Two hours of gaming=one line of cocaine

[Escaep]

http://www.1up.com/news/therapist-hours-gaming-equivalent-line

Two hours of video games is equivalent to a line of cocaine, UK conselor and therapist Steve Pope estimates in a breathless report on gaming addiction recently published by the Lancashire Evening Post (via GamePolitics).
"Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces," Pope says. "It is the fastest growing addiction in the country and this is affecting young people mentally, as well as leading to physical problems such as obesity."

 

[Viperidae]

Shit, if only I could sell this free cocaine before using it. I'd be rich.

 

[Lucid]

What a boring high.

 

[Krynn72]

That dude does some shitty cocaine.

Anybody who calls a console a "game station" has no opinion on the matter worth listening to.

 

[Danimal]

That has to got to be the lamest ****ing thing I've ever read.

Somebody actually spent a chunk of their lives, 9 - 5, getting paid physical actual, legal money to write this ****ing piece of shit.

Spoiler

Cocaine isn't even that great of a drug.

 

[sixteenth]

Spoiler

Cocaine isn't even that great of a drug.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw

Minecraft puts me into a trance like state after several hours of digging, building, and several other repetitive actions. When I snap out of it I feel as if I just hit a bong, not a bump. Just another therapist jabbing a controversial issue for fame...

 

[Raziaar]

Yes, let's all advocate against natural highs.

Avoid those natural highs kids... it's not worth it. Instead, sit on your hands and do nothing.

 

[Ennui]

lol. Showboating bullshit.

The fact that the guy even tries to quantitatively compare playing video games and doing cocaine discredits him right from the start. What nonsense. Just another asshole seeking to get some attention by hopping on the video games are evil bandwagon.

 

[Vegeta897]

lol game station.

Also this depends 100% on what game it is. Different games have totally different addiction levels.

 

[StarBob]

lol game station.

Also this depends 100% on what game it is. Different games have totally different addiction levels.

I work in a mental health center and I love all the bullshit claims that people like this make. Just completely stupid stuff to which they have no subject matter expertise.

 

[Ren.182]

Well, according to my Xfire page I've snorted 2041 lines of coke. Plus any lines of coke that I've taken when Xfire hasn't been turned on.

I can't get enough of the stuff!

 

[Gargantou]

I laughed so much at this!

 

[ríomhaire]

"Pope says he deals with teens who skip school and steal to play games"
Stupid kids should learn how to to torrent.

 

[Remus]

Two hours? That's for PUSSYES! The longest single sitting play through I did was from 10 am till 2 am the next day, with three half hour brakes for each meal of the day. So that's a total of 14 hours and a half.

I would love to see this guys reaction if I told him this to his face. ROFL

Spoiler

WINNING!!

 

[morgs]

I am on a drug it's called gaming. I was starting 7 hour games and finishing them, You borrow my account for like 5 seconds and be like "dude! I can't handle it! Unplug this bastard!"

 

[Gargantou]

Two hours? That's for PUSSYES! The longest single sitting play through I did was from 10 am till 2 am the next day, with three half hour brakes for each meal of the day. So that's a total of 14 hours and a half.

I would love to see this guys reaction if I told him this to his face. ROFL

Spoiler

WINNING!!

Yeah my record is 16 hours, actually very recent, during my playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas.

I am such a cokehead.

 

[CyberPitz]

I've always told people that I was on cocaine. Did anybody believe me?!? NO!

 

[Krynn72]

 

[YROC]

I have 66 lines of coke snorted for Bad Company 2 at the moment. Since December.

Longest i've ever played a game in a sitting is about 10 hours. That was for Fallout 3.

 

[Shakermaker]

He is probably preaching to the converted, but here is John Walker's retort.

 

[MultiVaC]

Winning!

 

[ríomhaire]

80 lines of TF2 on this PC, but lots more off others too.

 

[Shem]

If I had one line of cocaine for every two hours of gaming I've done on Steam alone, I'd have... hold on, let me do the calculations... one moment, please... one moment...

Yeah, I'd have 1500 lines of cocaine. Now step back a moment and sniff that, Jack!

 

[Gargantou]

Now imagine if we could sell all these lines of cocaine back to the market, man we'd get ****ing rich!