Quote Originally Posted by JackDaniels View Post
I've lost relatives and friends to addiction. While I may not have a degree related to the study of addiction, I do know a fair bit about it, as I've dealt with their addictions and my peronsal addictions. I know what addiction is, I was a heavy smoker for 9 years and I quit smoking 4 months ago. As far as gaming goes, I am an addict, for whatever reason I use gaming to escape whatever issues I have that I don't want to deal with. It is hard for me to go a long time without gaming, but it is significantly easier to stop as apposed to drugs/liquor/nicotine as there is no physical withdrawl symptoms. To say that gaming can't be an addiction is to say that gambling can't be an addiction. Just because there is not enough evidence due to lack of research does not mean that it can't be an actual problem.

Ravani it's cute how you think you're intelligent, but really you're not :P
For someone knows the pain of losing people to addiction, I wouldn't expect you to be using the name of an alcoholic drink in their name. I hear that stuff's pretty addictive. You must be all torn up.

Also, patronising people is only making you look like more of a douche on this self-righteous post of yours. I love that now you've come out saying you're addicted to gaming whilst previously going "You live in xxx?! If I lived there I'd never do xxx!" That in itself is weak justification for a habit.

Who's the one lacking intelligence now?