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A mock news report follows a man whose motor skills resemble a first-person shooter character as he struggles at work and joins a video game-themed support group.
Show transcript0:00 Meet Gene Simkins, a normal 33-year-old man living in America, except Gene suffers from a rare genetic disorder many of us don't even know exists, motoneural demyelination, or to the layman, 0:14 Duke Nukem's disease. 0:16 Basically, my motor skills are that of characters in first-person shooter video games. 0:22 We attached a camera to Gene to show you what life is like through his eyes. 0:47 For Gene, having to live an ordinary life can be trying. Even something as simple as staying employed has been a trial. 0:56 Luckily, um, I recently just found a job doing a, some motion capture work for the new Call of Duty game, uh, which comes out in November. 1:03 Oh, great. That was really good. So we're just going to take 5 minutes. 1:06 All right, cool. 1:06 Take a break, just relax, put your hands down, and we'll, we'll be good. 1:12 I can't. Oh, oh my God, I'm so, I'm so sorry. 1:17 It's okay. 1:18 But even a man with such a rare condition as Gene is never truly alone. 1:22 We just started a, a support group recently for, for people like me. 1:27 Rob can only move his arms in the barrel throwing motion from Donkey Kong, and Justin sees the world as a 2D side scroller. 1:34 Um, today is a little bit more of a somber meeting, because exactly a year ago, our friend Darren, who moved like a Street Fighter character, died of a stroke. 1:51 Oh God! 1:52 Oh God! 1:52 Oh.