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Fighting the Scourge of Gaming Addiction

Posted by michael on from the five-years-for-peddling-evercrack dept.

speby writes: "With the growing popularity of LAN parties and other such channels to game (which the article at Wired doesn't mention) is it possible that gaming has become a real addiction? How can a person become addicted? And why?"

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  1. I am not addicted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am testing the network bandwidth

  2. I would post a longer response... by night_flyer · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I have to get back to unreal tournament...

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  3. I hope so by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a 'pusher' (game developer), I hope they never find a cure. :)

  4. addiction? what addiction? by MoNsTeR · · Score: 3, Funny

    I only have 5 game consoles, and I only upgrade my computer once every 6 months! I mean, it's not like I have more games than books or anything...

    I'm in control, I can quit whenever I want! Y.. You don't think I have a problem, right?
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    /Right?/

  5. Indirect gaming addiction by quartz · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last game I played was Metal Gear Solid 2. Nice game, but my wife got addicted to watching it because of the stupid long movies. When I finished it, she asked me to play it on a higher difficulty level so she can watch it again. :-/

  6. Hi my name is Greg, and i'm an addict... by Rev.LoveJoy · · Score: 5, Funny
    It all started a few years ago when my girlfriend started collecting those beenie babies. She would pour over her computer screen for hours and hours surfing America's Garage Sale ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ E-bay.

    I didn't know what to do with all the time on my hands. So I picked up a copy of Diablo. I don't remember exactly when she left me, but I know I had at least 3 battle.net characters that could fucking own on hell level!

    After I got bored with Diablo, I thought it was over, but things only got worse. My next girlfriend became an ICQ whore. Chatting with all types all over the world until god only knows how early in the morning. I found this great thing called EverQuest and I haven't really seen her, or my shoes, since.

    The downhill slide having begun, I was hooked. My CS skills are feared far and wide at LAN parties and my tollerance is so high that I can stare at a CRT for hours without blinking. Even those old ones with the 72 mHz refresh rates.

    These days, it's just get up, stumble to the fridge in the morning. The whole time I'm thinking about what the proper Civ3 build order is for a city on my cultural boundry. I lay awake at night thinking about optimal artillary placement in Empire Earth.

    If only Betty Ford had a program that suited me ... with phat net access and flat screens.
    -- RLJ

  7. I am Lost by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2, Funny

    This "Slashdot" is far from my native land. When I click, no rocket fires. When I push my arrow keys, I do not sidestep.

    Longing to frag, I wait.

  8. Seven straight years!??!?!?! by denshi · · Score: 4, Funny
    Did I miss an expansion pack? Where is the 'play for seven years' map in Civilization? What's the time scale on that mission?

    It's like The Sims, only someone is playing you...

  9. Affair with a make-believe husband? by thelenm · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It's really destroyed a lot of marriages," said Tony, whose wife had an affair with her make-believe husband.

    Man, this is a sentence I wouldn't expect to see anywhere but The Onion.

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  10. Lead Story: Candidate addresses gaming habit by Zen+Mastuh · · Score: 4, Funny
    --Austin, TX
    July 1, 2024

    Republican Presidential candidate Jenna Bush finally responded to the controversy surrounding her supposed gaming habit in the early 2000's. Unnamed sources, all claiming to be former college friends, have stated that Ms. Bush was an all-night gamer, playing Quake III, Tribes, and other games popular among the youth at the time. Since then, gaming has become strictly prohibited and all users, manufacturers, and distributors of these games have faced enormous fines and prison sentences.

    While not explicitly confessing to game use during her college years, Bush said "when I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible".

    Miguel Jesus deNaranja, currently serving a 75-year sentence for game distribution at Microsoft Maximum Security Detention Center near Austin, expressed outrage towards this statement by the President--his former classmate and supposed gaming partner. "I can't believe she is being such a hypocrite about this. She used to frag my brown ass all night long back in the day." Bush denies deNaranja's statements and claims to have never met him.

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  11. don't you mean by Stalemate · · Score: 2, Funny

    you're "in a harry" to get back to unreal tournament.

  12. Re:It's very simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    pron to addiction

    freudian slip?

  13. Re:It's very simple by Chester+K · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but certain people are more pron to addiction.

    I am not addicted to pron! I can stop looking at it anytime I want!

    ...oh? ... nevermind... nothing to see here...

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  14. News Flash by oliana · · Score: 2, Funny

    Local Woman addicted to Work!!

    "She gets up every weekday and goes to work!" explains neighbor June (last name withheld). "I hear she even bought her car, and choose an apartment close to the office to facilitate her addiction."

    It has come to this. Except days where her office is not open and the occasional vacation, Mary spends eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, sometimes more, at her place of business.

    "I never thought I had a problem. Really, if they didn't pay me, I don't think I'd be here this long."

    Mary has even been known to stay after work to finish "important" things, skip meals, and form relationships with her coworkers. Her marriage was in risk for a while when long time team member John began to show an interest.

    Mary explains, "It was all a joke! We'd pretend to flirt. I was never serious! John KNOWS that." But her husband, Mark, has different feelings.

    "Work just takes all her time, she comes home exhausted. That John fellow was looking at her funny at the office party she dragged me to, " states Mark. "I just hope we can work this out."

    .....

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