Video games rot Brains?

[SkieFireYokana]

I used to play a lot of video games. I gradually slipped away from them and onto the internet, where I have fun talking to people instead. Mind you, the correlation to my grade and to my relative sanity level is INVERSE. When I played video games, I also did my homework and generally got A's and B's. I was also a good little Christian boy who would never dare think of killing someone. I now rarely play video games, and this past semester I had three or more F's before I graduated early. My grades went down when I stopped playing. And my morals did a one-eighty pretty quick too. That good little Christian boy is now long, long gone. Nowadays, I'm the kind of guy who goes for a walk on Main Street in his little town and looks at all the people he wishes would have a heart attack and die. I also have developed a superiority complex since I stopped playing, and I most certainly think I'm better than the majority of people. Not least, of course, because of my significant advantage when it comes to IQ. I don't deny that there are smarter people, of course, but I'm pretty much the definition of evil. That's okay, I have fun, and I haven't killed anybody. It's mostly because I won't get away with it. :P

Ahh... in other words, people who are messed up are messed up from the start. They play violent video games. Know why? Because they like violence. They don't like violence because of the video games. I know this because I would love to play more violent video games. I simply don't because I have better things to do. And I'm about as twisted as anybody you'll find who spends their day playing Halo, Dead Space, Tom Clancy games, or Doom. Honestly, I like thinking games anyway.
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[harrypottertew]

Well it's a proved fact that some video games can be correlated to be a teaching game without even you noticing it. For example, your hand and eye coordination increases so you can do things much faster. The down side it that you are learning how to find cheats in the game. Yes I am a b+ average person that has played video games for a long while but, I have seen some of my fellow students while I was in high school actually fail because they were so focused on the game and how to pass a level.

So a matter of speaking the games do rot your brain but not in a way that you think. The person that gets into the game so much will only think of the game and how to pass the next level. I had that done to me once and I couldn't think of anything else but passing to the next level in sonic the hedgehog... but that was when I was younger.

In my professional opinion, children the ages 12 and under shouldn't be even playing video games for more than 2 hours a day. It also happens to be a health issue with children today as well. They are not exercising as much, just sitting in front of a flickering box. Back then I used to be outside all the time and get sunburns because I loved the outside and get fresh air, considering I was always cooped up in a classroom all day, but that was me back then.

Children's imaginations are created by a flickering box "aka television", not a book or pure imagination. So yeah, I am saying yes and no to this topic with limitations.

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[boondoxjuggalo]

no video games dont cause the brain to rot, AND TO PUT AN END TO THE BULL ABOUT THEM CAUSING VIOLENCE, i have seen more violent people that dont play video games
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[Jasriella]

I love video games. Helps pass the time when weather is bad, especially this winter. And if you say my brain has rotted with the decade and a half of playing them, explain how I managed to get a $23,700 scholarship to Wyotech for going managing to beat out 3,000 people in an autobody contest.

I rest my case .
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[Tarnos]

I think it is...in our past, there was always a way how to deal with our aggression. Knightly tournaments are a good example. Sports is another one. And actually, when TV appeared, certain people were concerned in the same way, believing that we should stick to books...I have read many books, I have played a few games and I don´t usually watch TV...I think this is a personal choice of everyone of us.
Actually, study department tempts to get violent more than any game
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[CmasterJr]

Ok.... I have soooooo much to say while reading this topic that I'm going to type as I read separate posts. In other words this might be long.

First of all, I don't think that video games do rot the brain, as I have many friends that get PAID to play games all day (actual big money). As I play games a lot, mostly WoW (will get in depth with that 1 in a minute) and SC2 (a RTS, real time strategy). I think that I learn a lot from playing SC2 than any other game I known of, because of how much in depth your own strategy, timings, building placement, analysis, and knowing / guessing what your opponent is going to do. The in depth analysis after each match is where your learning truly begins in SC2. Watch the replay, pull out a pad of paper and a pencil and start writing down what happened and what needs to improve. As Day9 calls it, "lets engage in the art of learning!" because of this in depth analysis, is why I love this game and why I have a passion for it and possibly a future in it (if I can get good enough).

Someone mentioned earlier that playing video games decreases someone's imagination. Please explain that when MOST of the Varsity Improv team, myself included, play lots of games, but are able to act and be very creative on the spot.

Oooooh boy, now it's time for my WoW story. Yes I used to raid every week. Yes I was on the best raiding guild on my server. No we didn't 4 hour raids (only on VERY rare occasions), at most we raided for only 2-3 hours, being able to fully clear MC, BWL, AQ20, or AQ40 (up to the twin emperors). I have not heard 1 person that has died from playing too much video games period. I have heard people raging and getting super mad by playing those games, and having their parents shut off their accounts and they go crazy. Those are the people that are the rare cases and needed medical help in the first place. played a little bit of FPS, but I find it too easy, I play multiplayer and I end up winning almost every make with a 3:1 kill:death ratio (top of my team). It feels too easy and not as in depth in, "the art of learning" as SC2 is.

By the way, I am a straight A student that participates in a lot of after school activities, holds down a job, is a class officer (Senior treasurer), worked out in the weight room for a while, 20/20 vision, I love to read, and is still able to find time to play games (even with parents still barking at me to get my homework done, even though I already finished it all, and continue to not believe me) ugh......

I agree enirely with Fenris on page 4. (except for the FPS). Same page, Ash, that 1 kid is one of those rare cases. I sit at a table with mostly gamers like myself and we all do very well in school and all have plans to go or going to college.

Ok last subject, then I'm done. My dad first got into video games because he had a really bad back injury where he was barely able to get out of bed every day. Doctor told him he will never be able to play basketball again, a big heart break because he loved to play, and that he needed to have this surgery. The doctor gave him a video of what they would do, he didn't like the statistics of it and turned it down. After about 6 months he was able to play basketball, at least not do crazy stuff. Then a couple years later with only a once in a while chiropractor appointment, he is able to play basketball with very little pain. Durring that time of injury, he and I played WoW together, and we had lots of fun together (inside and outside). That was when I started playing games intensely with him / against him. Even before his injury he played video games at LAN parties that I went to with him. Games like Quake and Quake 2. I got most of my competativeness from him. And yes I started playing video games when I was 6 years old, started on ye'old Playstation.

And I have played StarCraft 1, in my younger years.
I am done Typing this... Ugh.... Sooooo much.....
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