maybe every time he plays q3 his dad rapes him hard in the ass as a punishment for playing sucha violent game and thats the real cause of sucha weird behaviour during the folliwing days

if i was like 45 years old like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_reznor and getting assraped by older relative i would be antisocial too

one thing is for sure: quake does only marginally enhance the social aspect of your life, but this applys to more or less all the virtual things that are meant for entertainment ...

The beauty of marketing is such that clubbing has been glorified as the most amazing 'activity' among the masses. So you want to spend on drinks with added taxes, food with added taxes while you could do the same from the comfort of your home. Do people not realize this? Yes, they do. But do clubs actually sell food and drinks? No, they sell ambience.

Anti-social behavior has many types. For example, boxing or confining people in areas they want to get out of can result in violent behavior due to the added up frustration and anger. But comparing that behavior to someone playing a game and calling them anti-social is just naive.

I test pc and console games for a living. The reason I chose to convert a hobby into my profession is simple - I enjoy it. Another aspect which people forget is the auxiliary world that exists within this world. We have games that have led to marriages in real life. Grubby's gf was a supermodel who turned into a gamer. Anti-social? I don't think so. I'm not a very talkative guy in-person and often run out of words coz I believe in shutting up than speaking for the heck of it.

Honestly, tell me the chances of a clubbing junkie dying of OD or picking a fight in the club vs. a hardcore or a pro gamer plotting the murder/battery of a fellow gamer.

The first ofc...maybe, just maybe if you think of children under the age of 14 and playing non-stop this could have a bad influence. But again that's something else, everything you do to the extreme is unhealthy.

On the contrary to what mr. reznor supposedly said I think quake can work as a stress relief so your 'social skills' or whatever can and will benefit.

I grew up communicating on the net, and now it feels more natural and more 'powerful' to express myself in typing.

I think I was drawn to the internet early on anyways since I wasn't wild about the reality outside video games/computers. Always seemed so cliché, predictable and uninteresting.

Now it is less easy to speak with others irl outside of some formal context. It is also difficult to relate to persons who are unfamiliar with the world of the net, and I don't mean this new facebook/myspace type generation. More like persons who really know how to use the net and make things happen with it.

I remember calling up a friend because I was away from any computers and needed them to google something. They starting looking and looking, and called me back 20 minutes later to say they couldn't find it. When I finally got to a computer I found it in about 6 seconds. Certainly it's a different internet for me than for them.

Computer games/ TV / movies ... what fucking ever does not make people anti-social, homicidal or what freakin' ever.

It is all bullshit and has been disproved n+1 times.

Yup. The act itself is anti-social, independent of the content. You would be anti-social regardless of quake.

I have found, however, as I have gotten older that I can't play for more than an hour or two a day, time permitting. But due more to physical effects of sitting staring at a monitor for too long. My body gets fatigued much quicker than it used to. I also am far, far more social (sans online) than I ever have been in the nearly 10 years I've played Quake.