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Everything has a price! Including my soul! One soul for sale! One partially used soul for sale! Rare raptor soul for sale! Any takers?
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Originally Posted by Ashcraft
Then Horus found it and sold it at Wentworths.
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I'll always be a "Champion" at heart. My server away from home.
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I also think it depends on the person. GP like gaming for the exact same reason I do. We are both stay at home moms with a brood of children. It's cheaper and easier just to stay home and meet ppl this way. I also have an addictive nature by default. (I can thank my mom, dad, and grandfather for that) But for some reason, this *addiction* that I have for games is safer than anything else I could and have been addicted to. But I took care of it LIKE A BOSS! It's like anything else, you have to not let it overrule you. |
Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I think the point of the study is more about how much interacting "gamers" (and by extension other people that spend a lot of time in front of a computer) miss out on, and that long-term periods of isolation could be harmful (like the analogy of eating sugar all the time. It fills you up for a while, but the long term effects aren't good.). I disagree with the premise that there's a large, harmful effect, but I think there is a difference in the type of social interactions, and balance is needed.
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I'd heard some relationships were destroyed because of MMO's but like someone posted how are we to really know the underlying reasons for said breakup? I could say Mo doesn't love me anymore because he's ALWAYS on CoH PvPing but I'd know it's bogus. There's never just one single reason and where the other reason may not be good enough the "gaming" reason seems to be easier to swollow for the person involved and garner sympathy from his/her friends.
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I'd say, ballpark, this is roughly four hundred babies... or more!
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Originally Posted by AngieB
brood of children
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"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
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Originally Posted by Cobalt Azurean
I'd say, ballpark, this is roughly four hundred babies... or more!
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we know her limbic resonance is working!
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Originally Posted by Cherry Cupcakes
we know her limbic resonance is working!
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Just sayin'.
"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
ROFLMAO I truly just snorted when I read this >.<
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is that why WW wasnt working?
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Originally Posted by AngieB
ROFLMAO I truly just snorted when I read this >.<
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Originally Posted by AngieB
According to the experts we (gamers) cannot have an active social life because we do not "physically" interact with others in our games.
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There's a reason mmo players are depicted the way they are.
If the bulk of your personal connections can be literally unplugged, you can't be living a fulfilling life with family and friends.
Coh is made up of mostly casual players, but there are some, I'll be away on business come home and they're on, go to a bbq with my family come back and they're on, go on vacation get back and they're on.
And those people who've played for years and still are logging in heavy hours aren't happy fulfilled people, they live in stages of denial about the reason why.
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| only seems to happen effectively when we're face to face - when we can see and hear and touch each other. ... When people go online to try to meet their social needs, it's analogous to being a hungry person who eats sugar. They will, in the end, starve." |
Me, I play with my boys now and then, so very casual.
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
Rampant generalizations and stereotypes...
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Edit: I feel strangely fulfilled by this.
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"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
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The D-Bag has been dismissed...
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
There's a reason mmo players are depicted the way they are.
If the bulk of your personal connections can be literally unplugged, you can't be living a fulfilling life with family and friends. Coh is made up of mostly casual players, but there are some, I'll be away on business come home and they're on, go to a bbq with my family come back and they're on, go on vacation get back and they're on. And those people who've played for years and still are logging in heavy hours aren't happy fulfilled people, they live in stages of denial about the reason why. If you quickly dismiss that quote as stupid the authors as morons et cetera, then you've answered the titles inquiry. Me, I play with my boys now and then, so very casual. |
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who are you again?
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
There's a reason mmo players are depicted the way they are.
If the bulk of your personal connections can be literally unplugged, you can't be living a fulfilling life with family and friends. Coh is made up of mostly casual players, but there are some, I'll be away on business come home and they're on, go to a bbq with my family come back and they're on, go on vacation get back and they're on. And those people who've played for years and still are logging in heavy hours aren't happy fulfilled people, they live in stages of denial about the reason why. If you quickly dismiss that quote as stupid the authors as morons et cetera, then you've answered the titles inquiry. Me, I play with my boys now and then, so very casual. |
Does it smell a lil funny in this thread?
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
If the bulk of your personal connections can be literally unplugged, you can't be living a fulfilling life with family and friends. |
If someone lives in a REALLY small town and they are not big into hunting and the only outlet they really have for stimulating conversation via face to face chat is with the grocery store checkers then, quite honestly, I do not see how this comment should to apply to them.
Each person has their reason for playing as little or as much as they want and this does not mean they
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
Coh is made up of mostly casual players, but there are some, I'll be away on business come home and they're on, go to a bbq with my family come back and they're on, go on vacation get back and they're on.
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how do you know they never left? how do you know they didnt just come back from various things as well like you had?? thats a pretty big ASSumption dontcha think? And why would you even check such a thing? that just seems a bit odd and creepy and stalkerish to me..
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I don't think this thread is feelin' its freshest anymore.
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Originally Posted by _Force_
Does it smell a lil funny in this thread?
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"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
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I think he has a hard on for him..
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Originally Posted by Cherry Cupcakes
wait, i have a question..
how do you know they never left? how do you know they didnt just come back from various things as well like you had?? thats a pretty big ASSumption dontcha think? And why would you even check such a thing? that just seems a bit odd and creepy and stalkerish to me.. |
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Why, who?
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Originally Posted by Fanged_Knight
I think he has a hard on for him..
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"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
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Wait wait, let me get some popcorn and have a seat. You can tell me all about your normal life.
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
And those people who've played for years and still are logging in heavy hours aren't happy fulfilled people, they live in stages of denial about the reason why. |
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I play standing up? Crazy.
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Originally Posted by _Force_
Wait wait, let me get some popcorn and have a seat.
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Originally Posted by _Force_
Wait wait, let me get some popcorn and have a seat. You can tell me all about your normal life.
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"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
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Originally Posted by Cobalt Azurean
Why, who?
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He has said, he hopes once he goes blue he never goes back...
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I think Force might need to go into hidin'.
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Originally Posted by Fanged_Knight
All I know is he wants to service something blue...
He has said, he hopes once he goes blue he never goes back... |
"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
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Just to be different I was going to let this pass without comment, because I have no reason to care what this person thinks, but unfortunately other people noticed it too. <.<
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Originally Posted by Tank_Washington
And those people who've played for years and still are logging in heavy hours aren't happy fulfilled people, they live in stages of denial about the reason why.
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'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
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Originally Posted by Cobalt Azurean
I think Force might need to go into hidin'.
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I'm apparently in some sort of a state of denial so I can't verify that anyone wants to have a go at my leg.
But if they did I'd just pretend everything was ok...
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I don't know to many people who get to hang out with a large number of their friends almost every night. As Force said most people would come home watch TV, maybe you would talk to a few on the phone one at a time. Trying to actually communicate at a bar or a party is almost impossible. The study does not take into account things like Ventrilo, Steam and FB.
All computer games are not equal either. There are people on FB who play farmville, vampire wars, mafia wars etc. Who consider themselves "gamers". I'm sure the gals on the lifetime website playing fashion wars think they are gamers. Are there more physically healthy hobbies/obsessions? ...Yes!
There are some people who get addicted, the true meaning of addiction. Those instances are the exception and not the rule. I would think that those people are predisposed to an addiction. Some people can handle alcohol, marijuana,gambling or have tried drugs without becoming addicted.