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Coping with Gaming Addiction

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Slashdot Addiction by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Any advice on how to cope with /. addiction?

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  2. I call BS by djaj · · Score: 0, Redundant
    [M]ost Slashdot readers probably have a... friend... who spends too much time playing video games.

    Who do you think you're fooling? Slashdot readers don't have friends.

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  3. Re:I have a friend by mog007 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why am I addicted to games? Playing inside a virtual world allows me to construct a wall within myself and keep all my problems out of my mind, by not using any brain power to think about them, instead focusing all the energy on killing that fucking spawn camper. Or the more realistic version without that over-analysis bullshit, VIDEO GAMES ARE FUN. Some people find running around chucking a ball at a person 50 yards away to be fun, still others find it more fun to just WATCH that. Some people think sex is fun, which is certainly a point nobody would argue, what's the big deal? You go watch your football game while having sex, I'll go frag people in UT while I have sex, we're both happy and we're bothing funding people so they can make more fun shit for us to do.

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