Some politicians (California, of course) want to label some video games as hazardous to your health and want a skull and crossbones label placed on them. I won't even go into how stupid this bill is and how many other things we should be spending money on. However, I had a somewhat related incident recently....
About a month ago, I bought a new game (Dead Space 2) and decided to play it while Steph was taking a nap. I played it for about an hour while snacking on some chips. A few minutes later, I felt like I had something in my eye but I didn't think anything of it. A half an hour later, my eye was still bothering me and Steph woke up, so I paused the game and went to wash out my eye.
Now, it should be noted that I'm not normally one to get excited about things. I've seen a lot of bad things go down and I've seen multiple people die and my demeanor really didn't change much. But what I saw completely freaked me out! When I went to wash out my eye, it was so swollen and it didn't look round anymore. It actually looked like my eye was collapsing! So, I panicked and made Steph drive me to urgent care. On a side note, we went to two "urgent care" places but they were closed since it was Sunday evening. I'm not sure it should be called urgent care if it ever closes, but I digress. After I got mad at Steph for driving so slow, we ended up at the emergency room. Again, I've broken bones and have had a large third degree burn, but I've never been to the ER before.
Anyhow, after half an hour waiting for a doctor, one took a look at me and kind of chuckled and said I was ok. I said, "but, my eye wasn't even round" and I think that made her laugh some more and she assured me it was. What happened is that the white part of my eye got swollen (unevenly at that) but the brown part didn't, so it made it look the brown part was sinking in. So, after a rinse of saline and $300 dollars later I was able to go home.
So, what does all this have to do with video games? Well, I just finished the game this weekend (minor spoiler alert) and toward the end, there are two scenes where one lady gets her eye pulled out with a screw driver and another where another long needle is stuck in the main guy's eye. Maybe I'm a little squeamish when it comes to eyes, but after my experience and these two scenes, all I could say is WTF!!! And of course, I started having that feeling that something was in my eye again, so maybe video games are hazardous to your health, lol.
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