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posted by martyb on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the leaving-the-basement dept.

BBC:

Mr Brown, now 24, dropped out of college and spent the following years at home - gaming, in chat rooms and reading about politics.

He became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.

Mr Brown, from Ashton, Cornwall, says he became increasingly "eccentric" and eventually lost touch with reality.

"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.

...

He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.

7 years. Not bad. Can anyone beat that?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Saturday November 10 2018, @01:35PM (14 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Saturday November 10 2018, @01:35PM (#760334) Homepage Journal

    "I wasn't sure why I was alive, why I was here... I realised if I didn't do something I wouldn't be here in a year or two years."

    He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.

    Ergo, the purpose of our existence is to work or to do things that prepare us for work. Finding meaning in wage slavery, huh?

    Still, if it keeps most people from going loopy, I suppose I shouldn't be too harsh about it. Whatever works. If you're intelligent and open-minded, there comes a point where it can stop working though, I think.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @02:04PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @02:04PM (#760341)

    Welcome to XXI century.
    And what I found, especially after certain age (30s), talking with people not about work is highly outdated and in last decade became socially unacceptable. From experience: One half will try to fraud you (males), the other (females) will file a complaint about molesting.
    We are nothing but robots, only carbon based, not silicon. Better stay with a full arse in computer, especially if someone's appearance is not in accordance with modern Photoshop standards.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:55PM (#760359)

      You sound like a weirdo.

      Start making positive changes in your life.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:25PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:25PM (#760401)

      Perhaps if you don't talk about your bank account numbers or your penis, you won't have those problems.

      I regularly talk about things that aren't work at work when time permits and I've never had problems with those things.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:02PM (#760454)

        Fortunately mentality in my country is such that these are not a good subjects to talk. As well as salaries.
        There is a cultural difference between countries, and really, it may change not after airplane travel around half of the world, but when crossing a neighbor country's border. Let me go with an example I experienced: With people in one country you can talk freely about projects done in a free time and it is normal, everyone does something, then you go home and boom - if the project does not provide instant money you suddenly are an unproductive lazy arse.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:53PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:53PM (#760357)

    Unfortunately, you socialists constantly want to strip people of their efforts, and dissipate it into nothingness.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by acid andy on Saturday November 10 2018, @04:15PM (3 children)

      by acid andy (1683) on Saturday November 10 2018, @04:15PM (#760367) Homepage Journal

      I'm no socialist.

      strip huge, monopolistic, amoral corporations of their directors' bonuses, and dissipate it amongst the littler guys and gals

      FTFY. You see, corporations aren't really people.

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      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:20PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:20PM (#760398)

        More or less that. If we didn't allow the parasite class to steal everything that isn't nailed down, there's no real reason why the typical worker should have to be at work more than half time. That's more than enough time to get all the productive work we need for society to function to be completed. Especially as we get further along the path to automation. It just doesn't take that much time to produce the essentials. The rest of the time should be for the workers to freely engage in things like arts and recreation. Some people will want to work more than that, but they shouldn't be forced to do so out of fear of homelessness and hunger.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:27PM (1 child)

        by crafoo (6639) on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:27PM (#760403)

        More practically, strip corporations of the ability to hold or buy patents and copyrights. They should stay with their original creators. Both are artificial monopolies, and being able to transfer them only means we allow monopolies to be transferred, traded, and accumulated by psychotic MBAs, concentrating wealth and giving power to those that don't actually create new art or ideas. It's perverse.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @06:08PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @06:08PM (#760429)

          The problem with patents/copyrights is that they are a governmental construct rather than a free-market contractual construct—the deep pockets can just purchase the violent coercion of the State, and thereby swoop in to change the rules of the game at the last moment.

          You can't expect freedom to be protected by an organization that is explicitly anti-freedom. That's insane.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by shortscreen on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:21PM (4 children)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:21PM (#760462) Journal

    This appears to be a sales pitch for the RIO program. So yes, playing games for 7 years is a terrible misfortune, wouldn't you rather have spent that time sucking up to your boss and making student loan payments?

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:31PM (#760464)

      Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid.

      Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:26AM (#760572)

      Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid.

      Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:14AM (#760599)

      Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid.

      Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @08:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @08:08PM (#761028)

      Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid.

      Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.