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Ojamajo LimePie
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You might as well add chocoholic while you're at it.
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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People can be addicted to anything, I saw a documentary about a guy who was addicted to maple syrup (and not even the real kind that comes out of trees).
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John Hayabusa
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They should have mentioned microtransaction as one of the primary factors of gaming disorder. DLCs are fine, as long as they are not too many in one game and they are worth buying, but microtransaction needs to go away.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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This shows how certain organizations, like the WHO, are basically political tools. They should be largely ignored.
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FilthyCasual
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Duh?
Rather than videogames being a specific inducer of addiction (outside of microtransactions and shady gacha stuff), it's more likely that these people were prone to addiction from the start. It could've been TV shows, it could've been porn, it could've been webcomics. If you want to procrastinate/distract yourself/numb yourself hard enough, anything will do. |
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Emdykay
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The heck kinda statement is this? How is gaming addiction a very political thing to begin with? It is mostly violence in games that gets made a political issue, not addiction sweeping the poor youth away, that would be a new one as a mass media panic for me, especially in recent times where the noise around gaming has decreased considerably as most governments have realised the money it makes. That being said you need to explain to me how doing something that might impact the industries revenue is a reasonable political goal for whom exactly? People who don´t like the billions of tax income the gaming industry produces? Or which fringe group that doesn´t like games is now the secret elite that pulls the worlds strings behind the scene? This post is as random as it gets. |
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crazieanimefan1
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Looks like my son, myself, and quite a number of people I know are about to be committed then.
Video games are stress relievers in my house. I played Animal Crossing City Folk and it helped me calm down during some rather shoddy tooth work that caused bad headaches. For this to happen is definately crazy...but not for us who like video games. Now those who became murderers due to some, which are in the news, now maybe they need the help, but us casual gamers...give us a break! |
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Lord Oink
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Probably because they also just said being trans isn't a mental disorder as well. So being a gamer is being worse than having gender identity disorder I guess  Obviously politics play a part in what organizations consider a disorder or not. Does this mean we can quit all our jobs and collect disability? If so, hey, not bad...
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Emdykay
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Oh I know very well. I´m just honestly surprised right now how quickly people are dropping the facade of using a topic that resonates with a broad base to discredit and manipulate the opinion of the WHO because of their transgender classification decision. You just made my job here a lot easier by kindly demonstrating that to everyone. |
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Fabe
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unless you and your son are playing anime crossing for 20 hours a day and are pissing into bottles and shitting into socks you are not the people WHO is talking about.I think gamers are becoming the most oversensitive groups out there. |
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crazieanimefan1
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lol He's never played it and I don't play anymore. I'm more into Dragon Ball Fighterz and a few other things, but I rarely have time to play. Real life kicks you. |
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Fabe
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there you go,you have nothing to worry about. you are just a ordinary joe who plays games for fun when you got the time. The WHO isn't going to classify you as addict so you don't have to fear being committed. although I can see anti-gaming crusaders twisting this around to further attack games. |
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Chester McCool
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Are the WHO the same people who classified pedophelia as a sexual preference, and then got tons of hate and harassment by people who didn't want it under the same umbrella as homosexuality until they retraced it? It's nice to see a medical diagnostic can change depending on public opinion, so I'll take this with a big grain of salt.
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jl07045
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Of course they were. Same with alcohol, drugs or gambling. Otherwise everyone would get addicted to them. Shitbuckets were a thing way before microtransactions. It's just that now WHO has recognized gaming as a major addiction stimuli. |
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revolutionotaku
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Mental health condition?
I don't think so! |
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