Gaming
Scott R. Kurtz – Rant
“Look at the most popular movie in the nation right now, The Two Towers, and you'll find the theme in a story that was written years ago. Look at Gollum and then look at your kids when you tell them to stop playing the X-box. ‘You can't take away my preeeccciiouuuusss...’ ”

Games can suck the life right out of you and Kurtz talks of “moderation”. I agree with him in his column. We must set a limit on everything we do and when I came to realize that I had spent a whole 3 years on a non-stop Everquest binge, I lost a part of myself. I had no “real-life” identity. Nobody really knew who I was. A half a year has gone by since I went cold turkey and I have accomplished more this half year than my past college-life. Before Everquest, I had Quake . Before Quake I had television. Before X-Files and Forever Knight, I had Nintendo . Mario and Luigi were my first ‘loves’. I even remember playing ping pong and raiders on my dad’s Atari! My life has been a long lived love of gaming and violence. Do I go out and murder everybody I get mad at? No. Was my social life stunted? Yes. Did I get out of the rut of gaming? Hell yah! Do I get the usual withdrawal of quitting gaming? Yes, then I log onto EQ, see that the whole world has changed and newbies seem to have taken over and I log feeling better than ever.

This article may be a hoax , but it has many truths as others have pointed out.

P.S. Happy New Years everyone!