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Diabolikal
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29 Jul 2013, 9:03 pm

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07 ... ideo-games
Thought I'd post this, see what is to be said, not much else.

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29 Jul 2013, 10:12 pm

Yep, I play games.....

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30 Jul 2013, 11:33 am

don't forget obesity. i grew up obese because of over-playing video games. i think i was a 180 pound "little" boy.

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30 Jul 2013, 12:34 pm

The only one around when I was little was the tennis one.It was boring.If they would have been as realistic back then as they are now, I'm sure that I would have liked them too much,and I'm a girl.I did enjoy playing Twisted Metal with my son,that clown,Sweettooth really annoyed me.My son has a learning disorder and went thru a phase where he played daily.He never plays now.

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31 Jul 2013, 8:58 am

Guilty as charged. *raises hand*

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01 Aug 2013, 5:03 am

Well, i think that they may have just described me. I laughed at the part about us playing more RPG's. Elder Scrolls anyone?

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02 Aug 2013, 2:53 pm

Video games certainly offer an escape from reality. Speaking for myself, the fantasy worlds or realistic scenarios presented in video games are often poorly depicted in terms of writing/acting. What I most like about them is that I can fail repeatedly trying to learn or accomplish something, and then there is a 'click' and suddenly I know what I'm doing. In real life one doesn't always get so many chances :lol:

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02 Aug 2013, 3:11 pm

They make me drunk.

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02 Aug 2013, 5:36 pm

anyone could overuse anything ... more government control over your lives... omfg.... :evil:

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08 Aug 2013, 1:00 am

staremaster wrote:

To affirm your point,
from Daniel Kahneman's 2011 book "Thinking, Fast and Slow":

book excerpt wrote:

pg.240"...the two basic conditions for acquiring a skill:
-an environment that is sufficiently regular to be predictable
-an opportunity to learn these regularities through prolonged practice"

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08 Aug 2013, 1:32 pm

It fails to mention girls that like RPGs and escapes into other worlds.

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08 Aug 2013, 9:32 pm

Never interested in video games myself, although my autistic daughter is an addict

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09 Aug 2013, 3:59 am

Sorry but that obesity stuff is hardly related to video games and is simply a typical fast food addiction topic. When I am playing a good game, I normally rather loose weigth. Simply because I dont wanna do the necessary shopping, cooking and cleaning dishes/kitchen, instead of playing. XD If people get obese because eating fast food, they get obese because eating fast food. Not because of playing video games. Playing video games, does not magically create calories in your stomache and does not force you to eat fast food. ^^

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