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The Last Games You'd Play?
Rigor Morty asks: "I am an older man (44), an avid fan of video games, and I am faced with a problem; my hands are becoming arthritic as I get older. I fear I will soon have to completely give up the console games I have loved over the years. To that end, let me ask the Slashdot Nation — if you were going to give it up, what games would you insist on playing before you had to quit? I'm willing to make some effort to do this, and spend some cash; I will buy the new consoles if I need to, or try to find obscure titles."
I bet if you quit jerking off you could sqeeze a good 10 years out of your wrists. That's a tough choice though because you are essentially playing with yourself in either case.
Don't you mean 106+ hours of cut scenes, and 4 yours of game play? I would suggest he just wait until after he can't game any more before starting any modern Final Fantasy game.
Quit feeling sorry for yourself. My elderly mother who is 86 plays 3+ hours of games a day. She is a cancer survivor, has heart failure, and autoimmune disorders. So you sorry wimp seems you are beat!
Disease is the resulting karma after you have habitually or continuously done something that goes against what is natural, or if you have performed some really negative action against another (living thing) in the past - whether the action took place in this life time, or in a previous one.
To steer away from religious or spiritual beliefs, let us assume that this disease is the result of something you did (wrong) in this life time to yourself. If this is the case, then please consider the appearance of the disease to be a message telling you that you have to change your ways or things will either get worse and potentially become irreversable (which is now the case). But just because it is irreversable (arthritis), it does not mean that you should just carry on doing what you you enjoy - in particular things that may aggrevate your new disease - like playing video games.
Life is about learning and growing up (not just physically), but also psychologically, and spiritually. It is time for the (psychological) adult-child to face his problems and deal with them in a responsible way.
Believe it or not, it is not important or even possible for the body to remain conditioned to that of a young healthy person until old-age death; what is important is that you start taking responsibility for your bad habits (i.e. possibly spending too much time of your precious life playing video games or whatever your case may be - ANALYSE YOURSELF!). Beyond this it is also important that you face reality - that life is not about sustaining the body, it is not about pleasure, and unfortunately for the masses only old age and suffering can trigger this consideration for them. Mid life crisis is a very common western trigger... unfortunately many lack the maturity to even face their own reality then.
So in conclusion, there is no need to dispair - a lot of good can come out of this disease of yours. This is not an optimistic statement, this is a true statement if you can some how grow up (psychologically & spiritually). But if you try to further agrevate your disease or escape its clue by playing more video games, in another 10 years or so, you will find yourself with yet another problem or the same one further aggrivated and this cycle may carry on until one day you are deep in suffering and become a very bitter old man.
Give up video games, and start living in the real world.
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What if you get a Wii remote/controler/thing and duck tape it to your arm. Then you can play just by flailing them around!