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Not knowing anything about this individual I don't want to make too many assumptions but the broader point here is valid. The whole culture of 'hardcore gaming'
by jsz0 14y ago
Not knowing anything about this individual I don't want to make too many assumptions but the broader point here is valid. The whole culture of 'hardcore gaming' is pretty creepy to me. There's a fine line between fun and mental illness. It's too easy to look at this as just a harmless eccentric hobby when, past a certain point, it really needs to be treated more like a serious problem with interventions & rehab. I really dislike how the culture around it is so supportive of obviously destructive behaviors. It's eerily similar to hardcore drug culture at times.
- sukuriant 14y agos/hardcore gaming/competitive horseback riding/d s/hardcore gaming/competitive Go playing/d s/hardcore gaming/dedicated Iron Man competition training/d s/hardcore gaming/frequent weekend get-away-ing/d s/hardcore gaming/dedicated volunteering/d Perhaps I'm not familiar with the hardcore gaming you've seen, with exception, perhaps, of WoW addiction, but you need to be careful of looking at a particular use of a person's pass-time, or even an entire culture's use of their pass time
- giblfiz 14y agoWell two differences... one only applies to some of those things. In the case of all of the physically active ones they to some extent self-regulate. There is really only so much power-lifting you can do in a week, and very few ways around that max (even assuming steroid use) But I think the more relevant issue is far fewer people seem to be prone to obsession in any of those other spheres. It's not that hardcore gaming is any worse than an obsession with chess, it's that far fewer are obsessed with chess. I found this article (which came off of hacker news in the first place) to be super relevant. http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html