StanleyPain I think we all know someone like this. I had a friend who nearly lost her kids due to WoW addiction. It's pretty fucked.
BHWW Then there was that case a few years ago where two parents were arrested for neglect for playing online games while letting their children go unfed and unbathed and their house turn into a filthy pit; their infant daughter's hair had been matted from cat urine among other things.
Meatsack Jones I had two friends who cut off all ties to us, ignored their kids, and turned into a pit for WOW addicts. Before that, my wife's friend left her husband after he lost his job and stopped talking to her for playing Dark Age of Camelot.
As fucked up as it seems, this shit happens far more than you would think. The number of times I have run into this in EMS over the years, made me think someone was playing an elaborate joke on me. Then I only heard it and got magic brain repair +8.
Don't ever change TV writers. Seriously. Don't ever change.
TimbolinoBilchard I heard about a protection from abuse case in Cimarron Case that rose out of an incident where the wife ditched her husband on World of Warcraft to go questing with other friends. The abuser apparently started crying on the stand about being left in a field.
Caminante Nocturno Wardrobe and makeup went all-out with the gaming addict. They actually may have done too good a job.
oddeye I agree, he almost looks bad enough to be into anime.
fluffy Needs Cheeto-stained fingers to really convince me.
Xenocide But if she only HEARS Rose, then it'll cause Magic Brain Repairs!
ponpoko Speed Weed has a magical understanding of brain damage.
takewithfood Ahh, the annual SVU "seedy underworld of video games" episode. They never disappoint.
CharlesSmith All those actors from Oz are like "This is what I do now? This? I used to be an artist. I used to act in scenes involving complex characters and ambiguous situations, and now I'm the human in the adult equivalent of Blues Clues."
Smellvin At least "Ryan" is doing car insurance commercials now.