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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
You can't reasonably expect everyone to look at games as a super-exciting next generation athletic discipline and the best thing since sliced bread as the various esports-based media try to present it (which they have to do in order to actually sell it). From an outsider perspective, this is a fairly reasonable way of looking at the phenomenon. | ||
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flyingteapot
United States11 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:35 justinpal wrote: Ah, I cbf to read the entire thing. I read it as he was so addicted that he needed his fix and was anxious to get started. I see that part you mentioned, and I disagree that they were highlighting anything. Rather the author acknowledges this is an anxious warm-up. The way it's written is meant for you to think: "Wow, he really wants to play." He stated the number of times he typed go. I know nothing about MKP and his family so it can all be true. But, I have my doubts. And the author never actually gives the timeframe in which he typed go 59 times, It could have been 30 seconds or 10 minutes. I guess articles like this will exist when there is an outsider looking in and writing about it for people who are also outsiders | ||
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Bodzilla
Australia472 Posts
HEY KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN | ||
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Imagine42
United States73 Posts
On August 05 2012 16:37 Talin wrote: The article wasn't that bad at all honestly. You can't reasonably expect everyone to look at games as a super-exciting next generation athletic discipline and the best thing since sliced bread as the various esports-based media try to present it (which they have to do in order to actually sell it). From an outsider perspective, this is a fairly reasonable way of looking at the phenomenon. No it's not... As long as articles like this keep on portraying gaming as nothing but just another form of shooting up heroin, gaming won't ever be accepted as something good. | ||
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anrimayu
United States875 Posts
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SRBNikola
Serbia191 Posts
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paintfive
785 Posts
"Gaming's Dark Side" "Addicts who literally play till until they die" this is gold : "MKP... cared more about proving to his parents, and to himself, that he was not addicted to the video game" LOL https://twitter.com/jdsutter <- joke of a writer it's disgusting because 90% of the story sounds like it was pulled completely out of his ass. | ||
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legaton
France1763 Posts
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Jakkerr
Netherlands2549 Posts
On August 05 2012 16:46 Imagine42 wrote: No it's not... As long as articles like this keep on portraying gaming as nothing but just another form of shooting up heroin, gaming won't ever be accepted as something good. If that's the message you got from the article I would suggest you read it again. Also, the writer specifically states the 'dark' and 'light' side of gaming which obviously do exist. In Korea game addiction is actually a serious problem though, guess why there's entire clinics dedicated to it. Any1 that doesn't know much about E-sports and even most people that do will agree that playing videogames for 10-14 hours per day isn't healthy for any1 and pro's are only able to keep up that schedule because of the teamhouse environment and mandatory physical excercise. But some random kid sitting alone in his room the entire day playing random games or trying to become pro is pretty fked up for your health. | ||
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Thrombozyt
Germany1269 Posts
Just before the 19-minute mark, Kas ambushed MarineKing on his side of the city. A flurry of insect-like alien creatures swarmed his human base and started pecking away at it. MarineKing couldn't recover. His base exploded. The only beef I have is that this article reads a lot like someone looking down on gaming and explaining his disdain.. obviously not paying attention to details... | ||
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IshinShishi
Japan6156 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:25 Itsmedudeman wrote: ? Dumb comparison. Most people can't play physical sports as long for as long as someone can play a video game (and addicts can play all day), and someone who studies actually benefits from it? Wtf? Are we really comparing the productivity of studying math and science to that of playing a video game here? Let me know how that looks on a college application. TL is really out of touch it seems these days.. 1-Just because the human body has physical limitations it doesn't impede people from spending their off time thinking about their sport or essentially dedicating every waking hour to things that are related to it. 2-Actually, I have an example of "addiction" to studying right here in my home, my father hasn't worked or put even a dime inside the house for roughly 15+ years and kept studying math and a lot of other stuff for long periods, every single day, without ever trying to apply it to anything useful whatsoever, anything and everything can be an addiction.Bad arguments debunked, send in the next ones. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On August 05 2012 16:46 Imagine42 wrote: No it's not... As long as articles like this keep on portraying gaming as nothing but just another form of shooting up heroin, gaming won't ever be accepted as something good. That isn't really what the article does at all. It's fairly open-ended and doesn't pass the final verdict one way or the other, but illustrates both sides of progaming - mass gaming bordering on addiction on one hand, and personal accomplishment, fame and financial success on the other. Second, you're implying that mass gaming needs to be accepted as "something good", whereas it really doesn't. It is not good. Arguably it's not bad either. It's just something that certain people enjoy. That doesn't mean it needs to be accepted and respected by everyone, especially when there are so many gray areas and extreme cases. | ||
TheEmulator
28103 Posts
On August 05 2012 17:50 IshinShishi wrote: 1-Just because the human body has physical limitations it doesn't impede people from spending their off time thinking about their sport or essentially dedicating every waking hour to things that are related to it. 2-Actually, I have an example of "addiction" to studying right here in my home, my father hasn't worked or put even a dime inside the house for roughly 15+ years and kept studying math and a lot of other stuff for long periods, every single day, without ever trying to apply it to anything useful whatsoever, anything and everything can be an addiction.Bad arguments debunked, send in the next ones. Addiction to studying math? Glad I don't have that one. | ||
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IMABUNNEH
United Kingdom1062 Posts
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firehand101
Australia3152 Posts
Now try playing starcraft, and you are completely frustrated at how the mechanics work. It really takes a conscious effort to keep playing and improving to be better than you are now. This has a lot less chance to cause an addiction... Taking this into account, do kids that constantly play this game really get addicted? Soccer in the slums of Brazil is seen as the only way out; to escape their harsh reality and go on to stardom and fame. In South Korea, the education is unbelievably hard and many fail to make the jobs and careers they want, and so starcraft is all they have left. Kids may realise this from a young age and try to play as much as they can, hoping that they too can make it big just like their idols Boxer, Nada and so on. ....or, you know,,, they might just play it because its fun  | ||
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lem0ncake
England85 Posts
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Kyrillion
Russian Federation748 Posts
2-Actually, I have an example of "addiction" to studying right here in my home, my father hasn't worked or put even a dime inside the house for roughly 15+ years and kept studying math and a lot of other stuff for long periods, every single day, without ever trying to apply it to anything useful whatsoever, anything and everything can be an addiction.Bad arguments debunked, send in the next ones. Your father must be awesome. | ||
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SoniC_eu
Denmark1008 Posts
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firehand101
Australia3152 Posts
On August 05 2012 18:11 lem0ncake wrote: Fucking mainstream news always sensationalising things just for page hits and more ad revenue. Makes me sick. CNN are as bad as FOX News now. hey...don't go too far | ||
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Frex
Finland888 Posts
It seems that the article's main goal is to make gaming look bad. It's no wonder that there is this certain stigma attached to spending time with computers when even media tries to make it look bad. | ||
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