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Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts
eldavojohn writes "So, you can't find the time to leave the World of Warcraft to seek help for your World of Warcraft addiction? Sounds reasonable. Well, addiction therapists are coming to meet you so you don't have to quit playing as they counsel you and your addiction. From the leader of this initiative, Dr. Graham: 'We will be launching this project by the end of the year. I think it's already clear that psychiatrists will have to stay within the parameters of the game. They certainly wouldn't be wandering around the game in white coats and would have to use the same characters available to other players. Of course one problem we're going to have to overcome is that while a psychiatrist may excel in what they do in the real world, they're probably not going to be very good at playing World of Warcraft.' Send in the level 5 counselor and let the games begin!"
What happens when the therapists become addicted?
Oh, I get it, kdawson must be the cure against /. addiction...
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In soviet America, rapists find you.
I'm not an addict, it's cool, I feel alive...
Why did I read that as "The Rapists"? Is there some kind of connection I'm missing here?
'Keep it Real' and suffer like the rest of the grinders or abuse your personal resources to obtain authority like the rest of the world?
I suggest joining the Horde.
I'm just curious how it came to be that the Constitution specifically gives Americans the right to bear arms (and DC vs. Heller reaffirmed this obvious statement), while mentioning NOTHING about a right to exterminate inconvenient children in utero, and yet Liberals will fight to the death to uphold the latter imagined right over the former explicit right. What kind of abominable mental acrobatics must one have to go through to come to the absurd conclusion that the framers didn't intend for individuals to be able to defend themselves, but that they did intend for people to be able to murder those who were inconvenient to them? The message here: apparently murdering babies is morally superior to you being able to defend yourself from crime in your own home. Abortion was just the first step, folks. The disabled and the elderly are next. Did anyone bother to read the House version of Obamacare? Forced end-of-life counseling for anyone 65 and up. You're going to have some mouth-breathing half-wit government bureaucrat whispering into your ear that you should just kill yourself rather than have that expensive prostate cancer surgery...
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I have. For some time in the early 90s, I lived in the middle of Nevada, 50 miles form the nearest working gas station, no plumbing (other than a hole in the ground.) I also spent more than twenty years living in some of the more remote communities of Colorado, where you could by completely cut off from civilization for a week at a time by snow.
The reason those places are still wilderness is that it isn't possible to do much in those places. You can't grow enough crops for survival, for starters, and water can be a concern. Not being able to get FedX packages can be just as limiting as stoplight cameras at times...
The problem isn't being around other people -- it's people failing to live by the golden rule.
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Somewhere in a mall out there (I dare not google now because I'm at work) is a store called "Kids Exchange". Write the sign in all capital letters and make the store front entrance too narrow to fit the space between the words and you get something quite different.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.