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‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization

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Post by pdpi »

ezoe wrote: post #76
keerthiko wrote: post #8

> 2. Increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities This needs to be further qualified, such as by "over extended periods of time". If you spend a weekend prioritizing gaming over other life interests/activities, it's no different than having a crunch week at work and prioritizing work over life interests/activities, neither of which shoul…

If you are rich and no need to work, you hire the servants for your daily meals, hygiene, excretion, and/or remainder for take some sleep, playing game all day long for everyday isn't a disorder.

Not really. Personal, family, social functioning are all impaired still.

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Post by _khau »

Micrococonut wrote: post #48
nickjj wrote: post #18

All 3 of the article's points could be applied to any hobby / passion driven profession. Next up... Guitar disorder Karate disorder Baseball disorder Fast forward 10 years... Someone coins the term "hobby disorder" after detecting numerous patterns of people wasting their life away on doing things they enjoy. Fast forward 20 years... Being passionate about anything is a thing of the past. Everyone works a corporate j…

This is really funny. How much have you "innovated" while gaming? You are living under the thumb of entertainment media already. You're trapped in your time waster instead of innovating.

If you want to be overly reductionist about it, everything you will do in your life is a waste of time.

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Post by ionised »

ekianjo wrote: post #66
Micrococonut wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really funny. How much have you "innovated" while gaming? You are living under the thumb of entertainment media already. You're trapped in your time waster instead of innovating.

Everything is a time waster until you know, investments pays off. Playing an instrument is a time waster until it turns into something you can market. Its difficult to judge future benefits of current actions.

Why does everything have to turn into something you can market?

So you spend a few hours playing games and you have nothing to sell or shill on Hackernews. Is that a problem?

Did you enjoy yourself playing those games? Yes? Then why isn't that enough?

Downtime is important.

Re: ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization

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Post by perilunar »

ekianjo wrote: post #9
oligopoly wrote: post #4

Next up Social Media Disorder (SMD), Internet Disorder.. I'd be surprised if the latter isn't a thing already

i expect Wikipedia Disorder as well for people who are too curious and read too much. So basically any deviation from the normal boring person is a disorder,says the thought police.

I absolutely have wikipedia disorder. And google maps disorder.

We used to call jokingly call it being an 'information junkie', but it's real, not a joke.

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Post by Synaesthesia »

I started playing Starcraft and watching it about 2 years ago. I’ve always had an obsessive mind and had stopped playing games since high school. It’s reached a point where I almost dedicate every free moment to playing. Games are incredibly addictive and it can be hard to stop. Back when I didn’t play I never understood why people play games so much. Games used to be only for geeks and boys but now everybody plays them. They are addictive and I think it’s a growing problem.

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Post by mmjaa »

I stopped playing mainstream video games last century when, after a 'quick network game of Starcraft and maybe a bit of Quake on a Friday afternoon at the end of the work week', I emerged from the dungeon we'd made at work for the purpose, only to discover it was Sunday morning, and more than 24 hours had gone by since any of us had even thought about what we were doing.

That was my personal wake-up call. Now I only play MAME games that require, max, 10 or 15 minutes of investment .. and then I simply stop.

I sort of miss the arcades of the 80's, which didn't seem to really propagate this addiction as readily as the current madness does.

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Post by ComodoHacker »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #85

I started playing Starcraft and watching it about 2 years ago. I’ve always had an obsessive mind and had stopped playing games since high school. It’s reached a point where I almost dedicate every free moment to playing. Games are incredibly addictive and it can be hard to stop. Back when I didn’t play I never understood why people play games so much. Games used to be only for geeks and boys but now everybody plays t…

>I started playing Starcraft and watching it about 2 years ago

You mean Starcraft II?

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