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In lugnet.general, Matt Hein writes:
> In lugnet.general, Gregory Cook writes:
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> > Not every board game lasts as long as Monopoly or a marathon game of Go. And
> > there's plenty of kids who play RPGs that take up to 100 hours to finish, so
> > I'm gonna have to disagree on just plain (video) "games" being the problem.
> > Even short-attention-span games require about 10x more investment of
> > attention than most children's TV programs. Agreed with just about every
> > other point, though.
> >
> > -Greg "Fox" Cook
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> No, probably not. I admit plenty of
> attention is needed to play (I don't
> believe I stated otherwise.) However,
> when people begin to grow dependent
> on video games for entertainment, it
> is common that they tend to play for
> long periods of time per week (let's
> say around four to five hours per day).
> This is usually a signature of an
> addict. (This commitment to playing
> for extensive periods of time, a.k.a
> 'slacking', is a very prevalent trait
> among a lot of my friends and comrades
> at school.)
I was under the impression that all the problems being listed in the post(s)
I replied to were related to the short attention spans being cultivated in
new generations these days. Addiction to one form of entertainment may be
bad, but it's a wildly different problem than ADHD/short-attention-span
(almost an opposite problem, really. intense concentration on only one thing
to the exclusion of all others as opposed to not being able to do any one
thing for more than a few minutes).
So anyway, I wasn't saying anything about addiction to games, just that
there are plenty of long-attention-span games out there, not just short span
ones.
-Greg "Fox" Cook
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