Current Events > Kids are being sent to gamer rehab over Fortnite

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imagine playing normienite
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Butterfiles posted...

Romulox28 posted...

i genuinely do not understand why fortnite is so popular. i get why people find it fun but i cant understand how it has became such a phenomenon

I mean it's free to play

It's free, easy to run, the concept is simple, games are quick and the producer marketed it extremely well.

Bruh. Pawn the fucking Playstation.

ClunkerSlim posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

Lil_Bit83 posted...

Isn't that a little extreme? Just take the games away for a while until they get better grades and limit their game time like normal human beings.

Exactly

Id say thats exactly what theyre doing by sending them to a wilderness camp in Asheville. Totally unplugging. I dont know how you keep a kid away from Fortnite now. Its on phones too, right? Or Switch? Hell, you know every one of thier friends has it. Even if you take his console, PC, laptop, phone, etc then all he has to do is walk next door.

Give him a flip phone. And if hes just playing it at a friends house then at most hed only get to play for like 2 or 3 hours which is much better than how it was before
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Superlinkbro posted...

I have a learning disability and I still get A's and B's. And I play video games. It lies on both the parents and the kids. You shouldn't have to go to rehab for this shit.

Your learning disability doesn't sound very controlling or related to school work.

This.
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So like, zero things cited that reference known addictions, overused emotional appeals, shitty parents cited, and athletes of all people

totally reliable
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Superlinkbro posted...

I have a learning disability and I still get A's and B's. And I play video games. It lies on both the parents and the kids. You shouldn't have to go to rehab for this shit.

Your learning disability doesn't sound very controlling or related to school work.

So because I have A's and B's means it's not a big deal? My point is that if someone is slower in school can get A's and B's and play video games then so can everyone else. Parents need to be more involved and less lazy
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I'm just here to laugh at the David Price thing. What a fucking scrub.
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I'm amazed people can play that much Fortnite

I was bored as fuck after the second match I played

Did parents forget how to be parents? Just take that shit away and lock it up...what kind of parent allows their kids to play it that long?
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Antifar posted...

This game is like heroin, said Lorrine Marer, a British behavioral specialist who works with kids battling game addiction. Once you are hooked, its hard to get unhooked.

Jesus fucking Christ. This is supposed to be a specialist?
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Did the parent let the kid have a computer in his bedroom? Cause that is kinda stupid.
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YourDrunkFather posted...

Or maybe parents shouldn't spoil and coddle their children and teach them self control. Nah, it's the game's fault

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I went to gamer rehab when I was a kid. Its scary stuff. I was playing too much video games and my mom turned off the console and told me to go outside or read a book. It was quite devastating but I'm glad I got over my addiction.
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...

I went to gamer rehab when I was a kid. Its scary stuff. I was playing too much video games and my mom turned off the console and told me to go outside or read a book. It was quite devastating but I'm glad I got over my addiction.

Hey that reminds me of the time I was in gamer rehab. I went to gamer rehab when I was a kid. Its scary stuff. I was playing too much video games and my mom turned off the console and told me to go outside or read a book. It was quite devastating but I'm glad I got over my addiction.
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I don't get it, these parents can't take the game away? If they're playing it on mobile take the phone. This seems like parenting 101
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What absolutely pisses me off the most is, when they see that little Timmy is fucking up school and is getting bad grades because he plays Fortnite for 12 hours a day, they don't step up to be better parents, but they ship him off to some rehab.

What the fuck happened to accountability? Nowhere does any parent take responsability, rather blame the game and ship their kid off.

Shit like this infuriates me.
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Lol losers. I couldn't even watch fortnight for more than 10 minutes, fuck wanting to play that crap.

Gonna guess he does the Fortnight dance like other dorks.
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lol Id like to see my kid put 12 hours a day into a game and flunk school. Hell be scared to look at a controller after Im done with him. Console will be locked away, WiFi password changed and a lot of yard work will be getting checked off.
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P4wn4g3 posted...

Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...

I went to gamer rehab when I was a kid. Its scary stuff. I was playing too much video games and my mom turned off the console and told me to go outside or read a book. It was quite devastating but I'm glad I got over my addiction.

Hey that reminds me of the time I was in gamer rehab. I went to gamer rehab when I was a kid. Its scary stuff. I was playing too much video games and my mom turned off the console and told me to go outside or read a book. It was quite devastating but I'm glad I got over my addiction.

Good to know you survived such hardships
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Antifar posted...

This game is like heroin, said Lorrine Marer, a British behavioral specialist who works with kids battling game addiction. Once you are hooked, its hard to get unhooked.

Oh god, shut the fuck up lol

Man i literal read up to that point, said it out loud and laughed and immediately saw your post.

Good lord.

Just make games mine crypto and pay these poor kids for playing.
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Imagine paying for a fortnite coach, then paying for a gamer rehab

Lololol
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lol help I'm addicted to virtual crack I play Persona everyday trying to level up my personas and get mai waifus!
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Nazanir posted...

None of the parents complaining that their child is addicted to X game, is a good parent.

Here is a radical idea, if your child is flunking school, take away their internet privileges, since that seems to be the root cause. But I get it, it is always easier to blame an external source, rather than take a good fucking look in the mirror.

Preach!
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Ryuko_Chan posted...

Antifar posted...

This game is like heroin, said Lorrine Marer, a British behavioral specialist who works with kids battling game addiction. Once you are hooked, its hard to get unhooked.

Jesus fucking Christ. This is supposed to be a specialist?

A British behavorial specialist

Ugh, glad this wasn't a thing when I was a kid.

If I ended up at a gamer rehab (out in the woods no less), I would have hung myself from the first tree I could.
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Antifar posted...

I had a 13-year-old in my office who said he had 300 Fortnite wins, Kulman said. I had to stop for a minute and calculate what he had to invest just to get those.

wut
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The game is such trash though...
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Fortnite appears to be in perfect harmony w/ our limbic systems (to borrow elon musk's phrasing); it's not right to just blame the kids OR PARENTS for it. It's like a frequency that's rewiring our brains to be unmotivated by reality (does NOT pleasurably trigger my biological instincts and desires like Fortnite)
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I don't know why they bothered talking about the jumbotron thing. Who the hell wouldn't want to do that?
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Can't dab on them haters now
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Oh no, the poor parents... they might have to actually do their jobs now...

No? Well they can fuck off and stop complaining and video games then
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