Posted Apr 30, 2007 at 06:56AM by Ian C. Listed in: Videos, Off Topic Tags: YouTube
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I've been watching WoW addiction confessions on YouTube for the past few hours already, and let me tell you, there's an odd sense of guilty satisfaction. Guilt, because I know how it feels to be addicted to a game and actually lose hours I could've spent on something productive. More importantly, I feel guilt because there's this sick sense of joy in seeing that other folks got it worse than I did.

They didn't just drop out of school - they lost friends, and they got disconnected with family. They ruined some of the more permanent things in life, over something that was designed to be a pastime. Over something that was meant to compliment life and not take over it. I go: "Ha! Loser!" Yes, I know it's not nice. Schadenfreude, is the appropriate term, I think.

As much as I'd like to post those videos, I won't. They're pretty common place in the intertubes and I believe they'll just bore you. Instead I'll post a video that'll make you folks go: "Ha sucks to be them!" Remember all those times your parents threatened to send you to boot camp if you didn't straighten out but didn't actually? Well, these Chinese kids aren't as lucky as you are:


C'mon. Laugh all you want. They'll never know you were laughing at them.

Guilty pleasures aside, what's your take on this? Is China going a step too far? It's not like they don't already have measures (systems that kill your character if you play too long) against addiction, do they really need de-programming camps stocked with pseudo-shock-therapy-acupuncture equipment?


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   by lala (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » lol that would suck

lol boot camp for videogames ???? what has the world come toarent threre alot of other addictions in this wrld more servere than videojuegos ??

   by CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS - 2007-04-30
 » Dumb

Now get them addicted to killing real people? Thats idiotic. Take away their virtual weapons and lead them up toward the real thing? They just said that these people had mental problems so they're going to train them how to be real killing machines? Insane!


   Re: ... (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » Idiot.

If you call laser tag "training" them "how to be real killing machines" then you belong with Jack Thompson's crowd.
   by Calypso (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » translation

"Schadenfreude" is indeed the appropriate term, it simply means guilty pleasures, for those to lazy to look it up^^.
So yeah, you got it right :D

but i think bootcamps...against video game addiction...well...i wouldn't put my name under that...

   by ) (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » (

lol, Id want to see blizzard format their servers for april fools' day and see how all of those WoW addicts would react =D

But we'd prolly get kicked of the net by our providers because all of the wow addicts would be massmailing blizzard cloggin up our bandwidth

   by Spector - 2007-04-30
 » It's A Trap!

It's fake the bootcamp doesn't push kids away from videogames. It takes the addicted Chinese kids and makes them participate in China's number economic source...

Currency farming/selling in all our favorite MMORPGs.

   by tenbatsu (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » lol, so stupid

Anyway I play video games for 4-5 hours per weeks since I'm always doing homeworks for the university...

But errr, 24h in a row IS a problem, lol. And lobotomising them will just destroy their brain, lol. So stupid!

   by mohaas05 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » OLD

I saw this in the Washington Post like 3 months ago

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   by Razgoull (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » lol....

NOW! they will think they are in the game. No way that's gonna work.

   by Calm Down Fanboys – No X360 Vs. PS3 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » NO more X360 versus PS3 in a bloody fight to the death

NO more X360 versus PS3 in a bloody fight to the death. The X360 and PS3 are friends if you own both consoles like me.

For X360 fanboys, my recommendation to you is to buy PS3 consoles, period.
(Only the blockbuster exclusives from now to Sep. 2007)
- Ratchet & Clank: Walt Disney meets Pixar, expected review score: 92
- Lair: cinema quality motion, score: 89
- Warhawk: has potential to be better than Unreal Tournament 3, score: 93
- Heavenly Sword: next-gen God of War 3, score: 95
- Killzone 2: next-gen Half-Life 3 meets Black, score: 97
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma: cinema quality graphics, score: 89
- LittleBigPlanet: (in late 2007), cute little..., score: 84
- Monster Kingdom (Folks Soul): (in late 2007), game editors were mesmerized by the graphics, score: 90
- Mobile Suit Gundam Musou: score: 42...!?!?
- Tekken 6: score: 86
- Metal Gear Solid 4: (in late 2007), I need 10 pages to describe on this title... score: 98
- Resistance 2 (confirmed): (in 2008), score: 93 (Resistance 1 got average review score of 89.4 from 115 different publications)
- White Knight Story: (in 2008), game editors were mesmerized by this new intellectual property, score: 94
- Gran Turismo 5: (in 2008), is being built from scratch, score: 95
- Final Fantasy XIII: (in 2008), no need to explain on this, score: 97
- Final Fantasy versus XIII: (in 2008), action RPG, score: 91
- Eight Days: (in 2008), extremely advanced in the technology department, score: 88
- Getaway: (in 2008), so many game reviewers said Getaway can be better than GTA4, score: 95
- God of War 3 (confirmed): (in 2008), no need to explain, score: 98
- Afrika: (in 2008), Afrika will have the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in the entire history of computer and video games based on the advertisement from the developers... score: 92 (I like this new first person shooter game! Shoot them up! Shoot the animals up! I couldn’t resist... Afrika is a 3rd person Safari maintenance game...)
- PS3 Home: one of those few revolutionary intellectual properties in this industry, score: 90
- Jak and Daxter: (in 2008), no need to explain, score: 95
- Uncharted-Drake's Fortune: (in 2008), no need to explain, score: 92
- Heavy Rain: (in 2008), life-like character animation, score: 92
- Dead or Alive 5: (in 2008), confirmed by CVG.com on Apr. 30; DoA 5 will be PS3 exclusive, score: 91

For PS3 fanboys, my recommendation to you is to buy X360 consoles, period.
(Only the blockbuster exclusives from now to Sep. 2007)
- Halo 3: a must-have for all game addicts, expected review score: 81
- Bioshock: (ported from PC version), score: 91
- Forza 2: gorgeous graphics, score: 90
- Fable 2: (in 2008), score: 76 (Fable 1 got average review score of 75 from 97 different publications)
- Too Human: (in 2008), score: 57
- Mass Effect: (in 2008), score: 63
- Alan Wake: (in 2008 - ported from PC version), score: 95

If you are a fanboy for any one party, you will miss out all the rest! You f+cking 25 year old kids! Don’t you even have some money? Get pocket money from your mom and dad? Sigh. You only need $1,000 (tax inclusive and in Canadian dollars) to buy a PS3 console, 2 games, and mandatory accessories. I just spent $3,000 to upgrade my PC last month (best CPU, vid card, mainboard, RAMs). My new Intel CPU ‘ALONE’ is $1,000 (tax inclusive) which is more expensive than the PS3. I bought a new digital camcorder 3 months ago which is $1,200. You ignorant fanboys (with trash like education) can only earn minimum wages. So, for guys like you, the PS3 might be expensive. Sigh, LOL, LMAO, and ROFL >> RFOL = Resistance Fall of LifelessGameAddicts.

   by GoatZilla (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » I wonder what Jack Thompson would say about this

lulz

   by Feylin (Unregistered) - 2007-04-30
 » I wouldn't mind that.

I wouldn't mind going around shooting people in real life as an escape from video games. Since you're not really hurting anybody, it's fine. It's like paintball, if I could paintball instead of gaming, I'd do that all the time. But gaming will have to suffice for my shooting and killing needs.

   by Jego (Unregistered) - 2007-05-01
 » Lol

That seems more fun than a punishment ^_^. They get to go paintballin just because they play video games i wish i was that lucky.



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