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"GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 13:08

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"Re(1):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 13:41

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&u=/nm/20020323/sc_nm/health_thumbs_dc_1

Oh-my-dog!

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Haha! the Dreamcast and the X-Box controllers surely will screw our hands forever!

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"Re(1):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 14:05

Someday, our thumbs will develop extra joints.. heck, they might even become some sort of tendrils! ^_^

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"Re(2):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 14:10

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Someday, our thumbs will develop extra joints.. heck, they might even become some sort of tendrils! ^_^

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And they said that videogames aren't beneficial...hah!

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"Re(1):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 15:32

awwwwww -_- Gameboys cause a physical 'mutation' and all it is being more capable of using our thumbs.... damn, I bet if we had all played Turbografx instead we'd be shooting lazers from our eyes and controlling the weather by now!!!

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"i want..." , posted Mon 25 Mar 15:33

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"Re(1):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 15:35

And now we have scientific proof that games are beneficial to society. Take that teachers and parents!!!

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"Re(1):i want..." , posted Mon 25 Mar 15:36

I know man. The GB controllers hurt,especially the GBA D-pad with games like SF.

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"Re(2):i want..." , posted Mon 25 Mar 17:43

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I know man. The GB controllers hurt,especially the GBA D-pad with games like SF.

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He he, that's why I hit select and use the easy controls for it.

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"Re(1):i want..." , posted Mon 25 Mar 17:45

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I want to grow anime tentacles. I wonder which controller would do that?

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Jaguar!

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"Re(2):i want..." , posted Mon 25 Mar 22:04

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"Re(2):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Mon 25 Mar 22:15

But Turbografx/PC Engine is good.. and the controller is basically identical to the NES controller... :(

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"Mutation Nation" , posted Wed 27 Mar 05:13

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&u=/nm/20020323/sc_nm/health_thumbs_dc_1

Oh-my-dog!

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Well, i've just read the article, and... Hahahaha!! Even when the news say something positive about our hobby, they don't know what they're saying:

"mutations"----> Whaaaat?? And I thought that mutations were the product of some change in the DNA, resulting in a change in the body!
No, they have revealed me that changes occured because of the exercise of a part of the body are mutations... Didn't you know that the people in gyms are all mutants? Because all of the has extraordinarely developed muscles, of course product of some mutation... EXERCISE!!!!! (this is irony, just in case you didn't get it. Exercise is not related to mutation, unless you exercise yourself in a X-Ray room :P)

Ahem... I think that I'm not going where I liked... I wanted to say that, simply, we have extremely dexter thumbs just because we exercise them, not because we have "mutant" thumbs... Mutations occur in the DNA, and normally, the benefitial mutations that improove the species take thousands of years of competition to show. Remember: Animals in an hostile enviroment evolve because of the survival of the stronger mutations. It is not that the exercise of a specific part of the body makes any change int the DNA, that is what transmits the genetic information... So, to sum up, the article should have said: "Because young people use handphones and consoles more, they are more dexter with their thumbs, because they use them more" It looks less sensacionalist, but it's more correct...


Awww... forget me, I'm a bit too "scientist".

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"Re(1):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 12:13:

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&u=/nm/20020323/sc_nm/health_thumbs_dc_1

Oh-my-dog!

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It says that a mutation was caused in the thumbs. what bs. thats like saying...I dunno... boxers develope arm mutations.

As for tenticals: Yes, you need those to use all the new systems crappy brick sized controllers.



Edit: yah, same thing Time Mage said.

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[this message was edited by Gen on Wed 27 Mar 12:15]

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"Re(2):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 13:03

True, it's not like our childrens will be able to use correctly the X-Box pad no matter how much we use that crap...

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"Re(3):GAME BOY THUMBS!!!" , posted Wed 27 Mar 13:15