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[[User:PatrickMarion|PatrickMarion]] 00:11, 3 January 2013 (EST)PatrickMarion
[[User:PatrickMarion|PatrickMarion]] 00:11, 3 January 2013 (EST)PatrickMarion
== College dropouts... ==
While perusing the headlines on the main page, I followed the embedded wiki-link to this article. Right there in the intro of the article I found this bold (literally) claim: '''''Video games are likely the single biggest cause of bright young men dropping out of college, and also committing heinous acts of violence.''''' To say I was somewhat stunned would be an understatement. While on the path of obtaining my degrees, I was tempted to dropout on more than one occasion. Like many others, financial problems, work scheduling, personal issues, and simple lack of interest served as a near-constant distraction to my studies. Yet despite all of these things I had to juggle during my collegiate days, addiction to violent video games wasn't one of them. I simply can't imagine a temptation so great that not only would it encourage me to discontinue my education, it would also goad me into performing acts of mindless violence. Clearly a lot has changed in the nearly 20 years since I attended my alma mater. Please provide me with citations and/or links that support this incredible information. Clearly, anything described as "... ''the single biggest cause''..." would have no trouble producing a concordance (consilience) of sources in agreement. --[[User:DonnyC|DonnyC]] 03:12, 22 April 2013 (EDT)