I know somebody on FR who will constantly talk about how they're so stressed out by it and how they dumped hours of their time into the game to the point where their hands are seizing up and they get migraines. If you suggest that maybe that's a self-control issue and they shouldn't do that, they get incredibly offended.
It's tiring to be honest, they expect to be applauded and rewarded for harming themselves and start raging if you tell them its not your responsibility to account for their lack of self-control.
Because most people are pretty normal about things like this, but there are always people who will go 'this game has ruined my health! and now they want me to do even more! Why can't they just give me the stuff without having to do the stuff that ruined my health!' and seem to expect everyone else to be sympathetic that they are forced to spend hours a day doing something for a game.
If you point out that maybe they should even just dial back their engagement with the site, as you said, they get offended.
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Re: Games and Health
(Anonymous) 2025-02-16 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)It's tiring to be honest, they expect to be applauded and rewarded for harming themselves and start raging if you tell them its not your responsibility to account for their lack of self-control.
Re: Games and Health
(Anonymous) 2025-02-16 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)This is sort of why I made the rant.
Because most people are pretty normal about things like this, but there are always people who will go 'this game has ruined my health! and now they want me to do even more! Why can't they just give me the stuff without having to do the stuff that ruined my health!' and seem to expect everyone else to be sympathetic that they are forced to spend hours a day doing something for a game.
If you point out that maybe they should even just dial back their engagement with the site, as you said, they get offended.