Gah!!!!!

[venom-dragon7799]

i really really hate my school as of late... this is not the 1rst nor second time its failed me... they send letters saying detention yata yata yata if i dont go to my other school during 2 hour delay wensday but today during the very 2 hour delay day i wait for the bus for get this..... a fricking half hour and it never fricking shows! so then i have to get my mom we drive up to my other school i make it in time oh but it gets worse.... i get back into my normal clothes after that school ends and apperantly i get yelled at for "missing" a bus that was never there to pick me up... so i start yelling and i call my mom and she agrees to come pick me up and drive me to my other school, well it gets worse now my headphones are compleatly trashed for some odd reason so now i cant hear a *** **** thing. whats next me getting kicked by a horse today when i go to work with my sister at the barn we clean... this day just keeps getting better and better.....

[awdz]

*serves saphire an [Imperial Urn] full of klava with a towel and a curtsy, in hopes it might help make her day a little more bearable*

[Sigi]

but at least you have a nice mom

[venom-dragon7799]

ok well today has gotten better, my mom said i can have a friend spend the night saturday, im getting a new pair of headphones and im getting resubbed on two games one of which is hz, plus i got paid 30$ today working at said barn so im happier now.

[rizo/nawkia]

sounds like a bad day :/ whats da other game??? o an how ya been:P

[venom-dragon7799]

im not telling so other then that i am good

[rizo/nawkia]

Awww but i wanna knows:P plase:P

[Tcei]

I know what it is!!! Its -*Gets smished by saphire*

[velveeta]

Study: Average gamer is 35, fat and bummed

CDC study finds playing leads to ‘lower extraversion’ in adult gamers


By Suzanne Choney
msnbc.com
updated 2 hours, 33 minutes ago


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A new study says the average age of video-game players in the United States is 35, and oh, by the way: They're overweight and tend to be depressed.
Investigators from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and Andrews University analyzed survey data from 552 adults in the Seattle-Tacoma area. The subjects ranged in age from 19 to 90, according to the study, published in the October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The hypothesis was that video-game players have a higher body mass index — the measure of a person's weight in relation to their height — and "a greater number of poor mental health days" versus nonplayers, said Dr. James B. Weaver III of the CDC's National Center for Health Marketing. The hypothesis was correct, he said.
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The findings, he said in the article, "differentiated adult video-game players from nonplayers. Video-game players also reported lower extraversion, consistent with research on adolescents that linked video-game playing to a sedentary lifestyle and overweight status, and to mental-health concerns."

The Seattle-Tacoma area was chosen for the study, researchers said, both because of its size as the 13th largest media market in the United States and because its Internet usage level is "the highest in the nation." The study was done in 2006; the results analyzed in 2008.

While the study helps "illuminate the health consequences of video-game playing," it is not conclusive, its researchers say, but rather serves to "reveal important patterns in health-related correlates of video-game playing and highlights avenues for future research."


Female video-game players reported greater incidents of depression and "lower health status" than women who do not play video games, researchers said, while male players reported a higher BMI and more Internet use time than nonplayers.
The findings "appear consistent with earlier research on adolescents that linked video game playing to a sedentary lifestyle and overweight status and mental health concerns," Weaver and other co-authors say in the article.

'Digital self-medication'?
One interpretation of the findings, researchers said, is that among women, video-game playing "may be a form of 'digital self-medication.' Evidence shows that women are effective at mood management through their media content choices, so some women may immerse themselves in cognitively engaging digital environments as a means of self-distraction; in short, they can literally 'take their minds off' their worries while playing a video game."
An implication of that, researchers said, is that "habitual use of video games as a coping response may provided a genesis for obsessive-compulsive video-game playing, if not video-game addiction."

Among men who play video games, compared to those who don't, "male video-game players spend more time using the Internet and rely more on Internet-community social support," researchers said. "They also tend to report higher BMI and lower extraversion.

"These findings illustrate that, among men, the association among sedentary behaviors, physical inactivity, and overweight status observed in children and young adults may extend into adulthood."
Both male and female video game players spend more time than nonplayers seeking friendship and support on the Internet, the study found, "a finding consistent with prior research pointing to the willingness of adult video-game enthusiasts to sacrifice real-world social activities to play video games."
The data, Weaver said, points to the need for "further research among adults to clarify how to use digital opportunities more effectively to promote health and prevent disease."

In a commentary in the same issue of the magazine, Dr. Brian A. Primack of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine agrees, and asks: "How do we simultaneously help the public steer away from imitation playlike activities, harness the potentially positive aspects of video games and keep in perspective the overall place of video games in our society?"
For children and adults, he writes, games that require physical exertion, such as "Hide and seek" and "Freeze tag" are "still probably what we need most."

[aine]

"...players reported[...]more Internet use time than nonplayers."

Dur.

Thing is, they got it backwards. It isn't that playing video games makes us old, fat, depressed and sedentary...it is that we old, fat, sedentary, depressed people play games while we are sitting around snacking and whining! Data can be soooo misleading!

[venom-dragon7799]

im 18 my weight is right where it should be and im not depressed.

[aine]

Good!

I am not depressed, either. I AM old, though, and I remember similar data being touted as the result of television. Hehe.

My post was in jest, of course. I just can't seem to not be sarcastic when the right material comes around.

[Sigi]

yup, makes you wonder what old, fat, depressed and sedentary people did before the internet. lol.


looks in the mirror


eeeeeek

[Silverblaze]

yeah try this logic also.

Murder rate goes up in the summer.

Ice cream is sold more in the summer.

Ice cream therefore causes murder.

Gaming causes depression?

Might be more of a escape than a cause....

[Shen Long]

Well put, Silverblaze. Well put

[Spirit]

Might be more of a escape than a cause....

I hate studies like this. I appreciate that they may help spot some cases, but generally they're about as useful as a mcdonalds is to a diet plan.

Generally I play games since, apart from the initial outlay for buying the pc and the game, you've got something that helps you out in times when money is tight (especially now with fuel cost increases, general living cost going up, etc etc) to avoid you stagnating infront of the tv (standard of tv these days is really low... can't be bothered with it except for Mock the Week. ). I was so happy when I heard Big Brother has been cut in the Uk. WOOHOO!

Gaming is another form of entertainment, in line with the cinema, shopping, and some mild form of replacing the mind side of sports when the weather sucks too hard for the real deal (I suck at sports anyway). Wii Sports was a great break from the mould though, as long as you play it properly and don't just wang around the controller from the sofa...

Just my few cents worth... and in terms of my health I'm right in the middle in terms of weight for height, and generally very active anyway.

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