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| kamikazekeeg:
Scratch what I said, wrote it out wrong. If gaming is an addiction, then anything can be considered an addiction. Reading books would be an addiction, watching television is an addiction, going on walks is an addiction. An addiction has a specific meaning to it, so gaming simply can't be defined as an addiction. |
| rayne315:
gaming cannot be an addiction because an addiction is something that you become physically dependent upon. |
| dreama1:
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on August 03, 2016, 05:45:52 pm ---Scratch what I said, wrote it out wrong. If gaming can be an addiction, then anything can be considered an addiction. Reading books would be an addiction, watching television is an addiction, going on walks is an addiction. An addiction has a specific meaning to it, so gaming simply can't be defined as an addiction. --- End quote --- Cost and benefit. You're improving your vocab and language comprehension reading books. Walking your improving your skin complexion and purifying the lungs of toxins, as well as excerise. |
| kamikazekeeg:
--- Quote from: dreama1 on August 03, 2016, 05:49:42 pm --- --- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on August 03, 2016, 05:45:52 pm ---Scratch what I said, wrote it out wrong. If gaming can be an addiction, then anything can be considered an addiction. Reading books would be an addiction, watching television is an addiction, going on walks is an addiction. An addiction has a specific meaning to it, so gaming simply can't be defined as an addiction. --- End quote --- Cost and benefit. You're improving your vocab and language comprehension reading books. Walking your improving your skin complexion and purifying the lungs of toxins, as well as excerise. --- End quote --- But if you do nothing but read books, spending all your money on books, and your life suffers from reading books, then whatever improvements you are getting are meaningless. You aren't talking about an addiction, you are simply talking the value of gaming in terms of a hobby, not addiction, unless your definition for addiction is vastly different than what it actually is. |
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Gaming is a passion, as are sports, books, cars, stamps. The only thing that a passion can hurt...is your wallet :P |
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