11 Wholesome and Badass Gamer Moments
Gamers often get a bad reputation for being lazy, socially distant losers, but this notion is (hopefully) starting to correct itself.
Published 4 years ago in Feels
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FPS Medic Training Incident - Who knew that a video game and gamer could save a life in such a critical circumstance. But an America's Army player Paxton Galvanek did that with his in-game medic knowledge. While driving along the highway in 2007, he witnessed a car accident. As a vehicle flipped upside down, Galvanek rushed to pull the driver out. Seeing that the man had lost two fingers and was bleeding heavily, he used his in-game medic training and covered the wound, and told the man to raise his arm to slow down the blood flow. He helped the man till the medics arrived, saving his life.
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Saved From Seizure - Here's yet another crazy example of a life-saving incident by a fellow online gamer friend. 17-year-old Aidan Jackson suffered a seizure while chatting with his 20-year-old friend Dia Lathora from Texas. Dia sent emergency services from 5,000 miles away to the UK, helping Aidan and alerting his parents in-time.
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Gamers Discovering Planets - Who says exploring the universe is something only meant for scientists? Well, a group of researchers at Yale thought the same thing, and so they created a web browser game called Planet Hunters. The goal was to encourage gamers to use the browser is search for new planets, and well it worked! Gamers have been working alongside researchers to decipher data and push the boundaries of what is known in the universe.
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Saved due to Counter-Strike - Here's a story of another 12-year-old who managed to save his and his friends' lives all because of video games. Counter-Strike player Jose Darwin Graviano and his friends played in their hometown in the Philippines when they came across a set of grenades. As his friends started investigating the grenades, It was Jose who realized what they were. He stopped his friends in time, and the cops were notified.
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Life-Saving Online Gamer - While multiplayer gamers are stereotypically seen as raging loud mouths, that would be generalizing. A crazy incident happened in one of the gaming chats when a Canadian teenager helped a stranger fellow gamer who was showing signs of potential suicide. He tracked the depressed autistic kid with just the gamer tag and reported it to the emergency services. The kid's parents were not even aware of his mental condition, and this act of kindness saved their kid's life.
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Saved From A Car Crash Due To Grand Theft Auto - It was all the way in 2014 when 11-year-old Charley Cullen was in a car with his grandfather. While going through the traffic, his grandpa blacked out. This was when Charley used his in-game knowledge to use and saved his grandpa from the terrible accident. While doing so, Cullen suffered a serious head injury, but after the recovery, he credited his quick thinking and car handling to the Grand Theft Auto.
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12-Year-Old Vs. Wild Moose - Here's a life-saving story of a little kid who used his knowledge to save her baby sister from a wild animal. The 12-year-old Norwegian boy, Hans Olsen, saved his ten-year-old sister by diverting the moose's focus using an aggro technique he learned while playing WoW. He then used another WoW technique using an impression of a possum to scare the moose. Hans was declared a hero soon after and helped show the world, gaming does provide us with useful life skills.
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Saved From Fire - Robert Chambers was once playing the browser game Evony when a fire started in his house. He was unable to get to the phone due to muscular dystrophy. However, he was able to alert his online friends to send help. This worked absolutely in his favor, and his buddies saved his life by sending authorities to help him.
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Sometimes Game Saves You - Ryan Hart, a gamer, was only 18-years-old when his family evicted from their home in England. However, being homeless at such a young age didn't stop the man. Within the next 20-years-later, Ryan became a famous gamer, with multiple Guinness world records and hundreds of championships under his name. His real story is emotional and inspiring, and interested people can check that out on his Wikipedia page.
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A Personal Story - Not newsworthy. However, this is a moment that happened quite recently. While sitting in a popular gaming discord server, a couple of friends and I were chatting about video games with other gamers. This is when a horde of non-sensical people joined the chat and started talking about war, politics, and shaming other cultures. First, we calmly told them that a gaming server filled with 10-20-year-olds is not a place to talk about these issues. We told them that they could find better servers with people interested in their debate elsewhere. However, they didn't stop and started verbally abusing little kids in the chat. This was totally not the right thing to do. We figured out a way to contact the admin personally and got them banned from the server within minutes, hopefully saving some young minds from being exposed to such toxic thoughts.
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Video Gamers Saving Those Who Served - Gaming, in general, is considered a fun activity for kids or young adults. But truth be told, there's literally no age or profession limit when it comes to games. Based on research, veterans with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health challenges are finding peace in gaming. Many navy veterans are using video games to help with their PTSD, depression, and more.
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