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Fighting the Scourge of Gaming Addiction
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?"
Fuck you all you motherfucking LambdaMOOers! Piss on you all!
Of course you can become addicted... just as you can become addicted to smokes, or scratching your nose, or giggling in an irritating way. What's the news flash here... I just don't get it.
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I didn't think it would be possible, but I saw the ghost of Steve Jobs last night in an alley in Tijuana, getting a palm-job from a she-male. Boy will the tabloids have a field day with that doozie of a story. The ghost of Steve Jobs exists!
Nope. The "BSD is dying" idiot beat ya.
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This is not the first post so you may ignore it.
You heard me, bitches.
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You suck! Lick my balls for a dollar, you cunts. Clearly, ball licking and prostitution are viable full time careers to have, then at night you can make your code contributuions for free! wheeee!
The karma cap of 50 is so low that users are not
going to be doing what you claim. It takes very
little time to cap it off and then you're done.
(Karma cap rant: The cap is implemented in a rather unfair way. Imagine two people starting at zero karma. Person 1 then gets 97 positive
mods in a row followed by 3 negative ones, giving him a total of 47. Person 2 gets 30 positive mods, then 10 negative ones, then 30 positive ones, then 10 negative, then 20 positive. His Karma is now capped at 50. But out of the 100 modded posts both of them have had, clearly person 1 is the more positively modded poster, with 97% positive mods, while person 2 had only 80%. I think karma should be implemented as a percentage rather than a raw count. The mistake the karma cap tried correcting was that the volume of posting affected the karma, which made abusive excessive posting a path to high karma. But, using a score that indicates the ratio of posative vs negative mods would have fixed it too, but in a more fair way.)
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
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Damm, where can I get a monitor with a 72 mHz refresh rate? That's 900,000 times faster than the 85 Hz clunker I'm looking at now!
or does michael always find it a "slow news day".
er, for those of you who are SLOW, that means michael posts these assinine touchy-feely articles while real nerd news gets kicked to the curb.
Humans rule. BSD hating dolphins can suck it.
Hello, I to suffer from an addiction to computer games, namly EVERQUEST. To tell u the truth, i just deleted the game now(03/05/01 11:20 est). I feel this sence of empty ness, this feeling is just tearing me up inside and i know that it is my withdrawl pains.
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