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Addiction 354  Posted by Soulskill from the one-more-pindle-run
dept. 1Up has a feature discussing where the line should be
drawn when it comes to game addiction. The author speaks to
researcher Neils Clark about some of the common characteristics
of addiction, and how the high level of immersion in many modern
games contributes to the mind's ability to drown out mundane
tasks. We've discussed game addiction many times over the past
several years. Quoting: "If we're not all dribbling addicts,
then why are we playing so much? Clark puts this down to a
theory proposed by The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien —
primary and secondary worlds. The primary world is our own real
life. The secondary is the fictional world: literature, film,
videogames, and so on. 'It used to be that the imagery and
artistic intent had to be fully available before you could
really "find" yourself in a written story,' Clark says.
'Immersion has progressed to the point