Video Game Addiction
The video game addiction is slowly creeping back. I finally found someone who shares the same passion in first-person shooters. Rob and I have been playing his Xbox 360 for a few days now and it is insanely fun. Gears of War is one of the greatest games I have ever played, with an awesome co-op mode so we don't have to scream obscenities at each other, and the same goes for Halo. The graphics are a large noticeable improvement over regular Xbox games and adds to the excitement. Sick as it sounds, I love watching blood splash all over the screen as I chainsaw some alien monster. What is real cool is that his sister is usually around and is always willing to get in on some multiplayer action.
Rob is also slowly getting into the Yankees which is nice because Spring Training is about halfway through. We will probably end up buying some game tickets for April or May.
YANKEE UPDATE: The Yanks won game two of Spring Training against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 3-1, improving their record to 2-0. Andy Pettitte pitched two scoreless innings and Peter Abrahams reported that he "cruised." The Mets also won their exhibition game.
For tomorrow, Yankee Spring Training game is on at 1:15pm est. Will probably work out after that then over to the girls when she gets out of work at 8.
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Though video game addiction has yet to be accepted as a true medical disorder, that hasn't stopped researchers from presenting a study at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference that comes to a rather unsurprising conclusion: people who are addicted to playing video games exhibit personality traits that are similar to those with Aspergers syndrome. I'll let the press release do a bit of the heavy lifting.
The researchers questioned 391 computer game players, 86 per cent of whom were male. They considered relationships between addiction, ‘high engagement’ and personality.
They found that the closer the players got to addiction the more likely they were to display negative personality traits. And that as players showed more signs of addiction they were increasingly characterised by three personality traits that would normally be associated with Aspergers, a variety of high functioning autism. These were neuroticism, and lack of extraversion and agreeableness.
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