By the time Al and Christine’s son Josh was 17 years old...

>By the time Al and Christine’s son Josh was 17 years old, he was so consumed with playing video games that he stopped going to school.
>"He just said, 'Hey, I’m dropping out,'" his father Al told ABC News "20/20."
> Josh would stay up late to play well into the night and sleep in late the next day. His mother said he would often play for as many as 12 hours straight, for as much as 60 hours in a week.
>"It’s like, 'You’ve got to stop ... you've got to close it down,'" Al said. But he said his son replied, "I can't."
>Their son’s obsession with online gaming began in 8th grade, Al and Christine said. The turning point was when Josh built himself a gaming computer and installed it in his room, Christine added.
>"When we did take it away, there was a lot of problems in our house with his behavior," she said. "We get these reactions that are probably not like the average kid ... we see some withdrawal symptoms that are probably not very healthy."
>Josh eventually became addicted to pornography as well and delved deep into extreme fetishes. His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute.
>Josh’s parents decided to send him to a wilderness program called Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, located in the mountains of the Utah wilderness, where he wouldn’t have any access to electronic devices for more than two months.

Be honest Sup Forums, are you addicted to vidya?

>Josh eventually became addicted to pornography as well and delved deep into extreme fetishes. His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute.

What is it about dickgirls that makes them so irresistible?

>located in the mountains of the Utah wilderness, where he wouldn’t have any access to electronic devices for more than two months.
Isn't that how the Unabomber lived?

NO I CAN STOP ANYTIME I WANT, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.

NOW LEAVE ME ALONE.

>he would often play for as many as 12 hours straight, for as much as 60 hours in a week.

That's the way to live, right there.

The boy is now a man

that part made me chuckle. this was probably a Sup Forums faggot

>own a house
>have a normal 40+ hour a week job
>occasionally spend time with friends from work
>generally game about 20-30 hours a week, except when I get really into a game

No, not really.

im addicted and play em anytime i get but i can hold a job and graduated highschool so fuck off

They're feminine so you can fuck and dominate them but they also have a dick so they can fuck you right back. Plus it's fun to suck on when you're bored

>Be a bad parent
>Blame things and ask government for help

Why is this allowed?

>videogames are bad
>video games makes you like transsexuals.
Transsexuals are bad.
Makes sense,

>addicted to pornography
What does he have to do to make it seem like he is addicted to porn?

>Josh’s parents decided to send him to a wilderness program called Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, located in the mountains of the Utah wilderness, where he wouldn’t have any access to electronic devices for more than two months.

How the fuck is this legal? You suck as a parent so you can just drop your kid innawoods for 2 months?

>Josh then killed himself, and his parents have absolutely no idea what might have lead to that

>Kid spends hundreds of dollars building something for entertainment
>Take it away
>Wonder why he's mad

5-star parenting skills.

>His parents finally had enough when they discovered Josh trying to arrange a meetup with a transexual prostitute.
>>Josh’s parents decided to send him to a wilderness program called Outback Therapeutic Expeditions,

see, this is what happens when you go for 3dpd

If this isn't bait (too lazy to check) This poor kid now has to live through life with his horrible personal shit easily accessible to anyone. Sad

Addicted enough to spend all my free time on them. Not addicted enough to drop out of college/work for them.

>have a normal 40+ hour a week job
>generally game about 20-30 hours a week, except when I get really into a game

how do you manage that?

...

>60 hours a week, roughly 8.5 hours/day
>b-but it was 12 hours a day i swear! instead of parenting our own child like responsible adults we're gonna alert the media until some literally who program will give our son free "treatment" where he will get out of our house and learn to hate us even more! its those darn video games destroying our youth! we didn't play video games and we still turned out to be shitty parents, this program will help him do the same!

>put a lot of money into a hobby
>gets taken away
>is upset
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>withdrawal

this isn't gonna work

that kid is just gonna come back and keep playing video games

at least he'll learn to jerk off without porn not that its hard

>transexual prostitute
pffthahaha!

most likely not with his money though

>1957
>no vidya
>no school shootings
>kids are normal
>2017
>vidya everywhere
>school shootings every day
>kids are all fucked up

Really makes you think

>self sufficient enough to build something for his hobby
>punish him for it.

Inb4 they find him dead somewhere in the forest

They're a woman that knows her place and keeps her worthless mouth shut while you cum inside without fear of demonspawn appearing 9 months later.

Why the fuck would you ever report to ABC News that your son is addicted to videogames and porn then tried to hire a tranny whore?

THOSE PARENTS IN THE 90'S WERE RIGHT

It's the death metal music and violent TV shows that did it

That's something you change your name and move to a different country after.

im surprised he doesnt even have facial hair

>kid gets job so he has money to buy heroin
>parents take his heroin away
>hurr durr give it back, he bought it with his own money

Fuck off retard

A few hours a night and most of the weekend. I mean, 2 hours each weeknight and 5 hours Saturday and Sunday. That's 20 hours right there. And my work does a 9/80 schedule so I have every other Friday off.
Also I manage it because I'm single

Wrong.

Nice copypasta by the way.

Yeah idk user. The kids in my neighborhood are all kinds of fucked up and they don't play video games at all really. Plus most of the GAMERZ420 I know are pretty upstanding citizens.

I'm not addicted to vidya I just don't have anything better to do because I don't have real-life friends.

The only people I ever talk to are on Discord or Teamspeak. They seem to like me though, so I'm not a complete piece of shit I guess.

k but what game was it

not video games, am addicted to porn. and weed

I saw the episode and he was playing CSGO

Yeah but I don't miss school or work because of it. Just pussy.

>All this people just blaming the parents

This is such a cope out, like a man chooses to be a piece of shit and drop out to play video games and people go "Man I blame his parents!", when is it ever the person fault for doing something?

Like I get this is a video game board so most of ya'll will side with the person playing games, but dropping out to just play games is pretty dumb.

A lot of "video game addiction" stories are pure BS but this one I have to agree with the parents.

>addicted to weed

YEAH MAN LET'S GO RENT A HOTEL ROOM AND DO SOME POT

B-But those potheads down the street said weed wasn't addictive!

>1980s
>vidya games
>kids are fine
>1990s
>vidya games
>kids are fine
>2010s
>tranny kids everywhere

The internet did it

>its a baby boomers attempt to whitewash their own history episode

>All A's in Callegg final grades
>Have friends to talk to outside of vidya
>About to get a decent job paying $10 an hour
>Spend a majority of my free time playing video games

Video games are my main hobby, yeah, but not my life.

It only is if it's readily available

>CSGO
Well fuck him then he deserves it.

1957 had delinquents and greasers, user
also it had shit like race riots

I'm addicted and been addicted since grade school. I'm so lucky I made it through and got a 4 year degree. I have such a shit attention span for school work and studying.

I hated going to school and I only liked recess and lunch at the cafeteria where I talked about vidya.

I had trouble sitting in the classroom and following directions when I was a adolescent.

Now I play vidya everyday, lurk 2D waifus, go out and buy expensive clothes and chill at the mall, and look for a job.

Dear. God I do love it..

>tfw even video games are filled with trannies now
>tfw video games are shit now
How do we stop the kikes?

>all this people
they should have done something before it got to that point, you mouth breathing retard.

>Be honest Sup Forums, are you addicted to vidya?
No but I'm worried I may have fapped too much to the same girl and wired my brain to be in love with her.

DUDE

Those good old MMO days, used to play 14 hours a day with friends running instances and PVP.
My parents hated it ofc. and fell on an awful depression because i constantly felt like a disappointment, but kept doing it regardless.
I finished school got a degree and a decent job.

>man
He's not a man and his parents have a responsibility to end his self destructive behavior.

>y'all
Retard opinion discarded. Get the fuck out and don't come back.

I blame the legal acceptance of Gay marriage.

Opened the floodgates for "everything should be accepted" and trannies being obnoxiously loud.

Do you know what parents are like? They're fucking pathetic. They suck literal shit most of the time. They don't let their kids face consequences and we end up with a population full of faggots who lack empathy and decency. Parents are the worst race on the planet.

Better yet parents as a population include the little shits their raising, as they're guaranteed to grow up and breed just like their slut potato parents.

putting a picture of him with his name attached to it all over the internet and exposing everything wrong with him to ABC news is sure to help him

>for as much as 60 hours in a week.

What a fucking casual

Oh Sup Forums. Your comparisons are always so delightfully stupid. Make a food one next.

> letting your kid drop out and still allowing him to live in the house
The vidya was a symptom not the problem

>oh yeah but please forget about how just a few years prior blacks weren't even able to drink from the same fountain as whites
>other than that it was a great time, damn vidya

NEXT THING YOU KNOW THEY WILL BE MARRYING THEIR OWN PETS
WE HAVE TO STOP THEM BEFORE THEY STOP THESECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD

>be manlet
>see trap shit
>decide to dress up as a girl
>get lots of attention
>get addicted to dick
>go on hormones

It's not so bad

delete this

>1990s
>kids are fine
>literally an entire generation trying to make a career out of shilling their iPhone photography on instagram

Nah

hot

L-leftie scum!!!! >:(

It'll either make him man-up and work to be a decent human, or he'll kill himself.

At this point, both are great outcomes.

I have the reverse problem

>have shelves of vidya to play
>can't pick one to play
>just lay around doing nothing and throwing time away until it's time for school or work

Feels bad man.

But did you hire a transexual prostitute?

>>kids are all fucked up
in a literal sense?

>homosexuality is natural, gays should be allowed to marry

5 years later

>I DON'T HAVE A GENDER YOU MUST ADDRESS ME AS XUR

>but they also have a dick so they can fuck you right back

i bet hes sucking dick in the woods now

>the gays turned into trannies, i swear

Yes.
And I am happy.

nah, i'm addicted to escape and vidya works well enough

Nice story
But it goes like this: Josh becomes a pro gamer or a streamer and makes more money from donations in a day than I do in a month, which is pretty COOLL YEAAAAAH

>>Josh eventually became addicted to pornography as well and delved deep into extreme fetishes.
I bet he posted on Sup Forums

Its kids being little bitches, bullies in groups and the 'victims' using their position to get whatever they want. All these trannies just want special treatment.
Gays just want normal treatment and not to be lumped with those freaks.

I don't pour every free hour into gaming anymore, unless I just absolutely fall in love with a game and can't wait to get home and play more. There's been an upswing of that recently because 2017 has been great for bideo gaems so far, but otherwise it's nothing too bad.

On an unrelated note, is there a version of that wilderness program for people who aren't dumb teenagers with parents that are better at making money than actually parenting? 2 months technology free in the wilderness of the northwest sounds pretty fucking great.

Clearly his parents were morons.

They should have bought him a face cam, some editing software and a microphone then told him to become a Twitch streamer.

I mean sure, chances are he wouldn't become that successful but you never know, still a better option trying to turn his obsession into a job than sending him to some kind of dumb camp that he'll come back from no different than he was when he left.

As things stand the only change that will happen when he gets back is that he'll get beaten up when he goes outside for being a fag because his retarded parents were stupid enough to reveal to the world that he tried to hire a transexual prostitute.

That kid is going to commit suicide thanks to the combination of gaming addiction and retarded parents ruining his life completely.

I was addicted to video games when I was younger, but now I'm addicted to drugs and video games are just a fun hobby again. Would recommend.

My grandma would often complain to me that I was addicted simply because I played my DS a lot when I was over. I love my grandfolks but they aren't really the most exciting people and they live in the outback so there's not much for me to do. My mom was very overprotective so I wasn't allowed to have outdoor adventures like my dad did.
I remember getting DQ9 for christmas from my folks there and her complaining it was violent saying it would desensitize me.

I don't get the desensitization meme. I've played violent shit like DOOM and No More Heroes and I'm pretty sure I'd freak the fuck out if I found a corpse.

>>Josh eventually became addicted to pornography as well and delved deep into extreme fetishes.
this is me
I fear that someday my fetishes get out of control and I end up masturbating to CP or worse

It's not addictive in the "your body begins to literally, biologically not function without it" kind of way, but in the "it becomes a psychological compulsion" kind of way that can happen with literally anything you do habitually.

Nothing. You're just a faggot.

this kid is going to pull a double murder suicide when he gets back, fucking watch

I agree, but merely because of the drop out. Yet videogames are likely not the reason why he dropped although if he was really playing CSGO it might be.

>>Their son’s obsession with online gaming began in 8th grade
Nice parenting there.

More than 9 hours of vidya a week is considered an addiction mowadays, you fucking junky.
How about you get your shit together and do somezhing actually worthwhole, like watching tv 20 hours a week, while eating cheaps and drinking beer?

They think it would desensitize people because instead of how TV has you passively watching people fuck and die the darn evil videogames would be forcing your hand in the act, therefore you can't separate reality from fiction because you pushed X to kill

>The turning point was when Josh built himself a gaming computer

How? He actually has enough power to pry himself from video games at teenage years to get a job?

>(((whites)))