torinchibi wrote:Xemnas, you beat me to defending myself....
I didn't just mean individuality as in character. I also meant becoming independent. For example. A lot of 40 year olds that have never really played video games would have trouble making critical desicions, picking up concepts quickly, ...I will even go as far as saying they learn slower.
Funny that we always get “help I with girl” “how do I do <insert FAQ here>” topics on SRF even though most of us are avid gamers, and apparently ‘pick up concepts quicker and make more critical decisions and learn faster’.
torinchibi wrote:My backup? Schools system keeps congesting class plans because kids find stuff like spending all of grade 1 learning addition and all of grade 2 learning multiplication boring. It's just too easy. Canadian school system just recently reduced from grade 13 to grade 12 for high school diploma. I was part of the first few classes that had to stuff 2 years into 1 and sure it was harder in grade 11 and 12, but I knew more than my dad's first year in university 20 years before that. How many times have your parents asked you what to do? Because my parents relied on me more than they relied on each other, when I was 15. Ever taught your parents something about computers? I could dismantle my computer and rebuild it when I was 16, format and reinstall os when i was 13, all because I wanted my games to work better. I am poisitive you can find statistics that say kids now learn much faster than their parents did 20 years ago, and games where learning curve is exponential in the first 5 hours greatly contribute to that.
My god you’re using modern day’s improved education system as your ‘backup’ to why gaming help you? I assure you in the days of your parent’s computers were a lot less accessible and they used type writers and libraries. Sure kids know more than their parents now, but they no doubt know more than your grand parents and your grand parents know more than your great grand parents. Just like the Stone Age lasted a lot longer than Iron Age. It is because humans with help of our accessible technologies improve faster and faster, I’m surprised your teachers never taught you that, or were you too ‘busy’ to take notice.
torinchibi wrote:1 of my friends did a presentation for gr 11 on positive side effects of games, and he had to cite every source, so it wasn't just BS out of his ass. Here is a little fact you didn't know: young surgeons that play video games have higher mobility and accuracy than those who haven't. In fact, a game performed an operation with one of those joystick surgery machines with no experience/training on the machine (on a pig, not human), with the doctor telling him what to do. He did it almost as fast as the surgeon himself. I don't have the sources, and not about to spend time looking for them, but my friend had legitimate studies done by researchers.
I won’t doubt the legitimacy of your post, your example is almost worthless it’s like the story with the guy who saved others playing the medic tutorial for AA. It’s effect is barely noticeable and those simulation machines I would argue, are not video games.
torinchibi wrote:Let's not even talk about problem solving skills, since that comes up everywhere, even in FPS. Should I use gun 1 or 2, which one is better, which, where is the best place to camp, how do I avoid getting killed. What problem solving was there 50 years ago? I would die from lack of brain stimulus if I had to go 50 years back in time.
Yes because it is that hard finding the damage set on the differentdifferent guns. It is just
that important to know where to camp and because by hopping around like a retard you can dodge bullets in real life and avoid getting killed. P
torinchibi wrote:You think swearing didn't exist 50 years ago? Sure did. Maybe some of the more colourful insults didn't, but I am sure if you asked your father what <insurt hard core swear word> means he would whoop your ass. Kids swear more because they have more rights now, and parents are getting scared of getting child services called on them. Maybe in a country where people still beat their kids, they wouldn't swear as much, but I wouldn't swear either if I had to get spanked for saying something.
Because domestic violence is just
that rare, parents are now living in a reign of fear of their kids calling child services. LMAO just that thought made me laugh.
torinchibi wrote:You can say video games cause violence, but I can say video games provide an outlet for violence. I would rather have my kid shoot pixels than blow a fuse and grab my gun (not that I have a kid or a gun) and decide to kill those bullies in school.
From what I know school shoot outs did not exist before violent video games. Violent games and your ‘shooting pixels is alright’ ethic cause ambiguity in growing kid’s minds. One day they bring a gone and shoot half their class.
torinchibi wrote:12 year olds have sex nowadays, and it's not like it's not on TV. A kid can play your porno vids easier than your video game. It only takes 1 button to play a video...unlike a video game, so a 2 year old can watch a porno, and if they can play San Andreas, then the kid deserves credit for being smart enough to do it.
2 year old watching porno, seriously what’s wrong with you? That’s just disgusting even hypothetically.
torinchibi wrote:Either way, I don't see a bunch of kids walking around with guns, because thats what the parents are for. Let your kid play the appropriate games, and teach them what's not possible. (Not leave them alone with an axe, with Lineage 2 on and see if they kill their brother in 1 shot or 15 like in the game....true story.)
You’ve obviously never had children, if everyone kid listens to their parents every words so strictly we would have a much more perfect society. Moreover your stance on this topic is becoming unclear.
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