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Based on a essay by Blaine Morris
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Blaine Morris-Project Manager
Dillon Day-Coder
Adam Rushing-Brain Stormer
Paul Gave-Writer
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“Phew,” you think, “another long day.” You find yourself in your tiny dorm, where you either elbow your door or you elbow your bed. You are starting to get sick of studying because you have been in classes all day, and all you’ve been studying for the past 3 hours for this exam. “Why does this class have to be so damn hard,” you think to yourself. “The exam is in <I>2 days</I>,” you think, “I might have some time to play some games. I mean after all, all this studying can really be draining, so should I take just a little break?”
[[Keep studying|2]]
[[Take a break and play video games|5]]
You lay in bed, and you are having trouble sleeping. Why couldn’t you just get that one kill? What prevented you from being capable of doing that? That game is all you can think about, and you think about getting back on. Don’t you really need to prove to your friends how good you are? You know if you don’t, they will at least make fun of you a little bit and will poke fun at you.You keep thinking about getting back on the game, and just play one more to prove yourself. I mean just one game couldn’t be too bad can it?
[[Continue to get sleep with the thought of that heart breaking loss|9]]
[[Hop back on the console because the loss was not the way to end the night|10]]
You rip off your helmet, and you <font face="Franklin Gothic Heavy">angrily </font> throw it on the futon hard. As you’re walking to bed, all you can think about is the game. Everything else seems to fly out the window, and you think about how your friends were doing well and how you weren’t really carrying your own weight. You think about how disappointed your friends are going to be about you, you start to feel some anxiety and think about getting back on to get better and to prove to your friends that you can carry your own weight. So why not get back on?
[[Go to bed|10]]
[[Decide to get back on and join your friends|8]]
You and your friends decide on <I><a href="http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Deathmatch">Team Death Match</a></I>
to start off the night. Next thing you know, you are about 10 or 20 games deep, you lost count really after 5. All of you just keep playing. Your next game after destroying noob after noob, you get into a game where people actually seem to know what is going on. You and your friends are trying really hard, and you rush into a room to be the last kill of the game. Your team barely loses 100-99. You tell your friends about how tired you are and how you need to get off, but they keep saying things such as, “We can’t on a bad note,” and begging you to stay on. Do you
[[End on the bad note|7]]
[[Continue Playing with your friends|14]]
You turn on the console and put on the oculus rift headset. This helmet makes you feel as though as you’re actually in the game. You can move your head and you see the things you would see in real life. As soon as you get online, you hear a lot of beeping sounds. It is all of your friends inviting you to the game and the party so you can talk with them. As you join a lobby and all 5 of you begin talking about what game mode you will play. Your best friend says, “Dude, we are going to destroy all of these noobs!” You feel confident in your friends. Just as you get excited, you get right into a match.
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[[Play the game|6]]
“Yo, dude,” your best friend says, “we need you to get on NOW!” You reply, “Dude I’m studying.” He replies, “Isn’t your exam in like two days? You have more than enough time. Spend some time with your pals and get on this game! It is being called game of the century and is the best game in like 1000 years!” As you are about to reply, you hear the three beeps of your friend hanging up and finally decide that it is enough studying for one night and to get some time to yourself.
[[Play the game|5]]
You have been studying for five hours. You have started to fall into microsleeps, before falling off of your forearm. As you get through all of the information for only a third time in five hours, you start to hear you r laptop getting messages. Your friend is messaging you about the new game you just got. He says, “Dude, it is so much fun, you need to get on man,” to which you reply, “I can’t I’m studying.” Your friend continues to message to you, and you start to ignore him after a while. After about 10 minutes of being ignored, your phone rings, and it is your friend.
[[Answer the phone|4]]
You look at the clock and now you’ve hit 4 hours studying. “I’m hungry,” you think as your stomach rumbles. You get up and go to your food. “Why do people keep taking my fruit snacks,” you think. You grab the last thing of fruit snacks out of the box in your room. As you go back to studying, you hear the advertisement for the new video game you just bought. It sounds so fun and all you want to do is get off and just play some games with your friends that are bound to be on. But, you know the exam is going to be hard so you need all the studying you need.
[[Eat than study|3]]
[[Take a “quick” video game break|4]]
As you lay down, you still think about the game. As you keep getting closer and closer to sleep, you start to forget about it more and more. As you finally nod off, the dreams start to begin. Your best friend says, “C’mon dude. I can’t believe you blew that game so hard. You need to step it up or I won’t play with you anymore.” One by one, all five of them start to talk to you in your nightmare of how bad you performed and how you need to improve so you can actually win a couple games. You wake up in a panicked sweat. Are you really going to let your friends just rip on you in real life?
[[Get on and stop the nightmares|10]]
[[Go back to bed|11]]
With that nightmare waking you up you are full of energy. You rush to your futon and put on your helmet as fast as you can. You rush online to make sure that your friends are on, and albeit they were. You rush into the party, and before they can even talk you tell them “I want redemption.” They start making fun of how you finally got back on, but they get you into games as soon as you could. You start to get a lot of kills, and you place top of the leaderboard each of the games you play. You keep playing with your friends. By the 3rd game, all your friends get off and you’re just left playing alone.
[[You keep playing until you’re tired|12]]
You call your friends knowing that they’re most likely in game. You don’t think they could answer, but you’ve had enough online. As you call, they aren’t picking up. This makes you angrier and angrier. The more you think about it, the more responsible they are for your bad grades on the exam. You get more and more enraged. This makes you want to go to their dorm and fight, but you don’t know if that is such a good idea. As you think more and more, you keep getting more enraged. Will it enragement end? Where do you go?
[[You get very angry and decide to go to their dorm to yell at them for the exam|21]]
[[You continue home and get on video games|28]]
“Yeah,” you think as you turn in the exam “they made me keep playing just so I could keep getting more kills for them.” You start to get mad as you walk toward your dorm. You start to think that you should message them about how mad you are. I mean after all, the peer pressure is too much for people to pass. Your friends made you keep playing, and that is too much for one person to handle when they have so much going on. You decide you need to blame them for making you fail. How do you want to contact them?
[[Try and call them knowing they might not pick up|20]]
[[See if your friends are online to message them|27]]
With that nightmare waking you up you are full of energy. You rush to your futon and put on your helmet as fast as you can. You rush online to make sure that your friends are on, and albeit they were. You rush into the party, and before they can even talk you tell them “I want redemption.” They start making fun of how you finally got back on, but they get you into games as soon as you could. You start to get a lot of kills, and you place top of the leaderboard each of the games you play. You keep playing with your friends. By the 3rd game, all your friends get off and you’re just left playing alone.
[[Play game|10]]
You play a few games. Once you start to get tired from playing all of the games, all of your friends get on. They ask, “Have you been playing all night?” You reply, “Yeah, I had to redeem myself and actually get good at the game because I sucked yesterday.” The game is starting to become more normal to you, and things that seemed gruesome to start don’t seem as bad to you. Your friends keep asking you to stay even though you are tired, and you have to decide whether to keep playing with them or to get off.
[[End of Demo, Return to beginning|Title]]
[[Decide to keep playing with them|13]]
[[Stop Playing|16]]
You keep playing and a few games and keep playing with them. You are doing really well. After a game where you carried your team to victory, you remember the exam! You rip your helmet off and stare at the clock. When you look, you realise that the time reads 4:00 P.M.!<i><font face="Impact"> You missed your exam by 2 hours!</font></i> You start to hyperventilate, thinking about how much you need these points, and have to decide to rush and email the teacher or to think screw it I already missed it, might as well keep playing and just try and forget about it.
[[Email your teacher in hopes of retaking|15]]
[[Keep playing your game to vent your anger|14]]
You keep gaming and start to drop a lot of kills because of your rage. It is making you very focused. You really want to get off, but who could stop when you’re doing so good? Your friends keep telling you to get more kills, and you play until you are very tired. You keep each game with at least 2 kills for every death, sometimes even more, even though you are so tired you can barely play. You know that your skill has risen over these few days because of this. You realize that you have been playing for about 12 hours. You finally decide it is now time so you
[[Go to sleep|24]]
You rush to the computer and email your teacher. You write a frantic email to your professor. You make something up about how your car couldn’t start and how you had no way to get onto campus for the exam. You know it is a lie, but desperate times come with desperate measures right? You beg him for another chance to retake the exam. He emails back saying that you can retake it, but it has to be immediately on campus. So, you rush to the room. You get in and immediately he gets out the papers. You get ready and you take the test.
[[Take the test|17]]
You take off your helmet and look at the clock. You realize the exam is in 2 hours! You go through the information one more time really quickly, hoping to get as much as you can. You make it into class just in time as he closes the door and starts to hand out the exam. You are searching for a seat, and find one sitting next to the one kid that is really weird. This is when you decide to sit down there because it is the only seat left. After all, this class has always been pretty big hasn’t it.
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[[Walk into class|17]]
As you sit down, the teacher says, “I hope you studied for the exam, it is one of the hardest ones in the whole course!” You only studied for a little bit, but you seem somewhat confident. Even though you didn’t study for all that you wanted to, you feel as though you got this exam and you think you can do well. People next to you are going over key concepts, and you start to get all of them right. You memorized them all and are ready to kick this test out of the park! Or, so you think.
[[Take the test|18]]
As you’re taking the test, you keep thinking about if you could have just skipped the stupid video games and studied. But at the same time, you can just think about how your friends pressured you to continue gaming with them. Your confidence flies out the window while you’re taking the test, and you start getting a lot of questions you don’t remember at all. You know that you didn’t do nearly as well as you wanted. You think about your friends and how they made you feel guilty about your performance. You start to regret the game, and think about rather just taking the exam if your friends made you keep playing or if you should have stopped earlier.
[[Take the test|19]]
[[I should have stopped playing and studied|25]]
You arrive at your friend's dorm and he comes to the door. It looks like he has a angry expression on his face. He also looks very tired and sleep deprived. “I thought you were going to get on.” He says. You are really angry at this point, and your friend notices that. “What’s wrong dude?” he says. “It’s all your fault man,” you reply, and this talking is getting you angrier. Your rage slowly builds, and it all surmounts to one moment. What do you do in that moment? Do you want to really cause violence?
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[[You get very angry and decide to go to their dorm to yell at them for the exam|22]]
[[Yell at him for making you fail|61]]
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You wake up and you think about yesterday. How could you get so sucked into a game? When you get to class, your friends talk to you about the exam. “Dude it was so hard,” your friend says. “I thought it was kinda easy man. Did you study?” talking to you. You think about all your options of what to say before you decide what you want to do. Do you want to lie to try and hide your addiction and shame or do you want to tell the truth to make you feel better about yourself?
[[End of Demo, Return to beginning|Title]]
[[I didn’t come because I got sidetracked|33]]
[[lie and say yeah man it was pretty easy|35]]
[[I didn’t come because I was sick|35]]
You finally give in and you and your friends play games. You have a lot of fun and play all night. You are stuck back into the loop. You feel as though you let each other play more and more games because why not. You give more and more breaks, til you just play and play. You finally start playing for too many hours again. It starts to be a way bigger issue. You start to have major issues and stop going to the counselor. All games become the front runners again, and people keep trying to help you but you ignore them.
[[Continue|54]]
You go around and seek out your friends that also play too many video games and help them out too. This makes you feel even better. You continue to help others but that is as far as you end up going. With all the help you have been giving to video game addicts you think about what could have happened if you never corrected the problem. You never want anyone to go through what you had to go through so you help people and never give in. Video games almost ruined your life and you will not let it happen to anyone else.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You go against what your counselor says and you stay friends with your old buddy. Since he is your freind you agree that he should also get some help. With you both agreeing to see someone and finally get this video game thing out of the water and move on with your life. At this point you realize how much video games have impacted your life and you really wish to change it. It will be a lot of hard work but you have your best friend right there with you.
[[Take friend to councilor|49]]
You tell your friend about the counseling, and how it can help you handle with the addiction. At this point you realize how much video games have impacted your life and you think counseling is the best option at this point. You tell him that not only will it help him with the addiction, but it will also help him learn things like when to stop gaming and the best ways to deal with all of his problems, not only gaming. Your friend keeps asking you questions about it, and you keep telling him that it can really help you. You offer to take him to the counselor with you and he takes you up on that offer.
[[Take him to the counselor|49]]
You know that staying clean is the best thing to do so you don’t let him play any games. The process eventually comes out to be very helpful to both of you. This makes you feel good so you want to give back and try to help others that may have the same problem. You offer all of your friends to help them. Some shoot you down but other seem interested. One of your friends to not focus on them, but to start a whole group like Alcoholics Anonymous but for gaming. Do you feel obligated to your friends or do you just want to help everyone?
[[Should you help your other friends by recommending them to your counselor |52]]
[[Create your own program at your school to help others with their addiction|53]]
You end up creating a place where others can come and talk to you, and your friends that you have helped to help also fix their addiction. You do this for so long you consider of making it your profession. You have helped countless people, and they all seem to love you for helping. Do you want to change majors to something that can help people with these issues or go on the same route that you have been going on that has made you happy in the past? Either way you think it is a win win, so you can’t pick a bad option can you?
[[You do it|55]]
[[You don’t do it|56]]
You continue to help others with your small project, and help them while you can, but school takes over and you end up loosing the group. With the loss of the group rattling around your head you finally get over it and realize maybe it was a blessing in disguise. You can now focus everything on school and the more important aspects of life instead of video games. Video games are fun but you can't let them take over your life again. That is just not an option to be successful in life, and you recognize that. So, you start to have a normal life without games.
[[Continue|58]]
You continue to help people. You start to make this issue even bigger and bigger, making a group that has pretty much taken over things such as Twitter. You help thousands of people a day, and you help people have better lives. Everywhere you go, it seems as if you have changed at least one person per place you go. You do things such as talk at schools and talk in public events, and people start to recognize you from it. You start to get more and more famous, and even start to see yourself online. Since you made this a big thing, you make a non-profit organization to help others. You, of course, take a cut and live a nice life in Beverly Hills and continue to touch people every day.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You agree and go back to helping others with your friend. Helping many people with this issue and you feel so much better with your life. You can finally feel happy helping others. You know that everyone is proud of you in your close family and friends. Everyone wants you to keep going, and you want to keep helping others. You go on to help as many people as you possibly can. You continue in your life making lives different every day. No matter where they came from, you are helping their futures. Your company becomes very famous and you help everyone get better in their lives.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You say no, and you explain how you want to leave it all behind you so you can move on. So, you leave and move to a new state and start a new life. Until one day you turn on the tv to see that a new awesome game has been released. Called Battlefield of Duty IV. Remembering all the good and not so good times that have came with your video game addiction you think it is best to turn off the tv and get out of the house. While driving around you pass a few game stores and it takes a lot of willpower to stay out and get away from the whole video game community as a whole.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You realize while you’re yelling at your friend that your <i><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/">Online</a> <I>friends are starting to be issues for you. Some of your friends just like to talk trash to you and talk about how bad you are, and you start to realize this. Maybe they just want you to fail? You always try to find the best in people, so you keep taking the optimistic path. But, are these friends really important to you? Should you start hanging out with people in real life that want you to succeed, or just keep going with them? You realize that the best route is for you to make real friends and decide that you need someone to help you figure this all out.
[[Go to a councilor|42]]
You end up doing terrible things that you have seen in games that you have played thousands of times., and doing many terrible things to others, due to you not being able to control yourself. You end up getting thrown into jail. Never to get out and not able to play games anymore. As you are in jail you realize how dumb it all was. Over a video game you got yourself locked up and thrown into jail. You have plenty of time to think and realize how one different choice would have changed your life. You now hate video games and can not stand to think or hear about them. They ruined your life and there is no going back.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
As you go with your best friend, he says that that they were actually doing fun things. “Why would you lie to me,” you ask, looking bewildered, that your best friend would lie to you. You understand that all he wants is for you to just hang out with him and only him. Even though, why would he lie to you? Does he realize that the only way for you is to no life games with him? Is that what you want to do? Or do you want to hang out with people in real life and risk this friendship with your best friend? Is it worth it?
[[Say fuck it and go with best friend|45]]
[[Go back to student center|46]]
You end up going with your best friend and you both go and play video games, even though he lied to you, both of you remain good friends. Playing video games with your friend is a great way to hang out and just have a good time and put everything behind you. Losing a friend is not worth it. You have been through so much together and can not imagine going through issues and good times with out your best friend right beside you.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You stay mad at your friends. Even though they’re trying to help, you can’t help but be mad. You talk it out and are still mad at him. You realize that your gaming friends just drag you down. Realizing this was horrible because friends are supposed to bring you up and not down. You begin to rethink your choice of friends and every decision up to this point and you really become aware of the issue at hand. Looks like another counseling session is needed.
[[You go to talk to your counselor|42]]
You talk to your counselor about your friends online. Your counselor says, “find new friends that you relate to in real life.” So, you start talking to people you haven’t talked to in a long time. You start to make new friends, and it makes you game less and less. Your gaming friends start to fade, and you make friends in real life that want to do things, so you have no real need for gaming anymore except for every once in awhile. Your grades start to raise, and you graduate. With the thought of needing video games finally past you, you can move on from your past and make something great from your self. After all you just recovered from an addiction and graduated.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You end up giving the group to your friend and you continue school. Later in life you finish school and find your old friend again. He invites you back to group. Also gives you the power to run it again. You think hard about the financial aspect and how running the group can make you money but you also do not want to get dragged back into video games. The choice is a tough one but you finally reach an outcome and go with it.
[[Yes do it |59]]
[[No don't do it|60]]
As your gaming becomes worse, things you see in real life start to have a lesser impact on you. The things you see in real life start to become more normal. Because the games are so realistic and you are in them, you see things and you start to become the game. You start to look into it, and you find this research on <i><a href="https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/4115">desensitization</A></i>. You click on the article, and you read into it. You start to realize that this is exactly what is happening to you. Even though you know all of this, you still can’t stop playing games.
[[Continue|57]]
You end up going back to playing games with your friend. One game becomes two games and so on. You end up bringing all of your bad habits back and wasting of the time you spent trying to get away from them. You play games for hours, and make gaming a top priority over things in real life. You start to throw what your counselor said out the window, and only just play games all day. Your grades start to go down and down, and when you achieve a 1.5 GPA at college, you finally decide to drop out. You go home to live with your parents, cooped in their basement, as you keep telling them you’re “searching for a job” when all you do is play video games.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You think it is probably a good idea to get away from the video games and do something new for a change. So you start to find out that you can have fun without video games. So you start to do more productive things instead of gaming. All of the friends you meet at the student center are really nice to you, and they all are just cool people in general. Even if you don’t get along with them all the time, they are cool people. They help you succeed, and sometimes even help you do things like study for exams or help you if you feel the need to get back on video games.
[[Meet up with friends|40]]
You start to hang out with them a lot more than your best friend, and you start to feel bad again. Maybe games are not that bad. Maybe I could join him or help him, you think. Knowing what might happen if you decide to play the game with him you can offer your help instead of getting pulled back into the never ending <I><a href="http://selfdeterminationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2014_PrzyDeciRigbyRyan_JPSP.pdf">video game cycle.</I></a> You think hard and long about this option and finally make your choice.
[[Help friend with games|42 v2]]
[[Go play game with him|41]]
You realize that your best friend isn’t really a friend to you. You go to a counselor and talk about the issues with your best friend. You have been friends with him since middle school, but you talk about his issues. Your counselor tells you that it is recommended that you stop being friends, but you have known your friend since childhood. So, what do you do? To stop being friends with someone over videogames sounds absurd but the counselor is a professional. You think long and hard before making any decision about the topic. Can you imagine life without him since he has been there for so much. The other thought which is the counselor did offer the advice and if you follow it you lost your best friend.
[[Be friends no matter what|47]]
You take your friend to your counselor. The counselor tells you that you are important to helping your friends, so you decide help him with his video game addiction too. This is not an easy task, because he has it worse than you do. You know this will take a decent amount of time to fix. Although your friend constantly asks to play games with you as a break because he has been doing so well. He just wants to play a couple games, just for fun. You know you’re his mentor at the moment, and if you let him play you know that this can hurt both you and him in the future.
[[Continue with no games|50]]
[[Give in and let him have a break|51]]
You realize that the reason you failed was because you messed up. You recognize that you have some issues with games. You play for hours with no breaks and seem to not care about real life as much as you care about the games themselves. Your love for video games becomes more and more intense, and it is starting to take over things like school because all you think about is the game and all you do is play the game. But, do you really need help for this? All you have to do is focus on school right? Do you really have to go to some counseling to try and help?
[[Try to do it on your own|34]]
[[Go to the counseling office and get help|26]]
You go to the office and getting an appointment. You go to the counselor and the counselor says that you need to give video games a break. You have a problem with video game addiction and you know it. This counseling helped you get your mind clear, and you recognize this. After you get back to the dorm, you have nothing to do. For the first time in a long time, you get all of your school work done and have completed everything for the day. You are looking around the room and you see the helmet still sitting on the couch.
[[Go hang out with your friends|36]]
[[Decide to play games just for a minute|28]]
You end up messaging your friends, and ask them what they are doing. “Hey, what’s up?” you message your friends. As soon as you message that, two other friends tell you to get in the party and play with them. Of course they are playing video games, then they ask you to go to a party. At first you really don’t want to, but they kept begging and really wanting you to get at least in the party. After a while of begging, you start to realize that you want to talk to them. I mean what is the worst that can happen? You just want to talk to your friends about everything.
[[Go to the party|30]]
You put on the helmet. As soon as you get in, you get a lot of messages about getting into parties. They keep doing it. Do you want to play with your friends that have made you miss exams in the past? Do you really want to deal with that right now? You know that if you join the party, they are going to try and make you play more than one game. How long do you want to play for? Do you want to deal with your friends and their antics?
[[Just play a game and get off|29]]
[[Decide to hop into the party with them|30]]
You are in the middle of the one game and you get nonstop messages. “Dude get in here,” “We just need one more person,” “Just play man.” All of these invites are from your best friends on and off campus. They bother you and beg you over and over, and they keep asking for you to play. You decided to play one game, but when they are begging do you really want to say no to them? Plus, whenever you see them they might just talk about the time where you didn’t want to play with them because you’re a “loser” or something like that.
[[Decide to give in and play for the hell of it|30]]
[[Get off and go hang out with other friends|36]]
As you get into the party, you talk about the exam. “I can’t believe I failed it. I feel so stupid,” you say. “Don’t worry about it. We’ve all done it,” your best friend says. They are all being so nice to you, and they start to offer you items in game and things in real life to make you feel better for forcing you to play more. You think to yourself, “They are being so nice, can I even be mad at them anymore? Can I really stay mad when they are practically begging for my forgiveness?” You decide that you can forgive them, so you decide to play a few games with them.
[[Feel better and play|31]]
You keep playing games and they are being nicer and nicer. You make sure to voice what you feel, and let them know how you feel about it. They keep assuring you that they are indeed very sorry and want to make it up to you. They keep asking for forgiveness and are doing things like dying instead of you and trying to make you feel important. It feels nice, but all you can think about is the exam and how your grade are struggling. Does this one time playing really make up for your bad grades?
[[Accept the apology|32]]
[[Stay kind of bitter|38]]
As you accept the apology, you realize that you have played video games for a little too long. You think about what the counselor said to you earlier, and talk to them about video game addiction. You tell all your friends, “I talked to a counselor today about my gaming addiction. They’re telling me that I should spend less time online.” One person you call friends even though you guys hate each other calls you a loser, and another gets curious. He asks, “What should I do if I have an addiction?” Do you want to yell at your “friend” or help another friend in need?
[[Yell at the friend for calling you a loser|43]]
[[Talk to your other friend about getting help|48]]
When the awkwardness of them looking at you pass, you realize you messed up. You recognize that there is something wrong with your gaming. Why would you do that? At this point video games have really gotten to you and you need to get help or something fast. You can go to a counselor which would be the best option or you can get through it yourself.
[[Decide to go to counseling|26]]
[[Try and do it yourself|34]]
You get home and think about failing the exam. You know that video games have made some sort of issue, but you have nothing to do but think about the exam. You think about the decisions you have made that have lead up to it, but then you think about what to do next. You already are doing bad in classes, is it really that big of a deal if you just give in and just fail if that’s where you’re headed anyway? Why not just get on and play more games? Voice to your friends about how it is kind of their fault too.
[[though you have issues|31]]
You lie to your freinds and you feel bad about it, and you know the only way to make yourself happy is to play some video games. Playing video games really takes the edge off and gets your mind off the lie you just told all your friends. So, you know what you must do to feel better. They are you good friends and instead of just telling them the truth you lied to make yourself sound better. You end up feeling worse than before and know video games are the only option to making it all better. You turn on the console and forget the rest.
[[Get on and play|37]]
You go to hang out with friends. All of them are hanging out at the Student Center. As you go to hang out with them, your best friend is leaving. He says, “Yo do you wanna come over and play some video games instead of hanging out with these losers? I’m going to my dorm, join me or not. Me and my roommate are going to go and play a lot tonight, and you need you on the team. What do you say?” So, what do you say? Continue going to hang out with friends or get on with your best friend and play some video games?
[[Go to hang out with friends in Student Center|39]]
[[Hang with your best friend|44]]
You get online, and all of your friends are in a party. They send a few invites, but you let them know you’re mad at them by just not responding at all to them. You are still pretty bitter at them for what they did, but you decide that you should just join anyway and see what happens. I mean, can you really stay mad at them forever? Even though you are still somewhat bitter, what will they say to you? Can you really just hate them the whole time no matter what?
[[Join anyway|31]]
The cops show up in time to get you off him before anything got too serious. You keep throwing punches and only connect on a few light ones before your friends hold you down. “What is wrong with you?” They ask. “All of you are RUINING MY LIFE! You need to get some payback!” You yell. The cops arrive and you are instantly taken away in handcuffs because you blamed the failure on your friends. As you are pulled away, you just think about how this all started. All over a game.You think about it. If only you had realized what you were doing was so violent that it could get you in jail. Does it really seem that violent to you anymore?
<img src="http://img.gamercreated.com/tag/1024/768/scale/32685/SegwayCops_20110316125057.jpg" width="640" height="450" alt="cops">
All over a game.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You are so enraged that you see <I><a href="http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1108">violence as the answer.</a></I> You throw one punch, to which your best friend ducks out of the way. “What the fuck is your problem,” he says. “You made me fail this class all because you wanted me to play stupid video games. You’re ruining my life!” you yell as you are about to throw another punch. That is when their roommate heads for the phone in the corner of the room and calls the cops. You start to throw more and more punches, but your best friend dodges all of them and stalls you. The police arrive and make you calm down.
[[His roommate calls the cops and they arrive.|23]]
You talk to your counselor about your friends online. Your counselor says, “find new friends that you relate to in real life.” So, you start talking to people you haven’t talked to in a long time. You start to make new friends, and it makes you game less and less. Your gaming friends start to fade, and you make friends in real life that want to do things, so you have no real need for gaming anymore except for every once in awhile. Your grades start to raise, and you graduate. With the thought of needing video games finally past you, you can move on from your past and make something great from your self. After all you just recovered from an addiction and graduated.
[[Thanks For Playing ;)|works cited]]
You yell at your friends. You tell them how “It is your fault I failed,” and about how they let you down. As you’re yelling, they close the door on you. You are forced to go online and yell at them. As you get on, they start to apologize and be nice to you. You are very mad at them and continue to be. It gets better and better from each game you play, and it starts to just being bitter at them.
[[Stay Bitter|38]]
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