Video Games: A Slippery Slope

This sounds like radical behaviorism at its worst...I imagine if you got this individual in a room with a biologist...you could end up with an ugly fight!

This is, sadly true... I played my first video game somewhere between 1975 and 1978...

Today, I drink alcohol.

Watch out, kids.

The more you know...

What a joke. Stop posting these pointless articles.

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I'd have to agree with the "raising blood pressure" argument, because when playing gets a bit competitive online, stress is introduced. This is different from having a competitive ball game at the park, because there is no physical exertion to provide an outlet for the stress, and so anxiety can build up. I'm sure cs/quake/starcraft peoplez can attest to this.

o_O Hey, what in the world is she doing out of the kitchen! ;)

I still wonder where they come up with the money to spend on meanless studies such as this one? Have they ever thought about spending all of this time worrying about video games on something of great use. Oh well, sigh....

What if it is the other way around?

What if people with a particular kind of personality or tendency play video games as a result of that personality or tendency?

This would be in contrast to saying people play video games and are changed or influenced by them.

Just a thought.

Guys, remember what happened to that entire generation of D&D players? They became Satan worshippers. We can't let that happen again.

Just say "No" to new media and parental responsibility!

I don't know, If I smoke and play CS:S I always end up shooting my own team mates. So don't smoke and CS:S!

This is totally true. Here's some proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiG3HtGKVV8

Sounds like a certain female researcher hasn't been getting the discipline she needs at home from a firm hand. Maybe a blackened eye and a good stern talking to are in order.

This just in...

I'm 24 years old. I breathe air. I also drink alcohol.

BAN AIR, FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

Who hasn't felt spaced out or on edge after playing a 3D shooter for several hours straight?

I certainly have. I don't know if this is what they are referring to - but after playing BF2 for 5 hours straight my head can be abuzz.

You could easily say anything you concentrate on for 5 hours would produce a similar effect.

I wish they would fucking cite some goddamn percentiles in these shitty reactionary articles.

I tried to even find the study online but you've gotta actually pay to read this tripe.

What if the difference was 51 versus 49 percent? They can technically say there's an increased chance but statistically it's totally irrelevent. The annoying part is retarded soccer moms will read this and start making immediate lifestyle changes for their children in a way that may result in a negative outcome.

Postal 2 made me like peeing on people.

Yeah, that's like saying rice cakes can make you full.

I am a god damn crack head with no self control! I can't tell you how many mothers with their little babies I've stuck for bux to feed my addiction.

And to thin, it all started with playing Spy Hunter at 4 on my ZX Spectrum.

Grand Theft Auto glorifies crime and encourages players to take part in guilt-free massacres.

It is also a videogame. So there.

I can see the politicians jumping on this one...

Why don't we just go back to living in caves...b/c that's pure innocence right there, nothing but you and the cave.

Every step man kind has taken from cave man to modern day man has in one way or another been a sacrifice of something. Let's think about what else in our modern society is destroying us physically or mentally.

1. processed food

What's the alternative, growing a garden and having your own animal farm?

2. gas burning vehicles

Ok, good luck doing any sort of intercontinental traveling horseback.

3. pornos + the internet

Sexual frustration is a better alternative?

4. violence in movies/games

Animals are violent by nature, just b/c we have bigger brains we're expected to not be? If all we had to watch was the smurfs we'd probably be violent too.

5. destroying forest land

Yep tress are important, but what if we didn't cut a single one down? We'd probably be living in the trees when we aren't in our caves. Good luck getting running water, a fridge and a stove in a tree fort.


I'm sympathetic to all these issues. But c'mon. All of these in moderation are acceptable parts of all the luxeries of today. Would life as we know it be better without them?

... maybe...

So this explains why I'm the Devil now! >:D

Kids aren't supposed to be playing GTA games. Says so right on the box because of the rating. So what's the relevance of her study to the development of youth? The "youth" have nothing to do with violent video games if their "parents" are being parents. God, this kind of shit makes me so fucking angry. Must KILL! MUST KILL!

You know, I hope they include comic books, movies, television, and music in this study, also.

They went through this crap like 10 years ago when Marilyn Manson was huge and parents thought he was making their kids go kill people.

Video games made me join the Army so I could go overseas and murder people legally.

Or did it?

what. the. fuck.

If this is true, and it's not, then video games should be encouraged, as should certain drugs. We would have a much mellower society.

Today: video games! Tomorrow: dope smoking murderer rapist!

Beer Good! Anti-Video Game Legislation and related Studies Bad!

bahwahahaha. That's so awesome. I smoke some fuckin weed' now, i must admit, but i was the last one of my peers to start smoking and the only real gamer in my group for a long time. Amusingly, the stoners started gaming and i started getting stoned. I wonder what that bitch would make of that.

I have a video game addiction, spending my hard earned cash on consoles and PC parts, plus new games all the time. I just love computer games!

Also I'm 24 years old with a good job, long term relationship and a house I own.

But I can admit that just because video games haven't messed me up, it doesn't mean that they can't mess a person up.

Although does a person need to already be in a certain state before games/drink/drugs will cause them to go over the edge? I don't know.

Research! =)

Her job is: "finding links between stressful life experiences and the development of youth."

So if she doesn't find anything, she fails... Huh... You betcha she's going to find something.

Hell wait until they discover that toontown is a gateway to pr0n. "Oh yes throw that pie on that persons crotch, come on big boy do it mmmmmm."

More fodder for the Jack Thopmson Squad(tm). Of course there may be some context in the study that makes sense, but we'll never see that. It makes better headlines to take this out of context and cherry pick the most controversial parts. See, this is where I'd like to see the ESA pimping postive studies and making press releases about them. Maybe they have, but I guess they would get the press that this will.

I don't know about video games but that space rangers 2 ad makes me want to kill something, or someone.

Where are the women in the study! Not that I don't think this is just another waste of grant money, but if she's going to keep using the word "kids," might as well use both genders. I'd be more curious in seeing how young women react to the games in comparsion to the guys, rather than see another video game scare tactic.

Where are the controls? What did she use as a baseline. And more importantly, is the change in blood pressure any different from playing basketball or running? These are things we ENCOURAGE children to do. So if the change in blood pressure from running makes us more violent, why do I only want to drink water and lay down after running? The findings here can not be validated, and in my opionion this study should have not made it past the peer review process.

"The teacher then asks to see "Billy" after class. The study participants were told to imagine themselves as Billy, and asked how likely it was that the teacher was going to accuse them of cheating. Students who'd played Grand Theft Auto were more likely to think they'd be accused of cheating."

What? If you get asked to stay after class you [i]ar/i] in trouble. That's how it works.