Shocking Gameplay!

[RPGD]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07...s_6128565.html

Poor kid. Glad he's alright, though.

[Nixon]

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What a dumbass. He really should know better.

[Manyak]

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I can't say that I feel sorry for him.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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What an idiot.

Whenever theres a big lightning storm around my place I unplug everything in my room.

[Magus]

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I played the Resident Evil remake during a thunderstorm.

But, really, is there a BETTER time to play that?!

[Caciss]

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I'm with you on that one Magus!

[Magus]

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That sounds like a fluke. Tons of people play tons of games during tons of thunderstorms.

[Nixon]

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Yeah, the odds are very good that it will never happen to you, but why take the chance? I can put down the damn video game for the duration of a storm.

It can also fry your system. I'm not willing to buy another console because I'm impatient/lazy/careless.

[josh]

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I played the Resident Evil remake during a thunderstorm.

But, really, is there a BETTER time to play that?!

, amen.
This thread's title ****ing wins.

[tjoris9]

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I love the way it said the kid was worried his PS2 got fried, as though he wasn't concerned that he just had some major voltage flowing through his body.

Personally, I turn off all my games and computer because of the potential of a power outage.

[The Toecutter]

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Voltage doesn't flow. Current does. Voltage is potential, the difference in charge between two points.

Ever shower during a thunderstorm, unaware that one was going on at the time? Or perhaps been tasered? Then you might have some modicum of sympathy for this kid.

[Nixon]

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I was shocked by an exposed part of my lightswitch when I was about 14. It's an incredibly horrible feeling. It felt like there were a million bees shooting up my arm and into the right side of my body, and the freakiest part about it was that I couldn't move to get away.

But there was no way I could've known it was going to happen. I don't feel sorry for this kid because he decided to keep playing games on his PS2 when he knew it was storming outside. I'm sure he's just some lazy kid that didn't want to quit playing for 20 minutes. I wish it had fried his PS2.

[Caciss]

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The same thing happened to me, Nix.

Yeah, and Terr, I'm not about to dish out some sympathy to someone who's accident could have easily been prevented.

[The Toecutter]

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That's your opinion. There is no doubt that the kid was dumb, yet at the same time, he was the last thing that should have been fried would the electrical system inside his house be in complete working order. There are lightening rods and fuse boxes for a reason, this being one of them...

The PS2 should have fried before he did. Given that he was worried about the PS2 more, there is no discounting just how dumb he is...

[archerarmored]

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I would probably play during a thunder storm too, this was just a freak accident.