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- dose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36I agree. I felt pretty damn good the other day when I successfully defused a c4 bomb at my mother's house during Christmas! I didn't even have a kit and my brother was jumping up and down on top of me slashing me with a knife!
Thanks CS addiction! - devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17In other words, "Because they're fun."
- smokatronic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I like to get up before the sun and get some good old fashioned murderous aggression played out before I have to go listen to users tell me that their (unplugged) computers won't turn on...
- MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Surge protector plugged into itself? Ya, I've been there.
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/sympathy - Kingmichael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Social interaction is hard to give up?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7why is tv so hard to give up? why are books so hard to give up? why is social interaction so hard to give up?
stupid questions, all of them the same answer: because we enjoy them - theonlybigboss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8STOP BRINGING POLITICS INTO EVERYTHING...
kthxbai - evilizor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sort of coincides with my feelings. I'm a gamer, and besides the fact that, yeah, games are fun (at least the fun ones), they allow a safe space for setting and achieving goals. In Zelda, I can save the world in a week's time. In Feel the Magic, I can get the girl night after night. In Madden, I can win the Super Bowl without having to ever put on shoulder pads. Too often in life, we come short of reaching our dreams. At least in games, we can succeed at something. And if we lose, we can always start over and try again. Maybe this is one reason why gamers get labeled as nerds or losers. Either they struggle at life and prefer the easier world of games, or they prefer the easier world of games and thus they avoid the challenges of life. Probably an over-generalization, but I've seen some truth to this in friends and fellow gamers, and a little bit in myself.
- robbyjo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Original link, straight from the source: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2719
- The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hey, at least it's an easy fix.
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I can see how this is. If I'm in the supermarket, or at the pharmacy, and I see a hyperactive 12 year old screaming, there is nothing I would like more than to run him over with a warthog, or fire a single carefully placed sabot round into his skull. But I can't for various local, state and federal laws, so I go home and sign on Xbox live and do it to him there.
- thesauce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5imthedarkcyde: how so? video games don't make me want to hurt annoying as ***** chidren, but they help me release my anger in a different way.
if anything, it stops violence! - EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Getting off is hard? Maybe it is time to see a doctor? :P
Hehe
Anyways, Halo PC was by far the best Halo in the set. Halo for Xbox was good, but it missed some major features, and Halo 2 just sucked, some good ideas there, but it needs major work. Halo 3 will be killer if it includes all they promise(if it does, I surely will be addicted). - Saad85, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5because they are fun? oh come on, that's ignorance. are you saying we should just pass it off, say "because they are fun" and never ask why? if so, no offense, but you're wrong. just like we found out what nicotine and heroine do that causes them to be addicting, we need to find out the same for games.
oh, and by the way, i'm not a 40 year old pissed off parent cuz i think my son plays video games too much or some *****. i'm 17, and used to play 6-8 hours a day a few months ago, and then i just stopped because i wanted to.. i don't see how people can be "addicted" but it does happen, and we should find out exactly why - orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Sometimes we need a virtual replacement of tasks we don't get to accomplish in real life to make our brain happy"
The author hit right home with me on that statement. I do not think I will get to rebuild the Roman Empire and reign as "Emperor" anytime soon. Rome Total War lets me virtually accomplish that. Plus, I don't have the burden of Empire, and I don't have my brutal tactics on my conscience since I have a tendency to hit the "Exterminate Population" button when I take a city. :) - flamingBurrito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yea, but in the dark twisted confines of Jack Thompson's mind, video games DO make you want to hurt children
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, the person who submitted the article to digg has a *digg* addiction problem. Completely different. ;P
- Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2After a long and difficult day at the office, nothing is more relaxing than a few rounds playing one of my favorite shooters myself. Be it Hitman, GTA San Andreas or Vice City, Unreal Tournament, Wolfenstein, Quake, you name it. I find it very much a positive experience.
Shooters, they're relaxing and therapeutic. - Shaymus22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In other news, apparently the main reason that people keep donating to charity is because they "enjoy helping people".
- CompUComp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So THAT'S why FPS games such as Call of Duty 2 are addicting. Beating the living crap out of a person makes my brain happy! Yay for total devastation! XD
- echonull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not even just that they're fun -- there's a broader definition to 'fun' than the kind of skill-test+reward system we see in most games, and this narrows the source of enjoyment considerably.
I'd thought for a while now that games are useful in that they offer challenges with known solutions, as opposed to real-life challenges which may not have a 'win' condition. This basis of confidence, even if it is recognized as falsely based, can still be an effective enabler towards doing other things. Interesting to see that corroborated by something official. - halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1getting off is hard. my cube and xbox1 were gone and my 360 was broken for 5 months. I always needed a game of halo but i couldn't, the first game with my new 360 was heaven. addiction is insane.
- xxl3w, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Exactly, why are all these stupid polls and experiments being done for questions that already have answers? They should get a job at an ISP's tech support center if they want to answer dumb questions all day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3that's the kind of talk that gives Jack Thompson the odd suspicion that games can lead to violence...
- Dmitrik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's why I've stopped all computer games (ok, ok, not all, I still play Minesweeper. lol)... so I stop getting that motivation from games and get some from real life.
My cousin took all my favorite games when I wanted to get rid of them though , so I guess he's just as addicted as I was before :-( . - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'm very conscious on why i like video games. but i differentiate between online multiplaying and single player. online are more about communication and when it gets to competition to competing with real people, to get experience about their reactions. it can be a very educational experience for all aspects of life. single players are more like movies and a bit for reflexes. but with the internet even practising reflexes is more for online multigaming and single player goes more to the 'show' venue.
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Title is way off...makes it sound like the person who submitted the article to digg has a game addiction problem. :P
Anyways...games are easy as hell to give up. The few good ones there are get boring after you finish the game 30-50 times and play multiplayer for 4 months for 4 hours per day(me on Halo PC a few years back). It wouldn't be bad if there were a lot of games like that, but there are so few...I am seriously bored as hell with the current games. The only one I really look forward to is Halo 3(Halo 2 sucked BTW).
Well, Halo 3 and Super Smash Bro's Brawl. :P - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Next, why being in Congress is hard to give up
- deavyin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Makes me wonder about the people who spend hours upon hours playing counter strike. Either they fulfill the psychological need to stop (or be) terrorists, OR they just really want to bust some heads open.
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