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How To Help a Friend With an MMO Addiction?
sammydee writes "I have a friend who is addicted to an MMO (Pirates of the Burning Sea). On a typical day, he will wake up around 9am, browse the forums for a bit, then go online and stay online all day, playing until about 3am the following morning, taking only toilet breaks and stopping to eat ready-meals. While the rest of the house works hard revising for exams, this friend will be playing his MMO instead. Now, I am pretty confident that this comprises an unhealthy addiction; unfortunately, I have no idea what to do about it. Any attempt to physically prevent him from playing the game would most likely result in an outburst of anger and possibly physical violence. Attempts at telling him he has a problem have been met with derision and angry retorts. Slashdotters, what would you do to help out a friend in this situation? Perhaps you are a reformed addict yourself — if so, how did you break out of the habit? Or maybe I should just leave well enough alone and allow him to continue? Any thoughts are gratefully received."
Tell him he is wasting his life playing this game. Explain the exploration / exploitation trade off to him. If he still stick to this game, he is a moron not worthy of your concern. Find better persons to care about.
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Religion has led to more deaths throughout history than anything else.
If you're religious you believe in an imaginary guy in the sky looking down on you. And you have the audacity to think the guy mentioned in the post has a problem.
Stop believing in fairy tales, then we can talk.
Wipe out his MMO account. And organize a little disaster on his PC. Cutting the internet will also be required.
Girlfriend will not work... In his current situation you'd be able to him only a substandard g/f, which will only make things worse.
You could do what I do to Perl programmers: take what they're doing, examine it carefully with them, and show them _precisely_ how badly they're doing it. Then show them how it's really done.
"Actually most 'religious' wars are just conflicts over resources or land, and religion is used as an excuse."
Of all the wrong-headed, delusional comments in this thread, I nominate this one for the gold medal.
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes