Video games - A psychological addiction or a simple misunderstanding? - General

[QUOTE=Gas_Snake101;27641126]Just think about when or if you have children. Do you want to see your son sitting on the computer for 10 hours building some gay shit in minecraft?[/QUOTE] I wouldn't mind quite honestly. So long as it wasn't interfering with his ability to do anything else.

[QUOTE=CondolentSarge;27641288]I wouldn't mind quite honestly. So long as it wasn't interfering with his ability to do anything else.[/QUOTE] You'd make a terrible parent.

[QUOTE=Gas_Snake101;27641126]Just think about when or if you have children. Do you want to see your son sitting on the computer for 10 hours building some gay shit in minecraft?[/QUOTE] Just think about when or if you have children. Do you want to see your son sitting on the guitar for 10 hours playing some gay shit in his Rock and Roll band? :bahgawd:

Games aren't really 'addicting' they're just fun and help people get through the day with all the stress/problems in their life. It's an amazing stress reliever, they provide endless fun, and sometimes even create new social interactions or friends. I also tend to lay out my hobbies/interests in patterns, one month I'll be playing a specific game non-stop, and the next week I'll get interested in drawing or browsing the internet and do that for a month, my whole life I've switched on and off browsing the internet and gaming on my free time.

[QUOTE=Marnetmar;27641429]You'd make a terrible parent.[/QUOTE] As long as you aren't spoiling or beating kid(AKA Facepunch's definition of proper discipline), they should be fine.

[QUOTE=Badal;27641436]Just think about when or if you have children. Do you want to see your son sitting on the guitar for 10 hours playing some gay shit in his Rock and Roll band? :bahgawd:[/QUOTE] Playing an instrument has a higher chance of getting him somewhere, not sitting and playing the vidya. (However, if he is making mods/levels for the game, that CAN get him somewhere)

[QUOTE=Explosions;27640676]You just described every teen ever to have lived.[/QUOTE] bu-bu-but i dont waste money

[QUOTE=Mazakrov;27638622]TF2 made me get into hat-collecting.[/QUOTE] It made me get into baby killing.

[QUOTE=Badal;27641436]Just think about when or if you have children. Do you want to see your son sitting on the guitar for 10 hours playing some gay shit in his Rock and Roll band? :bahgawd:[/QUOTE] Would save a message board of having another 'I cant get pussy and I don't have any talent' thread.

Really video games aren't an addiction for me, I mean they take up most of my time but that's by choice. Same with the internet and Facepunch. In fact, I should be researching for a presentation that counts for most of my quarterly grade right now :v:

I've never met someone who's been "addicted" to video games. I've never blown off friends for them, nor has anyone I've ever met. It may SEEM like people are addicted to them if they play a lot, but it's probably because they would be doing something else like watching TV in that time anyway.

I play games only on the weekends, about 4-5hrs a day. I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I certainly need to do other shit.

Hey just because I work 8 hours a day doesn't mean I am addicted to my job

Video Games are supposed to be fun, but I actually know a few people with addictions. One kid, he plays call of duty non stop. IN mw2, he had 4 different accounts at 10th prestige, (ps3), in black ops he already has 2 accounts at the highest, which I believe is 15th. He never stops playing call of duty. He is sincerely addicted. Another friend- He is addicted to counter strike:source. He plays near 70 hours a WEEK. This is with school and everything. He stays up to 3 am playing cs then goes to sleep and wakes up for school at 745. I play alot of games too, but I personally dont think I am addicted. I would rather play l4d or gmod for 30 minutes than watch a tv show and also play wow-kind of quit, dont really enjoy it as much as I used to.

[QUOTE=Marnetmar;27639196]I can't play any game for more than two hours, three hours MAXIMUM without getting bored.[/QUOTE] Maybe games aren't your thing. Also, I spend a long time only with games that have a lot to offer.

[QUOTE=Matix;27633966]Old people run the world.[/QUOTE] In soviet russia the world runs old people. Actual comment: I think most people play games because there is always time for it. I mean you can skate, party and work, but you'll still have time to play a few rounds of TF2 before you fall asleep drooling on your laptop.

I just play games because I usually don't have much else to do. Past around 5-6ish I can't play my drums/sax, and my console is quite a good way to communicate with my friends.

Everything can become an addiction. I don't think most people that studied gaming addiction actually did it to [b]help[/b] the ones who have it, but solely to blame some other fact on it. Not that it's always wrong, anyway. Oh, and that Thompson guy is a complete asshole. Seems like once he proposed freeing a guy responsible for one of these shootings just because it could help his fight against videogames. He has also tried to sue Midway because some guy used that 'Kreate a Fighter' function to create a character like him. That's like suing the arms company because someone shot you.

I think too many people treat video games like it is some kind of substitute for real life. The truth is, video games are part of real life. Just like riding a snowboard, or a bike. Just as people have already said, "it's a hobby, not an addiction".

[QUOTE=Mr.Ken;27704597]I think too many people treat video games like it is some kind of substitute for real life. The truth is, video games are part of real life. Just like riding a snowboard, or a bike. Just as people have already said, "it's a hobby, not an addiction".[/QUOTE] To some, gaming is a method of escapism.

I don't play the sort of violent video games that all you have to do is to "Kill everyone!" Take Hitman: Blood Money for example. It's a violent video game, but you have to think a lot before doing something. "If I kill that guard, will someone see his corpse? How can I hide his corpse? How can I get in that building?" I like these sort of games. Mostly thinking and then acting. These games kind of prepare you for life.. "Will my son be OK if he does that? Should I let him do that?" Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence is my favourite kind of thinking game. Ah, the memories.. I still have the original discs somewhere..

[QUOTE=Joazzz;27627306]Normally I play for maybe six hours without breaks, sometimes even for eight hours, and my mother keeps nagging about how I "have nothing else in my life but that worthless computer" and I guess she thinks I'm addicted. [/QUOTE] nothing wrong with sitting in your room for eight hours alone on the computer holy fuck go outside

I sometimes wish I was playing games then listening to a lecture sure...but I also hang out at a computer lab that has no games and the most fun you can have is programming stupid shit. [editline]28th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=MrTilepy;27714061]To some, gaming is a method of escapism.[/QUOTE] As us reading books and using any other form of media.

[QUOTE=Joazzz;27685985]Maybe games aren't your thing. Also, I spend a long time only with games that have a lot to offer.[/QUOTE] Bullocks, video games are one of my favorite things. Maybe I just have a short attention span :v:

[QUOTE=Swilly;27717716]I sometimes wish I was playing games then listening to a lecture sure...but I also hang out at a computer lab that has no games and the most fun you can have is programming stupid shit. [editline]28th January 2011[/editline] As us reading books and using any other form of media.[/QUOTE] Very true.

[QUOTE=Mr.Ken;27704597]I think too many people treat video games like it is some kind of substitute for real life. The truth is, video games are part of real life. Just like riding a snowboard, or a bike. Just as people have already said, "it's a hobby, not an addiction".[/QUOTE] This, every time someone says "Your'e addicted to video games, go outside, you prick" or something like that to me, I feel like slapping them in the face.

[QUOTE=MrTilepy;27718385]Very true.[/QUOTE] In the end we all are addicted to something that affects us negatively and positively....

I'm not addicted, I can stop whenever I want. Right after I explore this cave.

I have to agree, games are perfectly safe for someone in the mental clear but if you hand GTA to someone with over the top bipolarity and kleptomania than suddenly his view of reality could be blurred. For me though games have made me savor accomplishments and work very well, even since I was little.

I admit to being addicted to Soda/Computer Games. I'm slowly putting myself on moderation, and trying to get a job to actually pay for my own stuff, and actually realize the value of the dollar.