One Fateful Semester: one man's story of an addiction to games in college

[Teuthida]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/27/22

Kinda interesting. And makes a good point:

When gaming addiction starts to have a negative impact on your life, it can be an indication you are doing something you don't want to do in other areas of your life.

[BreakABone]

Such a cool read.

And it happens.

Actually a kid in my college who flunked out because he spent all his time playing WoW instead of going to class.

My feelings is that if I ever get so bad with games that I would skip class to play I would stop playing games.

Granted I have skipped work before to pick up a game, but there were several other x-factors in that decision including the fact it was my final week of work and needed to use my sick day since I got paid for it anyhow or lose the time.

[Teuthida]

Granted I have skipped work before to pick up a game.

As have I. Called in and told them my house sprung a leak and had to go to Home Depot and fit it...then I walked into Game Express and bought Castlevania. Never regretted it...well was annoying having to fake that limp for so long...but that's a story for another time.

[Krypton]

wow, that's been one of the most powerful stories i've read in a while.

[GameMaster]

This story is inspiring because his realization of the problem helps him resolve a greater, overlying issue.