You can tell how bad it is they never mention Syracuse once but make reference to the fact he was at Clemson University in South Carolina. Trust me, I live about an hour from Clemson.
What a joke.
It's like saying "people who do nothing but eat McDonald's all day will be unhealthy!"
Some people are more prone to adiction no matter if its drugs, booze, gaming, eating, hording, gambling . Sad story but this is just one of many out there.
Don't really care for him throwing wow under the bus like its the games fault. and then make a profet off it.
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Playing: *sigh* back to WoW -------- Waiting for: SW:TOR, APB, WoD --------- Played and loved: Eve and WoW -------- Played and hated: WoW:WotLK, Warhammer, every single F2P
"I can give you some technical stuff about neurotransmitters and dopamine and the delayed gratification response that's so similar to gambling, but honestly in the moment I was just, well, in the moment," said Van Cleave.
Just like any drug, if it triggers the areas responsible for making one feel pleasure and happiness, well we naturally try to obtain that high as much as possible. Anyone with an addictive type personality is susceptible to this. He sounds like he is a prime candidate - just as a heroine user or an alcoholic might be. Some people cannot drink alcohol due to the effect it has on the balance of the chemicals of their brain. They like it to much!
this is FACT. period... no matter how much people want to tease or bash the living crap out of people because of it... it's true.
MMO's are a bit like Jedi Mind tricks. They are only a problem for the weak-minded dolts...
I could actually point to a time in My life that MMO's saved Me. I lost My dream job and I was depressed beyond imagination. But I dove head 1st into MMO Gaming instead of drugs, alcohol, or overeating like a good number of my friends. It gave me something to take My mind off My troubles that was not hurting anyone, or Me...After a while I snapped out of the depression, good a good Job, met an awesome Girl, got engaged, and now I don't Game nearly as much as I did...But I look back and, in way at least, I realize Gaming might have saved Me from the bottom...
Everybody's got a story I guess...
Word I actually played WoW when I was depressed back in my freshman year of high school. I could have easily done drugs or started drinking like everyone else did but I didn't I spent my whole day on WoW it let me escape the people that treated me like shit in real life and stopped me from messing my life up. I unfortunatly blew my real friends off in the process, but they've all stayed with me and it's now almost 3 years later and I'm probably more sociable then I ever was before in my life. In a way WoW helped me see who my true friends where since they've always stood by me this whole time. I could've gotten into drugs and what not and lost all of them if I did. I've lost too many friends to drugs and alcohol and I refuse to get into it, without WoW I don't even know where I would be I would probably just be the story of a kid that did anything to fit in and had gotten himself killed as the result. I still play mmos and I still miss WoW ocassionally but was I addicted? no I just used it to stop myself from hurting myself or others. I don't rely upon games anymore and I still ocassionally play a game or two but that expereince helped me get back on track
Everything brought to excess are usually counterproductive. Trying to be too extremely clean, excessively well dressed, excessively rigid living habits. Likewise, excess gaming is bad, excess sleeping is bad. The key word is balance.
If this prof cannot balance himself over gaming, he would have lose balance over eating, over ladies, over whatever that caught him before WoW. Its an issue of self discipline, or managing one's time. The same goes for balancing work to life, balancing family to friends and colleagues, balancing love and discipling for kids, everything. No one get the balance right the first time, and there is no take two in life, one just errs and moves on.
This prof got out of the imbalance, that is good news. He need to blame WoW for his undoing, that is propaganda. After all, he is making good money blaming WoW, cos WoW is famous and can help a long way selling his books. If he is blaming an unknown korean game, the story will be all the same but his book will never make it to the press.
So much so for his book. So much for his motive to bringing up WoW, so much for my respect for his purpose. I might be too suspicious, but when money is involved, I smell less than 100% honesty sincerity. Just me.
He has his right to make money, I have my innate suspicious to treat with caution whatever he tries to talk about.
An addiction does not have to be physical. An artificial environment can do this. Even an obsessive thought can causea compulsion that can ruin someone's world.
I didn't get hooked on WoW for a bunch of reasons. But I was heavily into EQOA for 3 years, playing it 6 hours or more per day. It really took it's toll on me. Then I got into EQ2, but decided at that point that I would not let it do it to me again. I love the game, but I limit myself to 2-3 hours, 5 days per week. Even that would be too much if I was to get married again or something. The key for me was to start out limiting myself instead of burning through it from the start. Then I never had to pull back from an addiction. I wanted to play but I knew what it did to me before. Maybe the idea I had right from the start that it could be dangerous, helped me. It is possible to limit yourself and stay healthy, both physically and mentally.
psh im addicted to video games, i spend at least 100 hours per 7 day week on my pc and most of that playing something or looking for something to play (got to high warlord in wow back when they had a ladder for rank, quit the game when the dropped the ladder for that arena crap).
at the same time i work 48 hours 6 nights a week at my job, its a quiet job so i can play as i wait for someone to need something via phone or in person so the gaming makes that time much less unpleasant then basic cable on the tv at work would =p
im sure some people are dangerously addicted to video games, as there are people dangerously addicted to everything else. booze, smoking, crack, meth, porn, ect ect ect, that reminds me, im also a porn addict lol.
Who cares if someone gets hooked on WoW, it's human nature to get hooked on things. You can get addicted to everything from chololate to political power, and if we started avoiding everything it's possible to get addicted to, we couldn't live our normal everyday lives at all.
I think we should be concerned about those millions who get addicted to drugs, smoking, gambling, and such things every year, and destroy their own lives because of it.
Nowadays everyone who does something wrong or stupid claims to be an addict.
Have you learned nothing from the crap that passes for pyschology these days. Nothing is your fault. If it was you might feel bad and trying to change yourself. It is always easier to blame some external force or "condition" that caused you to do whatever was wrong.
Yes it's selling at amazon...... by a vanity publisher that does a print per sale deal. and the website is one of those free flash site deals....so we are basicaly looking some guy trying to cash in on sensationalism not unlike the whole mazes and monsters fiasco back in the 80's
But I do love the product discription
WARNING: THIS VIDEO GAME MAY IMPAIR YOUR JUDGMENT. IT MAY CAUSE SLEEP DEPRIVATION, ALIENATION OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY, WEIGHT LOSS OR GAIN, NEGLECT OF YOUR BASIC NEEDS AS WELL AS THE NEEDS OF LOVED ONES AND/OR DEPENDENTS, AND DECREASED PERFORMANCE ON THE JOB. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY MAY BECOME BLURRED. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUICIDE ATTEMPTS
Actually i perspective he should probablly be glad... After all cumptergames are a fairly non-lethal addiction and any negative effects on health can be worked off. Unlike say sniffing glue.
Apart from that all i have to say is "anything that stimulates the pleasure center of the brain can become addictive, it is not the act it self that you miss but the buzz i gives you.
Luckely for me, i get bored way to easy to only play games.
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I've since learnt that it's not the games fault for causing an addiction, it's yourself that you should blame.
You can tell how bad it is they never mention Syracuse once but make reference to the fact he was at Clemson University in South Carolina. Trust me, I live about an hour from Clemson.
What a joke.
It's like saying "people who do nothing but eat McDonald's all day will be unhealthy!"
And then making a movie about it...
Oh wait...
Some people are more prone to adiction no matter if its drugs, booze, gaming, eating, hording, gambling . Sad story but this is just one of many out there.
Don't really care for him throwing wow under the bus like its the games fault. and then make a profet off it.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
SWG NGE cured my gaming addiction.
Huzzah for Propaganda!!
Same for me
Van Cleave?
My troll senses are tingling.
Playing: *sigh* back to WoW
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Waiting for: SW:TOR, APB, WoD
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Played and loved: Eve and WoW
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Played and hated: WoW:WotLK, Warhammer, every single F2P
this is FACT. period... no matter how much people want to tease or bash the living crap out of people because of it... it's true.
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Word I actually played WoW when I was depressed back in my freshman year of high school. I could have easily done drugs or started drinking like everyone else did but I didn't I spent my whole day on WoW it let me escape the people that treated me like shit in real life and stopped me from messing my life up. I unfortunatly blew my real friends off in the process, but they've all stayed with me and it's now almost 3 years later and I'm probably more sociable then I ever was before in my life. In a way WoW helped me see who my true friends where since they've always stood by me this whole time. I could've gotten into drugs and what not and lost all of them if I did. I've lost too many friends to drugs and alcohol and I refuse to get into it, without WoW I don't even know where I would be I would probably just be the story of a kid that did anything to fit in and had gotten himself killed as the result. I still play mmos and I still miss WoW ocassionally but was I addicted? no I just used it to stop myself from hurting myself or others. I don't rely upon games anymore and I still ocassionally play a game or two but that expereince helped me get back on track
So your addicted when you play game 30 hours a week? Maby I should contact that guy :P
He worked, slept and ate... those asians that don't sleep and eat and die behind the computer are addicts.
Everything brought to excess are usually counterproductive. Trying to be too extremely clean, excessively well dressed, excessively rigid living habits. Likewise, excess gaming is bad, excess sleeping is bad. The key word is balance.
If this prof cannot balance himself over gaming, he would have lose balance over eating, over ladies, over whatever that caught him before WoW. Its an issue of self discipline, or managing one's time. The same goes for balancing work to life, balancing family to friends and colleagues, balancing love and discipling for kids, everything. No one get the balance right the first time, and there is no take two in life, one just errs and moves on.
This prof got out of the imbalance, that is good news. He need to blame WoW for his undoing, that is propaganda. After all, he is making good money blaming WoW, cos WoW is famous and can help a long way selling his books. If he is blaming an unknown korean game, the story will be all the same but his book will never make it to the press.
So much so for his book. So much for his motive to bringing up WoW, so much for my respect for his purpose. I might be too suspicious, but when money is involved, I smell less than 100% honesty sincerity. Just me.
He has his right to make money, I have my innate suspicious to treat with caution whatever he tries to talk about.
An addiction does not have to be physical. An artificial environment can do this. Even an obsessive thought can causea compulsion that can ruin someone's world.
I didn't get hooked on WoW for a bunch of reasons. But I was heavily into EQOA for 3 years, playing it 6 hours or more per day. It really took it's toll on me. Then I got into EQ2, but decided at that point that I would not let it do it to me again. I love the game, but I limit myself to 2-3 hours, 5 days per week. Even that would be too much if I was to get married again or something. The key for me was to start out limiting myself instead of burning through it from the start. Then I never had to pull back from an addiction. I wanted to play but I knew what it did to me before. Maybe the idea I had right from the start that it could be dangerous, helped me. It is possible to limit yourself and stay healthy, both physically and mentally.
psh im addicted to video games, i spend at least 100 hours per 7 day week on my pc and most of that playing something or looking for something to play (got to high warlord in wow back when they had a ladder for rank, quit the game when the dropped the ladder for that arena crap).
at the same time i work 48 hours 6 nights a week at my job, its a quiet job so i can play as i wait for someone to need something via phone or in person so the gaming makes that time much less unpleasant then basic cable on the tv at work would =p
im sure some people are dangerously addicted to video games, as there are people dangerously addicted to everything else. booze, smoking, crack, meth, porn, ect ect ect, that reminds me, im also a porn addict lol.
Who cares if someone gets hooked on WoW, it's human nature to get hooked on things. You can get addicted to everything from chololate to political power, and if we started avoiding everything it's possible to get addicted to, we couldn't live our normal everyday lives at all.
I think we should be concerned about those millions who get addicted to drugs, smoking, gambling, and such things every year, and destroy their own lives because of it.
Nowadays everyone who does something wrong or stupid claims to be an addict.
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I liked the part when quitting gaming caused him 103-degree fevers.
I am addicted to my girlfriend! Do i need a therapy? lol
Why not? Try stoping to drink coffee after you done it for more then 10 years ... :P
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Have you learned nothing from the crap that passes for pyschology these days. Nothing is your fault. If it was you might feel bad and trying to change yourself. It is always easier to blame some external force or "condition" that caused you to do whatever was wrong.
Yes it's selling at amazon...... by a vanity publisher that does a print per sale deal. and the website is one of those free flash site deals....so we are basicaly looking some guy trying to cash in on sensationalism not unlike the whole mazes and monsters fiasco back in the 80's
But I do love the product discription
WARNING: THIS VIDEO GAME MAY IMPAIR YOUR JUDGMENT. IT MAY CAUSE SLEEP DEPRIVATION, ALIENATION OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY, WEIGHT LOSS OR GAIN, NEGLECT OF YOUR BASIC NEEDS AS WELL AS THE NEEDS OF LOVED ONES AND/OR DEPENDENTS, AND DECREASED PERFORMANCE ON THE JOB. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY MAY BECOME BLURRED. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUICIDE ATTEMPTS
It is to fucking laugh.
Actually i perspective he should probablly be glad... After all cumptergames are a fairly non-lethal addiction and any negative effects on health can be worked off. Unlike say sniffing glue.
Apart from that all i have to say is "anything that stimulates the pleasure center of the brain can become addictive, it is not the act it self that you miss but the buzz i gives you.
Luckely for me, i get bored way to easy to only play games.
This have been a good conversation
guy has a point. games are terrible for people. (no sarcasm)
what are the physical benefits of play a video game?
The physical benefits? We are not living in trees and chasing animals anymore. Now it's about brain benefits.
sounds like a fun game to spend some hours in.
Where do i sign?
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About the same as reading a book, or writing a short story,or watching an musical it not always needs to be about Physical Benefits.
How to instantly win this argument every time:
"Dang, video game addiction sounds horrible. I'd like to learn more; tell me, which page of the DSM-IV is it on?"