{"id":5645,"date":"2002-05-04T22:16:19","date_gmt":"2002-05-05T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2011-04-10T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T02:21:18","slug":"first-step-to-gaming-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2002\/05\/04\/first-step-to-gaming-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"First Step to Gaming Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are people I know and people I think I know\u00c2\u00a0via a few routes of\u00c2\u00a03-4 degrees of separation\u00c2\u00a0but am not really sure. So I think I recognize them and can think of why I should recognize them.<\/p>\n<p>Then again maybe I am just experiencing early symptoms of dementia and losing the logical facilities of my brain. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Last night was fun. Only played one game of\u00c2\u00a0007 Agent Under Fire with my brother. Thought it interesting that I kept up with him having never touched it before. :p\u00c2\u00a0The next he played against his friends (his 20 kills foreshadowed a frustrating night for all of them).\u00c2\u00a0I am a game addict and must stay away from such or be sucked into the vortex. For a while I was playing a hour at 7am\u00c2\u00a0every morning before work and as soon as I got home until 2-3 in the morning. &lt;3\u00c2\u00a0Repeat. Rinse. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new addiction by any means. Ever since my grandmother bought her first Atari back in the early 80s I&#8217;ve been an addict. My parents had to buy me one cause I was at her house more than theirs. Console or PC? Does not matter. I have serious reservations about having a phat computer with broadband at the house. I would post here more&#8230; the people at work might miss me. Take that back&#8230; would never see me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>If I understand Hotmail correctly, then\u00c2\u00a0I lose all of the information in my account if I do not sign in once every 30 days. I can save myself some grief by signing up for extra storage for only $20 a year. Right&#8230;. They want me to hear, &#8220;This is a good deal and will save me some grief.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0This says to me, &#8220;Do not keep anything important at Hotmail. Make sure you have the information duplicated\u00c2\u00a0elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides, why do I want more space for the ton of junk mail I don&#8217;t care about?\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/item.asp?user=j3ss1&amp;tab=weblogs&amp;uid=1494363\" target=\"_new\">j3ss1<\/a> has lots of examples.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people I know and people I think I know\u00c2\u00a0via a few routes of\u00c2\u00a03-4 degrees of separation\u00c2\u00a0but am not really sure. So I think I recognize them and can think of why I should recognize them. 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