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Originally posted by [Cerebus]
he thought the toaster was trying to kill him.
Originally posted by [Cerebus]
Yeah but so what? Lots of people are addicted to things.
I look at it like this.
I'm a lad of 20, I enjoy sitting quietly playing a computer game which betters my hand eye coordination and typing skills, it hardly costs me anything out of my wage meaning more money for important things like beer and girls. Above all, I am addicted to the game because I find it fun. I've stopped before for a long time but came back. Not because I couldn't live without it but I find it a good laugh.
Now a similar lad my age is addicted to something else. Crack!
He's addicted to crack because he feels he can't face the world without it. He uses it, not to have a laugh but to escape the world he lives in. To support this habit he regulary prostitutes himself to dirty old men in back allys.
He's tried commiting suicide several times now because he thought the toaster was trying to kill him.
I know what I'd rather be addicted to...
Originally posted by old.chesnor
What a silly post. So you basically say "addiction to crack is worse for you than addiction to MMORPGs". That kind of misses the point....
Originally posted by [Cerebus]
Well if anybody can detect a pointless post, it's you.
My point was that everyone who plays this is in someway addicted, even you.
There are worse things to be addicted to though. Drugs for example make you feel like you you can't face the day without them. On the other hand you get addicted to a game because you're having fun.
I'm just glad I'm not addicted to being a self-important prick who can't see a light hearted post when he reads one.
I wouldn't say that, it is restatement because addicitions are similar to each other. However it does show evidence for MMORPGs in particular, not just that people can (and will) become addicted. The relevance of gaming is that people attempt to say gaming isn't addictive, this paper provides evidence to the contrary.Originally posted by Aurelius LH
Well it's sort of interesting... but fundamentally pointless, and a restatement of the obvious.
If you have an addictive personality, you are more likely to become addicted to things - drugs, a game, exercise, dieting, pretty much anything at all can become an addiction - and if that 'addiction' damages the rest of your life, it's a bad thing and you should stop it, or get help stopping it. I can't see what the precise relevance of gaming is to his thesis, if any.
Originally posted by Aurelius LH
If you have an addictive personality, you are more likely to become addicted to things - drugs, a game, exercise, dieting, pretty much anything at all can become an addiction
Originally posted by ButaneBob
to conclude that you have to have to have some kind of defective personality to become significantly addicited to these games is dangerously nieve
please dont comment about something you know nothing about, or at least read the link properly before doing so
<Bob procedes to remove textbook from gullet>
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