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AngryLittleAlchemist on 31 December 2017
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fatslob-:O said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Wow, you are being very liberal with what you consider a "mental condition". This is honestly the kind of  thing a grandpa would write on a type writer because he still doesn't understand how a computer works. Sure, gaming addictions and disorders exist. But 15 hours a week as a limit? I personally don't game that much, I have a bad habit of picking up gaming and dropping it completely for weeks, but I know for a fact that many people on this forum who are as successful or more successful than your average joe probably spend 20 hours a week gaming. 15 hours is not a lot especially when you consider to a lot of people it's their only digital hobby (no movies, tv shows, and if you count it music). And that increases if you're including weekends, where you might indulge a little bit more or have more free time. Maybe then it goes to 25 hours. So what? It's not a big deal. 

Edit: Just to be clear, the second sentence is just silly hyperbole :)

It is definitely a mental condition no less and I'm being literal in the definition since just about any mental state is also a mental condition. 15 hours a week on average is god damned insanity and at 25 hours a week you should question their social lives at that point ... 

Also define "success" for me ? 

How is 2 hours a day "insanity"? You can have a busy life and still do  that ...

25 hours is kind of pushing it but my point is that's a much more reasonable standard than "WOW GUYS 2 HOURS IS INSANITY!!!!!"

I mean did it take you 10-12 days to finish The Last of Us? 

Your point about being literal because "any mental state is also a mental condition" is so stupid that I'm not sure you can even take yourself seriously at that point. Obviously what I mean is a dangerous or unstable mental health condition, not just any general mental condition. And you KNOW THAT'S THE CONTEXT since your original statement was " that's just straight up a mental condition ", implying and confirming it to be from your point of view a negative condition. If you are using the context of "well every mental state is a mental condition" than you wouldn't have ever used the word "mental condition" the way you did because that can just refer to any mental state.  But the subject wasn't literally every mental state, it was a negative one, in which I said you are being very liberal in your judgement of what a negative state is. You're not being literal at this point, you are just contorting  the point to make it sound literal. Also, what's even the point in saying "mental state" and "mental condition" when they're the same thing? That's very redundant and just makes sequenced sentences needlessly convoluted. 

And to think that I don't even care much about this topic, but your post is so odd that it grabs my attention