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40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted
Heartless Gamer writes "MMORPGs and game addiction. If you're suffering from dry eyes, headaches, back aches, erratic sleep patterns, it may be more than just your average hangover: according to Dr. Maressa Orzack, you could be suffering from video and computer game addiction. A clinical psychologist, Orzack is founder and coordinator of Computer Addiction Services at McLean Hospital in Newton, Mass., and is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Computer Addiction Services is one of the few outpatient clinics in the U.S. that provides specific treatment for game addiction." but I'm feelings much better now.
40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted
Should read:
40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted...to masturbation
OK, ok, sorry!
now excuse me while I go on my first of 5 weekly, 3hr long raids
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
The actual % varies but I think it floats at about 99.40%.
This is purely speculation mind you.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
You say that like it's a bad thing....
You can learn a lot about a person if you just take the time to inject them with sodium pentathol
...Just as long as it does't affect my raid schedule. I need that DKP, you know. And if Elementium Reinforced Bulwark drops while I'm not there, I'll be upset.
to WoW.. who do these doctors think they are? BTW.. LVL 60 DRUID LFG 4 UBRS RUN ASAP! PST!!
If you're suffering from dry eyes, headaches, back aches, erratic sleep patterns, it may be more than just your average hangover: according to Dr. Maressa Orzack, you could be suffering from video and computer game addiction.
/cast Abolish Disease
/dance
No problem.
... every wow[sic] player I have ever met lack[sic] the ability to think, talk or do anything else.
Big WoW player, are ya?
And all this time I thought it was my three year old giving me the headaches and sleep problems...
"Doctor with vested interest makes sensational statement to support business model" shocker.
"I once counted to a million. Missed the entire Ford Administration. But I'm feeling much better now."
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
TFA:
it's a cycle: people begin to spend too much time playing and their careers and personal relationships begin to deteriorate. Then they begin to withdraw more into the game because it's an escape from their real world problems.
RW: So what's the solution?
My solution: let nature take its course. In a few generations there will be no gamers left.
They have to be -- anyone who raids as much as they do has to be turning down sex.
Just print out that comment and give it to her. Could work.
Now, excuse me while I grind up the installation DVD and snort the powder like crack.
Current State: Pirates > Cowboys + Ninjas + Robots Yarrrr
Heck, I'm 24 and still don't want to go to family barbeques. What, it's my day off and you want me to drive for 2 hours so I can watch NASCAR and tell my relatives that yes indeed, I still work at the same place? Can't I just stay in bed?
Jeeesus, just find her a man, already. A 300lb trucker, who will whale the hell out of the kid on the one night a week that he stays over. You can find a suitable candidate by pretending to be a 13 year old Asian girl in #truckers-n-teens on IRC. Do we have to think of everything for you?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
It should read 'clinical psychologist who makes a living treating gaming addiction believes 40% of WoW players are addicted'.
That's some crappy journalism. A good headline would be 'Experts Say 40% of WoW Players Addicted'. Concise, attention-grabbing, the point of what was discoverd.
If the experts are not really experts, or they have an obvious bias toward the outcome, or they number no more than one, then it's not even newsworthy and no responsible journalist would publish it.
I'm sorry, this one was funny:
An office supervisor suddently resigns from her job. A lot of work is unfinished and the company asks her family to encurage her to return. They find her at home, hunched over a computer and out cold completely oblivious to her surroundings.
"nooooobzzz...Ess Tee Eff You noobszz....rrraaaaiiiidd....."
Death and danger are my various breads and various butters.
Obviously a NOOB. We call them "Crits."
lvl 60 Mage REXAR
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
Pfffft! I have boobs, and I'm not even a girl!
It sounds like your mother-in-law might need the services of Cesar Millan. You can reach his website here/. Your mother-in-law needs to learn to be more dominate, and your brother-in-law learns to not be such a little bitch.
"What is it about the human mind that enjoys those dreadful experiences once we grow up?"
Beer. At 14 you cannot drink.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
[Y]ou start taking away stuff. You ground him. Take away everything he owns (music, etc). If he's still out of control, you take his room door off his hinges so he has no privacy.
...dad?