CDC Research Study Finds Adult Gamers are Fat and Depressed.

[Blarg]

If life didn't suck so much I would pay someone to get up and hit those guys.

[kareface]

I live in Seattle, play games (far less now then before), I'm 6' 145 pounds and very happy. WHY DIDN'T THEY POLL ME!?

[Senoska]

Not a single one of my friends are overweight.
I live in the midwest...
We play games all the time.

Shit 3 of my real life friends played FFXI as much as I did.

Further more, correlation does not imply causation.

[Cheerios]

As with every poll, there are exceptions.

Also, none of you guys are 35

[Astarael]

Reminds me of that hilarious made for internet comedy series about a guild of hardcore mmorpg gamers and their rl side of it but I forget the name of it. It had the one anti social dude/guild leader with the plug in hot plate on his desk so he never had to leave the computer to cook.

The Guild

All up to watch on youtube or through msn videos on that website. Brilliant little mini series. Should also watch Dr. Horribles sing along blog if you like this and can stand singing.

[Howard Roark]

man, seriously, at my worst I was actually underweight because of gaming

I'd avoid going outside to grocery shop and so food in the fridge ran out and if I didn't order food I didn't eat til it got unbearable, and this would be a good 4-6 hours+ after I was feeling really hungry

falling asleep hungry? no problem
one more sea pop/dynamis/late-night tiamat/crappy LS can't take aspi and I'm up for 2-3 more hours, a lot of times I'd sleep through the hours of when things are open

honestly, at least among this younger BG crowd, I'd say the fatter gamers are the exception; I can think of 4-6 people out of the 60+ that post in spam

[Ensam]

ITT personal anecdotes outweigh scientific studies.

(not that the scientific study was without flaw as already noted, but it's certainly humorous all the "this is wrong because I'm not fat!")

[Howard Roark]

ITT personal anecdotes outweigh scientific studies.

(not that the scientific study was without flaw as already noted, but it's certainly humorous all the "this is wrong because I'm not fat!")

you realize you've said absolutely nothing right?

[Kerberoz]

I don't see any scientific studies here.

I was also pretty underweight from skipping (forgetting about) meals for XI for a couple years. Depressed, sure, but not fat.

[Ensam]

I don't see any scientific studies here.

It's one thing to say how poorly the study is done, certainly. The article itself brings up many questions about how poorly the study was done. It was a bad study and not one to take any actual information from. It's one thing to attack the study for that, it's another to claim it's wrong because of personal anecdotes. As someone else said: "there are exceptions."

[Brill Weave]

Did they really need to waste money on this study to figure it out?

[Mayareira]

Fatmmoplayer and Obesegamefreak disagrees with you all.

...and no, these aren't mules.

[Neoscrilla]

31 Years Old
6'1"
135 pounds.

I have been this height and weight since i was 15, and playing FFXI for the last 5 years hasn't affected anything. If anything it affected my sleep, or lack thereof.

[Lee]

ITT "I'm not fat just big boned!" Keep lying to yourselves, fatties.

[Lbelle]

WHILE YOU'RE ALL HERE POSTING IN THIS THREAD YOU SHOULD BE OUT EXERCISING AND SOCIALIZING WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??!?!?

/afksocializingandexercising

[Ryuushin]

The poll would have more merit if it didn't only have 500 people <.> They could have been stereotypical when choosing their subjects, who knows.

[Kuya]

you realize you've said absolutely nothing right?

What do you mean? What he says is right and relevant.

[vagus]

I would be more concerned about non-gamers who are overweight as i'm sure there are a lot more of those.

[volcanicweather]

wow what a retarded study - seriously considering conducting my own study to prove this one wrong...

also when I played FFXI for 10+ hours a day I was crazy skinny (currently 6'2", 165 lbs)

[MrW]

Waste of research. We all have huge dicks, six packs and stacks of ass. Oh wait, girls play video games too. (Big boobs with great undertoe, skinny waists and stacks of ass)

Amirite?