Video Games: Brainfood or Brainf***?

[J-Max]

Video games itself are still good. Too Much video games are bad for you.

First of all sorry that I haven't managed to reply in this topic for a while, i've been busy. Anways this is the perfect message to quote. This is the exact reason that I am ridiculed for the time that I play Video Games. I average around 6-8 hours a day and love every second of it. Imagine of Video Games didn't exist I would probally be reading something like a Book or listening to Music.

[2sick4u]

Video games itself are still good. Too Much video games are bad for you.

First of all sorry that I haven't managed to reply in this topic for a while' date=' i've been busy. Anways this is the perfect message to quote. This is the exact reason that I am ridiculed for the time that I play Video Games. I average around 6-8 hours a day and love every second of it. Imagine of Video Games didn't exist I would probally be reading something like a Book or listening to Music.

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I hope you're being satiric.

 

My God, I hope you're being satiric.

[Shradow]

Pretty much all video games, from puzzles to fps, help in some way. I can't think of a game that does absolutely nothing for you.

 

I wrote a 6 page paper on the benefits of video games, and I know for a fact that they're good for you.

[Dark]

Pretty much all video games' date=' from puzzles to fps, help in some way. I can't think of a game that does absolutely nothing for you.

 

I wrote a 6 page paper on the benefits of video games, and I know for a fact that they're good for you.

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I actually wrote a paper on the cons of playing video games. It only turned out to be three pages long, and I only had two valid ideas.

[Shradow]

Well, if you include only the stuff that has to do with your mind, mine was only 3 pages. The other 40% or so was medical or family-related.

[Grunt Issun]

every zelda game has a puzzle, what do puzzles do?

 

THATS RIGHT THEY TEACH YOU STUFFZ

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Sanctioning violent stimulants into your life is sanctioning violent stimulants into your life' date=' regardless of personal approach.[/i']

 

Sanctioning is not the same as imposing. And for the average person, there is no problem with sanctioning those stimulants; I find it much more abhorrent to censor them because a minority might take it the wrong way. This applies to videogames the same way it applies to anything else that might eventually be a stimulus to a crime. If we criticize portrayed violence, we have to criticize portrayed sexual content, religious content, religious indifference, rebellious behaviour, extreme sports and anything else that might be influential or offensive, and that's just not reasonable in today's society.

 

Sorry if I missed some of your points or didn't provide as good a counter-argument as you expected - the language barrier sometimes makes it difficult, but that aside, I'm really not used to debating either.

 

I'm an 11 year old who plays, Halo 3, GTA, and watches bloody violance, yet I am not violant at all, I dont get into physical fights.

[Twinsoul]

i chose brainfood becuase at least every game has a puzzle or a quest that requires you to think

[Nexev]

Videogames don't waste your brain.

 

They waste time.

 

Anyone who argues against videogames on a internet forum has some major double standards.

 

Plus look at world of warcraft, some people are addicted but it actually became something you can make a living off of.

 

It's a matter of interest and time consumption.

 

The more time you spend at a game the better you get, these traits can also help later.

 

The problem others have is that this takes time away from other activities that could be considered more effective.

 

However playing a video game is allot better than reading a fantatsy novel.

 

Both can be entertaining but the game is interactive.

 

Plus I think the millatary uses video games.

 

Card games proved to be too expensive when it came to soul nabbing I guess.

[Shradow]

Surgeons use video games to train, I know, so video games can save lives!

 

I think the main reason people complain about video games is that they're always trying to compare them to things like books. What if video games had come before books? Then people would complain about books by comparing them to video games.

 

You guys who argue against video games need to read Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson. There's a whole section on video games in there.

[Dr. Cakey]

Movies: Brainfood or Brainf***?

 

That is not a question, because cinema has been successfully integrated into society. Since Video Games have not yet been fully integrated into normal society, you can ask a question like this and not be an idiot, apparently.

 

Here's a better question - "Jack Thompson: Brainfood or Brainf***?"

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

The effect can't be generalized' date=' since like one's opinion on a game it varies based on the actual content and the person playing.

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I'm sorry, what?

You should really try read thoroughly.

 

Of course it does. The argument is whether or not the minority of people that are effected is sufficient enough, based upon the content of specific games, for their to be censorship.

My question to you is simply this Does Video Games hinder or help the community?

It was by no means that argument.

[Lover Bat]

its brainfood. even violent games. i should know, i had to do a report on them last year

[Dark]

Actually, I change my mind on the topic. It hinders the society as a whole. In Pokemon, it says that Fighting is super-effective against Rock- and Steel-types.

 

...so I punched a brick wall. And dude, my hand started profusely bleeding.

[Yasu]

Generalizations are dumb, it really depends on the game/person.

Some games improve hand-eye coordination, creativity, language, math and social skills; while others may have a negative impact in some people (which is a minority, I believe).

[Dr. Cakey]

Generalizations are dumb' date=' it really depends on the game/person.

Some games improve hand-eye coordination, creativity, language, math and social skills; while others may have a negative impact in some people (which is a minority, [i']I believe[/i]).

 

If it's not the minority, I give up on humanity. Rex, please destroy the world and rebuild it with the power of the Crimson Dragon.

[Survivor]

Did you know that for the first time in 2008, there were more female medical students than males? And did you know that the vast majority of video game owners were male? Look at our Video Game section and find a non-transvestite female that discusses Video Games. I'm not saying that they hinder the brain, yet they obviusly have something to do with focus and work ethic. If you enjoy Video Games more than schoolwork what are you going to do? Video Games. And if males enjoy them more than females, Males are losing valuable education.

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Or it could just be that people with lower work ethics are more akin to playing video games, and if they didn't exist they'd waste their time making artificial Yugioh cards or something.

 

More men are in jobs requiring heavy lifting than women, so therefore nail polish weakens your muscles?

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Video games are, to me, more a form of storytelling than anything else. In that sense, I'm definitely a better person for having played Yume Nikki, Legend of Zelda, and the Touhou Project; they taught me valuable things about the state of existence, perspective, and empathy, and helped me develop the ability to look below the surface and analyze things. My quality of life and character were indubitably improved by them.

 

In the sense of developing physical skills to help in the REAL WORLD, I wouldn't have gotten into programming if it weren't for the aforementioned Legend of Zelda and Touhou Project, and now I find myself casually applying eleventh-grade mathematics in everyday life... when I've just graduated ninth grade. Besides that, my hands, eyes, and ears are more coordinated with my brain than the rest of my body put together, so I gained the necessary coordination to play piano and wield a sword. Given an unfortunate series of congenital motor disorders I happen to be afflicted with, I never would have been able to do so otherwise. (And if not for video games, why would I have picked up fencing to begin with?)

 

Rebuttals coming shortly.

 

VIDEO GAMES TRIGGER SCHOOL SHOOTINGS OMG: Actually, happy games such as the surreally gory Yume Nikki and our friend Halo mainly instilled me with values of empathy, compassion, pacifism, and intellectual elitism. The exact opposite of violence. (I'd mention GTA, except I hate that game anyway... because of the empathy, compassion, pacifism, and intellectual elitism I picked up from other gory games).

 

VIDEO GAMES MAKE LAZINESS OMG: Would you believe I got my work ethic from Touhou? Once I started playing that (specifically, analyzing the Yukari Yakumo in my title), I got a work ethic. This isn't post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc, either: Yukari's main schtick is being nigh-omnipotent, and the sense of perspective I got from that helped stimulate my work ethic; Marisa, on the other hand, used pure diligence to gain the skill necessary to fight alongside equally nigh-omnipotent Reimu Hakurei, which probably opposed a sense of perspective I got from Bokurano and Death Note to give me a sense of hope. Plus, I went into the reasons why she spent Scarlet Weather Rhapsody going around whipping slackers into shape, and the end result (too long to post here) stimulated my diligence. Materially, it would be easy to chart the correlation between my grades and my time playing Touhou, though that would be post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc and therefore invalid as an argument.

 

Incidentally, what you see above is video games inspiring me to psychoanalyze myself. At the age of fourteen.

[Dr. Cakey]

Video games are' date=' to me, more a form of storytelling than anything else. In that sense, I'm definitely a better person for having played [i']Yume Nikki[/i], Legend of Zelda, and the Touhou Project; they taught me valuable things about the state of existence, perspective, and empathy, and helped me develop the ability to look below the surface and analyze things. My quality of life and character were indubitably improved by them.

 

In the sense of developing physical skills to help in the REAL WORLD, I wouldn't have gotten into programming if it weren't for the aforementioned Legend of Zelda and Touhou Project, and now I find myself casually applying eleventh-grade mathematics in everyday life... when I've just graduated ninth grade. Besides that, my hands, eyes, and ears are more coordinated with my brain than the rest of my body put together, so I gained the necessary coordination to play piano and wield a sword. Given an unfortunate series of congenital motor disorders I happen to be afflicted with, I never would have been able to do so otherwise. (And if not for video games, why would I have picked up fencing to begin with?)

 

Rebuttals coming shortly.

 

VIDEO GAMES TRIGGER SCHOOL SHOOTINGS OMG: Actually, happy games such as the surreally gory Yume Nikki and our friend Halo mainly instilled me with values of empathy, compassion, pacifism, and intellectual elitism. The exact opposite of violence. (I'd mention GTA, except I hate that game anyway... because of the empathy, compassion, pacifism, and intellectual elitism I picked up from other gory games).

 

VIDEO GAMES MAKE LAZINESS OMG: Would you believe I got my work ethic from Touhou? Once I started playing that (specifically, analyzing the Yukari Yakumo in my title), I got a work ethic. This isn't post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc, either: Yukari's main schtick is being nigh-omnipotent, and the sense of perspective I got from that helped stimulate my work ethic; Marisa, on the other hand, used pure diligence to gain the skill necessary to fight alongside equally nigh-omnipotent Reimu Hakurei, which probably opposed a sense of perspective I got from Bokurano and Death Note to give me a sense of hope. Plus, I went into the reasons why she spent Scarlet Weather Rhapsody going around whipping slackers into shape, and the end result (too long to post here) stimulated my diligence. Materially, it would be easy to chart the correlation between my grades and my time playing Touhou, though that would be post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc and therefore invalid as an argument.

 

Incidentally, what you see above is video games inspiring me to psychoanalyze myself. At the age of fourteen.

 

Yeah, he just got Latin on yo' ass. Though he did mispell 'procter'...

 

I've decided it, my good IonicIvory. From now on, I will imagine that you mean the opposite of what you say. That way I will be able to continue to regard as a human being and not a cardboard cutout of the Tea Party. Made by Satan.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Did I? Bleh. I didn't have a light in this room until about ten minutes ago, and it's eleven at night, so I couldn't really see my keyboard. >.<

 

Still, "c" for "p?" I'm almost ready to forgive "Barack Osama..." >.<

[Dr. Cakey]

Did I? Bleh. I didn't have a light in this room until about ten minutes ago' date=' and it's eleven at night, so I couldn't really see my keyboard. >.<

 

Still, "c" for "p?" I'm almost ready to forgive "Barack Osama..." >.<

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Nope, you didn't. It is "propter". I just made myself look even stupider than I am. Again.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Oh.

 

Well, now I feel like an idiot, too. >.<

[Yasu]

This reminds me, I haven't played SWR with any character other than Alice.

[Guest Supreme Gamesmaster]

Really? That's a bit odd; Alice is completely different from everyone else.

 

I recommend either Patchouli, Reimu, or Yukari. Patchy is most similar to Alice, but Reimu and Yukari have teleportation spells that are very, very therapeutic after facing Sakuya and Remilia with Alice.

[LarvaeMothKaiba]

Video games are unlikely to rot anyones brain.

 

It is mearly a form of entertainment.

 

I personally have no problems with them, and find people who obsess over saying they are the cause for all the worlds problems and how no one should play them a bit silly.

 

Still your friends entitled to his opinion on video games, he should just not enforce them on others.