Joskus videopeli on niin hyvä, ettei oikeaan elämään palaaminen tunnu mielekkäältä. Näyttelijä James McAvoy on kokenut saman, mutta hänellä tilanne vaati kovempia toimia.
Forbesin haastattelussa McAvoy paljasti, että The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion vei niin mukanaan, että oli parasta polttaa koko hoito. Pelaaminen alkoi jo haitata vakavasti töihin keskittymistä menetettyjen yöunien muodossa.
"I'm, like, having to go to bed at 10pm, because I'm getting up at 6am every morning, and I've got tons of lines, and all that kind of stuff. And I'm just staying up until four in the morning just playing Oblivion. I went to bed at 5:35am. My car beeped its horn outside at, like, 5:45. And I'm like, 'Oh my god, I need to do something.' So I got up and I got the disc out of the Xbox 360 and I turned the gas hob on. I just put the disc on it and just watched it sort of, like, singe and melt a little bit. And I was like, 'Right, we're done, we're over, never again!'"
Korona on kuitenkin saanut näyttelijän palaamaan takaisin pelien pariin. Eikä haittaa, vaikka verkossa tulee "lättyyn" 12-vuotiailta.
"During the pandemic, me and my boys, we're all 40-something dudes with gray hair, bald spots, and all sorts of shit. We now talk every two or three nights, playing Warzone and we talk about life, love, everything while getting absolutely annihilated by 12-year-old children from other countries."