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OmegaDog

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"Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for you!" , posted Wed 12 Feb 23:47

From BBC News. This article concentrates more on on-line multiplayer first-person shooters, but it still makes comments that can be applied generally to video games.

"ONLY I CAN BE THE STRONGEST ONE!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 9 |

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Porcellino
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"Re(1):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for" , posted Thu 13 Feb 04:22:

quote:
From BBC News. This article concentrates more on on-line multiplayer first-person shooters, but it still makes comments that can be applied generally to video games.

OmegaDog:

Great link and great news to hear ^^.

Loyola Univ. dont say "Gaming is bad". They say "Gaming is GOOD". I think thats a good thing and a step foward in the war against prejudices.

Many of the points of that article are too focused on Counter Strike Players. The way and manners of a bunch of teens in a room playing in a Lan.

Godthanks Prof.Wright haven't seen those videos we all know where Lan-Party players use threats and brute force (after throwing his expensive machine to the floor) to expel a guy who cheated. Cheaters should die since they F$&$$ online gaming but that irrational and violent manners are just a little too much.

Anyway, that was just an anecdote (Players are commonly more polite than that). I would love to hear about a research about the complex world of OnLine gaming. From the ppl who meet playin Yahoo's Pool to those who belong a Guild at any MMPORPG.

Commonly after one of those research wich reveal that all gamers are potential killers every mass-media here (Spain and the world, I think) wont late reporting this FACT. I suppose we won't see Prof. Wright's research conclusions at TV. We'll always be "bichos raros".

Tobanaibutaha...tadanobutada....

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Radish

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"Re(1):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for " , posted Thu 13 Feb 05:41

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From BBC News. This article concentrates more on on-line multiplayer first-person shooters, but it still makes comments that can be applied generally to video games.

I always thought that playing online FPS's made you a tremendous asshole.

Mog
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"Re(2):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for" , posted Thu 13 Feb 08:25

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I always thought that playing online FPS's made you a tremendous asshole.

Hey now... just because I play online FPS's doesn't mean I am a complete and utter jerk. Besides, I think we all know that Battle.net creates far more assholes than any FPS ever could...

just kidding, just kidding... don't flame me... please.

JUKE joint jezebel

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"Re(2):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for" , posted Thu 13 Feb 08:41

quote:
From BBC News. This article concentrates more on on-line multiplayer first-person shooters, but it still makes comments that can be applied generally to video games.

I always thought that playing online FPS's made you a tremendous asshole.

several parts of that article are very true. it's nice (for once) to read an article that doesn't bash games. but the article seemed very one-sided. and in a way, blind against any other arguments. i think they [the writer of the article and/or the professor] just focused on one group of cs players. either that, or they were already biased towards online gaming before the article was actually written. if Wright went out there and checked out another group of cs players, or the many other online game communities out there, he'd find something very different

hell, i received some of the worst treatment playing people in simple chess! come on, people, CHESS!! bunch of fuckin geeks. i'd have sodomized them with some chess pieces if they talked that shit in a face-to-face game. just because someone's not playing a game with someone else in the same room, it suddenly gives them the right to be an ass

wuacala!

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"Re(3):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for" , posted Thu 13 Feb 11:44

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I always thought that playing online FPS's made you a tremendous asshole.

The only time I ever get rude or whatever in an online FPS is when someone in Kingpin who ONLY used a one hit kill weapon (rocket launcher, for example) would start talking trash or there was some cheeseball camper launching grenades or rockets constantly. I'd get pissed at them and go tear the camper apart, at the very least. But other than that, I was pretty well-behaved.

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(4):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for" , posted Thu 13 Feb 11:49

quote:

I always thought that playing online FPS's made you a tremendous asshole.

The only time I ever get rude or whatever in an online FPS is when someone in Kingpin who ONLY used a one hit kill weapon (rocket launcher, for example) would start talking trash or there was some cheeseball camper launching grenades or rockets constantly. I'd get pissed at them and go tear the camper apart, at the very least. But other than that, I was pretty well-behaved.

i wish i had a faster connection so i could play FPSs more often. i loved flushing out campers back in high school. every time i shot into the shadows, blood came out. the lesson? always shoot into the shadows!!

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Undead Fred
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"Re(5):Loyola Univ. study: Gaming is GOOD for" , posted Thu 13 Feb 11:54

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i wish i had a faster connection so i could play FPSs more often. i loved flushing out campers back in high school. every time i shot into the shadows, blood came out. the lesson? always shoot into the shadows!!

Ha ha ha! Yeah. I haven't played FPS's online in a long time... The last online game I played was a play test version of the Sims Online. Now it's $50 for the game and $10 a month, and I don't have that much time to play games this semester.

Mog
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"I miss FPS's..." , posted Thu 13 Feb 13:10

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i wish i had a faster connection so i could play FPSs more often.

You and me both... Not only do my parents absoltuely REFUSE to get broadband for our home, and my school has what is quiet possibly the worest acdemic internet connection in the US (One T1 + 1100 students + netwrok being managed by hubs = worse than dial up).

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i loved flushing out campers back in high school. every time i shot into the shadows, blood came out. the lesson? always shoot into the shadows!!

Yes... Quake definately rewards people for firing rockets down 'empty' coridors. *sigh* Those were the days...

CrazyMike

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"Re(1):I miss FPS's..." , posted Thu 13 Feb 13:27

www.planetquake.com/dday /

Good online FPS, and since the Quake 2 source was released, you can now play it without owning Quake 2. Plus its good for people like me with slow computers ^_^

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(1):I miss FPS's..." , posted Thu 13 Feb 13:28

quote:

i wish i had a faster connection so i could play FPSs more often.

You and me both... Not only do my parents absoltuely REFUSE to get broadband for our home, and my school has what is quiet possibly the worest acdemic internet connection in the US (One T1 + 1100 students + netwrok being managed by hubs = worse than dial up).

i loved flushing out campers back in high school. every time i shot into the shadows, blood came out. the lesson? always shoot into the shadows!!

Yes... Quake definately rewards people for firing rockets down 'empty' coridors. *sigh* Those were the days...

ugh mine too. they're convinced that broadband is the work of the devil
i'd pay for it myself if i wasn't in school ...

-- FPS Stories! --

in all games, turtlers piss me off. when we played classroom Unreal Tournament, i got a good reputation for taking out snipers, even those on my team. i got a lot of crap thrown at my computer every time i team-killed someone, hehe

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