Mittwoch, 7. September 2011

Addiction? Video games crowded out man's real life (AP)

In this June 3, 2011 photo, Ryan Van Cleave holds a copy of his book 'Unplugged' at his home in Sarasota, Fla. Gaming and thinking about video games was all-consuming for Van Cleave. Yet living inside the game World of Warcraft, which became his obsession, seemed preferable to the drudgery of everyday life. Especially when the life involved fighting with his wife about how much time he spent on the computer. While the game made him feel 'godlike,' life's small hitches could be 'profoundly disempowering.' Despite thoughts like this, recorded in his new book, despite dissociative episodes in supermarkets when he felt as if he was inside a game, he did not think he had a problem IRL — gamerspeak for In Real Life. But he did, and a reckoning was coming. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and bread and baby food for his little girls and for a split second think he was living inside a video game.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/videogames/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110827/ap_on_hi_te/us_video_game_addict_abridged

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