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."

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[ameoba]

What do you want? A fucking cookie?

First off, if you were a college student student that even HAD $20k/year that you could blow, nobody is going to fucking care; you pampered little trust-fund bitch.

And your 5-year relationship... don't get me started on how high school romances need to die after graduation. Most friends from high school are just that, high school friends, and you're going to lose them too, once you've moved on with your life and are no long being forced to spend 8hr/day with them.

Cry me a fucking river. You couldn't cut the mustard in school & became an obsessive, reclusive geek with no social life or social skills. OMG! Isn't that the classic negative stereotype?

Welcome to the fucking club. It doesn't matter what the fuck you do, unless you're a single mom who dropped out of HS and doesn't know who the fathers of ANY of her three children, nobody cares how you fucked up your life or really even wants to help. The sooner you realize that you're not going to get any help, sympathy or special treatment, the sooner you're going to stop being a victim & get your shit together and clean up your life yourself.

watch for the idiot naysayers

[maxpublic]

This being Slashdot, watch for the morons who'll no doubt jump out of the woodwork to decry the article, comparing the hobby of computer gaming to heroine addiction, alcoholism, and gambling. No doubt a few weak-willed souls will jump up to the plate to confirm this pathetic pandering bullshit with their own sordid tales of playing EverQuest night and day, or whatever the hell the current rage is.

Slashdot - home of the cyber-Oprah's, always willing to jump on the latest hand-wringing bandwagon.

Max