Online/LAN/Off-line Games... Threat or Treat?

[Rakion]

well this is one of our debates at school that teachers would like us to tackle...

Online/Off-line/LAN games are Threat or Treat?

Discuss...

Edit:and please support your answer

[Morgoth]

i hear many medical schools use video games to train their surgeons and plus i think it helps to develop your reflexes

[Sharp324]

Well i know games can help with reflexes, play any fast paced or tactical and they make you think to live. Also they help you improve your hand-eye coordination, did for me anyway. I have double vision and something else and i had no coordination cause the shit moved to much, but with the mouse movement and what im looking at seemed to have helped me a lot. (Seriously i use to not be able to catch shit if anyone tossed something to me)

[cin]

agreed on the video games being good for reflexes and hand-eye coördination
and things like that, but i voted threat. not threat as in, i'm afraid to
get bad vision or something, but threat as in playing these games being
very addictive and time consuming. Sure, your reflexes will be great, but
most gamers (as in hardcore gamers) will be slacking at school, will do less
than they can, because they need to play their games. i'm not trying to
generalise this, i mean, there's enough gamers that are able to not play all
day every day. just saying, it's definitely something to think about.

[Rakion]

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[FireVortex]

O_o@rakion

Anyways it can go either way but i went with threat.True it helps develop reflexes and all that and the wii gives lazy guys a workout but as what cin stated all that stuff he said happens alot.Also some ppl tend 2 believe games r real such as the kid who burned this guy thinking he was a fire mage thing lolz .So ya i went with threat