>Game players don't consider their hobby a mental disorder

>Get classified as a disorder anyhow

>Trannies reject that their condition is a mental disorder

>Pressure shrinks to declassify transgender as a mental condition

>Evil Goobergaters get to claim disability because their NEET hobby - which is now a mental condition - has made them unemployable and states find it cheaper to just pay them a wage for being crazy than trying to retrain them.

>Trannies lose their health insurance covering their transition, because it's no longer a mental condition and therefore sex change operations are considered a cosmetic surgery rather than a medical operation.

I like where this could be going.

>>14057604

The thing is, you have to actually demonstrate whether or not it's the video game that's addictive, or whether it's being used as a crutch to ease some other issue.

I have no idea what the possible fucking mechanism could even be for trying to classify and diagnose gaming - itself - as an addiction. It's just window-dressing on a larger problem that's going diagnosed because people are too lazy to dig a bit deeper and their precious psychology is mostly horseshit.

>>14057858

>Lootboxes for one

But Lootboxes aren't videogames. They are a mechanic that is grafted into videogames designed specifically to replicate and produce the same results as traditional gambling methods.

>Also, individuals that generally have poor impulse control.

Then just make that the disorder. Why attach it to videogames, as if it's the videogame's fault?

>Also, autism.

Totally different diagnosis, totally different condition, which at best - videogames may act as a compounding factor.. but the core of WHY videogames act as a compounding factor is still left blank. The mechanism is still left unaddressed.

>>14057885

>a paragraph or two off of some local news article is not going to go into a lot of detail.

The vast majority of medical and scientific reporting is complete horseshit. A correlated with B under C conditions given X, Y, and Z co-factors present is typically reported as "HOLY FUCK A CAUSES B - TUNE IN NEXT TO SEE HOW IT CAN KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!".

>>14058906

>Fat people exist because they dont want to put the work in to lose it.

This is bullshit right here. There is ZERO work involved in losing weight. In fact, they would have to do even LESS work than they already do, because it really all comes down to just not eating so fucking much and not eating shit food. Less time spent shopping, less time cooking, less time chewing. Just stop fucking eating so goddamned much.

The problem with fat people, is that food can release dopamine - which causes some people to abuse it as they would a drug, and the consequences of it's abuse become a reinforcing agent. You start to get fat and you feel bad about yourself, so you combat that depression by eating - which just makes you fatter - in a vicious cycle. It's like if a heroin addict used heroin in order to make them forget that they're addicted to heroin.

And the shitter is - at least with drugs, you can (like a pussy) just abstain altogether. You drop your druggie friends, never learn proper self restraint, and just memory hole the entire experience. You can't do that with food. You have to eat, and everybody around you eats (generally, overeats and eats shit food too). You're forced to hang around with other food abusers, and to continue engaging in the activity you abused.

There is no choice. You HAVE to learn self-control and restraint… which is something that most people just cannot do.

But no… strictly speaking, losing weight requires no work. You can chain someone to a wall in your basement and just not feed them anything more than the absolute bare minimum to sustain life - and they will lose weight despite not being able to move.

Exercise is vital for health and wellness, not for weight loss.

>>14061701

No, YOU are wrong.

Cutting calories alone is enough to lose weight. The is NO need for exercise if weight-loss is your goal.

I'm not talking about what the most optimal methods of losing weight, and I am not putting any consideration towards health (either long-term or short-term). Weight management is entirely down to Calories In-Calories Out. It is the primary driver of weight loss and weight gain.

Shit, it's probably best to just disconnect calorie totals from exercise altogether since most people have even more trouble figuring out how many calories are burned with exercise/maintinence than they do in counting calories in what they consume. So you have faggots trying to "treat" themselves because they think they have more wiggleroom in their calorie budgets than they actually do just because they broke a sweat.

t. lost 130lbs in just over 12 months 2 years ago and have had no trouble keeping it off since.

>>14061926

>Their is a reason why crash diets have been nicknamed "yo-yo" dieting abuse after the deprivation often the person ends up gaining back twice as much weight thanks to fucking up their metabolism and never learning how to count their calories.

>counting calories

Neither crash diets or proper exercise routines are generally effective, and nothing is more demotivating to a fatty than thinking they can run their calories off - burning next to zilch for all their work - and then having routine fluctuations of weight due to water retention and bowel contents mask/reduce any progress (since measuring loss by body fat % is beyond most people) - I'd say that this meme of exercising to lose weight and "burn the fat" is just as damaging - if not moreso - than yo-yo diets… because it instills this concept that they've dug themselves too far into obesity than they can reasonably exercise their way out of. Worse, these shitheads will go out and spend tons of cash on gym memberships, exercise equipment, and workout clothes - only to abandon it in a few weeks because it's hard and they can't keep a routine since… surprise! Fat fucks have little to no self-control! Who could've seen that coming.

Disconnect the two.

Exercise for health.

Diet for Weight Loss.

The two compliment each other, but exercise is not strictly necessary to weight loss. And I never advocated that anybody actually go on a starvation diet - that's fucking stupid and self-destructive, but the fact remains that it does work - because if you control the calorie intake, you control your weight. Period.