http://neilsclark.com/archives/73 games, addiction and other serious business Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 http://neilsclark.com/archives/73/comment-page-1#comment-39 Addicted to Sitting? at neils clark Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:08:33 +0000 http://neilsclark.com/?p=73#comment-39 [...] One of the problems with using the word “addictive,” is that it isn’t descriptive. Addiction can mean so many different things, even to a trained medical professional. Every real drug: meth, cocaine, heroin, etc., works differently. Just ask Ecstasy Mouse. These games attract players by presenting us with a combination of many factors. We know about some of these factors because we’ve seen them before, in these other addictions. Some of them, I think, are brand spanking new. [...] [...] One of the problems with using the word “addictive,” is that it isn’t descriptive. Addiction can mean so many different things, even to a trained medical professional. Every real drug: meth, cocaine, heroin, etc., works differently. Just ask Ecstasy Mouse. These games attract players by presenting us with a combination of many factors. We know about some of these factors because we’ve seen them before, in these other addictions. Some of them, I think, are brand spanking new. [...]

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