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      For those of you who enjoy video games.

      Take this post as a warning and as advice: take regular breaks.

      I damaged my left hand while depressed years ago playing to much dark souls. The picture you see is a result of me spending 200 hours in a month running towards boss battles.

      That tendon is permanently messed up from holding up on the analog left stick.

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      • What platform do you play on? I haven’t had much time lately but I’m on PS5

        • @marizema After I moved into this place my space is so small I don’t really have enough space to have a real console setup. I just play on my PC which is way behind running a 1060 6GB card still… Damn near 10 years behind and I’ll never be able to afford to catch up anymore.

          • @ZoomyCat I hear ya. I got the ps5 during covid when I was flush. I used to have more gaming time. Now I’m just stuck in this plumbing sim called life. It’s way too realistic 😝.

            • @marizema The injury was caused by a Steam Controller though. I use a PS4 controller now and mostly push it around with my palm instead of my thumb.

              People don’t usually have any idea that I’m playing super disabled like that because I would be carrying the gameplay even with the extreme disability of not being able to use my thumb.

              If you don’t think this is a huge handicap… Try it. Your angle sensitivity drops to about 10% and you have to abuse things like camera targeting mechanics while moving your character to keep your character facing your objective.

        • Bro you ever see palms from original Mario party?

          • @kapsndkolas OG Mario party was so fun! But what about Pitfall on Atari, For some reason this was one of my fav games back in the day. I don’t remember why it was fun, I just remember liking it.

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            • I also remember my older brothers surprise that I had an Atari and a ColecoVision. One of the past times my father and I did was garage sales every weekend. If I could find a good deal I usually could have the thing I was bartering for.