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What goes better with playing video games than poisoning the environment for future generations?  Perhaps melting the polar icecaps?  Clubbing baby seals?  Okay, that last one went a bit far.

Still, the point is that video games can be very bad for the environment.  Take the following five games for instance.  Each is addictive to the point of chugging electricity where other games only sip.  Ban these five games, and the environment will thank you.


If you’re going to blame one game, you might as well go after the king.  With over ten million subscribers, most logging in daily, is the leader in carbon footprints.  Add into this the fact that sitting for hours in front of your computer screen will likely lead to obesity, which in turn leads to a need for more air conditioning during the summer months, and you have a perfect storm brewing.

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While the franchise has always been popular, it wasn’t until the latest entry in the series that the online aspect really took off.  4 is crack for those who get into it online, and asbestos for the environment.  Of course, there’s a joke to be made there, and you feel welcomed to fill it in.

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The once mighty leader of console online may be down, but it is far from dead.  It still packs one of the largest online presences of any game and that is likely to only increase with the release of the new Legendary Map Pack.  Plus, you can tell Bungie is already trying to soften up gamers to the glacier-less future.  Have you ever seen the earth look as ugly as it does in this game?  By the way, the jungle levels take place in…Greenland!

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Before this environmental plague hit the world only nerds and recovering nerds played video games.  Now mom, grandma, and that creepy guy down the street who is always inviting kids into his house all own a Wii.  Why?  , of course.  Less electronics in the world means a greener world, and is the antithesis of help in this case.

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Remember when your cell phone only held telephone numbers?  Thanks to this little hater of the environment now millions of people have a reason to take out their cell phone and play with it when bored.  More cell phone use means the batteries drain faster.  Drained batteries means more charging, and of course that means more burning up of the environment.  This is, of course, assuming you don’t have one of those solar backpacks that charges your cell phone.  Which, of course, you do not because you’re cheap.


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