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These people are so addicted to the Internet that they had to go to rehab
For Charlie, it was clear that rehab was necessary when, after months of obsessively playing a smartphone game called Spirit Lords, her mother called her at college worried that she had taken up gambling. Her savings account was drained. Multiple overdraft notices had arrived at her parents’ house. Over five months, she had blown $8,000 on “spirit upgrades” and in-app purchases like rare weapons to help her beat the game.
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Is it bad that my first reaction to reading the blurb was "Huh. Spirit Lords? I wonder what it is..."? (In my defense, that changed when I read about its in-app purchases...)