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Another Reason Videogames are Bad for Children

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StrongHand Mike Tomich is a man with an agenda; He wants to pry videogame controllers out of the hands of innocent children. Why? Because they’ll inevitably become trained sociopathic killers without ethics and a skewed sense of right and wrong? Because they’ll be destined to a sedentary life of McDonald’s and Mountain dew?

No, Mr Tomich has through 5 and a half years of unofficial research established that Videogames are a “silent epidemic” of a different sort.

Mr Tomich you see, believes that dynamic forces have a negative impact on children’s as yet un-calcified bones, warping and bending them irreparably. The sources of these evil dynamic forces? Video games, computers…and the beloved childhood staple crayons. Yeah Microsoft and Sony – The new evil corrupting our youth is that tyrannical house of wax Crayola.

Thankfully he doesn’t want children to forsake technology and crayons forever – just until children are 8 and 5 respectively- although I don’t know too many children over 5 who’d want to use crayons.

While he supports his arguments with a bunch of pictures with lines going through them (which you can see here), I’m not convinced. I have pain-free, unwarped fingers – and I’ve been playing games, using computers and colouring in since before I could walk.

Source : Mike Tomich (via Gizmodo)

Last Updated: March 31, 2009

6 Comments

  1. V@mp

    March 31, 2009 at 11:09

    Shame,poor dude must’ve had a REALLY sh*tty childhood.
    Not being able to do ANYTHING.
    I can show him millions of photo’s of people that have it
    a lot worse as a result of birth defects.

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  2. Darkling

    March 31, 2009 at 11:09

    We should just ignore @ssholes like these.
    They failed in life and now they will do anything to spark some attention and feel important.

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  3. Darkling

    March 31, 2009 at 11:14

    I’ll show him my hand..then he can see how straight my middle finger is.

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  4. easy

    March 31, 2009 at 12:18

    umm is this not called evolution? to become a better gamer, we need to have adapt physically to ensure that extra edge when playing games. be quick or be dead.

    darwin was a clever chap.

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  5. koldFU5iON

    March 31, 2009 at 12:22

    so does that mean baby bottles with the handles are a no no??

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  6. WitWolfyZA

    March 31, 2009 at 14:51

    Take my STRONG hand…….

    Reply

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