First post, by retrofanatic
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- Oldbie
I never thought this kind of thing would happen to me...I guess it's just another sign that I'm getting older...I just recently resurected FIFA 2005 on my playstation 1 emulator on my pc and for some reason I got hooked for a couple days and played it a fair bit...the result of this indulgence left me with a VERY sore thumb (it almost feels sprained) that is making it a bit hard to perform some simple every day tasks. My girlfriend saw me favouring it and asked how I hurt my thumb....I couldn't tell her the truth...I made up some lame excuse like I slept on it funny or something like that. I'm going to lay off the gaming for a while until it feels better...I think it's because I was pressing the control pad too hard and I haven't actually played in a long time. Need to "work out" my gaming muscles a bit more 🤣.
Of course many of us have cut ourselves working with steel and aluminum computer cases without rolled edges and even have cut ourselves on circuit boards, etc. and I'm sure many have had "nintendo thumb" that comes with too much time spent with super mario and luigi 🤣.
Please feel free to share your stories of any computer or gaming related injuries you have suffered.
One other stupid "computer related" injury I had was cutting myself pretty bad trying to break a CD-R in half (I wanted to discard it and it had personal information on it that I wanted to make sure would not be accessible). For a while, that cut made it difficult to work on my computer at work since I cut myself on my mouse hand).