Replies to '06/03 Virtual Chaos'

Fine I'm biased.  Happy now?

Also, I went to your site.  I have to say that I learned a lot from this thread, especially about myself and what others are going through.  I'm a gamer, as I said before, but because I am I gamer doesn't mean that I should be a turd to other people who are having a hard time coping with people who play video games in their lives.  I won't say that I know a lot, but I will say that I was truly biased on this issue and luckily, I can see it now from both views.  However, I won't say that video games themselves ruin lives, I can say that maybe because of over excessive gaming, people are able to block out certain aspects of life and unknowningly, since they're so engrossed into their game, neglect other parts of their life, like their family, friends and such forth.  But I also don't think that gaming addiction is easy to pin down.  Because truly, I still can't find the line to draw between over obsessed gamer or just a guy playing a game for a hobby.   But I guess it just comes down to when the person is ready to be able to doing something else other than gaming, or just continue as he or she is.  Gaming can be an addiction and so can many other things.  But I don't think that it should be so attacked like it always is.  There is a positive to gaming as well.  There are many games that have you focus on actual thinking and targeting certain aspects of the mind.  For example, look at the new game Little Big Planet.  It's amazing, yet such a simple idea just made complex.  Sure, people may not see it as a ground breaking game, but for something that's not all about shoot'em up violence, I was pleasently surprised.  Also, I had a talk with my friend to gain more knowledge on WoW, because I'm not a player.  And honestly, I can see why now why it's such an awesome game.  It's not just a package of "you do this, then this, then this and then you go and do this and you get an item" or whatever.  It's more than that.  It also requires a level of thinking because of the strategies you need to think up to win and to gain things with that game.  Truthfully, and I'm not afraid to say it, I was a bitch on this thread.  ( really hope I don't get reported for the use of that word, lol)  And for all the people I offended, including you exgamerdotcom (I hope I got that right), I had no right.  You people were stating your views as I was mine.  Therefore, I apologize for not listening to what people were saying and just running on my anger and using harsh comments.  Also, exgamer, I learned quite a bit from you as well.  That there are actually programs for game addiction.  I didn't believe it was so serious until you said.  Don't get me wrong, my views didn't change.  More so, I just modified them a bit.  Truly, all in moderation is a great saying for this.  All in moderation.  So, after this long rant, which I may have bored people with, I say I'm sorry again and next time I'll look at both sides of the story and not let my anger win out--because I've been doing that a lot lately and I don't want to be a --insert first bad word that comes to mind here-- lmao.  Also, to colonialweaver (I hope I got that right) a BIG sorry to you.  I can tell you are probably hurting and if not, forgive me for assuming.  But my comment most likely didn't help matters and what your going through, what you said was right, you don't need cheap shot comments like mine and I'm sure I could have stated my point in a better way than previous.  So thats it.  Till next post.