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"exercising or playing sports, volunteering in the community, reading, or engaging in religious, creative, and cultural activities than they do playing video games"

"Avid gamers -- those who play games 11 or more hours per week -- spend 34.5 hours per week on the activities mentioned above."

I refuse to believe this unless playing sports means masturbating and cultural activities means watching anime. The categories are so ridiculously broad that it really doesn't mean much of anything. Posting on Gaming Age could be considered a "creative activity".

The ESA has always skewed their research to try and make gaming look more diverse and normal, and I still think it's on the fringe quite a bit.

"Forty-five percent of gamers volunteer at an average 5.4 hours per month."

You've gotta be shitting me....now we are in CrazyWorld. Statistics like these can't be produced unless you are counting people that play Bedazzled and Yahoo Parlor Games....which they typically do.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Who the fuck volunteers, gamer or no?
And 35 hours a week? I hardly have that much time to my fucking self.
Who are these gods of time?

 

[Ghost]

Study shows gamers aren't freaks. They just lie on surveys.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Gamers don't smell bad. That smell is coming from the pollution in the atmosphere.














*Sniff sniff.



Ulp. Time for a bath.

I have nothing to add.

 

[jimbo]

I agree with the article. I'm somewhere in that class. Videogaming is deffinitely not first on my to-do things. I game when I have time to waste or I'm low on cash. Believe it or not, it's much more affordable to play a game than taking a girl out to Chop House. $130 for two pieces of stake the size of a quarter and a bottle of wine. Talk about a rip off. And the sex wasn't any better than when we stayed home playing Fable.

 

[Warm Machine]

I went into the EB at Pacific Center in Vancouver and the entire place stunk of BO. It was coming from this guy dressed in sprokets style euro black. I simply couldn't take it so I had to leave.

 

[Ironclad]

The funniest thing happened to me today. I was taking my physics test, and I couldn't stop thinking of The Minish Cap. The test was extremely easy, so I blew through it, and then just spent the rest of the class time just thinking about The Minish Cap, and drifting my 288 GTO in Outrun2. Then PreCalc-Honors rolls around and I had test in there as well. I did all of the problems except for one, and then I just left the test on my desk and started thinking about RE 4. I was going over the demo in my head, and right as the chainsaw guy was about the bury the saw into Leon, I figured out the question. :lol
I definetly spend more than 11 hours playing video games.

Also, who in the world volunteers? I only did it for 10 hours, and that was because I was forced by my school. Stupid government class.

 

[Mr_Furious]

DORK STENCH!

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

"Show me playing sports as an activity gamers often do!!"

 

[fart]

New research released today by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA)

released by the publisher's lobby, check.

self-reported, check.

totally fucking wrong, check.

 

[Date of Lies]

Is it the 11th of the month??

ok time to take shower...no wait...it's not a sunday. I only take showers on the 11th...if it's a sunday...