MTV On a Quest to Find Game Addicts

I just snooped around the web abit for more info on this. This show had 9 seasons so far? Yikes!

Anyway, apparnetly this was not the first time they covered games. There's an episode from 2003 called "I'm a gamer" which covers video games. I even found the episode available (and apparnetly Reproduced with Permission) here: http://www.quakeunity.com/file=1528

Hmm.  Well, I've been told by two others, in the past, that I had a video game addiction.  One believes I've gotten over it, and the other I've convinced that I never did have one.  And I'll admit that I used to play WoW to the point where it cut heavily into the time I needed to be working on homework.

However, I'd say that wasn't really an addiction.  It was a period of time where I really didn't enjoy my life, and so video games kind of took precedence simply through the fact they were probably the only thing I enjoyed.  Which to me seems more like a bout of severe depression, rather than a true addiction.

Which raises the question:  How many people play games to escape?  Pretty much all of them, right?  So should we really be surprised when people play games a lot when their lives really suck?  I think people are messing up cause and effect here:  It's not that I play games, therefore I neglect my life, therefore my life winds up sucking.  It's that my life sucked, therefore I wanted to escape, therefore I played games.

And that latter version is hardly something unique to games.  TV, movies, even books... they all promote the sort of escapist tendencies that, to an uninformed outsider, can look remarkably like addiction.

Also, they all exhibit the trait that *if* you use them to excess due to a lack of self-control, they can cause harm to your life.  However, I'd say the trick is that, unlike an addiction, these can be self-corrected.  Or corrected by a slight change of the environment.

-- Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known

Gotta record this on my DVR, I dont like MTV that much anymore since they no longer carry B&B.

Somehow I don't see this ending very well. Now if you will excuse me, I have a few more Class V Full Roaming Vapors to take care of before Work.

Why don't they make a show about people addicted to shitty reality shows featuring shitty, 100% unlikable scumbags?  That's all this network has become.