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Sure, thrown controllers have bruised any number of hyper-competitive teenagers, while racing games—with their incessant tunnel-vision scenery—can necessitate a brief recovery period to adjust your vision to the boringly stationary real world. But until recently, serious game-related accidents were few and far between...
...site Winter has set up in reaction to his injury, www.guitarherobrokemyknee.com, features a mock-serious “Letter to Red Octane Games”—well aware of the absurdity of his accident, Winter is wisely not pressing charges—complete with lines like: “While I am in love with your game, it has caused me great harm.” According to his Web site, while “shredding a massive lick,” Winter “pivoted into a great thrashing stance,” and before...
...cynicism may be misguided, his comment touches inadvertently on the emerging hazards of global gaming market. With the rising economic and social importance of video gaming world-wide, gaming injuries have ceased to be the frivolous province of sore egos and accident-prone teens and have become disconcertingly serious, with the stakes much higher than bragging rights...
...rights groups have questioned the label "non-lethal." Yet even if Tasers pose no risk of death for their victims, at the very least they inflict severe pain. The weapon’s image as a soft replacement for the gun, however, means that their use is taken less seriously by the carrier: Instead of seeing a taser as a serious form of physical coercion, police are sometimes liable to view them as a convenient tool that uses invisible force to get the job done...
...seem very sick. Marijuana just won't go away. Everybody talks about it-many quite fondly. About everyone I know under 55 has smoked it. And they're all right. A few have that pothead "oh wow" personality, but so what? I don't know of one case of serious marijuana-related disease among my friends, family and acquaintances...