Wow, so activities that people enjoy make them feel better when they do it, and make them want to do it.

I don't know, Clever Neologism, but I feel like ass after a few hours of gaming. It's fun as hell but then you get the point where you're really tired or hungry or impatient and you're just trying to wring as much fun as possible out of the experience but it's still hard to stop. If I've played for more than an hour or so I usually have this stressed-out feeling afterwards of having accomplished nothing. Plus I stink.

2005-11-16 11:42:52 AM DirkValentine
so i wonder how many farkers fall into this category?
i know that i can EASILY kill 8 hours on fark.

I know can can do 8 easily on Fark...
Maybe more if I'm working overtime!

Some people are equally addicted to religion, eating (more than is necessary), television (probably worse than games), the internet, working, cleaning, gambling...

Point of fact:

Some people are weak willed and we have no duty or ability to truely help them. If they are adults they can suffer the consequences and if they are kids then their parents need to own up to THEIR responsibility.

Maybe I wouldn't play Hearts of Iron 2 for such a long time if Italy was actually competant enough to do something other than annex Ethiopia and Albania for christs sake. YUGOSLAVIA HAS ONE TENTH YOUR INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY YOU RETARDS.

//"Pact of Steel" my ass.

When in the game, I can forget about real life. I think it's like booze -- play/drink to forget about overwhelming RL stresses.

I am a 30 somethingish professional with graduate degrees, who still loves his videogames.

Unfortunately, as a 30 something year old professional, I don't have the time to play them as much as I want. As a result, in the on-line gaming world - I am cannon fodder.

Nothing kills my buzz worse than being continuously fragged by 13 year old killing machines who then mercilessly mock me.

/prefers to play with himself :-)

AJCrowley

Smoking is physically addictive and is deadly. It forces us to pay more in healthcare because of the lack of health insurance (240,000,000 without) in this country. Completely different.

America's Army is like smack for me

I just played hours and hours and hours. I would rise early to play, then go to work, make a pot of coffee then play for a few hours. I prefered to stay in playing than go out with people. I had to delete the game.


/Had two breakdown already
//Now I stay inside playing GTA:SA
///replaced smack by crack

Add another notch to the "so does this Farker" list.

Tor: Maybe I wouldn't play Hearts of Iron 2 for such a long time if Italy was actually competant enough to do something other than annex Ethiopia and Albania for christs sake. YUGOSLAVIA HAS ONE TENTH YOUR INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY YOU RETARDS.

hehe

just take military control and use thier navy to hold the med as long as they can

fo' shure.

Yeah, got a current addiction to the Sims. I never, ever should have bought it. Last weekend I played for 10 and 9 hours, Sat & Sun. B/f is threatening to take my video card away from me.

/I can quit anytime I want to
//really!

oldmangig

Just don't play the newest games. 13 year olds flock to the current cutting edge title, free commercial games (like Enemy Territory) and Counterstrike.

Avoid that list and you'll avoid the kiddies. On the other hand, that leaves opensource games and slightly older games that have a solid community... which means the players have been playing it for years and will completely make you their biatch. But they'll be nice while they do it.

My current bad habit is TA:Spring - the hardest RTS ever made. I go online, start out feeling good, and by the end of the game I'm ready to eat a bullet after watching my army get so thoroughly reamed. And yet I still want to play more.

They don't call it Evercrack for nothing...

Has anyone seen that show called intervention on A&E. They had one dealing with this. They made the guy look so addicted. They cut in voiceclips from max payne. It made him look like he thought he was crazy.

"They killed my family... They took my life..."

To be fair, he did play a lot of video games. He did a 24 hour stretch of DDR without taking a break. He just colapsed afterwards.

/crazy video game addicts.
//Now for some sweet sweet call of duty

Why is it always "13 year-olds?" Has there been some marketing research to determine that this is the most humiliating demographic to be stomped by, in a gaming sense? What's so magic about 13?

AcornMan: I've been FPS-free since then, but I have to admit I have cravings every time I walk past Call of Duty 2 on the store shelves. That looks like a sweet game.


Oh it is a really sweet game. You should pick it up...I could bet you won't regret it!

/shame on me.

I also have to concur with the article. After 6 months of playing every night 5 hours or more, I had to quit Halo2 cold turkey. It was affecting my marriage.

Gaming fanatics fat people show hallmarks of drug addiction

put down the joystick drumstick

For all you 4th graders
It's ADDICTIVE not ADDICTING

and a...



are all I need...

except maybe this

All this talk really makes me want to go home and play some video games.

/Day of Defeat!
//1 week til 360

Wow, used to like New Scientist but this is junk science. It's not science, it's Fark.com. Now, although you could easily do a study to prove both go well together. I would love to see the impossible task of showing that either are "bad" for you.

There are poisons in your food, water, schools brainwash you, your media is crap, it lies to you. But no, the real problems aren't jobs or the growing threat against our civil liberties, it's online gaming and people smoking harmless herbs.

Although drug addiction could mean harmful things, but an herb that has never killed anybody, is possibly helpful to the brain but certainly not harmful, or contributed to lung cancer. All I do is smoke weed, I'm not a tightass it doesn't bother me to try anything else. I will, but I won't keep doing it, just herb. I'm also very healthy and have excersized regularly for the past 6-7 years.

As for people saying watching tv is bad and etc., etc. (electronic drugs), they're neutral just like any other tool. Psychadelics and electronics can be used for good. The problem is the content, which is why I stopped watching tv and just find stuff to watch on torrents. Local news, sitcoms, etc. will eat your brain. Slowly.

Hi, I'm Ryloh and I'm an addict... SOCOM addict that is.

My drug of choice used to be Evercrack, until my "Boss-Lady broke my disc...

JakeElwood

The voice. And the trashtalking. 13-year-olds are old enough to kick ass, but not old enough to have any basic politeness. So while winning they chatspam with bad Southpark quotes. And if you've got voice chat, you get to hear some kid who's balls haven't even dropped cuss like a sailor and trashtalk everybody in the game with his shrill soprano voice.

Interact with one in real life. You'll find it's easy to think little kids are stupid and incompetent. Therefore, being completly reamed by one is a humiliating experience. Plus they're often times immature, and that can be frustrating as well.

JakeElwood:Why is it always "13 year-olds?" Has there been some marketing research to determine that this is the most humiliating demographic to be stomped by, in a gaming sense? What's so magic about 13?

Voice Chat.
Puberty.

Leviathanial

Some people are weak willed and we have no duty or ability to truely help them. If they are adults they can suffer the consequences and if they are kids then their parents need to own up to THEIR responsibility.

Careful how you tread here. Unless you have direct experience of addiction, you have no idea how damaging it can be. I had to quite gaming cold turkey as it nearly killed my marriage. I also have a lot of friends that are 12-stepping and I've seen the positive change it has made in their lives. Addiction has nothing to do with willpower, it has to do with trying to fill up your life with something you think has meaning but in reality just makes you feel empty inside.

root88

I really wish that stupid joke would die already. It wasn't even funny the first time.


YA RLY!!



/oh wait... sorry!
//addicted to Fark Cliches?
/// and slashes?

Persepolis

Well, I don't think it's possible for even that grim show to make game addiction look as bad as drugs. Nothing compares to the meth-head episodes there, like the time they had on the guy from Days of the New who'd blown so much rockstar cash on meth that he itched all over because the stuff had crystallized under his skin.

I used to play tribes 2 all the time...but then crappy tribes 3 came out and all the good servers went away...

What is the difference if I watch TV or play a game 3 or 4 hours a night? With the TV you just sit and watch like a zombie. But in games I can kill zombies. At least there is real interaction.
/still trying to convice the wife
//totally addicted

Touchyournose
How do you know that pot smoking doesn't contribute to the incidence of lung cancer? I'm not saying that it does, either - causation is hard to prove.

W_A_R_C_R_A_C_K

My anti-job.

Gaming Addiction >> TV Addiction

I seldom watch TV anymore. The time I wasted on the boob tube I now waste slaying vile orcs and spawning more overlords.

90% of what I watch now comes from NetFlix or my DVD collection. The other 10% is news.

/and 1% Jeopardy

I've been on a PS1 binge lately, believe it or not. I think I'm just bored with my PS2/Xbox library right now. Yesterday I put in Castlevania: SOTN, Vagrant Story, Valkyrie Profile and Omega Boost. Good times.

I do not have a problem with World of Warcraft. It's just that everything else sucks.

i'm considering studying the neural basis of gaming addiction for my thesis :) although I suppose using myself wouldn't be acceptable...

Thalarion

No, it is willpower. It is called moderation, which takes willpower. You should become interested in a real hobby, that takes willpower but it also fills your life with something that is beneficial to your health, entertainment, and marriage. I personally suggest rock climbing or simple hiking.

I do have direct experience with addiction and what you describe is obsession. It is very different. To quit an obsession you need willpower. To quit an addiction you either need a tremendous amount of willpower, therapy, support from friends/family, treatment, or any combination.

bughunter

I seldom watch TV anymore. The time I wasted on the boob tube I now waste slaying vile orcs and spawning more overlords.

Farking vile orcs.

= My crack, which I receive from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays and any other time on weekends. Pictures and movies=gameplay and lets just say I only stop to smoke.

/cigarettes the anti-FPS drug
//just spent $500 to get new graphics card
///will turn into

in 2 years

Welcome to the VA Meeting

Hello my name is ... and my wife left me for three days because of video games.

/Feel free to insert your name
//Because it has happened to all of us
///Damn you America's Army DAMN YOU!!!!