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Coping with Gaming Addiction

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 5, 2004 @09:05AM from the first-step-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem dept.

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.

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Re:Solution by JVert · 2004-10-05 09:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Thats very +1 interesting.
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Re:Saved by the BOFH by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 10:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So they have a billion people with root access, instead of just setting up sudo access, and even though they have a very large number of people using the machine they don't have quotas setup? And then they blame users for cripling the computer because they didn't configure it right...