Why mmorpgs are the devil

[scumbag]

THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO LIVES!!!!!!!!!!1

















neither does their daughter :fear:

[Troll King]

There was a similar story here in Canada where a single mother left her child for 33 hours to go dancing. You can read more about the story here.

The stories are pretty much the same except this one doesn't have anything to do with gaming. Bad parenting is the culprit here, WoW and salso are just the excuses.

[Theif of Time]

that was a bit low scumbag.

[scumbag]

that was a bit low scumbag.

looking back on it, it really was
i feel really bad now, suppose its my own fault

"anyway in conclusion, a man cannot be forced to testify against his wife"

[Theif of Time]

but yet many will...

[BleakFuture]

Yes, mmorpgs are simply the excuse/symptom of the bad parenting. Just like, for instance, a certain game is not the reason I don't study for exams as much as I should. I'd find other ways to procrastinate without it.

Procrastination should be my job.

[Zippo342]

I am just wandering if video games give you urges to play like people are urged to smoke.

Not directly, but in a way yes. The feelings of success, friendship, euphoria of doing something "dangerous", etc. produce emotional responses in our brain. This in turn causes the Hypothalamus (sp?) to produce chemicals that make our cells enter an emotional state. These chemicals use the same receptors that drugs use to enter the cells, and thus your cells can become addicted to these "homebrew" drugs in your body. Over time your body would need more and more of these chemicals to satisfy it's addiction without withdrawal, so the brain will try to recreate events that bring out these emotions, thus causing you to want to play the game more and more, thus an addiction to video games is formed. In reality, it's the emotions you feel while playing that you are truly addicted to, not the game itself, but the results are the same.

[Tone]

Not directly, but in a way yes. The feelings of success, friendship, euphoria of doing something "dangerous", etc. produce emotional responses in our brain. This in turn causes the Hypothalamus (sp?) to produce chemicals that make our cells enter an emotional state. These chemicals use the same receptors that drugs use to enter the cells, and thus your cells can become addicted to these "homebrew" drugs in your body. Over time your body would need more and more of these chemicals to satisfy it's addiction without withdrawal, so the brain will try to recreate events that bring out these emotions, thus causing you to want to play the game more and more, thus an addiction to video games is formed. In reality, it's the emotions you feel while playing that you are truly addicted to, not the game itself, but the results are the same.

I like the new guy he is smart

yes its dopaminergic indirectly, will never be as addictive as dopaminergic drugs or have a severe withdrawal syndrome but nevertheless its addictive by the same mechanism in a way

[dchao]

I played SS for 4 hours today for the first time in 2 months

[Squeezer]

I played SS for 4 hours today for the first time in 2 months

According to my brother, I haven't played in 10 or more days.

[Roggan]

Not directly, but in a way yes. The feelings of success, friendship, euphoria of doing something "dangerous", etc. produce emotional responses in our brain. This in turn causes the Hypothalamus (sp?) to produce chemicals that make our cells enter an emotional state. These chemicals use the same receptors that drugs use to enter the cells, and thus your cells can become addicted to these "homebrew" drugs in your body. Over time your body would need more and more of these chemicals to satisfy it's addiction without withdrawal, so the brain will try to recreate events that bring out these emotions, thus causing you to want to play the game more and more, thus an addiction to video games is formed. In reality, it's the emotions you feel while playing that you are truly addicted to, not the game itself, but the results are the same.

English translation:

If you like doing something, you will do it often.

[1ight]

Short summary: Games are bad.

I've noticed myself, how addictive games can be. You can be trapped there for hours and hours, day after day. I remember myself when I was 13, first time on internet, my friend showed me a chat, and I was hooked. (not really related to games..) so I thought back then 1 hour on internet was like wow. These days, 1 hour is nothing.

When playing WoW, I noticed that you get this burdon place on yourself. As you know you pay to play, then you just need to play it to the fullest. I spent most of my time just waiting at work, thinking when can I go home, looking at the clock etc. Okey, I come home, launch game, play 1-2 hours get food, eat while playing, then just play until like, ohh man time to sleep, eat, play, sleep. So like I playied WoW for more then 7hours a day, and at weekends 45+ hours.

Addicted, very. So I quited playing, because of a promise I made to God. And I still want to play it, but I won't break my promise. If I wouldn't made that promise I would certainly be playing WoW everyday. I left a good guild, and position in the honor system, basically I just left the game when all the good things started popping out, Rogue improvements, battleground, honorsytem, new armor etc.

Games are bad, if you are easy to get addicted, most people are, some less some extremly. Games are evolving, I'm sure in the future, there will be games where you pay, and you get to live some kind of cyberlife, having cyberchildren, real cybersex, Eric knows what else there will be.

As for these parents, there billions of people here in the world (i think), some are cerial killers, some are drug addicts, some are crazy, some people are pedofils, necrofils etc etc etc etc. If you look at the whole picture, there must surely more people that kills themselves of something stupid as a event in a game.

Its true, not everyone gets addicted, too addicted that they kill themselves. But becuase of this games can be considered bad. Just take this Doom addicted kid that called the shotgun in the game Sherly (or something) and one day he flips, takes a shotgun to school and kills his friends and teacher. I don't know if he killed himself. But most of these people that do flip out and goes berserk, kills themself.

Okey, maybe it can be considered narrowminded saying that games are bad, since there are alot of sectors in ones life that makes you do things you do. Ie the kid had a bad childhood, teased?, parents died?, big depression? who knows. But yet, I'd say games are bad.

Just my 2 cents.

[Zippo342]

English translation:

If you like doing something, you will do it often.

Yes, with the exception that there is a chemical addiction involved, and you can suffer withdrawal from it.

[Pandagirl!]

According to my brother, I haven't played in 10 or more days.

We all miss you