Fat & Depressed? You must be a gamer.
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According to the CDC (Center For Disease and Control) if you're a gamer your most likely over weight and depressed. The average age of a gamer is 35 yrs old. What the study didn't look at was the average gamer depressed prior to gaming and turned to it as self medication or did they become more depressed after they got into gaming?
Now here is a twist if you play the game Bejeweled it can improve your mood and heart rhythm. That study was done by East Carolina University (funded by Bejeweled. So that is good news since our beloved STaRDoGG is a gamer (around that age group) but he plays Bejeweled.....
STaRDoGG: Awwww yeee
You can read more about it here:
Study: Games are depressing...or are they?
So to our gamers out there - do you agree of disagree with the study?
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how the heck did you guys score so high?!?!?!?!?!?!?
one of my Facebook friends got 126K, ?!?!?!??!
~karma: i'm countin on it~
The highest I got was just over 50K... i cant seem to get much higher because my computer keeps freezing half way through the minute, then when it unfreezes im out of time... I think speed is a huge factor in getting a high score and also getting hyper balls will bring it up quickly too.. i think the most hyper balls i ever got in one game was 2 
But let's see what candy has to say shes the bejewled queen *throws DoGG a dirty look* (he beat my score so I don't like him very much right now 
i can only imagine if he beats candy 
he'll think he can walk on water then)
the entire reason I got that high was because of your taunt in the shout box last night 
I wasn't even thinking of playing until ya mentioned it, hahah. Bejeweled is mostly a game of luck. I didn't play any better that time than I do when I get like 3500, the gems all just fell into place for me. As far as it helping depression ... yea, I guess I did feel slightly better knowing I could taunt MissB back afterwards. *does the I win I win dance*
Btw, in Bejeweled, I noticed my Firefox does pauses too, that mess up my game. When I switch to IE just for playing, it's fine though, you could try that, *cough* butcha still won't beat meh *cough* 
p.s. Wow, I never realized 35 was the average age of gamers. I would've thought it'd of been in the teens or twenties. At least now I don't feel so bad when I tell someone my age in one of those games and they go ":wtf:?!?!? ur 2 ld 2 b play'n gamez, nub, u fail".
the entire reason I got that high was because of your taunt in the shout box last night
I wasn't even thinking of playing until ya mentioned it, hahah. Bejeweled is mostly a game of luck. I didn't play any better that time than I do when I get like 3500, the gems all just fell into place for me. As far as it helping depression ... yea, I guess I did feel slightly better knowing I could taunt MissB back afterwards. *does the I win I win dance*
Btw, in Bejeweled, I noticed my Firefox does pauses too, that mess up my game. When I switch to IE just for playing, it's fine though, you could try that, *cough* butcha still won't beat meh *cough*
p.s. Wow, I never realized 35 was the average age of gamers. I would've thought it'd of been in the teens or twenties. At least now I don't feel so bad when I tell someone my age in one of those games and they go ":wtf:?!?!? ur 2 ld 2 b play'n gamez, nub, u fail".
you've been playing it for a little while now mister....i know you're competitive so i figured that would drive ya nutz....as far as it being mostly luck, i tend to disagree with that, there IS a certain amount of luck involved but there is skilll involved too....now mybrute is just mindless luck, but with this you actually have control over your moves.... taunt all ya want, beat the candy girl and then i'll bow down... i have been playing in IE all along, its just my retard computer that slows me down...maybe i'll try chrome 
oh god, i bet you're going to run to chrome now to try that out 
i also never would have thought that the average age is 35 i would have guessed around 27-28... oh and that was probably my son who told you that last line
EDIT: oh and btw, i haven't given up yet 
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So that is good news since out beloved STaRDoGG is a gamer (around that age group) but he plays Bejeweled.....
STaRDoGG: Awwww yeee
no wayyyyyyyyyyyy
i knew he wouldn't stop till he beat my score....oh well good luck trying to beat candy (GO candy girl get that 100K star now)