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Vibrating Controller Alert

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-compulsive-play-alert dept.

mgibbs writes: "According to this article at the BBC, all those game consoles with vibrating controllers can be hazardous to your health. This would have been nice to know before all those hours killing The Flood in HALO; and here I thought all those pins and needles were from the exciting game play."

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  1. Seven hours isn't much by gad_zuki! · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not a gamer, but when I was a teenager living in the suburbs playing videogames took most of my time because of the lack of anything else going on. Yes, I did my homework and all that fun stuff, but when you're a teenager (a the person in the article is) you've got free time coming out the ass.

    I don't think its a sign of bad parenting to let your kids do something they enjoy. Sure videogames are truly a time waster but finishing that RPG on my Master System or whatever was fun and rewarding.