Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving
A few weeks ago, I experienced my first proper gaming injury… and it wasn’t at all how I imagined it would be. My fantasies of physical folly usually involve a mangled foot on a Dance Dance Revolution machine or a Wii remote lodged in an eye socket, bodily damage incurred from activities that largely require, you know, activity. I considered it a dubious achievement to have unlocked pain in a part of my body simply by sitting on a couch and fervently pushing buttons. How fragile my body is!
Though the process of waking up is generally one I try to avoid — it feels too much like being dragged through the dangling rubber strips at the top of an airport baggage claim — I immediately knew that Monday morning was off to an even worse start than usual. The immobilizing lower back pain was the obvious clue, its origin being quite the mystery at first. Was I picking up refrigerators in my sleep? Did someone replace my mattress with a pile of rakes? Or did I really manage to hurt myself by playing Dirt non-stop for a weekend?
Continue reading The B[ack]log: Coming clean (about Dirt)
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