Do you think a game can "ruin" lives?

[Joey'D]

I've been a gamer all my life. I've played WoW for 4 years and have suffered no financial or social damage from it because I have my priorities straight.

So what do you guys think?

i think you are the first person i know who is able to live a normal life while playing "that" game

most people just dont know when to say when, its that simple.
my little brother when he was between the ages of 8-13 would not get up from the computer all day long.
the kid would crap his pants, im not joking, and when i would ask him why he couldnt getup and leave for 5 mins he said, he couldnt get his mind out of the game and just didnt want to lose any time playing.
needless to say i was flabergasted and disgusted all at once, but congrats to you.

i think the statement should be instead of "games ruin lives" it should be "games give you the option to throw your life away", its just up to you.

[joepythons]

i think you are the first person i know who is able to live a normal life while playing "that" game

most people just dont know when to say when, its that simple.
my little brother when he was between the ages of 8-13 would not get up from the computer all day long.
the kid would crap his pants, im not joking, and when i would ask him why he couldnt getup and leave for 5 mins he said, he couldnt get his mind out of the game and just didnt want to lose any time playing.
needless to say i was flabergasted and disgusted all at once, but congrats to you.

i think the statement should be instead of "games ruin lives" it should be "games give you the option to throw your life away", its just up to you.

Thank you .On a side note i hope your brother outgrew his issue

[Joey'D]

Thank you .On a side note i hope your brother outgrew his issue

lol, well i hope so, i think so, im 10 years his senior, and he still lives back in Brooklyn, so i dont see him so often, but i havent heard my mother complaining about it for a while, so i assume he did..... i hope at least.
i think after the first year of smelling like crap at highschool may have had something to do with him stopping, that and his computer privledges were reduced a crap load (no punn intended i swear LOL).

i used to be a hard core gamer, as in ive logged thousands of hours on games like Halo and grand theft auto, and i never lost sleep, missed work, missed a bathroom run lol, but i was also a teen, so i had the time.
these days, i like to read more than play video games, aside from tiger woods golf

[aybe.sea]

i know a married couple in their late 20's who you would look at and never expect them to love wow so much, but lo and behold they enjoy it on their 24" computer screen whenever they can. they somehow manage to take care of a child, work and live in a very big house. amazing!

its the person's fault no matter what. not the game. if you're dumb enough to let a video game ruin your life, its probably going to be ruined by something equally as stupid. theres no hope for you

if theres help for these idiots i presume its nothing more than demonizing video games with a little brainwashing on the side. just like other bullcrap rehab programs they have for drinking and really bad drugs like cannabis. heres some southpark wisdom, its about alcohol but can really be said about lots of things, like video games

If you devote your whole life to completely avoiding something you like, then that thing still controls your life and... and you've never learned any discipline at all.

"But, maybe I'm just the kind of person who needs to have it all or nothing?"

No. All or nothing is easy. But learning to (play) a little bit, responsibly? That's a-discipline. Discipline comes from within.