Surely you mean almost as addictive, heh.
By the way... you claimed on the Banned Thread that I haven't done enough gaming on the internet.
You couldn't be more wrong.
I've done way too much.
I started internet gaming when I was 12 years old.... I started from doing 4-8 hours a day on the weekdays and 6-10 hours on the weekends every day playing AoC a.ka. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings: The Conquerors Expansion (pack), to then doing really consistently 8 hours a day weekdays and 10 hours a day weekends every day.... until I was about 16 years of age, where I then spent a year and a half playing Call of Duty 2 for 16 hours a day every day. I didn't leave the house on my own until I was about 18 and a half years old. I spent age 12-17 and a half indoors playing video games basically. I hardly ever went out - and if I did it was usually (specifically) shopping with my family that I found so boring I went out even less with them. I wouldn't call that not doing enough gaming. I'd call it a tad too much maybe. 1337 speak I learnt from the moments respite I would have from playing the game and instead maybe actually chatting to people. I only occasionally actually chatted with other players. I'd much rather usually pretend they didn't exist so I could focus on my sheer love of the game, and not the players.
I don't think it's entirely a coincidence that I had an 8 week psychotic episode after losing my computer after my CoD2 gaming romp from age 16-17 and a half. One of the reasons I would say was cold turkey. It's not a physical dependence, but it's an obsession to the extent a gambling obsession can be. Only it's 100% free so you can obviously afford do it much more.
My teenage years of internet gaming were the most psychologically unhealthy years of my life. They were also by far the most enjoyable and I still extremely miss the sheer love I had for my life back in those good old gaming days of mine.
By the way... you claimed on the Banned Thread that I haven't done enough gaming on the internet.
You couldn't be more wrong.
I've done way too much.
I started internet gaming when I was 12 years old.... I started from doing 4-8 hours a day on the weekdays and 6-10 hours on the weekends every day playing AoC a.ka. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings: The Conquerors Expansion (pack), to then doing really consistently 8 hours a day weekdays and 10 hours a day weekends every day.... until I was about 16 years of age, where I then spent a year and a half playing Call of Duty 2 for 16 hours a day every day. I didn't leave the house on my own until I was about 18 and a half years old. I spent age 12-17 and a half indoors playing video games basically. I hardly ever went out - and if I did it was usually (specifically) shopping with my family that I found so boring I went out even less with them. I wouldn't call that not doing enough gaming. I'd call it a tad too much maybe. 1337 speak I learnt from the moments respite I would have from playing the game and instead maybe actually chatting to people. I only occasionally actually chatted with other players. I'd much rather usually pretend they didn't exist so I could focus on my sheer love of the game, and not the players.
I don't think it's entirely a coincidence that I had an 8 week psychotic episode after losing my computer after my CoD2 gaming romp from age 16-17 and a half. One of the reasons I would say was cold turkey. It's not a physical dependence, but it's an obsession to the extent a gambling obsession can be. Only it's 100% free so you can obviously afford do it much more.
My teenage years of internet gaming were the most psychologically unhealthy years of my life. They were also by far the most enjoyable and I still extremely miss the sheer love I had for my life back in those good old gaming days of mine.
