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First-Person Account Of Video Game Addiction
The Evil Couch writes "Jive Magazine, an entertainment magazine based in Atlanta, has just released a feature article that the editor has spent over a year investigating on gaming addiction. Starting from being on the outside of the gaming community, she has gone from being a somewhat normal person, to being one of the higher level characters in Anarchy Online. 'People have worse entertainment addictions than playing computer games. If I am going to be addicted to something, I would choose online gaming over drugs, bowling, gambling, television, or being a baseball fanatic easily. I don't have to wear ugly shoes, lose my hard earned money or do the wave next to someone I don't know and that just about makes it a no-brainer for me. It IS after all just a video game, like Neal describes in his great novel, Snow Crash. It is just another amusement park.' Sounds like a happy ending to me."
"Sounds like a happy ending to me."
Until all that radiation from your monitor goes to your head. Although, it seems that has already happened.
I think you mean...
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You dont have to believe in god. One of the steps is to find a higher power to help you stop. For religious people that would be god but you do not have to find religion to quit your addiciton.
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You sir are just uninformed about marijuana. Sure, if you smoke it like people smoke cigarettes a pack a day, you would be quite a loser. But no loser is going to be able to afford $100/day on marijuana.
The worst thing marijuana does in the long term is to your lungs. And that is less than cigarettes (according to european studies. It is illegal to study marijuana medically or scientifically by anybody other than the government in the United States [which is next to nothing])
The brain cell damage has been considered negligable when compared to alcoholism. And the "dumbness" of marijuana has been studied to wear off in ~less than 2 weeks for an addicted person after he/she quits. The worst symptom of marijuana use is overeating, oversleeping, and impared concept of time. Short term memory is affected, but only during usage (restored within 2 weeks of non-usage).
To top it all off, there is no scientific evidence of permanent brain damage due to the usage of marijuana, and there is no scientific evidence of percentage of brain cells that are damaged. Anybody that is telling you it kills brain cells is probably right, but it is not backed up by any form of medical or scientific data.
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