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HZence
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Here was my schedule for today, starting after school:

3:30 - Get a shower.
4:00 - Play video games.
5:30 - Stop playing video games to eat dinner.
6:00 - Done cleaning up from dinner, play video games.
6:30 - Watch TV.
7:00 - Play video games.
8:00 - Post message about addictive video games.

Yeah, I think I spend way too much time playing video games...

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Megaton Cat
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here is my schedule: (the whole day)

7:30: wake up tired after staying up late coding. Drag my a$$ to school.

8:00: first period, swimming. End up drowing from exhastion. Saved by class clown.(I gota stop staying up)

8:00-12:00: go to classes I guess, dont know wat happens during that.

12:00: Go to library, browse forums, get kicked off, end up wandering around school with kicked out game-making friends.

1:45: Back too class I guess.

2:30: the sweet release of death...um..I mean the bell rings.

3:00: Forced to do homework.

6:00: forced to eat.

8:00: forced to read.

9:00: forced to bed.

1:00 a.m: sneak up and go on computer to make games, chat, watever.

6:00 a.m: go back to bed for that scweet one hour of sleep.

7:30: u know...(start over at top of page)

yepp....pretty boring ass life i lead there.

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Ian T
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I think it can be addictive, so to speak. On my 'bad' times (a day out of every couple weeks) I'll spend way too long gaming, or just idly not doing anything and wishing I was no matter how hard I try to concentrate on something else. Thusly I've been slowly cutting back lately .

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Mattman
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meg: I like that 1 am idea. Gotta try that tonight

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Tgslee
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eh gaming's only addictive like cocaine.

--Video games: bringing people together through violence.
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maybe worse than cocaine...

Does the noise in my head bother you?
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Pfff, lightwieghts. Back in my day I would play video games for at least 4 hours a day. The day I bought Zelda OOT I played 13 hours straight, then I took a bathroom break, ate some dinner, and went back to play another 6 hours. I beat Vice City in two days due to the amount I played in those two days. Now I have a full time job, I barely have time anymore, and there in lies the proof video games aren't adictive.

Now I'm down to half an hour a day on days, due to lack of time and interest (need to get enough modivation to beat the remaning 50 games I haven't beat yet). But in the rather sudden time when I when from 4 hour to half an hour I never had withdrawal. That proves it's not addictive, however I got a theory on adition to non corprael things, but I gotta go, I'm gonna be late for my D&D games.

Later


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is gaming addictive?

NOOOOOOO,not really



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Dave J
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I find a really good book can be just as addictive.


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Chris K
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If you roll it up and snort cocaine with it.

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But then you are going to be addicted to un-rolling it and repeatedly licking it instead of playing it.

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Pincho Paxton
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I've played computer games for 24 hours with breaks for a cup of tea. Sonic the Hedghog was one of these, and I'd already completed it twice! Me and my mates used to play Pinball Illusions, swapping seats by the computer for 24 hours. Played Cannon Fodder all night. Played Jimmy White's snooker all night. Those were the days!

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Eric T
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my schedule

4:30 am - Wake Up, boot PC, Check my email, leave

5:30 am - breakfast at corner store

6:00 am - head to school

7:00 am - start classes

9:00 am - first class ends

9:10 am - Second Class starts

11:00 am - Second class ends

I usually leave at this point.

12:00 - Work for 5 hours

5:00 pm - go home

5:30 pm - 2 hours on the PS2

7:30 pm - 2 hours on the XBOX

9:30 pm - 2 hours on the GC

11:30 pm - Dinner time

12:30 am - PC, check email and forums

1:30 am - Programming, 3d modelling, texturing

4:30 am - Go to bed (redundant huh)


If I need sleep that night, i skip one of the console gaming sessions (usually GC). And on weekends, instead of class, I have a PC gaming session.

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you silly boys are leaving "spank the monkey" out of your daily routines/schedules



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Megaton Cat
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Quote: "spank the monkey"




I don't get it...

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Pincho Paxton
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Let me explain it in smilie code!




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klariza
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hmmmmm and there is me who hardly uses her ps2 for gaming ne mmore
i prefer making the games
which from 6pm onwards is what i usually do or browse the internet and find ppl to talk to

I am obsessed by Toasters - especially talking ones...bizaare really isn't it?
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My day is generally constructed of hours.

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@Pincho--ROTFFLMFAO

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Wasn't he talking about the online game called Spank the Monkey?

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Chris K
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Quote: "oh dear lord, give me strength"


wtf?

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Preston C
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Quote: "I find a really good book can be just as addictive.
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Yes, quite. May I suggest:

Pendragon (The Series By D.J. MacHale if you dont know)
Harry Potter (The Series)
The Lord of the Flies
The Giver

And Here is My Schedule:

5:00 AM - Wake up to my Stereo alarm. Hit the front of my stereo until it stops blaring random songs on the radio.

6:00 AM - Get woken up by my dad, who says I only got 30 minutes left to get ready for school (I can get ready in 5, plenty of leftover time for doing missed homework or browsing the forum). Get my cup of coffee and try to wake up while browsing the forums.

6:30 AM - Get on the Bus

7:20 AM - Arrive at school, wonder why the hell i put up with the people on my bus.

7:45 AM - First period, Gym/Health and Band. Bored to death in less then 45 minutes.

9:20 AM - Second Period, Informational Processing. Get done with work in less then 30 minutes to allow for an hour of browsing the forums.

11:00 AM - Third Period, World Cultures. Finish the "At the Bell" in 5 minutes compared to the rest, which takes them 45 mintes to do (25 before lunch and 20 afterword).

11:25 AM - Lunch, hungry as hell, get some pizza and cookies and start ranting about my projects and how school sucks with my friends.

12:00 PM - Back to 3rd period for the last hour. Wait for others to finish the ATB and then review it for the rest of the period (or take notes if they've actually worked quickly).

1:00 PM - Fourth (and last) Period, English class. Silent Reading/Outline Writing/Paragraph writing for the first 15 minutes, then we start reading and watching plays by Shakespear (Much Ado About Nothing is my personal favorite).

2:35 PM - Leave the school, ride the busses home.

3:35 PM - Arrive at home after a bus ride where the busdriver had to yell at the kids in the back multiple times (how they dont know how to sit in a seat is beyond me).

3:40 PM - After a visit to the bathroom, right onto the computer for programming, 3D modeling, or chatting. That, or I turn around and watch TV

7:00 PM - Dinner.

7:30 PM - Finish eating the humongous dinner my mom made me and go back to my room and back onto the computer.

9:00 PM - Set Bedtime by parents (I cant believe I still got a bedtime, I've 14 for goodness sakes )

9:30 PM - Finally get to bed after my parents scolding me that I should have been in bed a half an hour ago. Lay down in bed and think for an hour about many things.

10:30 PM - Its around this time I usually fall unconcious and go to sleep. Usually dream about the cute girls in my school or some random adventure through New York City (I dont live there if you don't know).

and then it just repeats itself, except on weekends, then I dont have to worry about school and just go right on the computer.


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Pincho Paxton
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Sticky Vicky?


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Oh...
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HEY! I played spank the monkey, its fun i think the highest i got was around 600mph, well.. if your talking about the game, if u werent then i just feel stupid now

You did what? For who?! For how many jellybeans?!?

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My schedual:

7:00- My dad tells me to get up

7:10- I actually get up and then put stuff in my backpack

7:20- Eat breakfast (tea)

7:25- Get in the car and go to school

7:45-2:45 SCHOOL! >

2:45-6:00- Have a snack, browse forums, other misc computting stuff

6:00- DinDin

6:30- HOMEWORK >

And then I usually go to bed so I can get up the next day.

WOW! What a boring life, yet strangely fun.


I wanted to learn C++ but then I started having nightmares.
I would scream at night, "AHHHHH!!! THE SEMI-COLONS"
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well that wasent actually my real schedule...(I just sumarized the basic stuff, caus you umm..eh..don't need to know what I do all day )

anyway I'm bored so here is my weekend
schedule:

8:00: the brutal fight for concious, cats help me wake up too. Get up, scoop out the cat litter, get tea and bagel.

8:20: off to school. (can you beleave this fuc***ng shi*?! On a saturady!) Play some "Tony hawks PS2 on my GBA under table and chat with fellow prisinors sitting next to me)

10:30: short 15 min break, wander empty school like loner.

12:00: END OF SCHOOL. THANK YOU.

1:00: get 2 friends, and drive (get a ride) downtown. Go to movie, friend gets impatent during previews and throws shoe at screen. Go to chaptors after getting kicked out.(chapters is a book store)

2:00: read magazines and game design books for while. (aswell as "borrow" cds that come with magazines.

3:00: hastle people at Bestbuy and play ps2, gamecube and xbox while there.

4:00: go to local giant pet store. Let hamsters out of cage, anger parrets.

4:05: "humph!" " I'll take my busines elsewhere!" (thats right, kicked out)

4:05-5:00: wander.

5:00: grab bikes, off to BMX track. Ride for hour and a half. Leave bruised and limping. (Overshot ramp, wiped-out and took out half the lip with me)

6:00: do something stupid. Blow some lighters. (no one got hurt)
And visit local computer store, pick up 4.99$ processor.

7:00: finally go home.

7:00-8:00: computer, and more computer.

9:00: thats right off to bed. Preston isnt the only one with a bed time.

9:00-1:00: lie in bed and rethink life. Then think of everything in between. Think of people. Think of me. Think of game development. Get sleepy of too much thinking.

1:00: sneak up go on-line and and stay up till 6:00 a.m listening to Linkin park and learning modelling and chatting and everything else.

and finally....sleep.

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I don't know why when everyone hears the word 'addictive' they automatically make drug references as if I either was not or expecting it or haven't heard it a thousand times before

Well it's good to see I got some opinions. But I think gaming, though at some points addictive, can be sort of controlled, like if you realize you've been playing for too long you can easily stop yourself.

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That depends. Different people have different expiriences. I've known some people who really enjoy gaming but don't get effected by it at all, and others who get hooked on it and can't really enjoy any other games but computer ones.

@Pincho-- I like your smiley code explination, they should teach it in schools.

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I'm not really addicted...
in fact I only own one game!
A demo of Unreal II!

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*Gasp* You ought be ashamed!

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Hey Megaton I hope your schedule from above includes:

8:19 am WASH HANDS!

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Wow, people don't sleep much, I usually go to bed at 10pm and sleep until 8am. I like sleeping


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i used to sleep a lot, but nowadays i get at most 8hrs sleep and usually 6hrs In my opinion making games often gets in the way of playing games.

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Spank the monkey. Is that the sequel to 'Choke the Chicken'?


Boo!
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Kick off 2.

I went unemployed for 10 months after Uni, mainly because of this game (lazed about), and a mate who was very similar in skill, as well as being conveniently unemployed too. We used to play around 10 hours a day, pretty much most days in a month. Used to score points and stuff for every win, on every pitch/ weather type. Used to get into the hundreds before we would reset the figures. Must have broke about 4 joysticks on that game.

There was also mucking about with VB for DOS quite a bit (this was a while ago), but mainly KO2. Sigh, those were the days...

Cheers

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Quote: "When I mentioned smoking I literally meant smoking.. like as in a cigarette. I don't touch drugs, and there is a good reason... drugs mess with your head, for a good example of this read the megaman zero thread on these forums "


Yeah, cigarettes only mess with your lungs.


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And give you cancer

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this calls for a game of Transfusion!

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Quote: "I've played computer games for 24 hours with breaks for a cup of tea. Sonic the Hedghog was one of these, and I'd already completed it twice! Me and my mates used to play Pinball Illusions, swapping seats by the computer for 24 hours. Played Cannon Fodder all night. Played Jimmy White's snooker all night. Those were the days!"


The only game I ever played long term was Civilization. Many a days or late into the nights did I sit and play a game from start to finish. It was the only game that ever grabbed me that way.

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Pleasure? Not a word I'ld use to describe smoking, I quit 8 years ago and haven't regretted it since. The only thing good about fags is that they make you look cool.

One day, maybe next year once I get some vaction time saved up, I'm gonna set the World record for playing a single video game for the longest streach, my choice will be Front Mission 3 due to the fact it take over 80 hours to beat and you can start again will your skills from your last game.


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What about Baldur's Gate 2?

That's a bitch. Takes over 100 hours.

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Quote: "you've gotta have some pleasures in life"


Correct, and typically people choose ones that won't ultimately kill them...

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Quote: "the're the crap years anyway! that's the time when you go senile, go deaf, your body starts breaking down.. etc... I'd rather skip that bit thankyou "


I think he has a very good point there...

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You're right, all that happens to you earlier because of smoking.


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true, very true
<as CR lights up a smoke>

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it's not the cancer... it's the breath!

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I believe it stains your fingers and teeth too.


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