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"Mental Illness and gaming"

Having suffered from a mental illness myself, Ive been thinking what would happen when computer graphics get so real, people cant differentiate between games and reality. When I was ill, i couldnt watch TV because I thought people were talking directly at me, but imagine if you were in reality and you think youre in a computer game? I think the film lawnmower Man challenged this, but cant remember most of the film as I havnt watched it for ages. Anyway my point is, is having photo-realistic graphics a bad thing?

My cat got into the pounce position when a bird came on the tv.

She was mentally ill.

Alfonse wrote:
> I realised I was addicted to Streets of Rage when I got hit by a
> car and started eating chicken to heal myself =(

LOL
that works better if you go by Tekken 3 force mode rules, you get a nice booming "CHICKENNNNN" voiceover :D

Only trouble then is you might come across some bast who's going by Gauntlet rules and shoots your food :-D

Im Sure that in the near future Graphics will almost feel like reality...
Must say though that i have never been so caught up in a game that makes me do rather silly things but then again i have never had a mental illness !
So who knows what will happen when Virtual reality turns into reality !

imagine playing silent hill and thinking it was reality? now that would be well bad

It certainly would take scariness to a whole new level, but isn't that what the games are meant to be about anyway. I wouldn't p***y out when playing it, I'd just soil my self and blame it on the choco man.