dude....my "Mouse hand" can deflect bullets

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    Pfft

    

    Chris, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 10:21pm

    
    

    Next thing they say is it's dangerous to play guitar because it builds calluses on the fingers. No, what's dangerous is swimming with anvils tied to each of your feet, muscles need a chance to build and grow muscle memory, they need to adapt to the tasks you do repeatedly.
    
    Grow up, whoever claims this to be true is performing a hate crime (lol).

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    Re: Pfft

    

    Trevlac, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 11:33pm

    
    

    I laughed at "No, what's dangerous is swimming with anvils tied to each of your feet"

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    Re: .....

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 1:20am

    
    

    My "trackpoint finger" can drill through concrete.

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    Tech Guy, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 1:50am

    
    

    I work in Tech support (and love it btw), my bulls*it can stop anything you can throw at me...

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    I used to get that...

    

    Peet McKimmie (profile), Feb 27th, 2009 @ 2:58am

    
    

    ...playing "Strip Poker" on the Apple ][.
    
    Funny, though; it only affected one hand.

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    Likely Result

    

    Killer_Tofu (profile), Feb 27th, 2009 @ 5:57am

    
    

    (Newspaper reporter): "Sir, we just have our first single confirmed case of people getting blisters from playing video games and the doctors giving it a special medical name instead of blisters."
    (Editor): "That is great news. Call it an epidemic. Put it on the front page. Give it a nice large section on our homepage on that world web thing. And also start warning parents about how this can happen to their kids. Is it contageous?"
    (Reporter): "Sir, its just blisters with a fancy name"
    (Editor): "Eh, call it contageous anyways. Demand people need to take action. Now THATS a story!"
    (Reporter): "Brilliant sir!"

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    Re:

    

    Evil Mike, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 6:40am

    
    

    "bulls*it can stop anything you can throw at me..."
    That garners my respect and sympathy.

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    so its true

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 6:59am

    
    

    you really do get hairy palms from playing with too much?

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    Re: Pfft

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 9:58am

    
    

    > what's dangerous is swimming with anvils tied to each of your feet
    
    What's dangerous about swimming is sitting on the drain while the water is going out. It tends to pull things out of your butt... like this story.

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    lol

    

    another mike, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 2:33pm

    
    

    *snerk*
    So many great new terms here. Polluticians; can I borrow that, eleete?
    
    Tech Guy, they made me turn in my Ward of Glassy-eyed Confusion when they promoted me. It's so much more difficult to make my escapes now.
    
    Anyway, I long for the simpler days, when txters' thumb was the worst technology-induced injury a kid would suffer. Those were the good ol' days when we walked barefoot through the snow uphill both ways. Now that was a character building activity.
    
    Won't someone think of the children?!

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    Re: That explains it!

    

    Rekrul, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 3:41pm

    
    

    "I'm so relieved! I thought the sores on my palms were from the other activity my parents warned me about!"
    
    No, that causes hairy palms and blindness ;)

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    Rekrul, Feb 27th, 2009 @ 3:45pm

    
    

    I used to play my Atari, C64 and Amiga games for hours at a time, using various Atari compatible joysticks and I never had blisters or other problems.
    
    Positive proof; Joysticks rule, gamepads suck. :)

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    politicians

    

    Uberto, Feb 28th, 2009 @ 2:07pm

    
    

    The politicians should just worry about their own sore palms, the J** O**s

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    Overcast, Mar 9th, 2009 @ 9:03am

    
    

    I used to play my Atari, C64 and Amiga games for hours at a time, using various Atari compatible joysticks and I never had blisters or other problems.
    
    No way - you never developed 'gamers thumb' from those old 2600 style joysticks? :) (yeah, I know - the commodores had one you could buy identical to that one)
    
    I most certainly did!

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