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Addiction To Fortnite Cited In Over 200 Divorce Petitions (dailydot.com)
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In just the last 35 weeks, one online divorce site received over 200 petitions citing addiction to Fortnite and other online games as one of the reasons someone wanted a divorce. "[T]he dawn of the digital revolution has introduced new addictions," said a spokesperson for the company, also citing online pornography and social media. "These numbers equate to roughly 5% of the 4,665 petitions we have handled since the beginning of the year and as one of the largest filers of divorce petitions in the UK, is a pretty good indicator."
On the other hand, the A.V. Club notes that the web site's creators "have a vested interest in making divorce seem sexy and cool in a way that only 'You walked in front of the screen and a 10-year-old in Wyoming shot me dead so now I'm taking the house' truly can."
On the other hand, the A.V. Club notes that the web site's creators "have a vested interest in making divorce seem sexy and cool in a way that only 'You walked in front of the screen and a 10-year-old in Wyoming shot me dead so now I'm taking the house' truly can."
'You walked in front of the screen and a 10-year-old in Wyoming shot me dead so now I'm taking the house'
Could you explain that more clearly?
Bottom-of-the-barrel day? Or is this really just the best EditorDavid can do?
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Online games being cited in divorce filings started happening long before the typical Fortnite player was even born.
Fortnite wins every time. Woohoo! *arm swing dance*
So, according to Internets, in the UK you can't just get divorced, you need to have a reason. (Internets would lie to me would it?)
In order to start divorce proceedings in England or Wales, you first need to have been married for at least 12 months.
To file a divorce petition against your spouse you must prove to the court that your marriage has irretrievably broken down by establishing one of the following grounds for divorce:
* Adultery
* Desertion
* Unreasonable Behaviour
* Separation of 2 years with consent
* Separation of 5 years - no consent required
I sure there are legit cases of addiction to gaming but I get the feeling that it's really just one contributing factor to an unhappy marriage that is being used as an easy target for "Unreasonable Behaviour". The real question is if the number of divorces has increased or have the reasons for divorce simply shifted.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
'You walked in front of the screen and a 10-year-old in Wyoming shot me dead so now I'm taking the house'
Pretty sure it's more like "you spend more time yelling racial slurs at 10 year olds than acknowledging that your spouse exists."
Fortnite could be Madden, Call of Duty, et cetera. They were called 'Everquest widows' back in the day.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
...because it helps to delay population overshoot. But we still have a long way to go before we can call it a solved problem.
Unless there has been a comparable increase in the rate of change of the number of divorce applications, then this is a non-story.
People who want a divorce, that are required to give reason to get one, will find one. If it wasn't Fortnite, it would be something else. If it wasn't computer games, it would be something else.
in a way that only 'You walked in front of the screen and a 10-year-old in Wyoming shot me dead so now I'm taking the house' truly can.
This isn't a description of a "cool" divorce. This is a description of an "inevitable" divorce.
Yes, reporters are very light.
It's a little known fact that they continuously produce large amounts of internal hot air. If they do not constantly emit this hot air they can actually float away and vanish.
This is why they spend most of their time talkingb complete rubbish, in an attempt to emit as much hot air as possible.
You should feel sorry for them, as there is little time left to do anything actually useful with their lives.
Fortnite is not special, neither is alcohol nor weed nor pills nor social networks. The only thing that IS special, is that our reality is intolerable for more and more people, and they find forms of escape. Can you blame them? For many people, life is just going to work, not having anyone they are close to, and if they are a man, knowing that they are never allowed to cry or express frustration (I guess there is some parallel for women, but I'm not a woman so I do not feel like I should say how they feel). Frankly, I suspect that a lot of modern technology and economy are just dedicated to create ways for people to escape the empty lives that they have.
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A friend of mine is hooked. He was in a multi year layoff phase and this summer finally departed from his employer. He got himself a ps4 a few years back and started playing division and WoT. After posting with his employer he's been doing that full time basically.
The thing is I totally get it. A good game and a good clan can keep you hooked for years. It's like surfing, climbing or some other awesome pastime. I was hooked to Argentine tango for 10 years. My life revolved around travelling around and often dancing 5 to 7 times a week, swapping my career for the tango bum life. I met women men usually can only dream of and had the most amazing pr0nstyle sex imaginable. But the big plus of tango that is that it comes with a very special kind of social life, which is why it's so awesome.
I also was hooked to unreal tournament back in 2000 and played that for a year or two a few hours per day.
But here's where I see addiction: I didn't totally void my social life and - this is the most important thing - didn't feel bad about it. So yea it had qualities off addiction, but I didn't use it to avoid uncomfortable situations. I actually made the active decision to live as a Tango bum and a hardcore gamer and kept up with my non addicted peers. Sort of.
My buddy OTOH won't even open the door for me or answer my texts for 3 months on end. Everyone is worried. His landlord, his brother, his mother, me, my daughter -who's uncle he basically is ... And so forth. That's not healthy. AFAIAC he can game for 10 years I a row. He had no family, enough resources and lives alone. Bit out is blatantly obvious that he's in a rut and needs a friendly asskick from his best friend the next the next time I get to see him.
So yeah, divorcing over fortnite? ITotallyGetThat.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Depending on the source, women initiate between 70 and 80% of all divorces in the US. Most of them are "no fault."
Now women are starting to notice more and more that there aren't as many eligible bachelors around as there "should be."
Well, it's quite simple: the opposite sex responds to the way they're treated in the aggregate both consciously and unconsciously.
The whole system is FUBAR because it is the worst combination of conservative white knighting and feminism. It maintains the rules on who pays what and allows women to say "well, I'm just not in lurrrvv with you anymore, so bye--and thanks for half of the shit your bigger paycheck paid for."
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Impossible to know if the spouse is primarily addicted, or simply retreating from an unfavorably behaving other spouse after not connecting well.
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>"Addiction To Fortnite Cited In Over 200 Divorce Petitions"
>"received over 200 petitions citing addiction to Fortnite and other online games as one of the reasons"
>"also citing online pornography and social media."
So which is it? 200 for Fornite, or the 200 games including Fortnite, or 200 computer addiction citings that include Fortnite? So it is all about addiction to Fortnite, gaming, or computers?
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"[T]he dawn of the digital revolution has introduced new addictions,"
The "dawn of the digital revolution" was a LONG time ago.
Perhaps they meant "The dawn of video games with design input from behavioral psychologists deliberately intended to be addicting has introduced new addictions."
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And the games are an escape from that reality. Leading the the already inevitable divorce
How do women even notice anyone playing video games when they have their noses firmly burred in their cell phone tweeting and twatting and facefooking every second of the day?
An addicting online game that leads to divorces.
So what is it that makes this one particular game so much more addictive than all the other games? Is it being distributed by French-Canadian wheelchair terrorists, or something?
Some are more prone to addictions then others. I guess if your happy sitting around playing fantasy video games why even get married? Or at least marry someone just as addicted to them.
Great for driving trends and influencing thinking.
Recommendations in App stores is another case for this.
If video games are important to you, make sure to marry someone who also plays. Then the shared activity will strengthen the relationship.
If you really don't like video games, make sure to marry someone who also doesn't like them, so they won't become a barrier between you.
If you marry someone with whom you do not share common interests, then you are probably making a mistake.
For the Mystery of Lawlessness is already working.
In general, everyone believes the 'minor' pleasant activity is a cause of the 'major' problem, when in fact it is almost always the opposite.
I.E. when you have a major problem you tend to look for minor pleasures to make your life better.
So when you are stuck in a crappy marriage with a slimy husband cheating on you (or a nagging wife - doesn't really matter which) then you start playing Fortnite. When they make your life really bad, you starting playing a LOT.
Then when you get a divorce, they point at your constant Fortnite playing rather than admit their behavior was horrible.
(General note, outside of arranged marriages, I have never ever seen a divorce that was even mostly one person's fault. At the very least the 'innocent' party knew the shmuck was a shmuck, decided to ignore the shmuck's bad behavior, married the shmuck, then complained that they were a shmuck. Duh.)
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All your wife has to do in the UK, 2018 to get rid of you is pay someone to photoshop you Nazi LARPing and posting a bunch of racist stuff on your FB account. Then once the police nab them another "bigot" she can probably divorce you for cause. So don't get too cocky with us Americans, mate.
Way back when my team was in a chat room setting up line-ups for a match we were starting. Quake 2. One guy, someone who recently practiced enough to be one of our best (he was playing ALL THE TIME) says this:
"My wife just left"
"& I don't think she's coming back"
Next think ya know, he drops from IRC. We don't see him online for months. He actually saved his marriage. It's just a story but my point is that divorce over video game addiction (or golf, gambling, crack) is nothing new.
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When your country's women are masculine and fat, of course men are going to choose other interests instead of the women. This isn't addiction. This is choosing the better offer.
The problem is capitalism dumb ass.
I look forward to cutting your fucking head off with a bread knife in the upcoming class war.
What's Fortnite? Some new drug?
The whole point of tango is hugging cute ladies. It started as a whores dance, and it still shows, even though the French turned that into an high art in the 1920ies. :-)
I have a diploma in performing arts (mainly dancing) and was into the European tango nomad scene for a few years. It's basically middle to higher education people indulging in self-esteem wars and excess vanity while at the same time compensating their severe shortage of hugs and intimate encounters. Search"tango cynic" on YouTube, he pretty much sums things up.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Phone bill showed 700+ texts for her last month and 50 for me. Darn text messaging game, I'm so far behind in my text message count.
I quit a different MMO because the constant grind to be competitive was taking over my life. Sure I can sink a lot of time into offline games and matches of multiplayer games with a few players but I don't need to be online 24/7
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
To summarize the summary and comments:
Addiction breaking up marriages is not new, Fortnite and other online games are the current example of an old problem
What people are trying to escape with addictive behavior (including crummy spouse behavior) might be the real problem.
UK doesn't have no fault divorce and that can lead to pretexts to claim fault.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.