Therapist Repeats "Gaming is Like Snorting Cocaine" Claim

[Vibhor]

Wait, the article read that Computer games Specifically computer games.
Which means console players are safe and they can play game without any risk of death... That is according to this guy, who lives in an alternate reality where games were accepted until some people started using games like drugs and have taken life of many.
Kind of like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwk5kJLpreE]
And this guy then came to the past just to warn us against Computer -not video- games

Offtopic: A quick search on this guys name shows that he worked in Bladerunner.
Or maybe bladerunner was based on actual events?

 

[freebiewitz]

Invite him over to speak for the public or something.

While he's talking take the mic out of his hands. If he gets offended then he's clearly addicted to talking bullshit.

 

[erto101]

I played 8 hours straight yesterday. Wouldn't that cause an overdoes then?

 

[Nazz3]

What an idiot... I mean hes just fucking stupid. I could say that eating food is like snorting cocaine, it produces the same effects on the brain, which is that you get euphoria. Taking a shit is like snorting cocaine by that logic. Talking to friends is like snorting cocaine. Listening to music is like snorting cocaine. And you get the same amount of pleasure if not more by doing those things.

 

[Captain Schpack]

It is? Really?

Cool then I'll cut my monthly expenses by $400, and just snort a powdered Halo disc.

Translation: Ignorant prick

 

[Faladorian]

Okay here's what I think:

As enjoyable as cocaine + not deadly like cocaine = video games are good for rehabilitating cocaine addicts and keeping people from doing it.

Good, right? Except that it wouldn't fucking WORK because he's wrong.

Perhaps Earning Achievements would work for coke addicts.

Haha, maybe.

I've never liked or cared about achievements, but I've known people who will play a game for weeks to get ONE achievement. Honestly if you're not having fun playing a game and you're not getting anything done... just stop XD

 

[Christopher Dudgeon]

Forget kids being addicted to their game consoles try taking their mobile phones away from them, It's like The Exorcist!

 

[TehChuckles]

when did psychology become a profession where it was absolutely mandatory to have major publicity stunts by punching the newest entertainment medium in the face? honestly I don't see any other reason they would publish these "studies". unless of course they were all old traditionalists afraid that technology is going to change how the world is. (was 20-30 years ago)... oh, wait...

 

[purplesuits]

Just like multiple posts on this already verified, if you do anything to halt personal development in a person, whether it's by taking your book, sandwich, music, or video game, they're going to be bothered.
Did you know that when you're in love you highlight the same parts of the brain as when you do cocaine? It also releases dopamine into the brain that tells you you want to see more of this person you've fallen in love with, but since you're not being flooded with artificial dopamine you can keep on making it yourself. Dopamine is what gets you addicted to something, such as an action, or a drug. The latter has harmful physical effects, but the former is not only common, it's good for you in regular development. We're a species that is nourished by thoughts and ideas in any and every form. Just like how hallucinogenics were pretty much proven in the 1950's to cure PTSD and depression in a single session, but then were made illegal cause people started producing it themselves to sell, video games are getting a bum rap because they're a fairly new alternate form of living that's keeping our eyes off of this 9-5 shit we put up with everyday. Just to make money that essentially doesn't exist (if all the money was taken out of the bank, there wouldn't be enough for the people who had money in the bank) to buy things that are thrown out everyday in dumpsters and landfills (25% of all food produced is thrown away, and we're not talking chunks of half eaten apples, we're talking perfectly good food) to waste all over again, so we have to repeat this process. God forbid we have a sustainable art form on our hands (you don't throw out games, at least I don't, plus downloadable dude, it's all going to be electric soon enough) that helps us think outside of this 9-5 so called life. Video games have an entertainment life span rivalled only to that of books, or sometimes the complete star wars movie collection.
Quit your job, go on EI and play games for the rest of your days.

 

[Grickit]

Being against the ridiculously costly and unfounded war on drugs to begin with, my reaction to this was a little different.

"Video games like cocaine"? And? So what? The good news is that we can apply the transitive property of Christine O'Donnell (or insert-biased-religious-fundamentalist-of-choice) to this with other hilarious results.

cocaine == endorphin rush
video games == endorphin rush

therefor video games == cocaine

But since sex == endorphin rush too that means that video games == sex. OMG PROTECT THE CHILDREN!

I love social conservatives and their line of thought.

 

[veloper]

Easy to counter.

Regular cocaine use can go well up to a year and after that you're nolonger able to function normally.

Who doesn't game in this day and age? Old farts and really poor people. Almost every kid in the developed world would have dropped out of school.

This "therapist" knows nothing about cocaine.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I'd be fascinated to know what games this therapist is playing if they produce cocaine-like highs in the users. Evidently, we've all been buying the wrong games.

 

[Wargamer]

Take a controller out of a gamer's hands mid-game, and you are going to get a major negative reaction far worse than reading a book or watching a movie.

However, in the interest of fairness, we would also require a parent to march into the middle of a football pitch and drag their child away mid game, then measure their reaction.

Games, especially now, are not something you can drop in and out of whenever you like. Having the controller removed would most likely set me back 5-10 minutes work in a single player scenario, and in multiplayer it could also ruin not only MY enjoyment, but the enjoyment of my team. Oh, and god help you if you were doing a speedrun or aiming for some hard-to-achieve goal... in which case we are talking a rage response in line with your mother fucking up your attempt to win your local sporting tournament.

All of this can be summarised nicely by simply applying the maxim "people who have no fucking clue about a subject should not be entitled an opinion on it."

 

[plugav]

Gaming is like cocaine, eh? I guess they should ban solitaire before this gets out of control.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

yes of course it gaming is like Snorting-Cocaine. how could i have so blind these past few years(sarcasm)
games is going through the same thing rock music did when it first became popular.
example "rock is the devil's music"

 

[Logic 0]

"Gaming is like snorting cocaine" huh I'm going to try an experiment.

*snorts ground up games*

It's not the same, it's not the same.

 

[Stevepinto3]

"Try and take the game controller out of their hands".

Well, to be honest, if someone came up to me and just grabbed whatever I was holding out of my hands, I'd probably react in a hostile way regardless. It's like, try and take a book out of the hands of someone that's reading. Of course they're going to act angry and surprised, you just rudely interrupted them.

I've never had a problem to just get up and stop gaming if there is something that needs to be done. Not when I lived with my parents and not now that I'm independent. Ok, maybe when I was 15, but to be fair getting a 15 year old to do anything is pretty tough.

 

[Thedarkness77]

Like everyone else said if you turn off t.V. or took a book away from someone they would be mad too.

 

[irani_che]

Someone stop charlie Sheen before he discovers COD