Sure, it’s an assumption. So is everything everyone is discussing here, though. To your point, abusers can have triggers and such, but usually they always gravitate to people that they know they can control and abuse. They usually aren’t going to stay with someone who doesn’t acquiesce control.

It’s not a tale a Jedi would tell you...

True, but you’re not going to defeat bias by not fighting your abuser. It fucking sucks, but... yeah.

The weird thing about this is that abusers are usually exactly that: abuser “s”. I have never heard of or met an abuser who’s only abused one person they dated. It’s always a serial thing... so like... is he abusing Lydia Hearst right now? What about all his other girlfriends? The things Chloe described sound…

It’s 2018 though. After Weinstein, AMC would not take the slightest chance if they thought he was actually guilty. A ton of other people more famous than Hardwick have been dropped without a second thought. 

There’s approximately 325.7 million people in America.

This might work for smaller companies, but as they freely admitted, there’s no company growth. So as long as you’re just working in your tight group, then sure, this can work.

You should honestly watch the OG series.

The game has its issues, but it is actually quite well designed, gorgeous, and captures the Star Wars “feel” very well. But feel free to hate.

Sorry dude, I don’t know how else to explain it to you. I appreciate you asking, but I just don’t know what else to say to you. Except that a wheelchair, which is needed for some people to move, is different from developing healthy coping skills, which gaming 16 hours a day to escape is definitely not.

But you can’t always get back what you are compensating for. That’s why treatment exists for addiction. My cousin can’t get his mom back and his dad will always be hopeless as a father. No one can just give him what he lacks. He needs TREATMENT.

The kid still has poor social skills. I saw him just a couple months ago and he could only manage to talk to me for like five minutes. I hate to say this, but playing video games online, even if you make friends, does not translate well to face-to-face, in person social skills.

Feel free to nitpick someone who might have used the wrong word. Maybe it’s not specifically an “epidemic.” But it’s still an issue. Your initial point was still wrong.

I agree with you, and nah nothing asshole-ish about what you said. But just for your edification, just because your life improves, addiction doesn’t get better. Because the trauma is still there. Some people in my family have never had it better than life and they’re are bigger addicts than when they had nothing.

As I said to another reply, you still have to treat the specific addiction. Not all addictions are treated the same way. And yeah, escapism, addiction... call it what you want. But if you constantly eat cookies, and I take away your cookies, and you go into a screaming rage... the medical term for that is not…

I mean I’m aware that it’s not my fault. I don’t have real guilt over it. But it was kind of a “woah” moment to think that he might’ve not gotten into if I hadn’t’ve shown it to him.

I logged onto WOW for the free weekend a bit ago and typed in my slash played for the first time ever... 58 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes. I was kind of shocked. Granted I haven’t seriously played since Wrath. 

I never said it was gaming’s fault..? This isn’t even about blame.

Yeah of course. And you can say that about anyone who is an addict, that they are coping with their pain. But he has no control over those circumstances, and unfortunately, when parents lay their problems on you, you grow problems of your own.

My cousin, who is ten years younger than me, got strongly addicted to World of Warcraft after my aunt died. I always felt partly responsible because I got him into it. He used to sit on my lap when he was like 8 and we’d make new characters and just run around starting zones. His home life was pretty bad. My aunt had…