The "article" only mentions the World Health Organization in passing a couple times, instead relaying the thoughts of a knoxville housewife who doesn't care for video games and her son answering one question the way she wanted.(Sarcasm: yeah, I'm sure the little kid knows what addiction is-or even gaming really at this point in his life /sarcasm) So that's the same as since the 80s. only with less vitriol spewing and hate filled ignorance.
@Telika: You have a point, though personally I think there are other contributing factors like the internet training us to not see other users are people or that most children playing CoD don't seem to have learned how to socialize with humans. Combining the two might possibly make for a messed up generation that hates to deal with live people.(definitely noticing that some kids/teens in my community really have that last one)
F4LL0UT: I'm actually surprised the WHO is only declaring it an addiction now. I read reports of studies on this topic more than ten years ago and already then it was pretty clear that video games can be as addictive and devastating as various drugs.
You're just too damn silly. Video games can give a 23 year old college student a stroke and leave her braindead? Cause liver/kidney failure? Drive you to giving blowjobs for $5 behind a ghetto bar so you can get the new call of duty? Go to jail(?) get out of jail, shank somebody you're robbing so you can get some arcade action and go back to jail? Unless you're mormon or something and feel the naughty words and premarital sex in the witcher is gonna literally send you to hell, I find your position utterly absurd, and frankly a bit demeaning to human life.
Feel free to call yourself a chocoholic or say that you're addicted to cheeseburgers or games, it's nonsense the same as "loving reese's cups" but it's your life so have fun. In reality fat people are not all "addicted" to food, and a heroin or cocaine/crack addiction kills enough millions of people in my country alone, costs the government hundreds of billions of dollars, and destroys millions more lives that it seems clear humanity doesn't really give a shit about human life itself, just talking points.
pmcollectorboy: The universe has a sick sense of irony. Twitter and comic book and gaming sites are now blowing up with the news that an innocent guy was shot to death by cops after a Call of Duty player tried to pull a swatting prank but sent the wrong address.]The universe has a sick sense of irony. Twitter and comic book and gaming sites are now blowing up with the news that an innocent guy was shot to death by cops after a Call of Duty player tried to pull a swatting prank but sent the wrong address.
Swatting is a "prank" in the same sense as putting a pipe bomb in someone's mailbox when you think they'll see it and not be opening it. Since it's CoD he's probably underage, but I hope that dirtbag is adult and goes up for accidental murder(murder 3?).
On a less serious note, I wonder if you guys remember Jack Chick. We're past him, but apparently it's gonna be a while before anyone takes a professional informed look at this issue.