Game Addiction is dangerous like Porn Addiction – Obviously

I mean it’s pretty obvious right? I mean what the hell was I thinking when I saw the story and thought that game addiction and porn addiction weren’t equally dangerous? I mean on both you’re looking at both on a screen.

Well, Dr. Hilarie Cash of  the ReStart facility, which treats people for texting, internet, and gaming addictions, was in an interview and dropped some interesting pieces of information. Firstly, game developers hire professional psychologists to get people addicted to games with awards and payoff structures:

All games focus on the idea of unpredictable reinforcement – you don’t know what’s going to happen when you reach the next stage, but you get “rewards” or “treats” at random points. And people who develop successful games have figured this out. In fact, many games companies hire professional psychologists these days to help them develop the best unpredictable reward payoff structures.

I mean everybody knew that right? Obviously this is a true statement.

Video games will make you developmentally disabled and make you attack people:

There was a young man who ended up having to have an intervention. When the parents tried to take the computer out of his room, he tried to attack them with a knife. They just backed down, gave him his computer, went away. A teenager whose parents just take the computer away cold turkey – it’ll send them into a rage, and that rage can be quite dangerous.

And lastly, relating porn addiction with gaming addiction. Makes sense right? Well gaming is just as dangerous as porn as I’m sure we all knew already.

I think they’re equally hazardous. Pornography taps into anyone’s sex drive or need for sex. I’m sure the numbers of sex addicts far outnumber game addicts. That will probably continue, but I know that the internet-based games are typically highly addictive.

Man, this lady is a super genius. I really wish I was as smart and had the mentality of her. Jesus she sounds more like a FOX correspondent than a tard that doesn’t know what they’re talking about.