Internet addicts should be considered mentally ill

[legolas]

But do you know, game companies employ psychologists to design games, levels and action sequences in a way which increases the adrenalin in your body (and serotonin, i guess) which pumps and pushes you to play without stopping??? Its the game developers to blame in those cases. Also, the same principle is used in Casinos (well, its where all started from). Are we going to close the Casinos?? or put in asylum the addicted poker players or casino gamblers??

 

[nvidia]

Is it possible to sue these people legally for calling us mentally ill?

 

[legolas]

^ ^ he he... possibly in the US!! They sue for everything, isn't it? Not sure about the status in India though

 

[nvidia]

^^It might be possible in Europe too....
The EU also sues everyone for everything

 

[casanova]

Lets do it and get a huge amount from it. So we can buy newer hardware and what all as said in the survey.

 

[teknoPhobia]

^ ^ and??

and what?

That about sums up the state of the internet today.

 

[legolas]

That is what I did not understand. thanks.

 

[DigitalDude]

www.theinternetisboring.org

lame attempt

this is like saying s3x is booring to your g4l in bed



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[The Conqueror]

It is true, we actually ignore food and sleep due to computers
so this proves that everything should have LIMIT , when it exceeds limits, it causes problems

 

[legolas]

^ ^ are you suggesting we must be institutionalized?

 

[hellgate]

some1 plzzzzz tell those survey guys to book a room for me in an asylum and make sure that they get me a gaming rig with 2*3870X2 and 8mbps net connection so that i cud recover from this mental ilness.

 

[confused]

But do you know, game companies employ psychologists to design games, levels and action sequences in a way which increases the adrenalin in your body (and serotonin, i guess) which pumps and pushes you to play without stopping???

that means "rockstar games" employs the best in the business.......LOL....gta3 , gtavc, gtasa, midnight club each of them is addictive....

 

[slugger]

IMO as long as u spend 2-4 hours everyday engaging in an outdoor physical activity, what you do in the remaing 20 hours should not be held against you as a case of mental ill heatlh

OK include indoor gymming in that activity list

 

[legolas]

^ ^ how about chess and video games??
cooking? eating? bathing? oh come on!!!
even now-a-days one can get video games that come with sensors which recognize your movement and play it on the screen, right?

 

[Dipen01]

^ ^ are you suggesting we must be institutionalized?

Reminded me of dialogue from 'Shawshank Redemption'

Btw i do believe that i am Net Addict

 

[legolas]

^ ^ really?? what scene? a lovely movie....

 

[Dipen01]

When 'Morgan Freeman' explains the Brook's (Old Librarian) condition to his other inmates explaining the reason of attack on another inmate.

HEYWOOD
Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin
shithouse, is what.

RED
Heywood, enough. Ain't nothing
wrong with Brooksie. He's just
institutionalized, that's all.

HEYWOOD
Institutionalized, my ass.

RED
Man's been here fifty years. This
place is all he knows. In here,
he's an important man, an educated
man. A librarian. Out there, he's
nothing but a used-up old con with
arthritis in both hands. Couldn't
even get a library card if he
applied. You see what I'm saying?

FLOYD
Red, I do believe you're talking
out of your ass.

RED
Believe what you want. These walls
are funny. First you hate 'em, then
you get used to 'em. After long
enough, you get so you depend on
'em. That's "institutionalized."

** - Sorry for offtopic guys

Continue with "suing" them

 

[slugger]

even now-a-days one can get video games that come with sensors which recognize your movement and play it on the screen, right?

if you talikn about the Wii, then simply moving your hands and legs trying to knockout punch on an imaginary opponent, does not give anybody enough exercise

it is only when you pump iron in the gym or run 50 minutes, do you actually do some physical activity that counts

 

[rakee]

How rude and how true !!!!

 

[legolas]

if you talikn about the Wii, then simply moving your hands and legs trying to knockout punch on an imaginary opponent, does not give anybody enough exercise

it is only when you pump iron in the gym or run 50 minutes, do you actually do some physical activity that counts

everybody is obsessed with what they love and they desire... even those people who lift weights like hell with their veins popping out to earn the title "mr. universe" are obsessed... they work more than 8 hrs a day... they are medically over-weight... do you have to institutionalize them as well???
you have to arrest doctors coz they work sleepless shifts saving lives?

this is crazy.