Boy has seizure after WoW marathon, Daily Mail has a fit
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Did you know that playing World of Warcraft is addictive to its players on par with cocaine? It's true!* Too bad you don't get the by-product of a slimmer physique and coke-fueled sex benders...But after a boy in Laholm, Sweden was hospitalized following a 20-hour-plus World of Warcraft bender, the results were clear: WoW is dangerous, WoW is wack.
This has since lead Sweden's Youth Care Foundation to brand the massively multiplayer online role-playing game as "the cocaine of the computer games world" and send Daily Mail editors into a tizzy.
That accusation of World of Warcraft's addictive properties was levied author Sven Rollenhagen, who said: "There is not a single case of game addiction that we have worked with in which World of Warcraft has not played a part." Scary!
It's all very alarming though. So if you like being alarmed, we'd suggest clicking over to the Daily Mail.
* Probably not actually true, except on Bizarro World.
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emmahill
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This is very disturbing.
I'm worried for the well-being of all Daily Mail journalists.
Perhaps a timely health and safety seminar detailing the various evils of the modern world, and how to avoid reporting on them.
- 11 months ago
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emmahill
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richjm
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Down with games!*
* = fun.
- 11 months ago
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richjm
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flyingkick
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100% the parent's fault.
Who would let their kid sit at a computer for 20 hours? - 12 months ago
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flyingkick
