"Computer & Videogames Make People Crazy"

Sad fact. Although I play WoW, it does not consume my life. Unfortunately, some people are too stupid to eat, bathe, mate, pay bills, or you know, MOVE THE FUCK AROUND, unless it involves clicking the damn mouse. I say, if you are that fucking lazy and absorbed in a game, it shows you have little to offer this planet, and if you die like THIS fucker did, you got what you deserved!

I know I game too much, but I could make money selling Forza 2 cars on eBay. I can't do that now, because my cars suck. Is anyone willing to give 100000CR for a pimped up Lotus Elise?

Are you even capable of posting anything of an intelligent, rational nature, or just filling the air in your self-absorbed mindless antics?

Nevermind. I know the answer.

*abandons thread*

I don't really play any video games.  I've never had a console, only a computer.

I only play wow or CS:S when I am not out job searching. That has consumed most of my time, since I have to travel by bike.

Hopefully this one place will hire me, it's close by and everything i might ever need is along the way to boot, so yeah.

Hara Taiki, what is your CS:S account name. I'd like to play against you.


-I play a lot of video games, but I can live without them, and I'm not addicted like I used to be.

I don't really play any video games.  I've never had a console, only a computer.

I'm with you there.

When did it say the guy in the video died?  Did I completely miss the obvious?

I don't play too much, but I swear Forza Motorsports 2 is amazing.

people who videogame themselves to death are doing the rest of humanity a favour by removing themselves from the gene-pool

Amen. People are idiots.

~D-Draw

As a sidenote, I find that video absolutely silly. What's with the whole outcry of people being "addicted" to World of Warcraft? It's not an addiction. I should know--I play many, many games and was supposedly "addicted" to Everquest for quite some time (and I guarantee you there were people who were more heavily into Everquest than anybody on WoW), but it's not an addiction, it's just FUN to do. One might say it's an addiction as a joke or as an excuse for actually having fun with something that's borderline geeky, but honestly...People are silly.

~D-Draw

Well maybe we're not addicts but computer game addiction is definitely a real problem.

Wasn't there some news a few years back when some Singaporean guy died because he played for five days straight or something? Also is it obvious I'm making the numbers up? But I remember something like that.

I've never played WoW, somehow it's not famous where I live. At least not with the crowd I'm with. And they could be geeky. Dungeons and Dragons geeky.

Quote from: Trekky0623 on June 09, 2007, 05:15:33 PM

I don't really play any video games.  I've never had a console, only a computer.

I'm with you there.

When did it say the guy in the video died?  Did I completely miss the obvious?

The video was made by a relation to a young man who killed himself, literally by sitting on his ass and playing World of Warcraft, foregoing sleep, food, sex, chores, bills. He quite literally was involved in a support group for people who are addicted to things like gaming, television, shit like that. Apparently, he missed a few sessions.

Yes, I knew the young man's family. What I said about him doesn't change, regardless. If someone is brought up to have that kind of self control (this is different than cocaine use; those people are chemically and mentally hooked on the high) then they deserve what befalls them. His family tried to reach out to him. His mother in law even had his ISP cut off his access. He took a laptop into a WiFi station area and did it that way instead of going to school/work. He lost his job. His wife left him, and his family considered having him committed. Over. A. Game.....

I just toss my hands up and chalk it up to my firmest belief: Mass Extinction NEEDS to happen.

I'd love to just delete the accounts of people like that and see their devastated reaction.

"No! What happened to my level 98 ice mage with dilithium armour?!?!?!" (as you can tell i've never played WoW)

Despite my penchant for being sarcastic, I DO sometimes show my heart. I think these people are mentally ill and need intervention. But when they simply circumnavigate (flips Tom the bird mid-sentence) those failsafes, I say, let God sort em out (sarcasm to mean I can't help them any further, fuck em).

Yep.

I feel sorry for the game-makers. It's not their fault people have died because of their idea, but do u think they feel guilty when things like that happen?

I don't. Blizzard has made a couple of public statements but they don't really care. When you have 8 million people paying you $15 a month, you tend to focus on the ski lodge.

They put loading screen message in a while back that say "all things in moderation", but that was more a show to appease the screamers.

The video was made by a relation to a young man who killed himself, literally by sitting on his ass and playing World of Warcraft, foregoing sleep, food, sex, chores, bills. He quite literally was involved in a support group for people who are addicted to things like gaming, television, shit like that. Apparently, he missed a few sessions.

Yes, I knew the young man's family. What I said about him doesn't change, regardless. If someone is brought up to have that kind of self control (this is different than cocaine use; those people are chemically and mentally hooked on the high) then they deserve what befalls them. His family tried to reach out to him. His mother in law even had his ISP cut off his access. He took a laptop into a WiFi station area and did it that way instead of going to school/work. He lost his job. His wife left him, and his family considered having him committed. Over. A. Game.....

I just toss my hands up and chalk it up to my firmest belief: Mass Extinction NEEDS to happen.

I find that somewhat humourous.

In other news, the shadows cast on its body in your avatar show a really weird lightsource.

EDIT: MIDNIGHYMIDNIGHYMIDNIGHY

Um.

Also, it needs antialiasing for the jagged edges.

You need a purpose.

Does having a pet snake count?

token, your avatar makes you gay.

But the real question in everyone's minds i, does it make me gayer?
You go to your corner, face the wall, and if you come to some conclusion or another, you come back to me.

There was another thing, a guy murdered his friend when he lent him a rare sword on WoW (I don't know the name) and he sold it. The authorities laughed at the victim, so he bought a (real) sword and murdered the thief. Because of this, Korea has placed the same laws as usual into games, to prevent violence.

Yeah, it's kind of like when people were comitting suicide because they thought that Alice Cooper was telling them to. I mean, come on...


I don't think it's a mental illness of any sort at all, and as I've said, I speak from experience in Everquest. Often, though, you find that your life in the game is far more interesting and far BETTER--and free of most problems which plauge you--than real life, and therein lies the problem. Basically, a pathetic loser starts playing the game, find that they all of a sudden have an entourage of companions, a hot-looking mount (equivalent of a convertible), and a ton of money. Which life is easier to choose? The latter, I assure you, is much easier to choose. It's not a mental illness nor an addiction, it's just the fact that people like to hide from their problems rather than facing them, and that's what happens, except to a far larger degree in this case.

The same thing happened in Everquest, though. I knew people who simply would not sleep and would barely even get up. He would continually run instances with me, with no breaks, just over and over and over. He got light-headed once and he had to call a friend of his to come and feed him because he couldn't move very well and didn't have the strength to get himself food. It happens. It's stupid. But it's easy to take the short route, and online games are a very short route, and allow you to easily forget problems.

And it's all a matter of willpower, honestly. I'm awful with hiding from my problems--I do it all of the time. But I don't get "addicted" to online games (anymore), even though I play them. But I find that I like my life, and I like how it goes. People that wallow in their own self-pity are those who get "addicted" to these games, and so be it. If they're too stupid to actually get up and feed themselves and instead turn into a turtle in their little shell, why should we try to help them? Natural selection is still in order: If you can't get food...


Wait for this shocker...

YOU DIE! It's what happens. Sorry. That's how life works.

~D-Draw