Comments on: Gamers are slim, depressed, drug addicts, says survey

By: wickedman

wickedman — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:27:41 +0000

Of course i’m depressed with the fucking prices on the games and blu -ray movies , fuck , who is fucking happy? fucking retard, go fuck a goat or something moron

By: Parallax

Parallax — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:18:12 +0000

“Average gamers engage in vigorous exercise once or twice a week”

They mistyped “week” instead of “day”. And “vigorous exercise” instead of “wanking”.

By: XDamage

XDamage — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:16:16 +0000

The test was probably borrowed from those crazy Scientologists.

By: David

David — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:09:58 +0000

playing a mmo doesn’t automatically make you depressed sigh. I played WoW and I’m not depressed or take drugs. I’am slim though but I would rather be slim than a fatty.

By: soong

soong — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:58:58 +0000

Wait a minute… they conduct a survey amongst MMO players and then claim it says something meaningful about gamers in general? Like Yahtzee said about Eve players, mmo nerds are to nerds what nerds are to normal people. Of course they’re gonna be depressed saddos! They wouldn’t play EQII otherwise!

By: reask

reask — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:58:38 +0000

Hey man I don’t do drugs cant afford them with the price of games.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:27:00 +0000

I’m a fat fucker and I play 3 bloody MMO’s!

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:15:03 +0000

American average is a key word there.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:07:20 +0000

25.2 isn’t slim… though it might seem that way in comparison to the average American.

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:05:48 +0000

I’m not slim, I’ve never done drugs and I’m not depressed.

3 strikes, you’re out.

By: wz

wz — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:44:24 +0000

I saw the article earlier, the link is this here.

I think the implication “depression” => “gaming” is what led to those results on the gamers’ mental condition. I mean, socializing in games is better than solitude, innit?

By the way, the survey isn’t anything near anti-gaming and infuriating as you make it sound

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:31:15 +0000

I am thin correct, not depressed, and I don’t take drugs.

But a friend or two are indeed all 3, and gamers. So I am not denying it.

By: mightyhokie

mightyhokie — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:13:52 +0000

Well, I know the reason for all of these issues:

We weigh less because we’re too engrossed in finding that last COG that we forget to eat.

We exercise more because hours upon hours in a dark room make use crave sunlight every now and then. Plus we need to go outside occasionally to make sure we are not really being invaded by Valkyries in string bikinis (unfortunately not).

Depression is greater because, lets face it, if you can only find 419/420 flags in Assassin’s Creed you’d be depressed too.

By: trav

trav — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:00:25 +0000

I love the picture