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[–] KillYourTelevision ago 

I was in game development for a time, really went at the industry hard, I really wanted in. Learned a lot of useful coding over the years (decades of study), and became a really decent coder, eventually I settled in at a small business that paid me like I felt I deserved, and its not as much fun as games, but its programmer work(and only programming work) and I love it.

That said, for awhile my essays and write ups were exceedingly defensive against the notion that games in general were somehow evil brain rotters. Its really not true, it really isnt, but I accept that my love for them was a mere personal preference and I am always aghast when I hear about some kid pissing themselves to keep playing. Thats horrible, we never did that, we did our homework, we went to school, we listened real good to our parents because we didnt want to lose our playtime. Thats honest, thats sincere and its not the worst thing that could happen, ie: it was not detrimental to social values nor did our habits become obsessive. Even I must concede that such obsession is detrimental, and I'm the advocate. I dont know how this happened, probably due to phones being substituted for desktop computing, the total decline of the game dev industry in general, and a paralell general moral decline.

The things you postulated, are honestly scary in the slippery slope sense. I would not like to see those things come to pass.

HOWEVER, if there is a real honest development, that can help a kid who really has focus problems, I would be glad for it, the game media itself is not inherently evil, but it is profitable and it is expected that it would be co-opted by those who seek to control minds.

I also agree I was surprised to see this topic in programming. I also concur that the MKUltra aspects of the notion are troubling.