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SinzOfMan
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https://youtu.be/pUpKm2ZBB28
Talks about the addictive nature of MMO's. I'm expecting to get torched here, but it's just my thoughts on what I went through playing over 14 hours a day, and the health challenges that I faced ignoring my body like that.
Talks about the addictive nature of MMO's. I'm expecting to get torched here, but it's just my thoughts on what I went through playing over 14 hours a day, and the health challenges that I faced ignoring my body like that.
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But you see it in little ways too. We used to have downtime then that went away to be replaced by constant excitement. Brain constantly releasing those chemicals which make you high. It is a positive feedback loop.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
So many holes in that argument you can drive a truck through.
Some drugs have an addiction rate of 10%, 10% of first time users still use it after a year.
Some drugs have an addition rate of 70%, 70% of first time users still use it after a year.
Clearly, there is more to addiction than just self control. And clearly some things are more addictive than others.
There is going to be a huge epidemic of very unhealthy people caused by gaming,it might not show it's face for man years yet because most gamer's are still young but it will arrive one day and shock the world.
Poor circulation,Edema,heart disease,bad diet,lack of exercise,lack of outdoors and sun as well damaging the eyes and there are many health risks that go along with that from thinning of the arteries behind the eye and in the eye also resulting in eventual Kidney damage from all of the above.
Then there is a whole other avenue of addiction to gaming and avoiding your chores,lifestyles,friends ,family,work etc etc.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I am glad you got out of the addiction,you seem sort of young still.
The only saving grace for myself is that i actually never liked video games when i was young but of course they were a lot different than video games now.I was lucky that i associated with sports and fitness,i ran miles everyday,played every sport under the sun and worked hard for a living.
My long life of living a very active life paid off for me in the end.Yes i started spending too much time with video games because i got out of some of my bad habits like weed and alcohol and wanted to stop hanging around people who did that stuff,so i started to stay at home more.
I was lucky i had that early lifestyle of activity because eventually i would have a heart attack and the doctors believe i survived only because years of physical activity my body created it's own secondary heart bypass that was enough to keep my heart from being severely damaged and likely dying.However MOST of these gamer's i see are not very active at all,likely do not play any sports or anything too physical to raise their fitness level.
Most of these gamer's will not be too lucky,when health problems arise "and they will". They might end up in very serious trouble perhaps life ending or ending their usual life they come to expect.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
If you think your message is so important, have you considered typing it out rather than burying it in some video? Unless it's something intrinsically visual, it takes several times as long to get the same information out of a video, which means that most people won't bother.
Just thought I would point that out. If you can't accept this, then any talk of addiction would be inherently shifting the blame, which just isn't the case. Sometimes it's important to face the music and call a spade a spade. It takes a lot of guts to state honestly and clearly "I have an addiction" and then to own that and take action. To me, this is the opposite of shying away from blame; it's taking responsibility.
Edit: just to clarify, some people do what you say, certainly, but not all discussions regarding addiction have to be about "blame". That's really the point of this post.
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Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
As Wizardry stated above, that kind of lengthy inactivity causes all sorts of health problems. Sitting at your PC for long hours without getting some exercise has and will continue to literally kill people.
I feel like the public doesn't have enough awareness of these things. On the bright side, at least with things like motion control and the upcoming VR systems, the inactivity of gaming should be lessened for many(in theory).
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...
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My legs are the one thing usually in really good shape because i try to walk as much as possible where as before i was taking the car too much.
It is really scarier than you think,but we never learn or think about it when we are young only later when it is too late.
I have a saying i like to use a lot,LIFE is not a video game, we cannot simply press reset and start over.People are likely correct when they say you can't just dwell on it and worry about it 24/7 but you really should always keep it in the back of your mind before it is too late.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I actually did have some health issues from sitting too long continuously at one point--though thankfully, far shy of blood clots. Once I found out that I need to get up and move around periodically, I was fine. Stand up, stretch out, walk around, get some water, perhaps go to the bathroom--and then two minutes later, get back to work. Do that every half hour or so and you can safely sit at a computer for most (not all!) of your waking hours, at least if your job involves sitting at a computer and you have appropriate diet and exercise when you're not at the computer.
It's good for games to have natural breaks periodically that can be a cue to stop, get up, and do something else for a bit. The lack of such breaks is one of my (many!) objections to multi-hour dungeon runs. Though sometimes you need to run into health problems to really understand just how important it is to take suitable breaks.
Pardon my English as it is not my 1st language