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Coping with Gaming Addiction
Several readers submitted this story in the Washington Post about gaming addiction in adolescents and adults. The main sources of the story are two people who get paid for solving this problem, so they have an incentive to make it sound scary and widespread, but on the other hand, most Slashdot readers probably have a... friend... who spends too much time playing video games.
Slashdot is exceptionally irrelevant and pointless with their postings today. michael, you're doing a terrible job today. And you other editors, what does some excerpt from a book about money, Sharp, and Nintendo have anything to do with "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."??? It wasn't even a book review! /. has definitely exceeded my expectations of pathetic "journalism" today. Way to go!
Lets blame Sony for making the game, Walmart for selling the bullets, Ozzy for making the records, and leave the innocent parents alone.
Bullets are actually made to kill
But it really does not give anyone the right to judge "Gamers"
Is it still cool to judge druggies? Or has the right, wait no, left? (the people who love druggies) stopped that too?
And me without smackdown^H mod points. You enjoy playing a game. If you have difficulty seperating it from real life, then you have a weak personality. It's not addictive. Alcohol is addictive. Cocain, heroin, addictive. Video games are not addictive.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!