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This is a perfect example of why video games are MOSTLY a bad thing.

POSTED BY: Wishimay
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WISHIMAY

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:26 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
You are meeting different women than I am - completely non-addictive? Right.

I didn't say I don't know any women who don't have addiction problems, I know several (who still are able to run their lives even with addiction, I might add). I said VIDEO GAMING is more addictive to MEN because we are discussing VIDEO GAMING. How many women you know still live in their parents basement playing?

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:32 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

You are meeting different women than I am - completely non-addictive? Right.

That's right, you're hanging out with the bunch that crave abuse.

Where are you hanging meeting all these women, exactly?

OONJERAH

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:43 AM

Nature -vs- Nurture debate oughta be Nature + Nurture.

I know from reading & experience that inherited(nature) traits have a big
influence on a human personality. I know from reading & experience that
learned(nurture) traits have a big influence on a human personality.
If, for example, you have 2 parents with OCD + depression, it makes for a
double or triple whammy on the world view & self view of the kids. The kids
get both the genes & the examples x demands for ... strange, impractical ...
behaviors.

There is also some evidence that whatever we learn prior to the age of self-
aware decision making is set. It's hard-wired.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

Part of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:50 AM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:

I agree completely. In fact, I can't blame the object. Else we'd all be addicts.

Except we CAN and we SHOULD in some cases.
Cigarettes. Cigarette companies put things they KNEW were addictive and toxic in their products. They KNEW as early as the twenties that they caused cancer just to be NEAR THEM and the eighties and nineties saw them become accountable for the ways they marketed to children and pushed it again and again on susceptible minds. Then let's talk about all the other products that have been knowingly misused and how the companies have had to admit responsibility and change or stop making it all together. I can think of a dozen just off the top of my head.

Gaming companies KNOW what they make are addictive. They engineer missions and levels that they KNOW will take hours to complete. They KNOW some people will play until they die. They KNOW that some children have no responsible oversight and they make such an addictive product that children can become so hooked they become obese and inactive.

You know those stupid tags on hair dryers that say "DO NOT IMMERSE IN WATER"?? Those are there because some people REALLY REALLY DO NOT KNOW THAT and hence need to be protected. It's not up to US to judge a persons intelligence, but I believe the onus of the burden of fighting addictability should ALSO fall on the product makers, as well as the people using them.

I'm NOT SAYING ban video games. I am saying that there should be more effort by the video game companies to limit addictiveness and increase awareness of the effects of video game addiction.

OONJERAH

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:02 AM

Wish ... I'm sure you've figured out ... a good game is seriously addictive, it
is fully intended to be. Gaming companies have been studying game addiction
for years ... maybe even before Nintendos & home computers. To compete in
the market, to make money, make games that are as addictive as possible.

The Big Problem with blaming the object: When I blame, I give power away.
I'm saying that this "person or thing" has more control of my behavior than
I do. Unblame It = be Responsible Me.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

Part of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:

Nature -vs- Nurture debate oughta be Nature + Nurture.

I know from reading & experience that inherited(nature) traits have a big
inlfuence on a human personality. I know from reading & experience that
learned(nurture) traits have a big inlfuence on a human personality.
If, for example, you have 2 parents with OCD + depression, it makes for a
double or triple whammy on the world view & self view of the kids. The kids
get both the genes & the examples x demands for ... strange, impractical ...
behaviors.

There is also some evidence that whatever we learn prior to the age of self-
aware decision making is set. It's hard-wired.

Nature and Nurture, yes, I agree.

Hardwired doesn't describe the brain however. The lastest term is 'plasticity', which means that the brain can change its wiring throughout its (our) lifespan. Which is good news, huh.

Of course, if you've got the big whammy of parents with mental health, plus neglect and or abuse as an infant, you've got a lifelong task to do the rewiring. It's gonnna take a lot of work, but it IS possible.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:00 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
6IX - stayin in and playing games has to be a far better choice for you than gettin' loaded and driving somewhere.

Not saying YOU do that, but as a general rule, harder to get into trouble if you're in your own castle.

Thanks for lookin' out bro :)

Nah... I don't do any drunk driving anymore. That's for losers with nothing to lose. Best case scenario if I get a DUI is that nobody got hurt and I have to pay a lawyer half of my yearly income to get me out of it. I think you know enough about my love of money to trust that the days of drunk driving are long behind me.

The most egregious thing I do when I'm drinking these days is offend people here and other places on the Internets. :)

Given that, I don't think that I could choose between binge drinking or binge video gaming as being worse than the other. Sure, one is a lot easier on my liver, but I'm completely shutting myself out from any sort of human contact while I'm doing it....

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:09 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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Originally posted by NAVYSEILS:

While half the people who play videogames are women, they're terribly underrepresented in the medium and industry behind it. That is sexist, but it is slowly getting better.

I've never met a woman so addicted she didn't have a job. I've never met a woman who couldn't do ANYTHING but play. I HAVE seen many, many articles about guys who play until they literally DIE doing it. Yes, many women play, but it's MEN that get addicted.

I doubt there is a stat that even exists on this, or I could give you the numbers you all crave. What I do have IS WHAT I SEE. Sometimes it IS better than the numbers.

I don't know if I can say that I agree with this Wish. Even if there were supposed stats proving what you say here, I don't know if I would wholly believe them.

The fact that a lot of girls play games is shocking to me today, because when I grew up I didn't know a single girl who played video games.

I have never once heard of a guy dying while and because of playing video games. LOL... the image of somebody either starving to death, having a stroke because of too much Mountain Dew while playing, or dying of an insane diaper rash because they haven't gotten up to change their diaper in two weeks while playing is hilarious to me.

I've known quite a few losers in my life that were both male and female. I'm sure that video game playing was a part of at least some of their follies, but it certainly wasn't what they were known for. In most cases, of course, the worst thing that defined them was either drug/alcohol abuse and/or eating disorders.

I'm still waiting for my car insurance to decrease because women's car insurance increases. What an arcane pile of bullshit that is. There are at least as many women on the road today as men. Now I can only speak for the offence of "tail-gating" because it is my NUMBER ONE pet peeve on the road.... But seriously, 9 out of 10 times I'm being tailgated it's by a woman.

Just sayin' ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:28 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There are at least as many women on the road today as men.

It's called Deep Vein Thrombosis. When you sit for long periods with high blood pressures of gaming or flight travel you accumulate blood clots until you throw one in your brain or heart. Activity tends to break those up. Some have been the result of extreme over caffeination, and some have been due to lack of sleep or dehydration. I do recall one where a bladder actually burst.

As for the driving thing, we already had that conversation. There ARE MORE MALE DRIVERS and more males get into accidents and when they get into accidents it is in more expensive vehicles and they do more damage. I'm not looking up the numbers again. Let the girls pass, Mr. Sensitive. I'm sure they got kids waiting for them somewhere...

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:39 PM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:

The Big Problem with blaming the object: When I blame, I give power away.
I'm saying that this "person or thing" has more control of my behavior than
I do. Unblame It = be Responsible Me.

AND I'M SAYING "You should consider yourself fortunate you have the ability to decide that for yourself"

There are a great many people out there that do not have that luxury. Have you not heard of people with OCD so bad it KILLS them? That one girl a while back that stayed in a shower until she literally died of water exposure- don't you think she would have liked to get out and dry off if her brain had let her??? If something as innocuous as a shower can go wrong, imagine what an addiction machine engineered to addict can do to someone's life! They may not have a LEGAL duty to negate that, but they sure as hell have a MORAL duty.

Not that anyone on this planet understands "Moral Duty." And we're back to "I hate humans" and it's only 8:30....

I think it's a RECORD.