Intervention

[Hexadecimal]

okay, on Sunday nights there's this show I watch called Intervention... I watch it because I am a terrible person and I find the pain of others to be quite hilarious...
the episode I just watched cracked me right up...
It was about this pasty shell of a man named Peter who was, according to his family, addicted to video games.

Peter is so addicted to video games that he identifies himself as the characters in the games he plays and refers to other characters as people he hangs out with.

There were people crying and sobbing like he was at death's door or something... the music in the background sounded like something out of Jaws and the interventionist kept saying that if they didn't "save him" now, they would "lose him"...
It sounded like something out of an awful daytime soap opera... they were terrified he might overdose on sitting still and looking at things...
He looked like he was stuck in the twilight zone, with this awful haunted look, surrounded by crazy people...

I'm kind of curious as to what other people would do if they found themselves in a similar situation...

[FableFreak]

Wow, and I thought that US television set a low standard... I've never heard of something like this before. Strange, one question I have is that do they censor TV in Canada? There was another forum where a guy was talking about his trip to NY and he got Canadian TV and he said there was no censorship.

[Angel]

Hmmm....well, I'm pretty zombie-like when anything has my attention and snap and snarl if interrupted. But that kind of gaming obsession is definitely unhealthy - if my kid got like that I'd ban her from gaming full stop. For someone to refer to themselves and others as game characters shows something of a displacement disorder and possibly could lead to some form of schizo-affective behaviour. I knew someone who was a nutcase and in the hospital he was banned from computer games of any kind because of the way it affected his mind - he'd become delusional and unable to separate reality from fiction.

It's unhealthy to just sit and stare at a screen all day anyway - you need to socialise and interact with other human beings.

[Tsuyu]

There is "video gaming addiction", then there is the "korean-sit-and-play-until-you-topple-over-dead"-sort of addiction...which is by far worse.

Aslong as you still realize your basic human needs such as eating, drinking and to a limited range, sleeping, I don't think it's that bad. Who knows, maybe he is alot happier in his own little world of the video games..

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by fablefreak1

Wow, and I thought that US television set a low standard... I've never heard of something like this before. Strange, one question I have is that do they censor TV in Canada? There was another forum where a guy was talking about his trip to NY and he got Canadian TV and he said there was no censorship.

no, they're not really censored the way American channels are... all you need is a warning before the show starts and you can show just about anything, and it doesn't need to be real late at night either...
however, when the show is like this one, and is American, there is little we can do once we get it...

[Dark Drakan]

If it keeps good old 'Peter' happy then why the hell should he change

Originally Posted by Hexadecimal

no, they're not really censored the way American channels are... all you need is a warning before the show starts and you can show just about anything, and it doesn't need to be real late at night either...
however, when the show is like this one, and is American, there is little we can do once we get it...

Always wish our TV was like that but our countries full of people who like to ***** and moan about anything and just complain about things for the sake of it so...

Originally Posted by Hexadecimal

He looked like he was stuck in the twilight zone, with this awful haunted look, surrounded by crazy people...

Sounds like an average day to me

[Angel]

Originally Posted by Dark Drakan

Always wish our TV was like that but our countries full of people who like to ***** and moan about anything and just complain about things for the sake of it so...

*gasp!* Surely you don't mean the Jeremy Kyle Show??

[Dark Drakan]

Originally Posted by Angel

*gasp!* Surely you don't mean the Jeremy Kyle Show??

Oh god dont get me started on that guy, the only man on the planet who claims to know how it feels to be a single mother like he is one

[Angel]

Even I don't know how it feels to be a single mother and I was one for 5 years

I used to amuse myself by listening to his show on Capital but the way he is on TV is insane. I can't imagine how he is with his family..."Dad I'm pregnant and I don't know who the father is"

"Right, you silly little tart, take a lie detector test, a DNA test, find out who the dad is, tell him to get a job and then come back in a year and tell me how it all went."

Makes my dad look like a wonderful man...

[Dark Drakan]

Originally Posted by Angel

I used to amuse myself by listening to his show on Capital but the way he is on TV is insane. I can't imagine how he is with his family..."Dad I'm pregnant and I don't know who the father is"

"Right, you silly little tart, take a lie detector test, a DNA test, find out who the dad is, tell him to get a job and then come back in a year and tell me how it all went."

That would be his exact reaction!