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Your entire comment is presumptuous and predicated on the assumption that playing for 14 hours a day inhibits those things, which is not necessarily true. Playi

by ruswick 14y ago

Your entire comment is presumptuous and predicated on the assumption that playing for 14 hours a day inhibits those things, which is not necessarily true. Playing might be the symptom, not the cause.

ryusage 14y ago
To be fair, that only leaves 10 hours a day for the person to do anything else, and presumably 6 - 9 of that is sleeping. Optimistically, that leaves 4 hours a day to do things like eating, grooming, chores, job hunting, etc. So the extreme amount of gaming may start as a "symptom" as you say, but I just can't see how that person could really ever effect any change in their life when they spend literally almost all of their time gaming.
- corin_ 14y ago
  14 hours being the high end certainly pushes the limits, but of the remaining 10 hours it would be possible for only 4-6 to be sleep (4 hours a night may not be great for you, but they might sleep exactly the same amount with or without gaming), an hour for eating/grooming/etc., if they live with parents they may well have few/no chores/cooking/etc.... So perhaps not for everybody, but it certainly isn't possible to play 14 hours a day and spend a few hours looking for work. Even more so if you are at the 10 hours a day rather than 14.
- waitwhat 14y ago
  You are correct as far as you go, but gaming that heavily is often caused by (and hence a symptom of) other problems, such as depression. If you simply force the gamer to quit, the underlying problems persist, and may continue to manifest themselves in similarly harmful/unconstructive/however-you-choose-to-describe-it behaviour such as a 100-hour-a-week TV habit. A gaming habit is frequently (usually?) a symptom rather than the root cause of the problems, although poor life decisions can exacerbate depression making it hard to disentangle the two.
jeremyarussell 14y ago
I'm not trying to be presumptuous, but I've never seen someone defy laws of physics by still having plenty of time to live while also spending over half that life online. It's simple math is all I'm getting at. I go through this with some friends of mine often, they insist that they still get stuff done while spending every waking moment on games and touching their computers to program or what have you for a half an hour and getting frustrated. Guess what they do to get past frustration, play games. It's not a good cycle. Btw, I hold a full time job and played over 8 hours of Prototype 2 yesterday(just to get the platinum trophy). On days I work I still end up playing 2-3 hours a day, I don't spend 5-6 hours playing games though because it would get in the way of my programming.

by ruswick 14y ago

Your entire comment is presumptuous and predicated on the assumption that playing for 14 hours a day inhibits those things, which is not necessarily true. Playing might be the symptom, not the cause.

ryusage 14y ago

To be fair, that only leaves 10 hours a day for the person to do anything else, and presumably 6 - 9 of that is sleeping. Optimistically, that leaves 4 hours a day to do things like eating, grooming, chores, job hunting, etc. So the extreme amount of gaming may start as a "symptom" as you say, but I just can't see how that person could really ever effect any change in their life when they spend literally almost all of their time gaming.

corin_ 14y ago
14 hours being the high end certainly pushes the limits, but of the remaining 10 hours it would be possible for only 4-6 to be sleep (4 hours a night may not be great for you, but they might sleep exactly the same amount with or without gaming), an hour for eating/grooming/etc., if they live with parents they may well have few/no chores/cooking/etc.... So perhaps not for everybody, but it certainly isn't possible to play 14 hours a day and spend a few hours looking for work. Even more so if you are at the 10 hours a day rather than 14.
waitwhat 14y ago
You are correct as far as you go, but gaming that heavily is often caused by (and hence a symptom of) other problems, such as depression. If you simply force the gamer to quit, the underlying problems persist, and may continue to manifest themselves in similarly harmful/unconstructive/however-you-choose-to-describe-it behaviour such as a 100-hour-a-week TV habit. A gaming habit is frequently (usually?) a symptom rather than the root cause of the problems, although poor life decisions can exacerbate depression making it hard to disentangle the two.

jeremyarussell 14y ago

I'm not trying to be presumptuous, but I've never seen someone defy laws of physics by still having plenty of time to live while also spending over half that life online. It's simple math is all I'm getting at. I go through this with some friends of mine often, they insist that they still get stuff done while spending every waking moment on games and touching their computers to program or what have you for a half an hour and getting frustrated. Guess what they do to get past frustration, play games. It's not a good cycle. Btw, I hold a full time job and played over 8 hours of Prototype 2 yesterday(just to get the platinum trophy). On days I work I still end up playing 2-3 hours a day, I don't spend 5-6 hours playing games though because it would get in the way of my programming.