On 1/8/2023 3:28 AM, Skybuck Flying wrote:
> SEE BELOW FOR LINKS TO PICTURES, ILLUSTRATING THE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION.
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> A POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT TO THE QWERTY KEYBOARD LAYOUT:
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> DURING THE PLAY OF QUAKE 1 AND USING THE ARROWS TO GO FORWARD...
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> AFTER SIX HOURS OF PLAY, A TERMINATOR HAND HAPPENED, THE ARM MUSSLES WOULD NOT MOVE SMOOTHLY ANYMORE.

People have dropped dead while playing games, for way more
hours than that.

You are supposed to take a break, get up from the table
and walk around for a bit, to improve your body circulation.

And you don't really want to encourage the development of
RSI, or you'll be sorry later. RSI can be so bad, you can't
take care of yourself any more.

As it turns out, you aren't really a machine after all.

https://www.thegamer.com/15-people-who-have-died-playing-video-games/

"... The employees were used to him playing for long periods
of time and then taking a nap on the table or in his chair.

After playing a game for three days straight, an employee found
him laying on a table. Usually responsive, Hsieh did not wake up.

He suffered a heart attack and died. Police checked camera footage
from the café and noticed that Hsieh struggled with chest pains
before collapsing. Other gamers in the internet café continued to
play as normal and ignored Hsieh."

There's a medical condition, that can make you prone to death
that way. All you have to do, is be unkind to your body, to
discover you have it. The chest pains he was experiencing,
that's angina, and usually the pains are sharp enough (feels
like being stabbed), you cannot ignore those. Yet, he did.

And while some causes of angina respond to nitroglycerine,
not all do. If you have the right heart defect, and you
attempt to do what he did, you can be rewarded by dropping
dead.

Even people who take long aircraft flights, have had
trouble like that. They're not playing a game. But they
are sitting in an airplane seat for many hours.

"How often should you get up and walk around on a long flight?

Get up and walk around every 2 to 3 hours. If there isn't
enough room to walk or the "fasten seatbelt" sign is on,
do calf raises and other leg stretches at your seat
every 30 minutes or so. Drink water before and during the flight.

Aug 30, 2022

What You Should Know About Flying and Blood Clots - DVT - WebMD"

DVT is Deep Vein Thrombosis, a blood clot in the leg. The clot
can move to the heart and cause a heart blockage. Or it can
move to the brain and cause a stroke.

It's just like a varied diet. You have to move around during the
day, and provide your body with some variations in activity, and
not be as silly as the guy who played games for three days.

Paul