Xbox-PlayStations to be fitted with Healy Eames chips

mikom

From Twitter:

@senhealyeames Fidelma Healy Eames
Playstn Xbox danger 2 health as 20 yo dies.Makers shd install auto shutdown chip af'r 2hr play w/ 12hr break on all game.

Galway Advertiser, August 04, 2011.

Xbox and Playstation must incorporate a maximum usage time cap within their consoles to prevent people from spending too much time gaming.
This is the view of Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy Eames, who made the call following reports of a 20-year-old Briton who died from Deep Vein Thrombosis, allegedly as a result of excessive use of an Xbox.



According to Sen Healy Eames, the 20-year-old, who was otherwise in good health, “developed a blood clot in his lungs after spending 12-hour sessions playing the Xbox”.



“It is only now that research on the addictive nature of these gaming consoles is beginning to emerge,” she said. “I believe it is not unreasonable to demand some class of a microchip to be installed that shuts the game down after two hours, and that it cannot be restarted for another period of time.”



Sen Healy Eames said “spending endless hours” gaming impacts on “ emotional and mental health” and she will be “writing to the National Consumer Agency, in addition the manufacturers” to see what steps can be taken in this regard.

Please stand by.
Fidelmas "won't somebody think of the children" chips will be fitted by trained technicians throughout the coming months.
Look for their black van marked "Joy division".

Jesus wept.

Eman Resu

Glad to see Irish politicians are concentrating of getting us out of financial trouble by ensuring people who work in the game industries end up on the dole.

super_furry

Can we extend this fight against DVT by limiting all airplane flights to two hours too?

RedXIV

Pain in the tits if you're watching a 2.5hr movie on the playstation too

ScumLord

They can just buy more xboxs, or just continue to sit there watching recordings of them playing xbox. What needs to be done is gamers need to be flushed out and have chips implanted in there arses so they can't sit still for more than 2 hours.

Robbo

I note that by omission, she's clearly a Nintendo fanboiiiiii.

Red_Wake

mikom

Exclusive footage of Fidelmas first Xbox "won't somebody think of the children" shutdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk

weiland79

These politicians should just be ignored. It's the same as getting publicity for their own agenda by taking about cigarettes and alcohol.

biko

mikom wrote: »

Playstn Xbox danger 2 health as 20 yo dies.Makers shd install auto shutdown chip af'r 2hr play w/ 12hr break on all game.

If Healy Ames ever register on boards she better use full English and none of this text speak crap.

Craebear

More people die from taking a dump than playing consoles. No ****ting after 8PM, think of the children, blame the loony left, up the ra etc etc.

J. Marston

Shut up you silly bitch.

Sonics2k

And within hours of these chips being released, we'll have cracked them for a good ol' week long GTA session.

BASHIR

F'ing nanny state or what, she can feck right off if she thinks anyones gettin their hands on my xbox.

The King of Moo

What a ridiculous idea.
I don't think there's anything particularly addictive about games, especially now when you can save and pick up your game later, or at the very least, pause the game for a while.
People who play for such lengths of time have only themselves to blame, not the console manufacturers.

Temptamperu

So one guy dies from overdoing it and the rest of us who dont "abuse" the system get fúcked?

Hows about getting your know nothing, know it all hands of my console you damn dirty politician?

Noopti

Even her stupid name pisses me off.....

DrumSteve

Potatoes in my xbox...?

She can **** right off.

Dravokivich

I recon Sony and Microsoft will have the same response as me...

"Who is she and where the fúck did she come from?"

Dennis the Stone

I was there was some kind of chip that shut clueless politicians like her down after two and a half sentences.

Richard Hillman

It would probably cost about 10 quid to get one of these "please think of the children" chips removed by somebody who has a rough idea about how these things work.

Fozzie Bear

Christ above, could a chip be fitted to her to switch off her attention whore brain lobe?

If a bird takes a sh!t on a bench in Eyre square you can be guaranteed Fidelma Healy Screams will have an article printed the following week in all the Galway rags lamenting the lack of bird control in Ireland, calls for the relevant Government minister to set up a Bird Sh!t task force and the mandatory fitting of nappies to all birds.

Maybe she should take more of an interest in the payment of builders and trades men for works completed in these recessionary times. Funny we don't see anything from her in the papers about that particular subject......

Gandalph

My xbox tried killing me once, lucky my gran was there to save me

Korvanica

Why do politicians try to lose votes ?

Mr. Denton

According to Sen Healy Eames, the 20-year-old, who was otherwise in good health, “developed a blood clot in his lungs after spending 12-hour sessions playing the Xbox”.

Yeah he looked ready to run a marathon.
http://bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/chris-staniforth.jpg

BASHIR

How is some with an education like hers and in the position she's in representing her constituency so clueless to the real world, does she really believe Microsoft or Sony will listen to her or this ridiculous suggestion and implement something to their product that would potentially damage their sales. Wow moronic is an understatement.

funkyjebus

They should install similar on my work pc, then I could go home.

Aldebaran

Why is she limiting this to Xboxs and Playstations? Following her logic we should place these chips in televisions, dvd players, computers, and anything else that encourages people to remain immobile for extended periods of time.

Lord TSC

She's doing it for publicity and it's working since we're discussing it. There'll be plenty of idiot parents who'll think its a smart idea, despite the fact(afaik) there's already ways on the consoles to limit how much it's played.

Regardless, they ain't touching my consoles. I'm 24 and can make my own decisions on how much games I play, thanks. As far as kids go, perhaps parents should take responsibilities for their kids themselves instead of trying to get a chip to stop their kids overplaying. And if this **** becomes standard, I'll just order my consoles from Amazon or some other English based site...

board_stiff

She has stood as an unsuccessful candidate at the 2002 and 2007 and 2011 general elections for the Galway West constituency.

With comments like this I'm not surprised.

Keep up the good work Fidelma!

WallyGUFC

Thanks be to Jesus the beautiful people of Galway didn't vote her in the last time. She's a moron, simple as.

Run_to_da_hills

Give it a few weeks and mod chips will become available to crack the system.

cython

It's actually scary to think that someone who possesses not only a degree and a masters, but a PhD to boot, can be so incredibly dense. This would just send more people to the console modding scene/market to remove such a cap.

I mean seriously, have FG simply given her a pedestal to rant on as a means to further their agenda of the Seanad being useless, and to get it abolished? I'd prefer to believe that than to think someone could honestly be as stupid as this woman.

mackg

RIP tournaments is this comes in.

Is this going to be installed on TV's as well, what about PC's, books, DVD box-sets?

At least she won't get DVT with her jerky knee and all.

Run_to_da_hills

You can be sure Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy Eames and what ever other crone behind this will have investment in shares in the company that would be producing the capping technology behind this.

TonyMac

This doesn't seem like a practical idea. There are already a large number of gaming devices in Ireland.

Mr. Denton

Never heard of her. Check her google images. They run the full gamut from hot to not.

Captain Slow IRL

Why not just tell her what you think?! - contact info

Snowie

How does she plan to get this activated

Hopes and dreams?

LETHAL LADY

Silly woman.

Straight Talker

Between bottling it at the hurling every year and now this Galway people.:pac:

Xivilai

BASHIR wrote: »

F'ing nanny state or what, she can feck right off if she thinks anyones gettin their hands on my xbox.

Or what, you'll bash ir ? :pac:

Games are not that addictive for Christ sake, I personally would feel like **** if I did nothing but play 2 straight hours of something..

Such a ridiculous suggestion..

Guy:Incognito

How does a silly suggestion by a politician result in a headline of AXbox and Playstation to be fitted...."? That would mean it is happening, whereas the reality is that even if Microsoft and Sony hear about this, all they will do is laugh.

Dangerous Man

Shut up rat.

previous user

oh ffs, you get get tired afte ten or 12 hours of play and
you're eyes close due to tiredness anyway.

Saila

weiland79 wrote: »

These politicians should just be ignored. It's the same as getting publicity for their own agenda by taking about cigarettes and alcohol.

starbelgrade

If it were possible to die from idiocy, this woman would be well dead by now.

Snowie

starbelgrade wrote: »

If it were possible to die from idiocy, this woman would be well dead by now.

Shes a DONkey :cool:

Owen

It'll never happen, she's just mouthing for the sake of mouthing. And for the hell of it, if by some calamity of logic it were to be implemented, I'd offer to remove the 'chips' - which mostly likely will be some form of timer circuit connected to the mains on a kensington tether lock - for free. Many others would too.

Nanny stateism at it's best.

Leeg17

It probably took her more than 2 hours to think up such high quality BS.

Snacker

Is it just me or does everyone think she's a failed politician who nearly got elected because she has her nose in everything going, and her mouth bragging about it? Never warmed to her ever.

If your kids playing too much xbox. Take the xbox away. Simple. No 21st century b***s**t needed.