Heh, when you think about it if you just barge in up stairs and try to force something out of someone's hands, not convince them to put it down, but forcefully take it away from them with out a good reason, ANYONE will be angry about it. Imagine your sitting up your room with your math homework spread out in front of you and you're currently working on it, your parent come's upstairs and rips it away from you. Will you be pissed? Damn straight you'll be pissed, you don't even like math homework but thats REALLY disruptive and you kind of had to get into it in the first place. Or hell imagine your sleeping and someone come's upstairs and forces you awake via screaming in your ear or pouring cold water on you, your gonna be mad. Or your reading a book and someone tears it out of your hands, or your listening to music and suddenly someone rips the head phone out of your ears or (if your into that kind of thing) your enjoying a nice piece of art and suddenly someone just physically rips it away, your gonna be mad. For you religious nut jobs who listen to the pope on these sort of things simply because he is the pope and not because he needs to make any sense, imagine your praying and someone rips the cross from between your hands.
This argument is the same as saying video games are like cocaine because they take someone's attention. This very same argument could be applied to music, art, literature, food, sleep, conversation, school work, and hell even religion. Thats right, the bible is Coke guys, and the pope is the most coked up one of us all.
Also, there was people who went ballistic and attempted to murder everyone around them due to mental breakdowns LONG before there were video games. Its just its allot harder to kill 20 guys when it requires you physically run at them with knife and engage in hand to hand combat than it is when you can simply point a long stick at them at pull a trigger so it only really became a big issue with the advent of fast loading guns. (actually religion comes to mind for me again, killing a bunch of random guys based on religion seems to have happened allot in the past, I'm looking at you Catholicism, not exactly one to talk about peoples bad apples.)
Before I started playing video games I was sleepless because I always wanted to see the next episode in a tv series, and before that it was because I wanted to read the next chapter in a book, or because I was anxious to go play out side the next day. Hell last night I couldn't get to sleep because I knew that I had to take the SAT in a couple of days. seriously saying that Video games cause sleeplessness so they must be like COCAINE is pure nonsense and would only be said by someone who has neither taken a careful look at video games, or cocaine.
Same brain patterns my foot, you have clearly never seen someone hooked up on Coke before you crazy ol' man.
Its poorly informed people like this that are responsible for holding back the medium and stopping it from becoming 'true art' as some would say.
Heh, I can't help but think it kind of flattering in a way to see someone say 'its addicting as coke!' over a non body, non mind ruining, form of entertainment that is essentially a book, an album or so of music, and a few dozen galleries of art wrapped together with science and competition.
