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Alotta Baggage
Amarr Imperial Manufactorum Armada Assail
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Posted - 2011.02.01 20:56:00 -
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Originally by: Chainsaw Plankton
Originally by: Mina Hiragi
Originally by: Tom Gerard According to my psychologist
Your psychologist better not go hunting with **** Cheney.
Quack, quack quack quack *boom*
best post in a good long while 
Agreed /thread and best quote in 2011  |

Durnin Stormbrow
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Posted - 2011.02.01 21:04:00 -
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Originally by: Tom Gerard According to my psychologist the reason people play video games past the age of nine (the medically relevant age for people to stop playing video games) is because they were neglected by their parents.
So what would this psychologist say about a 42 year old that plays video games with his 12 year old son, having learned the love of video games by playing them with his dad?
Is it a family tradition of active neglect?
Man, brings back memories thoughà How many remember the days when playing the good video games involved taping an overlay to the TV?
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ShadowLZ
Minmatar We See Dead People Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2011.02.01 21:19:00 -
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Originally by: Durnin Stormbrow
Man, brings back memories thoughà How many remember the days when playing the good video games involved taping an overlay to the TV?
I imagine one of the few 330,000 people who actually owned a magnavox odyssey. |

Mecinia Lua
Galactic Express The Spire Collective
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Posted - 2011.02.01 21:21:00 -
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Well being 41 and playing, hmm I wonder about your psycologist.
I'll admit if I was married and had children though I probably would not play, as the family would take to much time. |

Fouljin
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Posted - 2011.02.01 22:31:00 -
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When I was kid there was no Videogames! Now than Im old and all grown up, I like to entertain my self with videogames. I don't watch much TV but I read alot books. I play about 2 hours per day. On weekends more (mostly eve)
I think your shrink is just oldfashioned and if theres actual medical statement that kids should drop videogames after age nine of they are mental is just..... Most kids GET theirs games after age of nine! |

RiskyFrisky
Under the Table Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.01 22:38:00 -
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I'd say your psychologist is a ****ing idiot and needs to be fired. |
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CCP Fallout

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Posted - 2011.02.01 22:39:00 -
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Moved to OOPE from GD |
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Seishi Maru
Organization for Nuclear Research
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Posted - 2011.02.01 22:42:00 -
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Originally by: Tom Gerard Edited by: Tom Gerard on 01/02/2011 17:22:21
According to my psychologist the reason people play video games past the age of nine (the medically relevant age for people to stop playing video games) is because they were neglected by their parents.
EDIT: My opinion is clearly a 'NO' but then again I am seeing a psychologist so I might be 'nuttier than a bighorn dropping'
Whats your opinion?
Did your parents ruin your life?
Is super mario really more dangerous than injecting yourself with cleaning solution?
change psychologist. FAST
I've been doing therapy for 6 years.. with 3 professionals and when i wanted to simply stop playing video games, what I heard was.. basically.. that is STUPID.. you should not stop doing something you enjoy and that is not causing you any harm neither making you neglect your life.
Your psycologist is simply incompetent.. or he would say that playing chess is only for children? You know.. since both are mental challenge games that exploit a fake representation of reality to put you in some sort of competition.
Or is he the type that thinks an adult life should be only WORK WORK and alcohol? Sure.. that is much more healthy :/ |

Vogue
Short Bus Pole Dancers
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Posted - 2011.02.01 22:55:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 01/02/2011 22:56:01 When I was a kid in the 80's I lived in a commuter town - Redditch (named after the bubonic plague - classy eh) outside of Birmingham. It was one of a lot of new towns in England. New houses were built with grassy plains in between. Now a lot of the grassy spaces have been built on. But in the early 80's it was idyllic for a kid. Safe for kids to roam around. Build dens in the woody areas. Cycle all over the place away congested main roads.
I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k with a tape loader. I played some games but I spent most of the time out and about playing. Also playing with Lego, Zoids and watching kids tv. The 80's was a brilliant time for cartoons - Transformers, Dog Tanian, Ullyses, etc. And then parents left their front doors unlocked. We could go into our friends houses. Now kids TV is worse and they play to much computer games. Instead parents should say go out and play. But a lot of people see groups of kids as trouble. There should be more youth clubs started in cities with sports that cater for all. Including boxing and martial arts. I think teaching kids how to use force with restraint is maturing.
That time of my life was in retrospect very good. There was so many things for me to do in a peaceful small commuter town. When the family moved to Sutton Coldfield, a prosperous town in Birmingham in which I felt dislocated from 1986 and I still do now. And in years gone I noticed the stuffy attitude of a lot of people Sutton Coldfield folk who thought part of aspiration also meant turning into a stiff. Outside of Birmingham there is Tamworth. Another commuter town similar to Redditch. I had a job there for 18 months. The people there are more easy going and breezy.
/Now I have no social life and spent most of my life in the computer room duh.
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Flesh Slurper
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.02.01 22:56:00 -
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I play video games because they are a better use of my unallocated time than mindlessly watching TV and have a good price to performance ratio in entertainment value. |
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Istvaan Shogaatsu
Caldari Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2011.02.01 23:05:00 -
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Originally by: Flesh Slurper I play video games because they are a better use of my unallocated time than mindlessly watching TV and have a good price to performance ratio in entertainment value.
Thanks a lot, jackass. You just had to go and make sense, didn't you. Now we'll have to review everything. |

Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.02 00:16:00 -
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Edited by: Slade Trillgon on 02/02/2011 00:18:25 However possible it is that the opinion of your psychologist could be possible for some, very small number, in the gaming world, he would be hard pressed to find anything in the peer reviewed literature that would support his claims as an acceptable conclusion to use for the whole population.
You should tell him to read the literature on the importance of gmaes in the develoment of man.
I would also be interested in their viewpoint of the pre-history of games before video-games. Considering that most of these types of games occured away from parental supervision at a time were kids spent most of their time out of the house and away from their parents as pointed out with the below quote from Grau, Oliver (2004). Virtual Art. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-57223-1. Gathered from a wiki sight on Gmae Studies, last paragraph. I can not link the original content since my access to the local Uni database is non-existant 
"Videogame pre-historyThere is now also an emerging field of study (Oliver Grau, 2004, and others) that looks at the "pre-history" of video games, and at the branch of their roots that lie in: fairground attractions and sideshows such as shooting games; early "Coney Island"-style pleasure parks with elements such as large roller-coasters and "haunted house" simulations; nineteenth century landscape simulations such as dioramas, panoramas, planetariums, and stereographs; and amusement arcades that had mechanical game machines and also peep-show film machines.[12]"
Games have been important to man for thousands of years and just because you play them into adulthood does not automatically mean that you were neglected as a child.
EDIT: That being said, due to your confidnetial relationships with your psychologist, we do not have all the same information as he does, so he may be dead on in his evalutaion.
Slade
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Plentyn Annwn
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Posted - 2011.02.02 00:42:00 -
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Wait...I was neglected as a child? Damn my parents, and damn everyone else for not telling me sooner.
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Alotta Baggage
Amarr Imperial Manufactorum Armada Assail
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Posted - 2011.02.02 00:52:00 -
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My mommy never loved me!!!! 
Originally by: Magnus Andronicus ur character looks like a f***ing clown dude.
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ivar R'dhak
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Posted - 2011.02.02 01:43:00 -
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Originally by: Alotta Baggage My mommy never loved me!!!! 
That¦s tragic, because you look like something only a mother could love. 
Oh and @ OP: GET A FRICKEN NEW PSYCHODOC ASAP! The Video Game Industry: An $18 Billion Entertainment Juggernaut
This guy is a clown. ______________ Mal-¦Appears we got here just in a nick of time. What does that make us?¦ Zoe-`Big damn heroes, sir.` Mal-¦Aint we just.¦ |

Mister Cletus
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Posted - 2011.02.02 02:44:00 -
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I had a stable home life as a child. In fact, I was forced to use my imagination for physical play because I did not own a game console or computer until I was 26.
I play now to escape. Escape from what, you ask? I am married 10 years and have 4 year old kids. Need I say more?
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Sokratesz
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Posted - 2011.02.02 05:55:00 -
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Sounds like something Jack Thompson would say.
Vote Sokratesz for CSM-6! |

Milla Lekarariba
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Posted - 2011.02.02 17:57:00 -
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I dont think its as clear cut as the report you mention says..
Just playing computer games beyound the age of 9...... no
I think it depends on the amount of time spent playing computer games compared to the amount of time doing , for the lack of a better phrase 'more normal things'
If anything I think I can see a reverse of what is mentioned Gaming in correct doses can be good for you!
The problem is not the gaming itself, just in the same way gambling has been demonized, its ok until it becomes an addiction
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Star NL
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Posted - 2011.02.02 21:50:00 -
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I was an overachiever in school and didnt really get into video games until I had a breakdown from too much stress at the age of 23. I moved to Holland, cut my hair, found a man that would put up with me and delved into the world of gaming. Been happier and more relaxed ever since.
Oh and by the way my parents are both psychologists....
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Karma
Vortex Incorporated
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Posted - 2011.02.02 22:50:00 -
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Hahahahahahahaha! Hehehehe! *inhaaaale* *chuckles*
stupid idiots.
I had to talk with a psychologist once for a job, and when I mentioned that I basically had as many friends online as offline... well... that's what the rest of the interview was focused on... "but you can't meet people on the internet. you can't have a conversation on the internet. you can't get to know people on the internet. are you asocial?"
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Vogue
Short Bus Pole Dancers
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Posted - 2011.02.02 23:13:00 -
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Twice I have taken a psychometric test for job interviews. Both times then said I did it wrong. Well they should have had a tick box for cylons 
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