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Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:26 pm
by Tai-2
http://pc.ign.com/articles/106/1061732p1.html
I was researching one of my favorite games and this came up as one of the searches.

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:43 pm
by expat
If that was the words of anyone else, then it could (possibly) be taken seriously, but Chavez  ;D  Poor Alex starts foaming at the mouth every time his name comes up :-X

Matt

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:17 pm
by machineman9
"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison" I stopped reading there because Playstation is the platform, not a game.

When he knows what he is talking about, maybe I'll listen. Fallout 3 anyone? Maybe it's not poisonous seeing as I am playing it on an Xbox.  ;D

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:14 pm
by Tai-2
[quote]"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison" I stopped reading there because Playstation is the platform, not a game.

When he knows what he is talking about, maybe I'll listen. Fallout 3 anyone? Maybe it's not poisonous seeing as I am playing it on an Xbox.

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:57 pm
by Rich H
This bit made me laugh: "Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"
Ha ha, bet that didn't make him happy. I just start to think of Tropico though.

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:22 pm
by BFMF
Maybe Its really just a market ploy to attack Sony's Playstation. He didn't mention Xbox or PC games... ;D

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:24 pm
by The Ruptured Duck
Although the research on violence and video games may be contradictory in some areas, there is quite a bit of evidence from the human factors side of psychology which suggests that video game use can improve visual attention, situational awareness, and performance on visual search tasks.

Suck on that Chavez ;D

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:02 am
by BFMF
If people blame the violence in today's society on video games, what do they think about all the violence that occured in this world pre 1980s...? ;D

If only Risk had been around a few thousand years, than we could blame that for people like Hitler, Stalin, the Romans, muslims, communists, ect.... ;D

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:44 pm
by Tai-2
If people blame the violence in today's society on video games, what do they think about all the violence that occured in this world pre 1980s...? ;D


Water gun fights :D
or for video games, this
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:41 pm
by HarvesteR
PC gaming FTW!!  ;D ;D

They're supposedly alright according to mr. Chavez  :D :D

Cheers

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:12 am
by beaky
If people blame the violence in today's society on video games, what do they think about all the violence that occured in this world pre 1980s...? ;D

If only Risk had been around a few thousand years, than we could blame that for people like Hitler, Stalin, the Romans, muslims, communists, ect.... ;D

Seriously! Risk always leaves me with this terrible urge to conquer the world... and Pinky and the Brain didn't help much, either.   ;D

Re: Video Games are poison(interesting article)

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:17 am
by Alejandro Rhodes
[quote]If that was the words of anyone else, then it could (possibly) be taken seriously, but Chavez