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Yea ok that must be it. Why do video games need to be added to the DSM and treated the same as drug/alcohol addictions? Why are video games special to the point where other hobbies should not also be added? Do you only care about people who have video game addictions and not people who are...

Isn't skill set kind of a huge part of what makes someone scary when it comes to fighting sports?

That's a lot of dps. How high does your wild strike get with all your stuff up? I'm at like 33-35k with just golem and hatred in hideout, about 45k on both with my charges/flasks up I think. 9 Proj on my MS. Then again i'm slayer/berserker so not the best dps setup. My rings could use quite...

Nah, Browns gonna beat the Steelers.

I wonder if all the viewership/etc issues from all the shenanigans this year is going to have an impact on contracts or not.

Ok, let's just raise everyones insurance rates by 15% so they can stay profitable while paying for people to get counseling for their video game dependencies. And then we can add television/etc to the lists too and get those people the help they need! Now try to honestly answer this: Was it...

Eh, I don't even pay attention to flask timers, I just mash them every couple seconds unless i'm in between packs. Reworked a few passives yesterday to get some crit multi, aspd and another jewel slot, tried my white elder again and steamrolled him. Shaper still died on the 4th whatever he...

Apartment complex I live in has 2 laundry rooms per floor (2 washers/dryers in each room).... motherfuckers constantly put their shit in the fucking machines and then let it sit in there for fucking hours and hours after it's done. OTHER PEOPLE NEED TO USE THE MACHINES TOO, ASSHOLES!

Yeah it's gonna be 5-15F here for the next 10 days or so which isn't too bad but it's gonna be windy every day too and that makes the walk to/from work not so pleasant...

How do people actually get to you? Through government subsidized medical processes or anything insurance related?

Playing video games while driving is already illegal i'm assuming, since texting and driving is... What is stopping you from counseling someone who says that about video games? The fact that WHO doesn't have video gaming classified as a mental health issue and therefore isn't covered by...

My point is the WHO isn't trying to get television watching classified as a mental health issue or addiction and they shouldn't be trying to do it with video games (or maybe they are and I just haven't heard about it cause nobody linked an article here on it).

Ok so back to the original couple objections: In your opinion, why should video games be medically classified as a "mental health issue or addiction" but television or any of the other hobbies that people spend just as much time on shouldn't.

$20,400 a year is around what i've made working for the past 12 years of my life, give or take a few thousand. Maybe I really am stupid.

You assume she doesn't want to be in that situation because to you it seems ludicrous. Only that lady can know if she actually want to quit or not. You would call it excessive because he enjoys doing something and looks forward to it. Do you ever spend time waiting for something you want to...

Yes. How is that any different than running shaper/guardians/uber atziri over and over and over? I understand you make a profit. You also make a profit if you build a shaper farmer and just farm shaper repeatedly, especially if you sell the kills for achievements or as carries on other...

https://www.danya.com/dlc/bup/pdf/Dependence_DSM.PDF 5. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance What's the cut-off for a "great deal of time"? Is driving an hour each way to play at a golf course you like enough to classify it as an addiction? 6...

Sextant blocking, unless it's changed this league with the new atlas, doesn't really need to be changed. You have to spend a ton of currency constantly buying sextants so you can set up insane maps since you don't get anywhere near enough as drops on your own.

And almost all of them except actual withdrawal are completely arbitrary.

You got any research study links to showing actual physical addiction to video games and the resultant withdrawal symptoms?

Vladimir Poznyak, a member of the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse...“Health professionals need to recognise that gaming disorder may have serious health consequences,” he said. “Contrary to what was predicted, the study did not find a clear link between potential addiction...

It's a guy with 0 posts and bad english talking about what I am assuming is an RMT site, i'm pretty sure it's just a bot/slave.

On the forums most of them have a sticky post with build guides and a lot of them will say they are new player friendly if they are. Those ones usually have more in depth guides on how to level, why you do things, etc. Fun is completely subjective. Do you want to play melee, ranged, caster...

Mmm, was sitting on a 5aspd 15% dual wield crit multi jewel for a few days waiting to get a regal, got one tonight and regal'd 7% life. Nice little Christmas bonus.

Tried a white elder twice today, first one was decent but i ended up with way too much dot on the ground (like 90% of the map), second one was just retarded, got 1shot like 4 times, won't be bothering any more I think. Possibly less fun than shaper since at least with shaper you can tell wtf is...

Merry Christmas (even to Tanoomba)!

I still don't know why the Patriots wouldn't keep him to replace Brady when he retires.

Yeah they put way too many maps on the Atlas for the way the map drop system works. Harbinger orbs should have stayed in the game or they should make it so that map boss guarantee drops the next map in the chain and the rest of the map drops can stay random like they are. I just got my first...

Eh, some builds suck for uber lab. Most people get carries for the izaro fights, not the lab part itself. I tried one earlier cause I couldn't find a reasonable carry and got 1shot on phase 3. Got my first lich today in an elder guardian map I ran, was a pretty fun fight. Tough but not super...

Has a single Star Wars game in the past 15 years hit projected sales? Everyone assumes slapping Star Wars in the name means they're going to make $400 billion. Maybe EA is going to go under, though! Oh, wait... it was the 2nd best selling game of November, coming in behind Call of Duty (and...

Keep the insults coming, i'll keep laughing as you cry about gaming companies not producing whatever it is you want them to produce as they rake in money from mtx/dlc/loot boxes/etc. from people who don't have the mentality of a 6 year old.

CK2 has nothing to do with loot boxes or gambling, that company just releases tons of DLC for their games. Europa Universalis is the same thing. Total War is a different company but it's also the same thing. MMO's with 40 expansions are also the same thing (although most of them end up doing...

So your answer for why raising prices is better than mtx/loot boxes is "go do some homework and then ask me"? Glad to know you're just another fucking retard on the "They ruined my hobby" bandwagon mad because someone made a product you didn't like.

It's like a 375 dps 2h sword if you're level 100. Seems like it would fit in no builds to me, unless you just want to goof around.

Oh, only you are allowed to be sarcastic or over the top? Explain to me how it is better for game companies to charge a higher price for the same games they are currently making (or give an example of how the removal of loot boxes would somehow result in game companies producing better quality...

Do you ever do anything except for cry about Pats fans or threaten to beat people up?

Nah mathil was using dual wasps nests. Also this post from me earlier. You get 40% inc damage and stuff from your last 2 points (i'm assuming he takes whatever the name of the one you have 2 in already is). 20% quality on gems would probably be another 50-150% inc damage depending on the...

You'd rather pay $45,000 for a video game than pay $59.99 for the same exact game that has an optional loot box in it and i'm the hyperbole-spewing drug addict... :rolleyes:

Can't answer the question when you're the one who suggested they raise prices instead of using lootboxes to keep profits? How is that any less valuable than "good, I hope they make lootboxes so unprofitable that companies stop doing it"?

So you wouldn't care if they just sold games at $139.99 instead of loot boxes?