I, <firstnamehere> "jaunty" <surnamehere> swear that the following is true and has not been twisted, bent, malformed or edited in any way. I also swear this is a rant, and will piss off many people.
watching the local news today, i heard the following:
"Fears for parents today as a young girl was rushed to hospital witha 6mm hole in her hand. The hole is thought to have been caused by the analog control device from the Nintendo64 games machine. The girl was playing a game on her nintendo for so long, that the joystick wore the hole into her hand"
**presumed soccer mum comes on**
"this is yet another reason why all games systems should be government certified, and if i had my way, i'd ban them all"
**newslady talks while kids play**
"Doctors are now warning that this new epidemic named 'nintendinitis' is the cause of many other childhood injuries in australia, such as RSI in the thumbs, bad backs, and child obeisity."
**doctor comes on**
"Nintendinitis is a major threat to our young children. The advent of the new playstation may further increase cases of nintendinitis during the christmas/new year period. We have already seen a case of a boy who wet himself because he was so engrossed in the game, he didn't even notice the call of nature"
**newslady**
"Authorities are yet to coment"
now lets look at whats wrong with this.
from the top
"6mm hole". the stick on a 64 is 150mm wide (i measured
) It can't pierce the skin and only make a 6mm hole, so thats bull****, she prolly shot herself with a big nailgun.
"For so long...." HOW THE HELL CAN SOMEONE PLAY THAT LONG!? i'm the most hardcore player i know, and at the most, i'd play 3 hours non stop, with absolutly no injuries at all. AT ALL
<entire soccer mum speach> i dare them to try and ban them, in fact, i'd like to see 'em try. then they'll know the real defenition of "violent young people". A group of about 6 soccer mums did actually picket my local EB in an unrelated incident. (they were protesting tomb raider, so i bought it)
"Nintendinitis".. this does two things, 1) proves nintendo's domination ::ducks::and 2) Puts Nintendo of Aust. in great shape for a law suit, i know i'd be suing someone using my name to describe something like this.
"Epidemic" Media are blowing things out of proportion again, i don't know anyone whos had RSI or anything else from ANY gaming, thats PC, Console, Handheld.. ANYHTING.
"Major threat..." This is just plain stupid. 'Nuff said
"Child Obeisity.." I play games, I'm also an avid skater, play rugby for my school and an outside team, and manage a solid 30 hours a week of gaming, i'm guestemating there.
theres heaps more but i can't be bothered.
This was on the primetime news. And i basically comes down to scaring people away from games and another excuse for soccer mums to take away my favourite passtime.
I'm still pissed off, but i'm too tired to type. It must be my nintendo's fault
please excuse any spelling errors. its way late and i'm tired. i've checked that everythign is true tho, and it is.
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watching the local news today, i heard the following:
"Fears for parents today as a young girl was rushed to hospital witha 6mm hole in her hand. The hole is thought to have been caused by the analog control device from the Nintendo64 games machine. The girl was playing a game on her nintendo for so long, that the joystick wore the hole into her hand"
**presumed soccer mum comes on**
"this is yet another reason why all games systems should be government certified, and if i had my way, i'd ban them all"
**newslady talks while kids play**
"Doctors are now warning that this new epidemic named 'nintendinitis' is the cause of many other childhood injuries in australia, such as RSI in the thumbs, bad backs, and child obeisity."
**doctor comes on**
"Nintendinitis is a major threat to our young children. The advent of the new playstation may further increase cases of nintendinitis during the christmas/new year period. We have already seen a case of a boy who wet himself because he was so engrossed in the game, he didn't even notice the call of nature"
**newslady**
"Authorities are yet to coment"
now lets look at whats wrong with this.
from the top
"6mm hole". the stick on a 64 is 150mm wide (i measured
) It can't pierce the skin and only make a 6mm hole, so thats bull****, she prolly shot herself with a big nailgun."For so long...." HOW THE HELL CAN SOMEONE PLAY THAT LONG!? i'm the most hardcore player i know, and at the most, i'd play 3 hours non stop, with absolutly no injuries at all. AT ALL
<entire soccer mum speach> i dare them to try and ban them, in fact, i'd like to see 'em try. then they'll know the real defenition of "violent young people". A group of about 6 soccer mums did actually picket my local EB in an unrelated incident. (they were protesting tomb raider, so i bought it)
"Nintendinitis".. this does two things, 1) proves nintendo's domination ::ducks::
and 2) Puts Nintendo of Aust. in great shape for a law suit, i know i'd be suing someone using my name to describe something like this."Epidemic" Media are blowing things out of proportion again, i don't know anyone whos had RSI or anything else from ANY gaming, thats PC, Console, Handheld.. ANYHTING.
"Major threat..." This is just plain stupid. 'Nuff said
"Child Obeisity.." I play games, I'm also an avid skater, play rugby for my school and an outside team, and manage a solid 30 hours a week of gaming, i'm guestemating there.
theres heaps more but i can't be bothered.
This was on the primetime news. And i basically comes down to scaring people away from games and another excuse for soccer mums to take away my favourite passtime.
I'm still pissed off, but i'm too tired to type. It must be my nintendo's fault
please excuse any spelling errors. its way late and i'm tired. i've checked that everythign is true tho, and it is.
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