Video game addiction (gasp!)

[K3V]

Ok, so I woke up to a story on the local NBC station about video game addictions. It showed a couple of PC gamers and how they have no lives, etc because they are "addicted" to games and play them for hours every day. I watched it but just dismissed it as more media trash and turned the TV off.

So I head over to their website and find the article about it at http://www.wgrz.com/storyfull.asp?id=14146 only to scroll to the bottom of the page to see that they link to the fake MAVAV site as one of the "places you can go for help."

[680x0]

Those mothers are always dumping on something I like. Guns, Drunk Driving... now Videogames? fuckers.

[Lordmrw]

I have a friend who has been playing Everquest for the past 4 years. H hasn't bothered to get a job in 2 years bcause it would interfere with his playing time. He's gone so far as altering his sleep cycle to get the most playing time. It should be obvious why I don't go there much anymore.

[Yoshi]

The fact that a link to a fake site is necessary to support their claims tells you all you need to know. Newsflash -- television can be addictive. I guess we should take this program off the air.

[Zerodash]

EVERYTHING in life can be brought to extremes. Those people who are trying to create a risk-free world are living a delusion.

There are food addicts too- should we ban FOOD?

There are sex addicts- should we ban SEX?

Life = risk

[youandwhosearmy]

They are living in a delusion.

ahh, the people who the real world has taught nothing. Courageously keeping the rest of us from having fun, god forbid, because you only live once.

Someone for once should organize a site, to stand up to and organized site.

Hey, I know lets change TNL's mission statement to professional MAVAV harrasment.

[K3V]

Just in case anyone thinks that MAVAV site is serious, here's the history behind it:

http://a.parsons.edu/~dyoo/2002-3/interactivity/mavav/

[Josh]

Originally posted by Zerodash
should we ban SEX?

God no...

[Jeremy]

Yay, another group with too much time on it's hands.

[OmegaFlareX]

There was a news story about gaming addiction on my local NBC affiliate a couple weeks ago. I'm glad I didn't watch it, as it would've just angered up the blood. If anything, I feel sorry for the kids whose parents will crack down on their game time once they see crap like this on TV.

I'm glad my parents let me play video games as much as I wanted when I was a kid. They obviously saw it was something I loved to do, and it taught me responsibility and consequences of actions (playing Dragon Warrior II instead of doing homework = D in Alegebra and pissed off parents).