Yet again, ANOTHER gamer has Died from Massive Gaming Binge

I just don't fucking get this. How do your hands and wrists not hurt and your back get sore?

There are so many things my body tells me to get out of my chair and take a break, to the point it's nearly impossible to ignore them before continuing on.
 
Some very good suggestions in here, though they're mostly common sense.

Eat.
Drink.
Move around once in a while.

:D

I've got a nice 100 pound punching bag, a pullup bar, and a dry bar ( :D ) hehehe Anyway, if I'm playing games a lot at the time, or working on electronics projects where I'm sitting a lot, I get up every-so-often, punch the bag, do some pushups or pullups, drink water, occasionally snack on something. It's a good solid foundation to build on with the coffee, beer, or whiskey I might be supplementing with. ;)

It really is common sense though. You can do binge-activities like long gaming sessions more or less safely, just remember to take care of yourself during your session. Circulate you blood, stretch your muscles, and fucking eat and drink. Duh!
 
Cmustang87 said:
I just don't fucking get this. How do your hands and wrists not hurt and your back get sore?
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Some people are hardcore, and don't even get up for bathroom breaks.
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Cmustang87 said:
I just don't fucking get this. How do your hands and wrists not hurt and your back get sore?

There are so many things my body tells me to get out of my chair and take a break, to the point it's nearly impossible to ignore them before continuing on.
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Get a chair that is soft enough and use a wrist rest that graphic designers use ( avoid cheap knock offs ):

"Ergorest was established in 1978 in Finland and is a pioneer and innovator of forearm supports designed for use in computer, office and industrial applications.

Over 35 years of scientific research and product development anchored in a knowledge of the human body have ensured that Ergorest is known worldwide for its high-quality products."

http://www.ergorest.fi/


Study sitting and standing meditation in internal martial arts, for precision body alignment:

http://www.jiulongbaguazhang.com/

Neijia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijia


I do energy healing ( Reiki level 1 and Zenith Omega Volumes 1 & 2 ) so I can absorb energy from the universe ( or more specifically energy from a source unknown to me, external to myself, via Physics as yet unknown ).

When you see people doing Tai Chi in the park, with perfect alignment of the chakras, energy is flowing through their meridians, from this external source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra#Western_interpretations_of_Hindu_chakras


I worked on a bread production line, so I know the breaking point of my hands. In one specific department, I was doing a job that I liked, so instead of rotating to a different section of the line after 2 hours ( rotating out to a different job ) I did the same repetition for 8 hours straight ( other people hated the job that I was doing, because I was in front of a furnace, so they were kind of like well... if you really enjoy it... to me it was like I was playing a fishing game, it was so hilarious that I burst out laughing a few times ). After only 8 hours, I developed carpel tunnel syndrome and extreme pain, to the point that I could not really use a couple of fingers on my hand for a few days. That's when I started reading up on carpel tunnel syndrome for people who work on processing lines:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/08/15/gm_workers_in_colombia_sew_mouths_shut_in_protest.html

I actually ended up in a slave factory last year, along side Chinese & Polish workers, here in Toronto, Canada. I had to wait 5 hours, just to take a shit.

Slave factories look so legit on the outside too...

http://www.tradition.ca/about-us/

I can't find legit videos online of the speed that food processors work at, they basically look like mechanical robots ( it's like playing Tetris at level 9 ).

65 loaves a minute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6b9WbHgoE#t=248

The video is hilarious because they make it look like Utopia land. The reality is that the robots don't feed the bread into the plastic properly sometimes, just because of the randomness of the physics of plastic bags ( I'm sure that you've wrestled with a plastic bag in your life ). Then there's bread all over the line and you have to push the crap into bins and run around like a headless chicken. God forbid a section of the line goes down, then you have to work at the literal speed of a robot. The onsite engineers rush to fix the section. When I worked in packaging bread rolls, there were 3 people on 3 lines, if one line goes down the other 2 speed up ( it just ends up in a laughable clusterfuck of fail, with bread all over the place ). Gotta meet those shipping deadlines... even though a car and a half, in terms of volume, worth of bread was being thrown in the garbage, every hour or two and that was just one department.
 
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Hah, Target knows how to shamelessly tap into this binge market too:
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CoD, Family size Doritos, and Mountain Dew bulk packs.... Mmmhmmm...
 
You ever set a Walmart End Cap let me tell you Pain in the butt first you have customer wondering what the hell you are doing making snard remarks as they walk by. Then you have florescent lights shinning down in your eyes so you can't see. Then the shelves themselves go into the slots really hard I mean you would think with modernization they shelves would go in easy. They have to be spaced out a certain distance otherwise the product won't fit.

That shelf cap wouldn't cut it at Walmart I really hate them scratched cases they use for security makes the new games look used.
 
They used Monster Energy Drink for the last Call of Duty in Foreign countries instead of Dew which is just a BAADDD Idea.
 
MrAgmoore said:
Leadholders?

Lead and Mercury are heavy metals * cue a rock song *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gw5pyjBYmQ


Heavy metal (chemistry)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_(chemistry)#Detrimental_effects


Do they really sell this stuff to people?

http://leadholder.com/

They replaced lead pencils with graphite penciles, in the UK, for school children ( because we all chewed on them, like chew toys, as children ). I remember asking a teacher in the 1980's why she kept called it a "lead pencil" and if lead was really in them, she said no but they used to be, but were replaced with graphite.

I know that those citadel minatures that people paint are made out of lead. It's so dumb honestly, people probably don't know to wash their hands with cold water.

I went to a firing range, for the first time a few years ago, in Canada. When I used the washroom, they had a sign that said wash your hands in cold water, since when you fire the bullet, there is a lead coating on the spent cartridge ( or something ) and powder flies out a bit. The instructor never mentioned any of this and if I had never used the washroom, I would never have known. The sign also read to use cold water, since using hot water would open up the skin pores and make it easier to absorb into the body...
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Pencils were never made with lead in their cores. Lead was sometimes used in the paint on the outside on wooden pencils. Leaded paint would not have been used on mechanical pencils, at least not very much (name and number markings could potentially have contained lead based paint, but the plastic and metal parts would not have).

In addition to the stuff you mentioned, old pewter objects like mugs and such contain significant amounts of lead.
 
Why is it seemingly always Asians that game themselves to death? The Wikipedia page on Video Game Addiction under Notable Deaths, while people in other parts of the world have died either due to not paying attention to surrounding while gaming, dying from neglect due to others gaming, and even suicide possibly related to relationships in a game they play, the only place people literally sit in a chair and game to death is in Asian countries. Makes you wonder what other kinds of "contributing factors" they got going on over there.
 
The longest I've ever played was roughly 40 hours in Fallout 3. After I was done my body ached from top to bottom. Right then I told myself I would never do something like that again. Nowadays the longest I play is around 9 to 12 hours with 10 minute breaks every hour.
 
jomiwic said:
Pencils were never made with lead in their cores. Lead was sometimes used in the paint on the outside on wooden pencils. Leaded paint would not have been used on mechanical pencils, at least not very much (name and number markings could potentially have contained lead based paint, but the plastic and metal parts would not have).

In addition to the stuff you mentioned, old pewter objects like mugs and such contain significant amounts of lead.
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Right... I remember now. It was the paint on the pencil - the hexagonal outer surface.

The link about Pewter was interesting.

I watched a documentary about the Chinese emperor who unified the whole of China under a single dialect ( I forget his name ). He did it mostly via conquest. What's amusing is mercury was thought to be some kind of magical tonic ( since it's the only metal that's a liquid at room temperature - ie. Terminator 2 ). His doctor kind of advised him to take baths in mercury or surround himself with the stuff; I don't remember exactly, I kind of went into shock when I watched the documentary. It was so laughable, in terms of todays modern chemistry ( 1800 + ).

I mean... according to Health Canada, it was known that mercury was a neurotoxin as long ago as 1845:

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/pubs/md-im/dent_amalgam-eng.php


For anyone not familiar with how serious Mercury is as a neurotoxin:

Mercury Poisoning- The Minamata Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFkyPv1jtU


Fast foward to circa 1993 and we are studying Advanced Chemistry in the laboratory ( organic chemistry ). The teacher says something like, "Attention everyone. Mercury drop; evac the lab".

We emptied the lab in like... 10 seconds roughly 30 people. The lab was maybe 20 feet squared.

So we're standing outside in the fresh air, wondering what happened. The lab is basically cleaned up. The teacher says it's safe to go back inside. He said that somebody accidentally knocked over a thermometer. We had an extra large one, maybe half a metre long or something, I don't even remember what it was for - maybe it was for barometric pressure readings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure

There was mercury inside the thermometer, that spilled on the floor, when the glass shattered.

The Advanced Chem teacher started rolling the mercury around in his hands, he said that mercury is safe external to the body. The size of the molecules are larger than the size of the pores on the human skin, so he won't take any of it internally that way. He said that he was worried about vapour inhalation damage, since inhaling it would be considered taking it internally, into the body.

So fast foward to 2015 and mercury dental amalgam is still being used and - even funnier, mercury is being used in light bulbs...

Funny side story:

So we are sitting in Advanced Chem class, in the lab and the teacher shows us that he has a bottle of Ferrous Hexa Cyanide: Fe(CN)6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferricyanide

He gets a spatula, puts the spatula in the bottle and takes a large helping. He starts eating a spatula worth of Ferrous Hexa Cyanide.

We are all sitting there staring at each other, as if we just entered an episode of "The Twilight Zone". He said so you've seen the James Bond movies where Cyanide is used as an instant kill poison. The way Cyanide works is that Cyanide bonds to iron.

He explains that your red blood cells contain iron. Haem / Heme means iron. He says that in the movies, the Cyanide that is used is Potassium Cyanide: KCN.

The Potssium K and Cyanide CN split apart and the Cyanaide bonds to the red blood cells, which "throws a spanner / wrench in the works". It's like throwing a spanner / wrench into machinery. He explains that since he ate Ferrous Hexa Cyanide ( Ferrous meaning iron ), the Cyanide is already bonded to iron, so it has no need to bond to the red blood cells, thus it won't harm him.

References:

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=haemoglobin&spell=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme

My Advanced Chem teacher was pretty [H]

The cure for cancer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUGVkmmwbk
 
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