reply to post by halfoldman
Those new addictions you list are all psychological and therefore an easy habit to break. Take an addict away from the psychological addiction for a
while and they will focus on something else to become addicted to or even better, realise the trap they are willingly falling into.
You also forgot one major addiction out there. Gaming!
For example years ago I used to be “addicted” to online gaming and then I took it to another level and became addicted to irritating others by
carefully picking targets that were taking things way to seriously and talking on voice as if it was a real life or death situation.
That would be my cue!
Example1: a player parks a vehicle in well defended spot and lays mines around to defend him as he fires the vehicles main weapon while spewing
military speak about whatever.
I hop into his vehicle, he asks me to get out and be a team player. I respond by driving away with him still in the vehicle and I trundle over one of
his mines thus blowing us both to hell.
As he types “WTF you n00b, lamer??? I punish him for team killing me and I then die in real time from laughter because he more or less throws a fit
and gives me my “fix”.
Example2: a jet takes off and does a nice curve out into the blue, heading for the other teams base and if the player starts hitting the military
speak like something out of top gun.... I would step out from behind my tree and detonate the explosives I had stealthily attached to the aircraft
before takeoff.
I gained much more enjoyment from stopping others from enjoying games. Sad I agree but that was what I did to blow off steam and I would go to bed
very relaxed, sometimes chuckling at the chain reaction of team killing my acts often kicked off – icing on the cake.
I became addicted to picking on the adept and vocal if I was not kicked from a server at least six times in a session I was doing something wrong.
That is an example of a psychological addiction taken to a new extreme and twisted to become a personal fix outside the norm of online gaming.
Eventually I realised that virtually I had become something that is not really a natural part of my character in the real world and one day I just
gave (yes gave) my gaming desktop away.
There is something going on behind the scene that is fuelling this need to make us addicted to things that should not be addictive.
I wonder who these new addictions serve, keeping our eyes distracted from the real game.
Sorry to any gamers out there but I no longer do these things because I realised that a dedicated gamer is being played by a dedicated market that
wants you distracted from real life issues.
I happily use a mediocre laptop now and just surf to relax, so no need to hang me.
