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    Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Apparently sitting doing nothing will kill you :

    http://www.mcvuk.com/news/33453/Gove...s-deadly-games

    Maybe we should ban school and homework then as that involves quite a lot of sitting 'doing nothing'. that should push our average life expectancy even higher. Better yet as one of the comments in the article suggests : 'Life causes death, lets ban it!!!'.

    You would think there might be better things to spend resources on in these times.
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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Sony's considering suing.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Quote Originally Posted by G4Z View Post
    Maybe we should ban school and homework then as that involves quite a lot of sitting 'doing nothing'.
    Let's ban sleep too, whilst we're at it.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    They're also oblivious to just how knackering some good hard rocking, or a game of DDR, is

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    They're also oblivious to just how knackering some good hard rocking, or a game of DDR, is
    Yeap.

    They should feel my pulse-rate after playing Everlong on Rockband with the drums.

    What we need to ban is the busy-body meddling from this government as it seems it's all they do, well apart from bailout banks and stuff

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Further info on sony and others considering legal action

    http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3173181
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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    What about the millions who have an office job, sitting infront of a computer for 9 hours a day?

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Quote Originally Posted by educatedfool View Post
    What about the millions who have an office job, sitting infront of a computer for 9 hours a day?
    Well this is their point isn't it? They are trying to get people 'active', but wtf?! It's insulting to the intelligence, not to mention incredibly irresponsible.

    Even though it'll be our tax proceeds that get taken, I hope the legal challenge is successful and they at the very least issue a full and frank apology.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    The British Heart Foundation, Diabetes UK and Cancer Research have all lent their name to a new print campaign (pictured here), which shows a gamer risking an early grave by ‘doing nothing’. It has appeared in women’s lifestyle press titles such as Star, Reveal and Heat.
    Playing some computer games can raise the heart rate well above that of watching TV, reading a book or doing homework.

    And lets not even get onto the Wii....
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    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    Playing some computer games can raise the heart rate well above that of watching TV, reading a book or doing homework.
    System Shock 2, FEAR, FEAR 2 and a few others made my pulse rate faster than a typical breaks session at times

    And lets not even get onto the Wii....
    What you mean that grey-ish box that's gathering dust over in the corner. It was good for 2 weeks and then it got boring and all my attention went back to the PC and 360

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    So let me get this right.. they want me ot stand up, go outside and play on the street? On a main road? Or perhaps I should go to the side roads where all the drugs are?

    It's not like there's really anywhere TO go... it's all dominated by the majority parties who consider 'geeks' as a target for their beer bottles, footballs and stones. Personally I think that my getting off of my computer would be slightly more hazardous for my health than staying indoors

    Besides, as others have already said, gaming does more for my pulse rate than most other things.. other than the odd bit of sport I play and the two-six hours gardening I do on a saturday to fund my habit.

    There's other things that are a lot unhealthier that alot more people my age do...

    Can I sue for trauma do you think? Or do I have to be in America for that to work?

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    It's one thing to promote being active (I am entirely in favour of), but quite another in singling out one of many form of entertainments where the person likely to be seated (not to mention that as other's have said, gaming has more exceptions than watching TV, reading a book etc.).

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    In addition to that mediaboy, how many places have "no ball games" signs plastered everywhere?
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    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    In addition to that mediaboy, how many places have "no ball games" signs plastered everywhere?
    it'd be cheaper to put up signs saying "ball games allowed" in the places where they are allowed.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    It's good that they're encouraging a balanced lifestyle. I do have a few mates who, when they would get home from sitting at a desk all day at school, would sit at a desk all evening playing games. Obviously this isn't going to be healthy, but this campaign isn't exactly a good way to get people's attention. The 'doing nothing' bit just sounds really demeaning to anyone who plays games, I think it's much more likely to provoke an indignant reaction than get people to excercise more, as it has in this thread.


    I would have less of an issue with it if the print campaign included things like watching tv, sitting around doing homework etc too.

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    Re: Government attacks 'deadly' games

    Agent - nowhere has them. We just wouldn't dare to actually pull out a ball anywhere because it'd get stolen. I mean... it might be worth something to someone so some chav will nick it.

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