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| TheBeast 619th Post
 
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|  "That really depends..."
, posted Tue 16 Jul 03:42
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Yeah fellow gamers, according to japanese rat labs, playing two hours of videogames a day, makes you stupid!
Read in here wacala!
Me not believe this, me not stupid for playing videogames, me smart!
Me SMASH!!!!
Hmmmmm that depends on what kind of games you play. Games like Super Mario and Mario kill time, but doesn't make you smarter. Playing KOF and SF with PC gives you limited intelligence and eye-to-hand coordination, but it is another story with a human player.
I play adventure games on PC which solves riddles and puzzles. I suppose that makes me a someone a bit smarter and more imagination...
Oh yes, to end off, I remembered playing this game called T"he Vikings" on PC. Man, that game had my brains cracked up. I think I gained a lot of IQ from that game...
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 639th Post
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|  "WTF WACALA"
, posted Tue 16 Jul 09:31
i agree with some of this study but ehhhhhhh i think they got a lot of inaccuracy
taken from that site:
"According to a recent study conducted by Tokyo's Nihon University that surveyed just under 250 people, those who play games for more than two hours a day are stupid jerks."
Juke Joint Jezebel(11:30 AM) :
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/364/364841p1.html
Hagen de Merak(11:32 AM) :
is it a joke?
Juke Joint Jezebel(11:33 AM) :
nope, i'm pretty sure it's real
Hagen de Merak(11:34 AM) :
man, if that were true me and you would be raging lunatics by now, we would snap at each other every time we lost to one another in a game, CvsS 2 is a good exmple
Juke Joint Jezebel(11:36 AM) :
i agree with some of this. when i play video games nonstop without doing my daily stuff (eating, bathing, exercising, etc), i get extremely pissed off. but that's, like, 18 hours of nonstop gaming. not 2. i can go 10 and still be fine. they failed to mention that everyone's a different person and we all react to it differently
Hagen de Merak(11:37 AM) :
dude, it this article were true, we would beat each other up during bonestorm
Juke Joint Jezebel(11:38 AM) :
buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!!
Angry Swordsman: come to the back of the gulch
Raven7186: your gay!
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| RugalBernstein 2151th Post
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| "Re(1):Videogames make you stoopid!" , posted Tue 16 Jul 18:00
I think it's a flawed study, anyway. Same with the " Mozart's music makes you smart " thing. Hey, I know, why don't we play games AND listen to Mozart's music at the same time, to cancel the effects? Ha ha ha ha
There are too many other factors to take in to account. For example, if these people were students, were they playing games instead of studying? What were they comparing their intelligence to? Were they monitoring the gamer's other daily habits? Did they have a large enough cross-section? How long was the study? Etc..etc..
If playing games makes you stupid, why is it that several gamers I know are incredibly smart? Many people who post here seem quite intelligent, too.
Of course, it's more likely that the media is blowing it out of proportion;you say yourself they're using " scare tactics " for the story in Mexico, Onslaught. The study might have concluded " playing games MIGHT make you slightly more dumb under certain conditions when you aren't eating " .. and they twist it so it sounds exciting. A common practice.
But in the end.... all I have to say is.. ME ANGRY! ME SMASH STUDY! GRAGHAA!! ^_^
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| Makatiel
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| "Re(2):Videogames make you stoopid!" , posted Tue 16 Jul 18:10
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I think it's a flawed study, anyway. Same with the " Mozart's music makes you smart " thing. Hey, I know, why don't we play games AND listen to Mozart's music at the same time, to cancel the effects? Ha ha ha ha
There are too many other factors to take in to account. For example, if these people were students, were they playing games instead of studying? What were they comparing their intelligence to? Were they monitoring the gamer's other daily habits? Did they have a large enough cross-section? How long was the study? Etc..etc..
If playing games makes you stupid, why is it that several gamers I know are incredibly smart? Many people who post here seem quite intelligent, too.
Of course, it's more likely that the media is blowing it out of proportion;you say yourself they're using " scare tactics " for the story in Mexico, Onslaught. The study might have concluded " playing games MIGHT make you slightly more dumb under certain conditions when you aren't eating " .. and they twist it so it sounds exciting. A common practice.
But in the end.... all I have to say is.. ME ANGRY! ME SMASH STUDY! GRAGHAA!! ^_^
the original news story was reported (i think) by only one source which happens to be the same news source that reported maternal fellatio as a good way to raise your son's grades. that site/news source loves to write controversial articles. its only one step up from american tabloids. i think the study was so badly done that other news sources just simply refused to acknowledge it. this reminds me of the chinese newspaper quoting an article from the onion.
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