Video game addiction a mental disorder?

[Carnage]

I thought this article was interesting: link

[comicfreak]

i personally think this is a load of crap. this article is made by scientists who just want to find a stupid way to make kids "healthy". scientists or medical doctors like these are exactly like the people who wrote a book about how comics are the "corruption of the child's mind" in the 50s. or 60s.

[Carnage]

True but I have to bring up about those retards that stopped eating & sleeping(which eventualy lead to death) because they just couldn't stop playing World of Warcraft, but thats just pure stupidity. I think it's choice not mental illness, you know when your playing too many video games, some people choose to ignore their common sense because they are depressed.

[comicfreak]

thats not mental illness. those are pathetic losers who have no life.

[Carnage]

Get this, now their trying to get the ESRB to change their rating system to include addiction factors or something instead of having video game addiction as a mental disorder. This is all BS.

www.gamespot.com/news/6173252.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0

[comicfreak]

i know. god they might as well make oblivion a Adult game cause everyone is addicted to that.

[Carnage]

Yeah, it's stupid they changed the rating to M on Oblivion too because of that stupid Mod. I think World of Warcraft would get it worse though because its pratically never-ending and some dumb kids were playing it when they died.

[comicfreak]

i know. this whole thing is stupid. the system is corrupt man! we gotta fight the power! down with the man!