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The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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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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Original Submission

• There. You've shown your bias. There. You've shown your bias. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:22AM (6 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:22AM (#760571)

  Statistics show that the children of single mothers are at a huge risk of childhood sexual and physic abuse due to the mother's endless string of "boyfriends".

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• Re:There. You've shown your bias. Re:There. You've shown your bias. (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:30AM (5 children)

  by dry (223) on Sunday November 11 2018, @05:30AM (#760577) Journal

  Probably true, it happened to my wife after her dad left her mom due to the mom screwing around. What's the fix?

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  • You're not going to like it. You're not going to like it. (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:09AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @07:09AM (#760597)

    • Privatize welfare (charity).
    • Or, require welfare people to be "institutionalized". If you want to live in your dad's basement, then you have to live by your dad's rules; if you want to live on the taxpayers' dime, then you have to according to the taxpayers' strict rules, including curfew, showing up at designated menial jobs (unless you find your own), and setting up a plan to pay everything back (at 0% for all I care). Failing this, you go to prison for non-violent offenders, and your kids go into foster homes.

    Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled.

    Do you fuckers want a discussion or not? Assholes.

    Goes to reset IP Address

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    • Re:You're not going to like it. Re:You're not going to like it. (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday November 11 2018, @08:01AM (3 children)

      by dry (223) on Sunday November 11 2018, @08:01AM (#760605) Journal

      Ah, the totalitarian solution. I have a hard time accepting that.

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      • It's not totalitarian; it's utterly decentralized. It's not totalitarian; it's utterly decentralized. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:55PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @06:55PM (#760681)

        You just have to have somewhere to go; if you have nowhere to go and must therefore trespass on someone else's property, then you should be arrested, removed, and institutionalized until you can make arrangements for having a place to be.

        You can't just shit in on my property.

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        • Re:It's not totalitarian; it's utterly decentraliz Re:It's not totalitarian; it's utterly decentraliz (Score: 3, Touché) by dry on Monday November 12 2018, @06:22AM (1 child)

          by dry (223) on Monday November 12 2018, @06:22AM (#760820) Journal

          then you should be arrested, removed, and institutionalized

          You actually say that you're not totalitarian?

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          • Are there property rights, or not? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:37AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:37AM (#760872)

            You have to have somewhere to go (e.g., a family member's care, a charity, etc.), or you're trespassing.

            What do does one do with trespassers? We've tried just letting them lay about and shit all over the streets, and that's now gotten out of hand. It's unsanitary and dangerous.

            What should we do? If a person will not engage in well ordered behavior voluntarily, then he must be forced into well ordered behavior until he proves to himself that well ordered behavior is good for him, and until he proves to others that he is capable of sustaining well ordered behavior according to his own decisions.

            When you're a child, you live within the bounds of someone else's institutions. These people are children.

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