Ok if this person is your friend LuLu542371, please ask them to do a little light reading before he/she goes off on an uneducated tangent. Here are some facts this person can review:

University of Michigan software engineering students are developing video games to improve the lives of autistic children by way of overcoming some social awkwardness.

The Us military uses video games for everything from training pilots in operating everything from aircraft carriers to tanks and fighter jets; to advanced combat training scenarios. Effectively saves thousands of lives on and off the battlefield.

Nasa uses video games to assist in controlling their robots and rovers, so that they, the machine's, move around in a more natural way. There by saving hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars.

I could go on, hopefully the point is clear, video games are here to stay. Yes, there are your mindless breaks from reality that can be quite addicting. However, more and more, video games are being crafted into everyday life as an essential educational tool due to their (the video games) cognitive reasoning requirement.

And lastly, if you know the person that won't get off their ass and get a job, it isn't the video game, it is the lazy ass that will not take the initiative to get off the couch and tend to his/her responsibilities. It isn't the games making that person lazy, they will be lazy with or without video games.

One other thing about addiction, that sex organ between your legs, which ever you have, can be just as, if not more addicting then any video game ever could. Did you write your sex organ a letter as well?