Gaming is bad for you!

I DON'T BELIEVE THIS JAPANESE FOOL, LETS SHOOT HIM AND BEAT HIS WIFE WITH A BAT.


violent gamers my ass

i don't know if anyone has said this before but, since video games have appeared, the crime rate has dropped. video games keep ppl off the street when they are playing them. maybe that's why

i think they have it backwards...it called propaganda

Can't control myself! Must post!

So what did they find out? That the kraepelin test (misspelt) causes more activity in the brain than a nintendo game. The kraepelin test also causes more activity than reading books, or listening to music. The kraepelin test is the continuous adding of single digit numbers for half and hour at a time.

The sensible conclusion: making kids do single digit addition for mind numbing periods of time will cause electrical activity in the brain.

The conclusion we are given: computer games make kid violent.

This conclusion depends upon several important facts:

1. activity in the frontal lobes develops better abilities to control aggressive behavior.
2. we accept that playing computer games will make you a bully in your local high school.
3. the readers are too stupid to realize that books do the same damage as computer games, according to the study.

Books are evil. There are lots of bad books. The Satanic Verses, for example. Books discourage healthy physical activity by making people sit indoors. Books stunt the development of important social skills. Literacy stunts the development of memory. And now we have proof that books inhibit the control of aggressive tendencies!

And worse, books are freely available at your local primary school! I've seen people in the street handing out little books about religions that we KNOW have caused WARS in the past!

WE MUST CLEANSE OUR SCHOOLS OF BOOKS!! BOOKS ARE DESTROYING OUR CHILDREN!

you must balance your computer gaming with pot, its the only answer

I just got done playing Emperor yesterday. I do have the urge to ride a sandworm across the freeway for some odd reason. Now if I could only find a good thumper!

stupid posting these type of news articles, no one cares

Wow, just think...if that's the damage that computer games cause, just think of the damage religion causes!

I mean, at least video games don't intentionally brainwash children...

When is this nonsense going to stop?

First of all, we're apparently talking about particular kinds of games here:

...it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.

A sensible parent doesn't need a scientific study to convince him that games which are superficial and silly in nature will resemble any other idle waste of time, and that too much of them is going to harm the kid in the long run. It seems to me that parents who don't care if their kids' entertainments involve problem solving and other good stuff aren't going to be much use in shaping their character either.

Certainly they won't be the sort of people who inspire others to live moral lives. I won't speak for Japan, but we in the US do not have a problem with self-control in our society; we have a problem with evil. An inability to recognize it, a refusal to name it, an acceptance of its presence everywhere as long as it doesn't directly interfere with our plans for the day.

There are terrible people who possess impressive self-control. Now and again you'll encounter someone who impulsively helps others in spite of his own best interests. Someone whose giving appears to approach folly. Most of us knows someone who turned himself around and changed his behavior dramatically well after the age of 20. It may be a biological certainty that we can't change our brains after a certain point, but if something in those brains determines that we are to be impulsive, it is observed fact that for the duration of our lives there is something else in there which can be made to direct those impulses where we please.

It is obvious to me that children who are left alone hours at a time with idle amusements, the merits of which no figure of authority has taken the care to investigate or judge, can't possibly have a trusted authority figure teaching them to distinguish right from wrong, to care about the distinction, and to give that distinction the highest priority in their lives. We are a civilization of people who do not think because we live in a fog, living in that fog because we were raised by a civilization of people who didn't think because they lived in a haze - teaching a civilization of people not to think by causing them to live in a wonderland. It amazes me that anyone bothers to determine the minutae of the process.

'The importance of this discovery cannot be underestimated,' Kawashima told The Observer.

You got that one right, buddy.

After I play Counter-Strike I want to run inside building and AWP people in the head. I thought everybody had these feeling after playing Counter-Strike?

damage done by stunting the developing mind.

That I buy. Sitting alone in front of a screen for hours at a time is not good for you, but whether or not that's what accounts for an icrease in violence, or whether there even is one, I don't know. I think a lot of people assume those two things, and that sucks. But saying, "Heh, those dumbasses...videogames cause violence...sure." seems just as ignorant as saying the exact opposite, "Videogames cause violence, stop your children from playing them."

By the way Sander, when you linked to that article were you saying it was more reputable than this one? I'm not being snyde, just lazy. I havn't read either of them.

Anyway, I think staying calm and being skeptical is vital for making up your mind about anything that's important.

Boy I never get tired of posting my opinions on this subject, I don't know why that is..

ps - I posted this before reading any of the comments so sorry if I'm resating things that have already been said.

I'll PUNCH THEM IN TEH FACE

Games R BAD.....Drugs R BAD. I'm doing one or the other, OR BOTH. Fuckers trying to ruin my entertainment.

Uhm, tell me now...who told them that human beings aren't already violent (I mean, sorry, but just look at the last few thousand years and you'll see what I mean...we aren't the friendliest bunch...and if there ever was a friendly bunch of people they died off long ago at the hands of the more violent folks ;P). I don't believe that human beings are born innocent and that society corrupts us...I think human beings (like any other animals) will kill and destroy and do God knows what else without learning it or being brain damaged; its just the sad way life works (I almost said the universe...but the universe is a dead, cold place...life has nothing to do with nature...its an abnormality; a freak of nature). There is an odd parralel you know; the same guy who said that human's were inherently good and that society was making us bad, was the same guy who wanted to ban the theatre in Geneva (I think it was Geneva at least...its been a long time since I read about that, he was French dude, not going to try to spell his name...but he was a famous philosopher and his name began with 'R' I believe). Anyway, we know that theatrical drama doesn't create immoral people...and I believe that in a couple hundred years we will know that video games don't create cold blooded killers.

This article is COMPLETELY TRUE! Playing too many computer games makes you mentally retarded. One only needs to read the comments on the shack for a while to know this!

And BTW, don't mess with the Japanese! They know what they're doing!

[b]LET'S ALL KILL THOSE DUMB BASTARDS[/b]

allright fuckers
go and and those single digit numbers....

how old were the kids they did this study on, 5?

THAT'S A LOAD OF SHIT! I'LL KILL THOSE FUCKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WITH A SAWED-OFF, MAX PAYNE STYLE!!


;-)

Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation

So that's why all the summer movies are geared towards stupid people.

Okay well that does it. I'm quitting these games.

What game did they use in the study? Daikatana??

They really should specify what games are used in these tests. I'd be interested to know which ones to pick up so that I can become a violent dumb killer.

me stan..... me bash... butt-chewie-chomp....

Its probably all those dating sims released over there and games with big heads. That could cause japanese youth to kill. ;)

I used to play a lot of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, and I'd say that a stunted brain and being prone to violence are a small price to pay for proficiency in chucking holy water and taking out vampires.

It's Japanese propaganda from a state-sponsored university.

Without Quakeworld CTF to help me focus my rage, I'd have at least 20 people under the patio by now.

I'm sure they were playing mario cart and not solomon's key.

'Children need to be encouraged to learn basic reading and writing, of course,' he said. 'But the other thing is to ask them to play outside with other children and interact and to communicate with others as much as possible. This is how they will develop, retain their creativity and become good people.'

He proved that math helps the brain develop more than that of a game. How much more? What does this have to do with going outside and communicating with people?

-Mike