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Abusive Mother is a…..Gamer? September 13, 2010

I came upon this strange story today, and immediately knew that this was blog worthy. Apparently, a mother got addicted to the game Smallworld and ended up neglecting both her kids as well as her dogs. She had been playing the game nonstop and never got around to cooking, which meant starved kids. If that isn’t bad enough, she never fed the dogs either. 😦

Now, I personally think that is just ridiculous. Sure the story is very amusing (In a dark humor type of way), but we have to realize that this woman is giving gaming a bad name. Hardcore gaming is about staying up and playing online with your friends, or completing quests, or socializing, or etc etc. No matter what your flavor of gaming is, I sure hope that your priorities are set straight enough that you won’t leave your dogs, much less your kids, starved. People like this woman, give gaming a bad name by making it seem addicting. (I know, I know, games can be addicting, but in a good way 😉 ). Now I for one am very curious about Smallworld to see how this game (that I have never heard of) could entice a mother so much that she could forget about her kids. Heck, I want to see how such a game could get a mother playing at all (let’s face it, the amount of gamers who are mother is abysmally minuscule).

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20016173-71.html?tag=mncol