Video Games: Empty Digital Calories

Joe Rogan nails it re video games. They are dangerous because they are way too much fun.

They are digital opium. And then you look up from your game console several years later and you realize that you threw a big chunk of your life away. You could have been working on your real life. I know of several relationships that were distressed or destroyed because the guy couldn’t or wouldn’t walk away from video games.

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Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Ben

    Anyway, the newest thing these days is watching people play video games.

    Meet the Chang Gang:

    https://www.twitch.tv/lord_kebun

    These are professional (paid in tips) voice actors doing LIVE IMPROV of the video game situations using Grand Theft Auto as the backdrop. They are a band of criminals and bumbling wise-guys, friends and foes, tow truck drivers, EMTs, reporters, henchwomen, park rangers, rock singers, lawyers, and ninja plural.

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    herbasaurus1

    Now there is a college which has added Esports (video games) to the curriculum.
    A waste of time back when it was just pong and space invaders, perhaps.
    But now video games are mainstream and accepted as (fulfilling) careers.
    There is a part of me that still is curious how this all ends, though.

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