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Posted on: 2008-11-25 08:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I don't do TFs... I wait until after I've insulted everyone I can find at GG. 
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"Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted." It's the bloody ingress.
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I don't need my life rebuilding. I don't compulisvely game. And I find roleplaying in an MMO rather more social than going down the pub, drinking too excess and throwing up in the gutter on the way home.
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QFT
*now scrubs self with greensoap for using that*
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"Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted." It's the bloody ingress.
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Did you just stop reading after that?
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But Mr Bakker believes that this kind of cross-addiction affects only 10% of gamers. For the other 90% who may spend four hours a day or more playing games such as World of Warcraft, he no longer thinks addiction counselling is the way to treat these people.
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If you prefer to take words at face value, I still fall into the category of people who need some form of treatment. Fine, I'm not addicted, I'm compulsive.
The article is stated that anyone who plays computer games for more than 4 hours per day has a psycho-social issue. Is that better than an addiction? "No, sir, you aren't on LSD, you're just insane and think I've turned into a pink cow."
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Serious game studies indicate a few things:
1. People that play computer and video games are actually MORE fit than the average person, since they also play football and other stuff more. They are, simply, more active.
2. Modern computer players have a bigger social network than the average person. Basically they're... MORE social.
Those two statements are based on *very* clear evidence.
It's also "indicated" that:
1. Playing games might improve childrens problem solving abilities
2. Playing games might improve childrens dexterity and motoric skills (not sure what's the english phrase, but it's the ability to use you're fingers to perform complex tasks)
3. Playing games, in general, has NO bad effects whatsoever, unless - as with everything - you overdo it. That leavess the question: What's "overdoing it"? 4 hours a day? 6? 8?
Watching TV for four hours isn't strange to most people, so actually being active, playing games should at least be way better.
Also worth noting: There hasn't been a single scientific report that's produced even a single case where a computer/video game has caused real life violence etc. A violent game might TRIGGER an already unstable person to do something bad, but it won't CAUSE a person to "go bad". And basically anything might trigger an unstable person anyway, he/she/it is a bomb waiting to go off.
...so that was a rather long post, but as a computer & social science teacher I just had to get that out of me, since I've helpedwith a few of those studies. :P
Although it's worth noting that anyone that spends 8 hours/day on any game must be insane. 
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Although it's worth noting that anyone that spends 8 hours/day on any game must be insane.
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Why would that be?
I could asume playing games and browse the net for 8 hours is 'healther' for your mind then standing 8 hours in a row behind a machine putting matches in a box. Or rather do 8 hours of gaming then doing 8 hours of telemarketing.
'Gaming' isnt differnt from any other activity a person can do, be it 1 hour or be it 8 hours.
(who with a office job is not staring 8 hours a day to his PC screen?)
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Did you just stop reading after that?
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No, of course not. The paragraph you quoted is misworded, but from the context it's in its clear it's actually referring only to those gamers who do have a problem and not gamers in general. The article repeatedly makes that distinction -- both in the title, ingress and several times in the body of the text.
With the exception of the cloying and entirely irrelevant reference to Columbine, I'd say it's a balanced, well reported article that is quite clear it's discussing people who have a problem with gaming and not all gamers.
*shrugs* You always did have more faith in the intelligence of the average person that I did, Leif.
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Read this
Taxing online Games (from BBC)
What will they do with all that INF? 
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Well, they get a Badge when they get to 1,000,000, don't they?
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Read this
Taxing online Games (from BBC)
What will they do with all that INF?
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Well, they get a Badge when they get to 1,000,000, don't they?
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Taxman Badge - You have taken a little from everyone and given it to some banks who don't know how to handle money
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Although it's worth noting that anyone that spends 8 hours/day on any game must be insane.
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Why would that be?
I could asume playing games and browse the net for 8 hours is 'healther' for your mind then standing 8 hours in a row behind a machine putting matches in a box. Or rather do 8 hours of gaming then doing 8 hours of telemarketing.
'Gaming' isnt differnt from any other activity a person can do, be it 1 hour or be it 8 hours.
(who with a office job is not staring 8 hours a day to his PC screen?)
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I think at the end of the day it all comes down to whether your progressin or not.
Games can help your social skills if used correctly but i agree in that it can alienate you from the "real" world too. The line between the two is way too delicate to truely get a final definition of whats too much gaming.
But if you spend an entire day on a game without any sort of communication with the "real" world, then that is (imo) starting to get into an addiction/too much.
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But if you spend an entire day on a game without any sort of communication with the "real" world, then that is (imo) starting to get into an addiction/too much.
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The only problem there is that in the real world I'm not a gun-toting, super-power-wielding, F1 championship winning, implausibly resilient, god-like entity - sadly.
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The world outside my gaming consists of Stevenage. Anyone who tells me I should go out and interact with it fully deserves the punch in the face I will give them for trying to take my games away from me.
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Stevenage? No WONDER you run around in a loincloth and sporting a ruddy great axe! You're positively CIVILISED in comparison! 
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I don't need my life rebuilding. I don't compulisvely game. And I find roleplaying in an MMO rather more social than going down the pub, drinking too excess and throwing up in the gutter on the way home.
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Exactly. I wait til I've got the first TF underway before puking
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