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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'm not addicted ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... but I got to go now ... "the game" is starting.

  2. I'd love to post by anacron · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I'd love to offer up my opinion, but I'm too busy playing return to wolf. I plan on taking a break in 10 mins, but I want to get a quick game of tribes 2 in. Maybe sometime tonight after my clan's quake 3 match, although my friend just gave me a copy of Civ 3 and I really wanted to check it out.

    Perhaps tomorrow I'll post after my 16-way Halo LAN. The folks that are coming over said they may want to play a little UT, so perhaps after that I'll offer up my opinion on how rediciulous gaming addiction is.

  3. I'd reply to this article but by CitznFish · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I don't want to stop fragging my co-workers.

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    'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
  4. give me a break! by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Technically, a person can become psychologically addicted to ANYTHING, so really, this is just a bunch of worthless claptrap that isn't even worth discussing at length.

    JMO...

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    Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden