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The Lure of Heroinware

blankmange writes "news.com reports: When games stop being fun; where the line between reality and fantasy blurs. Another story about games and the adults who can't stop playing them. It seems that we can't be held responsible for our actions -- it must be the 'heroinware' that game companies are producing...." Mmmm, Evercrack. T. pops in: Don't worry, games aren't addictive, but here's the announcement of a 24-hour gaming TV network for those unexplained late-night cravings. (Thanks to joestump98.)

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  1. Le Shmoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi!

  2. /.ed already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. Frist racist p0st! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I claim this frist racist p0st for the white man!

  4. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no i think it will be called "the war on addiction", the bush administration would never be brave enough to name any enemy outright :/

  5. Nintendo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nintendo 64!!!

  6. Hello! by QUdQUooLjEEUe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am new here! Please kill me!

  7. Re:Figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why don't YOU go down the pub instead of posting crap on slashdot all day? Dickhead.

  8. Re:This article is inaccurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut up junkie. Shouldn't you be off shooting up in a toilet or stealing somebody's VCR?

  9. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  10. Re:Top 6 signs that your TV network is going to fa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude top-ten lists aren't funny, THEY SUCK! And you don't even have ten, you have SIX. And you spelled "audience" wrong!

    NO MORE TOP TEN LISTS!

  11. Re:WTF??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What if I'm addicted to prostitutes dressed up as EQ characters?

    >a true addictive personality has to take extra care >to make sure that they're getting hooked on good >things, like exercise, family, laughter, and >prostitutes, and stop blaming the rest of the world >for making things you like.

  12. Re:Good Ol' Everquest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So do you think that Satan is making video games to lure kiddies away from marijuana? Because that would be EVIL.

  13. Re:And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Now excuse me, I have to go level up my female elf in EQ before I go porn surfing."

    +1 Funny As Fuck

  14. Re:WTF??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "rediculous"

    You need to look up a dictionary and stop making fucking spelling/syntax mistakes. I see this one a lot, for some reason. Is it a local idiom somewhere in the States, like the one that brought us 'nukelar' and 'aks a question'?

  15. Re:Hmph. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look. If you're gonna use a thesaurus, back it up with a fucking dictionary. What's "rediculous"? Did you mean RIDICULOUS?????????

  16. Re:This article is inaccurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, you see, heroin and video games, caffeine, tabacco, it's all about.
    There's only one good thing.
    Marijuana.

  17. Re:Hmph. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're a fucking riot and a half. I almost died laughing.

  18. HAHAHAHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do not mod puns up please. It makes you look as stupid as the guy that made the "joke".

  19. Ah yes, the slashdot dialect of English by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rediculous (r&-'di-ky&-l&s)
    Function: noun
    Date: 1998
    : RIDICULOUS
    usage: chiefly slashdot

  20. 2 things: by crhylove · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    first:
    it's about time there's a video game network! the electric playground is SOOOO lame! i especially hate the fatter blondish one!

    second:
    why are all these fags playing everquest? why not try a REAL game, like URBAN TERROR. i find myself logging in at least 2 hours a day, on BUSY days, when i really, really, swore to myself i wouldn't. i like all modes, but especially CTF with a live friend teammate (on my inhouse LAN) against an unfair amount of bots (2:1 bots:us). snipe on the way there, switch to the machine gun and spray and pray back to the base.

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