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16 May 2013, 8:02 am

If people only knew that playing video games has a better effect on the brains than reading...



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21 May 2013, 4:32 am

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I hate this one: "Kids nowadays are reading less and less because of these games." This is from my grandma, who's always telling me I need to read more "classic" books (one of the things I DEFINITELY refuse to read since they're too old-fashioned). I'd rather play a video game, since I'm not stuck in the past.


One time my mother wanted to give my cousin a PS2 but her parents said "no, we'd rather have her read". That makes no sense to me as playing video games doesn't mean you don't ever read. They let her watch tv which would also take away from that valuable reading time.

Years later they got her a Wii.


Wow... that blows. In my case, I only read things related to my interest (Japanese culture) along with some other books that I don't mind. My grandma, despite having lived in Japan for 8 years and being able to speak the language (though I've surpassed her there) still hasn't got the memo that I'm just not interested in boring old English and American novels.

There has to be something in between... like more book adaptations of games. That'd be awesome.


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21 May 2013, 5:53 am

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When I was living with my parents, my stepfather was often condescending about my interest in videogames, especially Guitar Hero as he considered himself a virtuoso and looked at the game more as a failed attempt at emulating the guitar experience as opposed to... just a game.


I can understand his point. The whole "guitar hero" experience is just a variation on the old Mattel game Simon (press the right color when cued).

As far an not letting kids have a console so that they would read more...I understand the motive, but I'd think letting them have the console and then strictly limiting the time they get to play on it (or granting time as a reward for doing reading projects) is a better way to have the best of both worlds.



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21 May 2013, 10:42 am

I just hate the accusation that I'm wasting my life away.

No more than you are watching TV or spending just as many hours under the hood of your "tinker" car or drinking with your buddies.



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21 May 2013, 1:18 pm

I once had someone tell me that I should stop playing video games because they rot your brain. I would have given them the finger, but I needed it to help me beat Ratchet and Clank 3. :lol:



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22 May 2013, 2:18 pm

"Video Games are addictive". Yeah, well they sometimes CAN be to a point where it's destructive, just like gambling, drinking, and drugs, but no one's burning down the bars, casinos or even the drugstores where it's especially easy to get addicted to painkillers and cough syrup and even substances you can "huff' found in stores everywhere. Oh, and you can purchase tobacco at a drugstore, of all places, which has killed a lot more people than any video game ever has.



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22 May 2013, 2:57 pm

Parents complain that I spend a lot of my free time playing video games.

I try not to comment how they have to watch the "propaganda hour" (evening news) every day followed by whatever banal TV programming follows.

I watch maybe an hour or two of TV programming a week.



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22 May 2013, 10:02 pm

Yayoi wrote:
I hate this one: "Kids nowadays are reading less and less because of these games." This is from my grandma, who's always telling me I need to read more "classic" books (one of the things I DEFINITELY refuse to read since they're too old-fashioned). I'd rather play a video game, since I'm not stuck in the past.

This brings an interesting quote that I have found.


“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
-Douglas Adams.

And, I absolutely hate it when people just assume that "I am wasting my life away playing video games."
Also, Jane McGonigal has something to say about this.
http://kotaku.com/5919656/when-we-are-o ... ying-games