Signs of Gaming Addiction

[Anguille]

Or hanging around all day in Wargame forums looking for a reply to your posts about an obscure game you're the only one still playing  :o

You mean like creating of 15-20 page thread on some old DOS game which no one else is playing?  (1830-PC)  Hmm, who does that remind me of?

Thanks a lot!  (Gee, I thought you all were enjoying my stuff and instead I find out that you think I am mentally ill!)

Lol...actually i was thinking about myself but hey, welcome to my club!  ;)

Cheers

[jomni]

Regarding South Korea...  Since gaming can lead to a super star career there, how can you not stop kids from getting hooked?

[LongBlade]

Regarding South Korea...  Since gaming can lead to a super star career there, how can you not stop kids from getting hooked?

CNN has been all over that question. I'm not sure there's a good answer. One article I read said something like at least 8% of the country had a gaming addiction.

A quick search on my part yielded about 6 - 8% of Americans are alcoholics. If we assume that there is such a thing as an addictive personality and if we assume (perhaps false on my part) that that personality is constant across the globe, then it could be that South Koreans are simply substituting games for alcohol.

Or not. It's just a theory.

[eyebiter]

If there is video game addition, where is the 12 step program to "cure" this modern affliction?

Also when do the geek chicks with glasses appear for instruction in the unofficial "13th step"?

;D

[bayonetbrant]

You collapse from dehydration after a 4-day marathon game

A Columbus, Ohio, mother has taken away her son's Xbox after he spent four to five days locked in his bedroom playing a marathon game and collapsed from dehydration, nbc4i.com reported.
Jessie Rawlins said her son, Tyler, 15, collapsed three times before she called the paramedics (who hooked him up to IV fluids), and he was brought to a nearby hospital.
"I was very scared," Rawlins said. "I thought he was going to die."
Tyler was playing the game Modern Warfare 3 and rarely left his bedroom during his marathon gaming session.
Dr. Mike Patrick, an emergency physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told nbc4i.com that dehydration can be deadly.
"When you're dehydrated, the amount of fluid in your entire body is decreased and that includes the fluid that's in your blood vessels," Patrick said. "So you have decreased blood volume. That leads to decreased blood pressure. When your blood pressure gets to a certain point, you're unable to get enough blood up to the brain. If you're not getting enough oxygen to the brain, that can cause you to pass out and it could cause you to die."
Patrick said it's also dangerous for gamers to stay awake for long periods of time without rest – the body will eventually shut itself down and you will pass out.
Rawlins said her son learned his lesson, and he's accepted the consequences: "The Xbox is gone," she said.

[TheCommandTent]

You collapse from dehydration after a 4-day marathon game

A Columbus, Ohio, mother has taken away her son's Xbox after he spent four to five days locked in his bedroom playing a marathon game and collapsed from dehydration, nbc4i.com reported.
Jessie Rawlins said her son, Tyler, 15, collapsed three times before she called the paramedics (who hooked him up to IV fluids), and he was brought to a nearby hospital.
"I was very scared," Rawlins said. "I thought he was going to die."
Tyler was playing the game Modern Warfare 3 and rarely left his bedroom during his marathon gaming session.
Dr. Mike Patrick, an emergency physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told nbc4i.com that dehydration can be deadly.
"When you're dehydrated, the amount of fluid in your entire body is decreased and that includes the fluid that's in your blood vessels," Patrick said. "So you have decreased blood volume. That leads to decreased blood pressure. When your blood pressure gets to a certain point, you're unable to get enough blood up to the brain. If you're not getting enough oxygen to the brain, that can cause you to pass out and it could cause you to die."
Patrick said it's also dangerous for gamers to stay awake for long periods of time without rest – the body will eventually shut itself down and you will pass out.
Rawlins said her son learned his lesson, and he's accepted the consequences: "The Xbox is gone," she said.

Isn't it a bit late to start parenting and taking away the kids xbox?  Good thing it wasn't fatal or the mom wouldn't get a second chance.

[W8taminute]

You know as much as we all joke or fantasize about marathon gaming sessions I don't think even I could stay locked up for that long in a gaming session.  It never occurred to me that one could die from dehydration like that.  A good lesson for all of us, especially for those who have children.

[LongBlade]

W8 + The Tent = truth.

[bayonetbrant]

I thought W8 + Tent = "twaint" or something

[TheCommandTent]

I thought W8 + Tent = "twaint" or something

;D

[LongBlade]

I thought W8 + Tent = "twaint" or something

;D

Yeah, um...the purple velvet suit isn't exactly helping. Just sayin'

[Nefaro]

You know as much as we all joke or fantasize about marathon gaming sessions I don't think even I could stay locked up for that long in a gaming session.  It never occurred to me that one could die from dehydration like that.  A good lesson for all of us, especially for those who have children.

Drink their blood if we get thirsty?

:P

[Staggerwing]

Come the post-apocalypse and inevitable struggle for dominance between the new tribes, I predict Nefaro's will suffer a second-generation manpower disadvantage...

[Nefaro]

Come the post-apocalypse and inevitable struggle for dominance between the new tribes, I predict Nefaro's will suffer a second-generation manpower disadvantage...

We'll practice natural selection, by only eating the little ones.   

Oh, wait..  Doah!   :o