GamePolitic.com ran a post a few days ago alerting of a TV series portraying gaming in the bad light and add to the already public paranoia about the impact of gaming. The TV series is Mental. Yeah, it is crazy but it is named as such because it is about a bunch of doctors (remember ER) looking into mental patients. These doctors are probably bored to death with their job because they try so hard to squeeze something mysterious from their patients' case to make their job more fun.So episode 4 is a another of hallucination about a kid gamer who is described in its preview as:
An 8-year-old bipolar boy whose life is consumed by a video game he plays in his head is admitted to Wharton Memorial for an accident involving a knife. When it turns out the accident was really a suicide attempt, Jack must try to get inside the little boy’s head to find out what is triggering his life-threatening rages. But when the boy bolts from the psych ward, Jack must try to save him by engaging him in his own mind game.Respondents to the post in GamesPolitic.com (who are likely gamers) ridicule the episode and treat the mind game part as a poor excuse for a joke. Again, this kind of bad press is the last thing we need to raise the awareness of the non-gaming public what is real and what is perceived to be (or hallucinated) about gaming.
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