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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)

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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We've talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…

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[-] robocall@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If only gaming companies could figure out how to get kids addicted to algebra.

[-] sandriver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

this is the entire cycle that keeps undergrad computer science going

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