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Presumably Blizzard failed to mention that the Magic Belt of Flight* doesn't actually work in real life.

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I literally laughed out loud here.

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DOOM... why is it that none of these games caused dangerous levels of "gaming addiction

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Umm, there are people beyond number who have gotten addicted to DOOM and similar games.

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Could it be that parenting these days isn't what it used to be? Maybe they need to teach gaming discipline at an earlier age.

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There's something to this idea. My parents didn't create a sustainable eco-system in each kid's room like parents seem to do today. And they didn't believe in t.v. as the perfect friend to and babysitter of kids. They thought they should get the hell out of the house as much as possible, and not just because we were annoying. But for our own good and social growth. Parents should look to themselves for the answers to why their kids are having problems much more than they do. Standards of parenting are in many ways absurd compared to what they commonly were a generation or two ago, and it looks like we're into a pretty fierce downward spiral.