Well that would be true for someone who sat around like a couch potato all day but I actually have a full time job and I do other things outside of gaming so if I want to spend a little time playing a game to de-stress I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I like Sim games, RPGs, and some others. I used to play
Evony but it had too much of a time commitment and I kept getting kicked out of guilds for never being online enough. If you go away for a few days your armies die, your cities are ransacked, and all your people in your city die. I prefer games that you can go to and leave as you please without everything resetting.
So long story short, according to you, games like Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, or Legend of Zelda cause women's ovaries to explode and cause men's balls to fall off. Then the radiation from the computer screen gives gamers cancer and they keel over and die from lack of a life. Are you sure you're not the one writing your own version of "Final Fantasy?"
The extremely destructive potential of addiction is there, whether you resist or not. Regardless, that's about as effective a stress-reducing tactic as smoking. That's ironically the phrase I used when I was spending every free moment on computer gaming.
On Evony, you were part of a group that dedicated themselves to wasting time. Most don't ruin their lives with it, but many have, and will continue to do so, though I don't "judge you" for playing computer games, and while the games themselves may do this and that to keep you hooked, there is something wrong with the person or his environment if he becomes addicted, but once you are, it is no simple thing to give up. At least know what you do.
It'd take a while to count the straw men in your last argument, so I'll just say obviously everyone doesn't become addicted to RPGs/MMORPGs, or loose their lives. People with no life are their target market. Many people ruin their lives because of it. Its ironic that you mention final fantasy, because my family was personally helping out someone that got addicted to it after he left, played the many versions of it for a decade, went on welfare, and now is becoming a human automaton with medical testing. A kid killed himself when his RPG character in whatever game was popular before WoW got deleted.
Low level (alpha/beta, not gamma) radiation is emitted from the computer and the screen. The old 2GB tower I have came encased in lead. They don't do that now to look sleek and advanced, though it's still illegal to throw a computer or cell-phone for that matter in a public garbage, though that is not enforced. Low level radiation will likely never kill you. It will however, obstruct electrical signals coming from your brain (which scientists do not understand, although they can see certain emotions with what your brain is releasing from space) promote free radical growth (more cells die, bio-cleanup crew can't keep up) in your brain and body, and when applied to your reproductive system, more dead cells means reduced reproductive cell generation, and in the long-term, and increased cancer risk.
