Therapist Repeats "Gaming is Like Snorting Cocaine" Claim

[Merkavar]

Taking a controller out of my hands while I am trying to make progress would annoy me. It would also annoy me if someone took away a good book I was reading, because I would want to find out what would happen next.

^^^ that. if i was even doing my home work i would get annoyed if someone took it away from me. also when my parents tried to stop me playing a game it would normally be for a stupid reason like to take the garbage out and for some reason they need it dont right NOW even though nothing will change if i do it in 5 mins once i get to a safe spot to stop.

OT: if 2 hours playing games is equal to a line of cocaine i dont see the point in cocaine. its expensive and if its the same high as gaming its a lame as hell drug.

they always seem to make these claims with out any actual evidence. like they base it off 1 or 2 subjects or they make a claim that is just stupid. like that person claiming that 2 hours of screen time increases violence. i would like to see anyone under the age of 90 that doesnt spend 2 or more hours a day looking at a screen. games, tv, face book, email,work it all adds up to making you more violent apparently.

 

[Booze Zombie]

If I read his book too much, would that mean he was technically a seller of addictive and drug-like items?

Also: "Go upstairs and suddenly take a therapist's pen from his hand, notice the violent reaction like that of an alcoholic?"

 

[BabyRaptor]

Guy looks like a pretentious twat.

Also, I wonder if it would be possible to sue the guy for the literal shit he's talking about gamers? Comparing us to drug addicts, with NO evidence whatsoever?

Fairly sure you can file a lawsuit for any bullshit reason you can come up with. It doesn't mean you will win or you won't annoy a judge and have him possibly immediately throw it out as frivolous and find you in contempt of court for wasting his time with it.

If a lady can sue for coffee being hot and win, or a guy can claim that McDonalds made him eat their food...I live in America, capital of the world for stupid lawsuits. And it wouldn't be hard to prove how actual harm could come from this opinion being treated as fact.

 

[Arkfeller]

I don't know about you guys but I have never gotten high during or after a gaming session.

 

[Zyxx]

Here's the experiment: disrupt people's progress in their hobbies of choice and observe their reactions.

FPS Gamer: "What the hell, man? You totally blew my streak! Thanks a lot, ass." (flips you off)
Adventure Gamer: "Man, you made me lose like the last twenty minutes. You suck!"(flips you off)
RPG Gamer:"... Two hours of work, gone. Why... why would you even do that? " (softly weeps. One hand involuntarily flips you off.)

Card collector: "Three weeks! It took me three solid weeks to get all my cards organized, and look what you did to them! You monster!"

Ship-in-bottle builder: "Mother. FUCKER. You broke my bottle! I'm just gonna have to put this model ship in something else. C'mere and bend over."

Warhammer 40K player: "Hey, I'm painting here! Oh, look what you made me do! Get out!" (starts chucking heavy plaster things at you)

Wine aficionado: "Excuse me, you're disturbing my enjoyment of this exquisite vintage. Hobson! Kindly show this gentleman out the guest window. Yes, the good one, on the third floor."

How exactly are gamers worse than anyone else in this regard?

 

[harvz]

ladies and gentlemen, we have the winner of our biggest dick pain to video games contest... for the next 5 minutes.

my views:
-i know that games cause sleeplessness, they make you think and react so they should have the same effect as a very exciting crossword, which will keep you up
-anyone who is interrupted in the middle of something will be annoyed/pissed, from sex, to tv, to video games, to physical labor, they will be pissed to be interrupted.
-so he noticed that there is an endorphin high, big deal, he should have also noted that many of the test subjects would have had an above average intelligence as people who play games are much more likely to be intelligent...
-wait, aren't endorphins secreted due to stimulation by bright lights anyway? idk i was never good at science unless "computer" is in front.

...i gave up games for a period of one month and found myself unoccupied, bored whether i was doing anything or not, failing to concentrate at what i was doing and insomnia.

withdrawal or lack of mental stimulation which can only be provided by games, you decide.

 

[RobCoxxy]

I don't get fucked off my tits playing games, you old coot.

 

[Adremmalech]

Hey, don't take the controller out of my hand. Let me save first.
I don't agree that it's the same as ripping a book out of my hand though. Nothing is lost when a book slips from your fingers, as it is a one-way medium. If we are engaged in the story of an interactive medium, and we are suddenly unable to, it feels like your body going stiff in the middle of a warzone.
"Oh shit! I'm defenseless!"
and rightly so. Back in the game, with Striders closing in and Combine rappelling down walls, Alyx looks to Gordon for leadership, but Gordon is not only silent, but completely motionless.

 

[the_green_dragon]

Taking a controller out of my hands while I am trying to make progress would annoy me. It would also annoy me if someone took away a good book I was reading, because I would want to find out what would happen next.

Equating a large degree of annoyance derived from someone interrupting your progress with an addiction is...wrong. Some people do get addicted, but people tend to get addicted to lots of things. Tiger Woods is a good example.

Taking anything away from anyone while they're in the middle of it would be freaking annoying. If I was trying to vacuum and someone turned it off when I was half-way though would annoy me. Just saying.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

This just in: Video Games linked to World War 1 and 2.

Hitler said to have gotten his plans from an Atari.

 

[Frozengale]

I just spent the day finishing up Mass Effect 2 for the first time and starting up Beyond Good & Evil HD... I must be high as a freakin' kite.

 

[TilMorrow]

Quick dip in the pool of stupidity and you get a twat like that.

OT: I thought it was illegal to copy the pope? Isn't he meant to send his elite team of assassin reverands after this guy now? UNLESS! THE POPE IS CONTROLLING PSYCHOLOGY NOW!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!! Quickly I need to go and drop the subject before he starts controlling me through learning and play moar video games cause they apparently make a hormone that stops me from learning and thus falling under the influence of the pope! Thanks for the heads up Faketherapist!

/end of conspiracy theory rant.

But seriously Games=better learning.

 

[babinro]

I agree with some of his points, but I feel his points are overly dramatic in order to draw attention.

Being an addicted gamer certainly comes with many problems that are similar to those who are addicted to TV, Reading, or the Internet. These problems are typically related to social interaction and physical health.

I've yet to see any correlation between these hobbies and violence though. People can get rather heated over these things, but that's similar to what happens in the sporting world with its fans.

 

[Tomo Stryker]

*Sigh* This kind of shit is exactly why you need to support your idea with FACTS! Hell if I'm enjoying a juicy medium rare prime rib and you had the balls to take it from me, you better start running. That doesn't mean I'm addicting to prime rib, it means I enjoy it. Now sir please kindly STFU and GTFO.

 

[kamkazeepenguin]

I would get angry if you took my book/controller/sandwich/cat or whatever i am doing at the time. Take your PHD and burn it

 

[Treblaine]

Upon failing a math midterm last year, I was banned from basically ALL games for three months straight.

I suffered no withdrawal and only had mild urges to stop studying and go play games, about equivalent to my urges to go read books instead.

So what this man is telling me is that cocaine is a safe drug with virtually no addictive properties that will give me a moderate high while studying.

Good to know! I'll go find some and try it right away! I wonder why it's illegal...?

EDIT: Or maybe he's telling me that books are as addictive as cocaine as well...?

Professor David Nutt, you should see what he says.

Cocaine is nasty stuff, its a stupid thing to do but is not actually that addictive and does not have as very strong high. This is NOT my personal experience, though I did go to a School where one in three did seem to snort the stuff.

Also the high from Cocaine comes INSTANTLY, while he compares to a 2 hour gaming session. That is a 7200x difference in "intensity of high". That's like saying a Cheetah that completes a 100m run in 5 seconds has the same running ability as a Tortoise who travels the same distance in TEN MINUTES! That is the difference between a cocaine high of 2 seconds and a gaming session of 2 hours.

[HEADING=1]Steve Pope has repeatedly used deceptive junk science[/HEADING]

The thing is this is an utterly spurious comparison, and fundamentally misunderstands addiction and dependence. I mean you could say masturbation is as bad as injecting heroin if you compare purely pleasure chemicals but look at organisations who stop masturbation with those kind of chastity belts on teenagers... these people are utterly emotionally and psychologically broken. Kinsey has investigated such pitiful cases if messes them up.

Pleasure is not some horrible dangerous thing for our brain, chemicals like these are the reason we wake up in the morning, why we eat and clean ourselves and why we don't fall down just stop breathing and die.


"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,"

Hmm, that doesn't make much sense, lets try this:

"go to a kid's ball park and try to take the ball away from them and hold it over their head laughing like a git." They will react "in the same way as if you took their game-station controller away. It's scary... because I am suck a fucking bully and I think I am the one in the right stealing toys from children"

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

I'm just wondering how you grind the games up into powder.

BTW, which games is Charlie Sheen playing?

snort the cocaine!


god dammit, now i have to go to

motercycle drivers anonymouse,
getting a truck driver provisional licence anonymous,
gamin anonymous,
book readers anonymous
tv watchers anonymous,
water drinker's anonymous
food eaters anonymous
chocolate eaters anonymous,
life living anonymouse,
breathing anonymous
heart beating anonymous,
and brain funcioning annymous

hell, anyone would be pissed if someone took away something from them in the middle of it, like cutting off my dick while wanking, STEALING MY GODDAMN ICE CREAM, stealing my motercycle and, oh, you get the idea! what hes saying is like
taking a lorry driver truck away & expecting him to do his job, hed be angry!
taking someones job, theyd react the same way!
what would micheal schumacer do if they took his F1 car away from him just milimetres away from the finish line and ssaying ''hop it squire, this is not good for you''
what would he do? END THE FUCKING WORLD!
i could go on & on...