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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    The article mentions a high suicide rate among players.
    Some people take MMORPG's way too seriously. In fact, the TV show NCIS dedicated an entire episode to that very thing. Called "The Immortals".... Season 1, ep 4. It turns out two of the players happened to be shipmates aboard a Spurance class destroyer. One kept beating the other in the game, so the loser challenged the winner to a *real* sword fight on board. This time, the loser prevailed, embarrassing the winner so much that he challenged the loser to take his sword and swim to shore with weights chained to his body to prove he was, in fact, "immortal."

    Sadly, the loser complied. And died.... Hence, the NCIS ep.


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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    The article mentions a high suicide rate among players.
    If I didn't have anything better to do than play online games, I'd be suicidal, too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    The article mentions a high suicide rate among players.
    There is a difference between causation and correlation. A common factor may be associated with both, but that does not mean one causes the other.

    For example, someone may play dungeons and dragons because he can't get a date, but it is not playing dungeons and dragons that makes him want to kill himself, it is the inability to get a date.

    Last edited by Sludge; 07-22-2010 at 12:50 PM. Reason: soften the language

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    Hey, don't quote me, I am just quoting an online article

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    Quote Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster View Post
    There is a difference between causation and correlation. A common factor may be associated with both, but that does not mean one causes the other.

    For example, someone may play dungeons and dragons because he can't get a date, but it is not playing dungeons and dragons that makes him want to kill himself, it is the inability to get a date.
    The he's stuck in the spiral of no dates - ->more D&D - ->no dates - ->more D&D....

    There's only so much cheering up a custom set of dice can do.


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    Along the lines of not being able to get a date- Auto Erotic Asphyxiation would have to be another high mortality hobby.


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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    Hey, don't quote me, I am just quoting an online article
    Too late! You're now the source of that fact.

    Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DA Aquamaster View Post
    So...when you get to know it and understand it, cave diving comes off as a very middle age appropriate sport that rewards intelligence, planning and maturity and is not nearly as danfgerous as any of the ballistic/kinetic energy/fling your soft pink body through space kinds of sports.
    Hey Forrest did you read this? Oops, I forgot we are considered past middle age. I am not touching the rest.

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    it might as well be middle aged appropriate, since i'm middle aged & love it.

    then again, i do lots of stuff that's *not* middle aged appropriate, so...meh.

    proud cave tourist!

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    Haha, how about if you teach in 6 Title 1 schools (if you count Middle and High school as two schools, then make it 12 Title 1 Schools) and 3 Prison Facilities. Man I'm doomed. I need a cave dive.



 

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