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Therapist - "Two hours of gaming is like one line of cocaine"

Lancashire based therapist Steve Pope has provided Fox News and the Daily Mail with a headline they'd kill for after he asserted his belief that “Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces in the brain."

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Stuart57564793d ago

What's that say about therapists? Coke toking gamers?

Yi-Long4793d ago

... THAT's where I stopped reading.

BK-2014793d ago (Edited 4793d ago )

I stopped reading at The Rapist.

Rynx4793d ago

For those of us who's actually DONE cocaine this laugh riot comparison should just be ignored.

Move along people nothing to see here.

rockleex4793d ago

I wonder how much cocai- I mean "gaming" this "therapist" did before he came to this conclusion.

sikbeta4793d ago

Well then, I'm currently @ 2 lines of Coca-ine per day, time to take some more lines XD

Arnon4793d ago

Why was this article posted. It's old as hell...

http://n4g.com/news/529710/...

longcat4793d ago (Edited 4793d ago )

Neurologist have shown that earning money stimulates the same brain areas as cocaine as well.

Is making money bad for u?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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hay4793d ago

That explains why gaming while stoned is so amazing.

antz11044793d ago

LMAO, then call me Tony Montana!

kaveti66164793d ago

It's actually true, though it is misleading.

The pleasure neurotransmitter dopamine can either be released over the course of week, or it can all be released in one go.

Basically, you can do things that give you a bit of pleasure and you can continue the process over time, or you can get a lot of that pleasure in a short space of time.

What the therapist is saying is actually a compliment to video games.

It means that video games are very pleasure-inducing.

It's the same reason why some men prefer video games over sex.

DelbertGrady4793d ago

One hour of Fox News is like an oil tanker of crystal meth.

TardcoreGamer4793d ago

damn it you beat me to a fox news joke. i was gonna say something similar.

Tommykrem4793d ago (Edited 4793d ago )

What a ridicolous parallel! It produces the same high? Well, the high itself isn't even the dangerous part about the drugs. The high you get through SOME games is epinephrine, which is a hormone produced naturally by the body to keep the mind engaged and focused. You get the same damn phenomena from riding a bike or playing football!

God, Fox just takes any similarity between gaming and drugs and violence they can find... Watching Fox produces the same amount of anger as doing ecstasy... and it's probably less enlightening.

-Gespenst-4793d ago

Haha exactly. It's almost as if they're saying that gaming contains the same chemical shit as cocaine does; which it certainly doesn't and couldn't

It's a totally absurd comparison. I agree that anything addictive has potential to harm, but this is just provactive journalism for the sake of it and is total BS.

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken1d 23h ago (Edited 1d 23h ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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The INDIE Live Expo 2024 event is to feature over 100 game titles

INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.