Comments on: Two Hours Of Gaming The Same As Cocaine?

By: Ricotta

Ricotta — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:13:10 +0000

*SNORT*
What? Sorry…. I was busy doing a line of GTA IV

By: Senator Poops

Senator Poops — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:26:58 +0000

What a fantastic article.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:58:58 +0000

While I agree with your stance, sitting on your computer Googling and reading Wikipedia isn’t “lots of research”. This gee-whiz information superhighway is not, in fact, a portal to ALL knowledge.

By: Lol

Lol — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:00:14 +0000

So I just played for 16 hours straight, yet somehow I don’t feel like I’ve done 8 lines of cocaine…

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:17:15 +0000

Anything that gives you the same high as cocaine without melting your nose has got to be a good thing. Maybe games can save the world, providing a cheap, legal and safe alternative to crack and heroin.

By: Risingson

Risingson — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:13:27 +0000

I’ve been outside in Primavera Sound the whole weekend just waiting to post this when I could: please tell me what game it is that has the same effects as cocaine. Please. Tell. Me. I need it, now.

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:04:33 +0000

“Please be balanced in your reporting as your views may kill people.” This is just amazing. I’m also fairly jealous of RPS now, I’m pretty sure I’ve never been told any of MY opinions or statements may kill people.

By: undead dolphin hacker

undead dolphin hacker — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:49:42 +0000

a.) Eating French Toast is pleasurable to human beings.
b.) Anything pleasurable to human beings can become addictive.
c.) Addiction leads to crime, violence, suicidal tendencies, and dehydration.

Therefore, eating French Toast leads to crime, violence, suicidal tendencies, and dehydration.

QED, motherfuckers.

By: THEAlmightyRadish, uh , RADOK

THEAlmightyRadish, uh , RADOK — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:05:05 +0000

@ Panik

Maybe you should try something else but mining or station hugging.
Whenever I play EVE my adrenaline is peaking – may have to do with me PVPing and EVE having one of the harshest death penalties of all MMOs on the market.

By: Lithe Joint

Lithe Joint — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:34:55 +0000

WTF?
@ bleeters:
You wish.

A lot of opinions here, (and some great comedic relief I must say)…but perhaps an opinion was something the author is also entitled to?

Be it right or wrong or of no consequence is irrelevant, because we all have our own indabas.

END

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:38:49 +0000

I really wish I my PC games were “equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces”. At the moment I am trying to get through Tomb Raider Underworld but keep quiting in favour of browsing the net and making/reading silly forum posts.

If I am currently “addicted” to anything it is a constant cycle of of “posting comments >> checking for replies >> checking news sites >> posting comments >> etc”, with occasional diversions into the depths of Wikipedia and Google Maps as I either research an obscure argument or fantasise about wild adventures to far flung parts of the world.

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:12:42 +0000

Well, one could make the argument that only more immature works of art are strictly escapist, and the greatest artistic works use escapist language or imagery to tie themselves subtly back into our lives and the human condition.

Which, on the whole, is so much better than crack.