Very true
Really, this is the reason I scorn MMORPGs as well as online play. Because while a single player game encourages you to stay at home and be alone, and online play voids the need for friends, some games, encourage social interaction. Take Super-Smash-Brothers for instance (which ever one is you favorite) a game that can get rather boring fast when played alone, but with a couple of friends, and caffeinated drinks, suddenly, the game becomes a laughing, shouting, and joyful commotion. Naturally other games do this to, encouraging friendships and parties. Where as games such as World of Warcraft, the closest thing you get to interaction, is hooking up with some other friends to do a quest. Online play has really made the basement dweller much more common, because now, he can pretend he has friends, without ever leaving his basement. My last note is that, a select few games, are actually good for the body. First of all Dance Dance Revolution, it may not seem so on light, but by the time you get to heavy, you can hardly go one song without collapsing. Also the game Eye-Toy anti-grav, not quite as good as DDR but still, the arm flailing jumping and shifting will start taking a toll on your body on the later difficulties.
In conclusion, gamers can have no life, or they can make one out of gaming, without of course substituting, real-life stuff.
This flash was rather well done, you used alot of images, something i usually look down on. But it was smooth and well drawn.