Reply to 'Solitaire: Death of Me...'

I had realised a while ago that casual games are in my mind are evil. I completely agree with you that these games suck you in and once you start it is pretty difficult to stop. Many the night I have started playing a game I stumbled across that I have looked up from my screen to see daylight...again.

I actually did this quite recently, I decided to have a look at some of the games from the casual gaming lecture (I know, bad idea). well long story short I look up from my computer to see daylight, I thought 'wow I am really tired and its still really early'. It was early, just not the early in the night type of early. This was the early in the morning early, an entirely different thing. But I think what most people will find surprising is that I don't see myself as an addict. I won the game, spent one night playing it until I had done this and have not picked it up since. I was physically tired for one day but apart from that I have no longing to play it. I haven't missed class because I must get back home to play a video game.

I think it is a completely different think between getting so immersed in a game that you lose time and wanting to play the game. All that will happen if you don't play the game is that you simply want to play it. You wont have any physical harm because you aren't playing it unlike most recreational drugs. I therefore think that I become deeply immersed in games but I certainly don't become addicted.