Comment Re:Enjoyable hobby, NOT addiction! (Score 1) 525
I agree with you mostly, we don't need to be finding any little "flaw" with anyone and then giving it a name, blowing it out of proportion, and calling it a disease.
I just wanted to write quickly to reply to your first line, where I DO disagree. The only thing I personally have ever been addicted to is computer games (specifically, Everquest, Civilization, and a really old game whose name I cannot remember). Never sex, never narcotics, never books. I would play Everquest and by the time I finished for the "day" (it was tough to tell night from day) end up more frustrated than when I'd begun, yet wanted to keep playing but stopped for need of sleep. No drug has ever taken such a strong hold of me...
I just wanted to write quickly to reply to your first line, where I DO disagree. The only thing I personally have ever been addicted to is computer games (specifically, Everquest, Civilization, and a really old game whose name I cannot remember). Never sex, never narcotics, never books. I would play Everquest and by the time I finished for the "day" (it was tough to tell night from day) end up more frustrated than when I'd begun, yet wanted to keep playing but stopped for need of sleep. No drug has ever taken such a strong hold of me...
