Therapist Repeats "Gaming is Like Snorting Cocaine" Claim
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This just makes me wanna do cocaine. It doesn't take two hours to kick in, like video games apparently do. Also, I wanna "go upstairs" and rip various things out of peoples' hands to see how they respond. Fuckin' "upstairs". I've never had an upstairs. I'm too poor for upstairs, and cocaine.
This XDawesomeClaw said:
This is also an excellent comparison, we thank you for your reason and sensibility.RelexCryo said:
I havent read all these posts, but im sure this is in here somewhere.
Ive tried cocaine. And im sorry, its nothing like playing videogames. Thats a fact.
Sounds more like the old "all people i dont like are HITLER, all things that i dont like and you do are COCAINE AND HERION, and all activities i dont want you to do are SATANISM" argument.
Kids, when your parent is typing something on the computer, try kicking the keyboard out of their hands. They will react like a crack addict, try it!
Ive tried cocaine. And im sorry, its nothing like playing videogames. Thats a fact.
Sounds more like the old "all people i dont like are HITLER, all things that i dont like and you do are COCAINE AND HERION, and all activities i dont want you to do are SATANISM" argument.
Kids, when your parent is typing something on the computer, try kicking the keyboard out of their hands. They will react like a crack addict, try it!
well no shit. It would be the same for anything else in the world. You take a book away from someone while they're reading, or turned off the tv while someone is watching a movie or show, or even wake someone up while their sleeping. Its the reaction of someone being pissed because they didn't get to finish what they were doing because you interrupted them. Its a natural reaction, not just someone who is an addict to something.Andy Chalk said:
So, you take away a controller from a kid and they react like an alcoholic...I assume that means they get the DTs and have a high chance of death without treatment? It is really more like the passenger ripping the steering wheel out while the car is moving...take the book away and I can find where I stopped easily...take the controller out of my hands and I might die loose an hour of mission progress, heck, some MMOs will punish a death even worse than that.
BTW...The whole point of cocaine is that it does not take two hours to snort a line...if it did, then you might as well do something else...if anything, this guy is glorifying cocaine..."One line is as good as 2 hours of video games".
BTW...The whole point of cocaine is that it does not take two hours to snort a line...if it did, then you might as well do something else...if anything, this guy is glorifying cocaine..."One line is as good as 2 hours of video games".
(Yakob's house)
Brother: Can I have a go now?
Yakob: Sure (hands over controller)
Who would have suspected Yakob was merely biding his time as a addictive serial killer?
No-body thats who, because thats stupid.
Brother: Can I have a go now?
Yakob: Sure (hands over controller)
Who would have suspected Yakob was merely biding his time as a addictive serial killer?
No-body thats who, because thats stupid.
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Sorry, that was me FaceDesking at the sheer stupidity of this so called Therapist and I forgot to move my keyboard out of the way.
Sorry, that was me FaceDesking at the sheer stupidity of this so called Therapist and I forgot to move my keyboard out of the way.
Ah, gaming causing an endorphin high in the brain... you mean... like running? or eating chocolate?
When the body's homeostasis is sufficiently disrupted, there is a compensatory response to bring the body back to homeostasis. This is what causes most types of drug tolerances and plays a significant role in addiction. For example, if someone takes cocaine for a period of time, that person's body will begin to compensate for the euphoria caused by the cocaine by creating a sense of dysphoria, which forces the person to take more cocaine to get the same effect.
It turns out that this compensatory response can be conditioned using classical conditioning. For example, if a bell is rung every time before a person takes cocaine, then after a while, just hearing the sound of the bell will trigger the compensatory response and make the person experience dysphoria. That means the person exposed to the conditioned stimulus will have to take some cocaine just to return to their normal baseline level.
If the claim about video games being addicting is true then first of all, it would have to mean that video games can disrupt the body's homeostasis enough to create a compensatory response. Second, there would have to be a conditioned compensatory response since the environment where the person plays the video game will become the conditioned stimulus. That means you can test this hypothesis by have a control group that does nothing in a controlled environment and an experimental group that plays games in that same environment. After a period of time, you test to see if the experimental group has developed a conditioned compensatory response compared to the control group based on physiological and mental changes in response to the environment. Without any experimental data to back up these kinds of claims then they're completely meaningless. All this therapist is doing is undermining psychology as a science.
It turns out that this compensatory response can be conditioned using classical conditioning. For example, if a bell is rung every time before a person takes cocaine, then after a while, just hearing the sound of the bell will trigger the compensatory response and make the person experience dysphoria. That means the person exposed to the conditioned stimulus will have to take some cocaine just to return to their normal baseline level.
If the claim about video games being addicting is true then first of all, it would have to mean that video games can disrupt the body's homeostasis enough to create a compensatory response. Second, there would have to be a conditioned compensatory response since the environment where the person plays the video game will become the conditioned stimulus. That means you can test this hypothesis by have a control group that does nothing in a controlled environment and an experimental group that plays games in that same environment. After a period of time, you test to see if the experimental group has developed a conditioned compensatory response compared to the control group based on physiological and mental changes in response to the environment. Without any experimental data to back up these kinds of claims then they're completely meaningless. All this therapist is doing is undermining psychology as a science.
Take the controller out of my hand and it will magicaly be replace with a large blunt object that I will chase you with.
"To make his point, he suggested that parents listening to the program "go upstairs to your kid's bedroom and try and take the game station controller out of their hands." They will react "in the same way as an alcoholic would if you tried to take their booze. It's scary," he said."
That's the reason?
Add anything else into the place of "gaming" here. It's scary, indeed. Everything in the world is like snorting cocaine.
There is only one way to resolve this matter: Nuke everything.
That's the reason?
Add anything else into the place of "gaming" here. It's scary, indeed. Everything in the world is like snorting cocaine.
There is only one way to resolve this matter: Nuke everything.
Take enough cocaine and you can turn into a schizophreniac.
Play games enough you might possibly turn fat?
Or of course you could go on a rampage and kill a dozen people, of course that would be the game's fault.
Play games enough you might possibly turn fat?
Or of course you could go on a rampage and kill a dozen people, of course that would be the game's fault.
