Addiction is bad, mkaay

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  1. Frostyx
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    Story from the british press today.

    http://www.metro.co.uk/news/840709-...red-children-and-let-two-dogs-starve-to-death

    Long and short, she got addicted to a game after breakup, and spent 22 hours a day playing a game, dogs died and kids ate cold bins from a tin.

    Ultimate punishment though, banned from a computer for life, think how that must feel, not only going completely cold turkey but watching everyone else using it.
     
  2. TheEPIC
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    You hear about the same punishment happening to hackers who get caught. I wonder how the government monitors people to keep them from using a computer.
     
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    Polls are just as bad they cause cancer :D
     
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    lol!

    ither way that mother had problems, and i think they had nothing to do with a pc/game.
    its just the poison she had at hand.

    i know people who drink themself to death, to use drugs, in this case she over used a pc. i think once she figurs out why she did what she did, i doubt she will need to play 22 hours a day to stop feeling her pain.

    and you cant ban some one from doing some thing unless you watch them 24/7 you cant stop an alcoholic from drinking, you cant stop an drug addict from using drugs and if some one wants to use a pc they can go and buy a one cash and hide it when social servises comes around!

    lol, i remeber when i was little and mi parents forbid me from watching TV. you know what i used to get up at 3 am and watch TV.

    i was addicted to it, not realy! later on, i find out that i realy dont like when people tells me what or what not to do! when i dont understand the reason behind their line of thought.
     
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    Small world is fun, but how the hell can you get THAT addicted to it?
     
  6. Roch The Shaman
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    Whew, thank god her friend didnt invite her to play WoW. Dont need that kind of bad PR. But I got to say by the time I was 13 I knew how to cook and do stuff for myself, no clean spoon just do the dishes. Before that though I would have gone to the neighbors house and fed my dogs
     
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    Yea the 13 year olds inability to run the family is a sure sign that she was not as competent a parent as she claims "pre-addicition"
     
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    run it no but i could take care of cleaning and feeding the dogs and i was smart enough to leave if things were that bad
     
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    I was left alone with my older brother when we were 7 and 8 years old respectively. We knew how to make mac n cheese/eat hot dogs/eat whatever, cook, clean and wash dishes.

    Both parents worked all day and sometimes dad worked out of town for 5 out of the 7 days... Bad parenting still.
     
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    ah..ok...ill take a lesson from this

    **tapes his letter box slot shut...**
     
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    They spy on you.
     
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    Lars your avatar..is that you with your flash pots?...hope you remember to use your gloves all the time..:)..you heal ok?
     
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    Lev, I have no idea what you said... but that pic looks killer
     
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    I don't think a little bit of any PR is going to be bad for the Blizz. Heh.
    No matter good or bad.
     
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    Besides, she is kind of too old for the targetted audience of blizzard, more her kids age in the last expansion, and for what I am hearing for the new one.
     
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    Jail time & animal banning are one thing, but banning the use of computers = wtf? For Life? wtf? :eek:
     
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    So will she have someone following her when she goes to the library?
     
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    With how advanced cell phones are now can she even use those? Or how about a ipad lol