What's the consensus on videogames causing addiction? The world seems very split on this right now. Many former gamers have fixed their lives by dropping vidya, but most scientists say they're excellent for your brain - as good as reading in some cases.
What's the consensus on videogames causing addiction? The world seems very split on this right now...
Christian Turner
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Noah Morris
Obviously doesn't cause physical addiction, the only directly harmful kind of addiction.
Julian Wilson
>vidya is good for your brain
sauce?
Adam Roberts
I'm ashamed to admit that I blow cartridges for the money I need to buy UMDs that I can grind up and inject directly into my scrotum.
Jason King
So would you say it's a compulsion?
Jeremiah Hernandez
Wyatt Scott
i mean i guess it's just like saying drinking wine occasionally is good for you but don't go fucking overboard with it
Anthony Robinson
What exactly defines addiction?
Is it the dropping of more conventional, perhaps essential life tasks for the subject one may be addicted to? Or is it moreso that, but it is also an active detriment to the person's own life?
Let's consider that a wealthy person decides to play Vidya for the rest of his life & not much else, using the funds he either has earned or was given at birth to do so. Vidya isn't really detrimental to his means of survival anymore, so is it an addiction? Is this unconventional choice of life enough to be defined as an illness?
Nathaniel Bennett
Drinking wine is not good for you in any amount you gullible fuck.
Cooper Hill
Science disagrees. Between a random shithead user and the entire corpus of human knowledge, I know whom I'm going to trust. Fucking clown.