I've found the perfect location for Rho's TNG Con!

[Gloomberry]

My bags are already packed, so I'll see you all there!

Location (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2057192).


:roll:

[Abric]

Booze and vagoo make me stop playing games.

...

I wonder if they offer those at this place.

AbricOOC
~Hmmmmmmmm

[Rhowen-Prea]

I can't take anything seriously that compares video games to cocaine.

Yes, it may be addictive. But you're not going to DIE from snorting WoW. Unless you're Korean or something. >.>

Okay, maybe that wasn't funny. But seriously!

Some people just have addictive personalities. If it wasn't games, it'd be something else. Liquor or drugs or whathaveyou. Also, I stopped taking it seriously when one kid was like, "omg, i wuz totarry smoking MARIJUANA too and was totaryy adictd to it". Like, VIDEO GAMES WILL MAKE YOUR CHILDREN DO DRUGS AAAUUGH.

Go go more bad publicity for gamers. They're just trying to combat the fact that games are making us smarter and stronger than them. Hacked Swedish police/Sony/Warner Bros. websites when they took down ThePirateBay, anyone?

CONSPIRACY

[Chingaso]

That may be most stupidest thing Chingaso ever see. Ever.

[Gloomberry]

It reminds me of ye olde days when Dungeons & Dragons was corrupting the world's youth with suicidal satanic rituals, or such was the belief of other students's parents who considered me the son of Satan, and I was packed off to a psychologist, who, thankfully, had enough sense to realise that D&D was a positive outlet for kids such as myself who were artistically repressed in a creatively-sterile environment. So my small D&D group invited a couple teachers along to watch a game in action, and they were converted, and supported us from then on. It also helped that my biology teacher was an old-school D&Der from Gygax's college days.

One thing that pisses me off is this assertion in the article that computer game addicts turn to drugs and alcohol. If anything, I drink less when I play games ... I can't type when I'm drunk, as evidenced in posts from last Tuesday! My drugs of choice - caffeine and sugar - aren't exactly life-threatening either.

Still, the article does have a good point, buried amongst all its bullshit scaremongering. A lot of people spend an unhealthy amount of time playing WoW. Like the kid in Korea who peed in an empty coke bottle and went three days without food or drink, playing Counter Strike non-stop, and ended up dying of dehydration. This year, a kid in China jumped to his death when his parents demanded he stop playing WoW -- but that could easily have been about a girl, or homework, or television, or not eating his vegetables. It's not indicative of all gamers, and the majority should never be judged by the behaviour of a minority.

Moderation is the key word, do all things in moderation.

Me, I'm not addicted, I just have terrible time/task management skills. I'm hopeless. I spent last week not even realising it was June already. I can remember what colour shirt you wore when we went bowling ten years ago, but I always forget to buy milk when I go to the supermarket. I need a personal assistant, or - dare I say it - a girlfriend. :?

[Garbhan]

But you're not going to DIE from snorting WoW.

I bet if you ground up the disks and snorted them, you'd be in a world of hurt.

[Garbhan]

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Oh noes!! XD

[Rosemerta]

Sadly to say, and I can't elaborate just this second cause I'm percariously ballancing my son on my lap while trying to type at the moment >.<


But they're not all that far off on the Comptuergames addiction thing. I was so addicted to a game I played a couple years ago that It took my character litteraly being murdered (in my account it says litteraly says "Dead" where active/inactive should be, making the character unable to ever be played again.) to break my years long habbit.

I'll explane later if anyone wants, but its dinner time :O

[Chavie]

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Oh nose!! XD

Fixed.

[Kaliera]

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Oh nose!! XD

Fixed.

*Hands Chavie a gold star sticker*

You win.

[Xeran]

I remember the anti-DnD craze. This sounds a lot like it. People that don't play WoW, would never play WoW, have not been in a room where someone else was playing WoW, know nothing about WoW are making decisions about WoW. Not good. I think anything can be addicting if it takes over a large portion of your life. I suspect the same people decrying WoW's addictive nature also plant their asses in front of a Television for a number of hours a day. It's all entertainment. In WoW, I get to participate in the story as events unfold. That, in my opinon, makes WoW better than TV or movies. My role in WoW is active, not passive.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

[Tillna]

I am playign WoW
It keeps me form killing people and other things
WoW is good though, seriously, a great output for my imagination and built up anger.

Plus, imagine us with out wow.
Scary, eh?
*Sniffs his disks*

[Daedraug]

I know it seems silly but people really are capable of becoming psychologically addicted to video games; mmo's in particular. Neglect of work, health, and personal life results and, boom: your life goes down the crapper just as sure as if you were strung out.

The idea of being hooked on something that most people view as entertainment or a positive thing can be hard to wrap your head around, sex addiction for instance, but that doesn't make it a joke.

Sorry if I sound preachy, but I just have no idea where this was getting wrapped together with video games and violence or the d&d hysteria. If these people really have a problem then it's cool that they're getting help.

[Fallacy]

WoW is my anti-drug!