http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160324
For playing too many video games as I’m clearly logging in more than 2 hours of game time a day. @.@
The only thing I can think of saying to the brilliant doctor that suggested this is…
KAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNN!!!
Man, am I glad that I don’t live in the US.
Especially since I can admit that I do play games so much that it can really be considered an addiction.
(After I quite playing WoW, where I was raiding 5-6 times per week, my playtime went down a bit, but…)
Bloody rubbish! Addiction isn’t a disease. Nothing that requires an active choice is a disease!
Originally Posted by Nulani
Bloody rubbish! Addiction isn’t a disease. Nothing that requires an active choice is a disease!
Try telling that to every up and coming political wannabe. I’m certain that “Dr.” Phil is already lining up choice speakers for his up coming episode on the poor disturbed minds of video game players filled to the rim with derogative finger pointing of various tragedies and atrocities.
Video games don’t make me aggressive, these people do.
Right. I’m sure the creation of a brand new market fueled by ignorant/uncaring parents doesn’t even figure into the thoughts of these well meaning people. Some one inform them, please, that aggressive thoughts and thoughts of any kind are not illegal.
I expect that a 7$ billion industry that’s been going on for 20 years non stop, will finally get organised. Scaremongering for this kind of things is sad.
For some reason I’ve been thinking of Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” all the time that I’ve been writing this…
So, by that logic, there are no diseases. You can’t get, say, Lupus, without the active choice not to kill yourself. If you shot yourself in the head, pre-lupus, you wouldn’t have gotten lupus. If you do it now, you won’t have Lupus any more.
So, really, that Lupus is your own fault.
In short:
God damn it, Otto, you have Lupus.
You hide pills in your Lupus book?
It’s never Lupus.
Jeez, this is so stupid I’m not sure what to say.
It says video games have negative social effects, but half the time my brother’s or my friends come over, someone says, “Hey, want to play PS2?” etc. That’s the reason there’s such a thing as two-player. >_>
Looks like some one’s budget is low and is scrambling desperately for anything to get it back up. Even something as rediculus as this.
Pft! I say to psychologists! They are far to clinical and do not take into account the important of human individuality, liminality, and so many other factors. They too easily create ‘medical’ answers to human problems.
Our faith in their field is far to vast, and it lends them far to much power to diagnose bullshittery as truth.
:kissy:
Addiction is a real thing, it’s a psychological disorder. Anyone who disagrees is a scientologist. :-p I believe it’s very possible to get addicted to videogames in the same way it’s possible to get addicted to anything.
It’s just a pity that in this case it’s being used for another round of ‘let’s victimise gaming groundlessly in order to get elected’. :-/
I find that to be different. Same addiction tendency, completely different cause. Its not like your shooting up FF, like lets say, using opium. Because its main substance of addiction is morphine, it quickly acts on the central nervous system and producesd the body to “need” it and symptoms come about if you not head to the craving. Playing a video game is just playing a video game. It has no internal contact with you.
However, I say “meh”. Making video game addiction a disorder is not necessarily pointless…Im looking at you Arial…but plain wierd O_o. So are they going to conjure a vaccine for this or something eh? If so, shoot it up doc, I just played for 6 hours today.
First of all, you don’t shoot up opium. Second, opiates cause a physical addiction. The video game thing in question is talking about a psychological addiction, where you rely on something continuisly for enjoyment like any other addiction but it’s on a purely psychological basis. If you want to get technical then you could say its also physical because there are chemical reactions causing the enjoyment, but for the most part in a psychological addiction your body chemistry is not being directly altered. It is possible to be addicted to video games.
Originally Posted by Gila-Monster
The video game thing in question is talking about a psychological addiction, where you rely on something continuisly for enjoyment like any other addiction but it’s on a purely psychological basis.
Yes, much like gambling. However, gambling is a more destructive activity than most other recreational activities, nevermind video gaming, where in the thrill of the moment you could forget that the games you’re playing aren’t just for fun and you could end up withour a house, or a car, or your first born. The problem I have with this action is the fact that video games are viewed as this evil, manipulative, destructive force that threatens the very fabric of our wholesomely great society. Trouble is that video gaming is still a relatively new phenomenon and with all relatively new phenomenon they are at first met with fear and loathing by the illrational, but eventually the illrational will be replaced by those more ajusted to the phenomenon and everything calms back down until the next big thing occurs.
Btw, it just occured to me that the reason why this Kahn fellow is acting up must be due to the fact that he must have just recently watched that episode of StarTrek: TNG where the Enterprise is nearly destroyed by an addictive video game, and a lame one at that.
“Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.”
I didnt say shoot up opium, I said “use” opium, referring in general (you could sprinkle opium in your food for all I care). And I niether said you cant get addicted to videogames either. You dont start becoming anxious and hallucinating if you dont play video games. But it is psychological to want to play.
Actually, Gila, I hate to say it, but you can intraveneously inject Opium.
In the Middle Ages, village priests used to gather up cheesy romance novels and burn them because they corrupted people. Many centuries later, society tells people, “Read! It’s good for your imagination!” and hates on video games. Does no one see the hypocrisy?
Really, these introspective and non-social tendencies are more common among <i>everyone</i> who enjoys solitary activities. I don’t think you can classify that as a disorder. Sure, parents might be sad that little Johnny doesn’t chat with relatives or go partying every weekend, but that hardly means he’s diseased. It just means there are other thoughts occupying his head, than making small talk and getting wasted. And isn’t that the point of developing your imagination?
Yes, there are people who don’t develop socially as a result of video games. I know several. But if they weren’t playing video games, they’d be reading genre novels and watching television. If our society really wants to kill off the introspective tendency in its children – an idea I find despicable – it will have to go much farther than policing video games.
That’s dumb. I wouldn’t consider anyone who plays only two hours of video games a day even close to being an addict, especially during summer. But you have to play a lot if you want to get to the story. D: