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Check out this story. Unbelievable! I like video games (CounterStrike and Smash Brothers are my drugs of choice), but I do think that they can be harmful sometimes. They're so addictive and I think that it's really scary when someone, especially a grown man, can play so incessantly that his heart stops. But you can't blame game-makers. It boils down to having a better understanding of video games so that these issues can be addressed publicly from an informed standpoint. When you think about it, the video game movement is only about 20 years old. I think it's time we stop looking at them as kids' games (because adults buy and play more than kids these days) and address some potentially serious issues regarding video games and what they can do to the psyche. It's just like with drugs: you have to tackle the issue from the roots and educate people that "hey, this can be fun, but don't go overboard!"

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/game.death.reut/index.html

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They need to be investigating the drug use that goes on in these cyber cafe's and lan parties. 10-1 he died of something else.

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Doug Burkhart wrote:
They need to be investigating the drug use that goes on in these cyber cafe's and lan parties. 10-1 he died of something else.


You think so? I don't doubt that there is widespread drug-use in cyber cafes and Lan parties, but I think this guy may have died just from over-exposure to stressful stimuli for so long.

At any rate, outside of the drug issues, video game addiction is real and is becoming a bigger problem as their popularity soars and as the games become more intense and realistic. Grown men quitting their jobs to play video games is scary. I heard of a father of a friend of mine who would come home during lunch break to play video games. It's insane. I've also read about other individuals who got so involved with a game (particularly online games) that they could no longer deal with reality and committed suicide.

As a video game player myself, I unerstand how fun and great they can be. I'm guilty of playing way too much CounterStrike sometimes. I just think that the dangers of all products, including drugs, narcotics, and anything that can be potentially harmful if people if over-use them, needs to be made public. Americans in particular have serious issues controlling their urges to go off the deep end, from drugs to sex to now video games. We live in an immature country with immature citizens and we unfortunately have to do a better job of teaching people about moderation. I'm tired of the fact that my little cousins are allowed play video games incessantly while they get fatter and fatter.

Video games: good.
Too much of anything: bad.

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the only rampant drug use i have seen at lan parties is excessive mountain dew consumption. mountain dew is like gamer crack.

and you have to admit, its not a bad way to go...

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jovana wrote:
the only rampant drug use i have seen at lan parties is excessive mountain dew consumption. mountain dew is like gamer crack.

and you have to admit, its not a bad way to go...


Hmm. I have friends who say that most of the drug use associated with early days of raves are at lan parties. He is someone who I respect, and I asked a couple of my old #madcircle friends accross the country (think back to da chronic and aohell) and they said it was true. Easier to find drugs at lan parties than at raves these days. Maybe it depends on the area of the country or the crews you are running with. I know down in Canton/Akron it goes on. *shrug*

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Yeah from the friends I have who are into intense gaming an LANs, I heard nothing about drugs. But I can imagine that it happens.

All I know is that CounterStrike is far more addictive than any drug on the planet :evil:

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bac wrote:
All I know is that CounterStrike is far more addictive than any drug on the planet :evil:


Yeah, back to the matter at hand. We need to teach people a better job of taking things in moderation. I wonder if this can be related to our scene at all?

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Doug Burkhart wrote:
bac wrote:
All I know is that CounterStrike is far more addictive than any drug on the planet :evil:


Yeah, back to the matter at hand. We need to teach people a better job of taking things in moderation. I wonder if this can be related to our scene at all?


Well I think that with the death of the rave era, it's always good to try to move past the stereotypes of drugs being rampant with electronic music. That's why I particularly don't like the flyers that blatantly promote raves and drug images because they re-enforce stereotypes. I think once Americans recognize EDM as something separate and distinct from drug-induced rave music, there can be more appreciation.

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Doug Burkhart wrote:
Yeah, back to the matter at hand. We need to teach people a better job of taking things in moderation. I wonder if this can be related to our scene at all?


well doug, you are quite the record dealer; and most of us on this forum are quite the record addicts =P

hopefully none of us will die from owning too many records. tho i do recall quite a few moving occasions when i was easily thrown off balance and nearly crushed by the weight of a full record crate....

erm..not really

anyways, it's hard to dissassociate drugs from any kind of music. think: rock'n'roll, or blues, or phish. somehow events around those types of music aren't labeled as enemies to good health.

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Suburban wrote:
Doug Burkhart wrote:
Yeah, back to the matter at hand. We need to teach people a better job of taking things in moderation. I wonder if this can be related to our scene at all?


well doug, you are quite the record dealer; and most of us on this forum are quite the record addicts =P

hopefully none of us will die from owning too many records. tho i do recall quite a few moving occasions when i was easily thrown off balance and nearly crushed by the weight of a full record crate....

erm..not really

anyways, it's hard to dissassociate drugs from any kind of music. think: rock'n'roll, or blues, or phish. somehow events around those types of music aren't labeled as enemies to good health.


I was actually off the drug topic when I said "Yeah, back to the matter at hand. We need to teach people a better job of taking things in moderation. I wonder if this can be related to our scene at all?"

I'll save this for another thread though Wink

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everything in moderation...even moderation. excessive gameplay is not so bad...i can think of worse things for disenchanted youth to be engaged in. so long as its occasionarly interrupted by the development of some social skills, i say "game on." my two months heavily addicted to an mmorpg (wow i feel like a dork) wasn't bad b/c i did actually leave the house and shower on occasion...although living on nothing but puffed cheese products and mountain dew was probably not the best idea.

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I was addicted to RUNESCAPE two summers ago. I played it for over 48 hours straight... only paused to grab some cereal or go to the bathroom.

My back, right arm, and wrist hurt for what seemed like forever.






I don't play video games anymore.

I am currently addicted to Photoshop. Help.

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