Playing Videogames is Like Snorting Coke, Says Therapist

[300lb. Samoan]

Oh cool, I was really in the mood for some boilerplate anti-gaming hyperbole. It's nice because it gives me hope - if these morons can make a living as certified doctors, I can be anything!

 

[spartan231490]

i've played video games for something like 12 years, and I can guarentee you, it has never made me high.

So yeah, blame the kids for being psychotic or the parents for not watching thier kids well enough.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

But of course it's the same as snorting Cocaine! Every time I play video games, a small part of my septum is burned out, my eyes burn and go bloodshot and I begin twitching uncontrollably!

Why only earlier I was playing Assassins Creed and now I'm paranoid that my best friend is actually a Polar Bear with an AK-47 who wants to murder me and my family.

 

[II2]

Why do these games have such a powerful grip on our children? According to one "expert," the reason is simple. "Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces," said counselor and therapist Steve Pope.

Would like to do a line of the coke he's comparing video games to. In reality, blow is overpriced crap that's gone in 20-35 minutes, but for the itch for more.

Done coke enough to know what it's like. Played games all of life, for hours sometimes. Not a goddamn thing even remotely similar about them.

Speculate: MAYBE if you repeatedly dose "pure as the driven snow" cocaine in quick intervals you could push the experience out to two hours before crash. Regardless, it wouldn't get you revved up to Atari 2600 levels.

 

[Tharwen]

Someone just discovered the most worn out and oversized bandwagon ever to have existed.

"Now that I look back on it, it's like I went out and bought him his first shot of whiskey," she said.

...what?

[sub]Why, oh why do I consistently add a space in the wrong place in 'therapist' when I read it?[/sub]

 

[geldonyetich]

I wish. Lately, all this casual gaming crap on the market has made playing video games like doing math homework.

Or maybe I'm just a burnt out old gaming addict for whom the old buzz just doesn't do it anymore. Unfortunately, videogame crack isn't as easy to produce as distilling a bunch of other games into smokable form.

 

[Klarinette]

Except when I play video games, I can generally still feel my teeth.

*snrrrrrrrrrk*

 

[CrysisMcGee]

You don't compare sex to cocaine, and for some the addiction is strong. I really like playing videogames, and I love sex. But I ain't about to touch cocaine.

 

[Nouw]

Maybe blame the Parents. Just maybe?

Coke and Video Games aren't the same thing.

 

[The Last Nomad]

"Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces"

So what I take from that is video games are much better value than drugs?
Is that what he is trying to say?

Time to go get high I guess... As economically as possible...

 

[Joey245]

*snrrrk!*

I'm sorry, what?

Just kidding....well, everything I could have said, everyone above me said better. It's the parent's fault, the kids don't know the difference, etc.

Seriously, when will people just shut up about this...

 

[blackcherry]

Ah, what can you say? They are are from preston. Its not addiction they are succumbing to. Its just the first time they have seen a TV screen.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

If this is true (but its not) then we are all horrible HORRIBLE drug addicts

 

[lacktheknack]

Ummmmmmmmm... no.

I have no trouble getting off the computer for any reason, for a few days even if necessary.

I bet $50 they've never played a video game for more then fifteen minutes.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

It's not the video games fault for being fun, it's the parents fault for allowing young children who aren't mature enough to play games. The parents should atleast try to monitor their children's time on games aswell.

Yup so true instead of blaming video games how bout they blame...
[HEADING=1] THE FUCKING PARENTS [/HEADING]

That would be logical, reasonable, and right.

We can't have any of THAT around these political parts... no sir.

 

[Kuilui]

Ebay is a video game now? When did that happen? Sheesh I've been playing games since I was three(20 now) and I'm not a raging psychotic who desperately needs his video games. I go days without playing sometimes, no big deal. People with addictive personalities will become addicted to something. If it wasn't video games it would be alcohol or gambling or drugs or something else.

 

[DividedUnity]

EDIT: You know what. When did people lose self-control? Stop blaming this stuff on what people are doing and blame it on the people themselves. Its their own damn fault for not having any self-control

Lol. I do wish people would think through the implications of what they say sometimes...

Because you basically said "It's a person's own fault for not having the self-control needed to have any self-control."

But whatever. Having self-control is like having good eyesight.
Some people have it, some people need glasses to be able to see anything, and some lie inbetween.

A comment like this is like saying having bad eyesight is your own fault. In a sense, it is. But what can you do about it? Nothing. You can wear glasses, which helps 'correct' the problem, but it still doesn't change the fact that without them you can't see worth a damn.

Unfortunately, we somehow accept certain kinds of defects from people, but not others.
Why the difference? I guess a presumption of people having 'control' over certain aspects of who they are, and not others.
But is that in any way fair? Can I change the way my mind works any more easily than I can change how tall I am?
Nothing is entirely impossible to change, but nor is it always a simple thing to do so...

How the hell is it like saying you have bad eyesight. Self-control is a mental ability which everyone has. They either use it or choose to ignore it. You cannot have a fundemental part of what we are. Bad eyesight is not a choice. Where did I ever say bad eyesight is your own fault. The only time that would be true if you stared at the sun for too long when you were told not to.

Yes but the simple fact that if someone ignores it its their choice. They are responsible for their choices so if they choose not to play in moderation then it is their own fault. Games become the scapegoat because parents would rather blame the games than their own children or better yet blame themselves for allowing the children to do so.

 

[unoleian]

How very interesting.

Well, then, it's good to know that I haven't missed anything by not snorting lines, if all it does is make the heart pound and cause a temporary giddy sensation (typical "I'm kicking ass right now!" response from my body)...but the tolerance is through the roof.

Also, a lack of the appropriate sensation usually entails a user seeking even more to recapture it. If a game stops delivering the goods, it gets shelved, and rather dusty. I don't start playing it three times as much to get the same amount of fun it gave the first time...
...or, is that where the consequence of buying a new one every other week comes in?

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

Yay to being Compared to Drug addicts, i think again...

 

[Zinaxos]

If video games are like snorting coke, then I am super high all the time.