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Fact: Hardcore gaming not only leads to videogame addiction and abrupt lifestyle changes, but to crime and felony as well. Hardcore gamers never buy computer videogames. Instead, downloading illegally copied videogames or “warez” is the only method acceptable by the underground. Buying a legit copy is grounds for abandonment by community groups. You may not be buying your child videogames, but they can illegally obtain them off the internet.

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Right.... and every child has a T1 with which to download all the games they want. Last time I checked I was a "heavy" gamer, and have yet to download a complete game. 33kbps just doesn''t cut it.

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Symptom: Unusual "Role-Playing" Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) is a digital escape from the real world for emotionally unhealthy and mentally unstable people. It is a place for computer enthusiasts and social outcasts to gather un-bothered and un-harassed by the realities of real life.

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Any of you EQ peps mentally unstable? Or should I say, all of you are, don''t try deny it.

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Videogame addiction has become so serious now that the mass-media now compares videogame addiction to alcohol and drug abuse.

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There''s a reason why I believe 1% of what the mass-media says. The other 99.76% I take with a tub of salt.

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Danger: Do videogames make people violent? Yes. What was once a debatable question, is now fact. New research has concluded that videogame violence and behavior related violence are in fact closely related. Danger: Do videogames teach people how to kill? Yes. When videogames were linked to the Columbine high school shooters, a frenzy of new research was launched, in which, one team of researchers discovered that first person shooter games do indeed teach gamers with the basic knowledge of how to kill. This research arrived be so conclusive that the U.S. government Army developed a free videogame to be used as a virtual boot camp and killing simulator.

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I''d uh.... like to see the source of your data. America''s Army was not created to train people to kill. There are plenty of games with more realistic killing than AA. AA was created to inspire interest in the Army, among other reasons. Saying that Doom (or even AA) teaches people how to kill is like me saying that watching Emeril Live will teach me how to become Chef Extraordinaire, without having to do anything. This all came from http://www.mavav.org/resources/