Second Skin Trailer

Buy the Second Skin DVD w/over 70 mins of bonus features - http://www.secondskinfilm.com/store
Rated #4 Documentary of 2008 by Aint It Cool News, winner Adobe Max Award HM, ACE Fest award.

Featured in Newsweek, Wired, LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, BoingBoing, Variety, Newsday, Popular Science, among others.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• documentary
• mmo
• mmorpg
• warcraft
• everquest
• second
• life
• skin

[TheCrapHeap]

1:10 only 14-16 hours? n00b

[MakkaPakka666]

I hardly managed to watch this documentary. Was too busy playing wow.

[EUGENIOUS96]

It is a strong form of addiction. People smoke, drink, use drugs or play to escape the crude reality. I used to play WoW in my free time which was about 4-7 hours a day. Then I realized I was flushing my life down the toilet. I started learning the guitar and my addiction to music substituted gaming. I will say only this: find a small addiction like art or music and use it to rid yourself of the hell that is a gamer's life.

[lGxtmXl]

noobs

[plastique45]

fucking losers.

[Fichengafter]

@Dreamewalker addiction is a strong word, i call it willingfull weakness. Its accepting you cant have self control. Its nothing like physical dependency of alcohol, heroin, cocaine or amphetamines. Two completely different things.

[TechTongue]

@Dreamewalker, really addicted to videogames? wow gets boring really fast. Ironically, i leveled up my character to lvl 40 in a week....

[Dreamewalker]

@Safeguarded As a former MMO player, I can contest that videogame addiction can be grouped with other types of addiction. Psychological need for something is addiction such as food, sex, or internet. If grades suffer, if you call out of work, if you research game info while at work, if you miss getting together with your family on holidays and special occasions, if you neglect to tend to your housework...if any number of these things apply to you, then you're probably an addict.

[tayscrim]

@CuteSceneChic Kind of just opinion as to how someone is ruining their life. They can live exactly how they want and unless they are physically or mentally damaging themselves I don't see it as "ruining" their life if they are content.

[Safeguarded]

@CuteSceneChic I'm sorry if I seemed cocky, that was not my intention

My point is that, how people perceive what others

are doing as excessive or wrong is very relative

and since videogames don't have any addictive

substance as drugs or other products do, calling it

an addiction is subjective, and videogames have

personal benefits that may not be visable to a observer,

Who focuses it through his own perception, and makes

conclusions based only on that...

[CuteSceneChic]

@Safeguarded Your a very mean person. To be honest, i personally kow a gamer. I live with one, ad he has no idea what he is doing to his life. He can't see it like i can. You can't just say its ok to game because of the past, the point is to help for the future. If someone as a problem gaming then they need help. problems will always exist, but it doesn't give people the right to ruin there lives and blame other people for it. Non-gamers know more effects then games because they see it.

[Safeguarded]

@bazzamataz72 Yeah mom, The social problems allready existed

and are not a cosequence of gaming, are a consequence that led

to gamming execively, besides what's does a non gammer know about it's effects?