some (more) light reading

[ChuddoxParticipant 585]

Something to quote to stupid asshats that complain about guys who play “too many video games”

http://www2.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-a0034857.pdf

As a lifelong gamer of all types (electronic and otherwise), I get frustrated with the dismissive stance people take toward gaming in general.

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Games are more fun than females, get over it.

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[ChuddoxParticipant 585]

That wasn’t even directed toward the vagina gender, but towards the people who consider gaming “complete f~~~ing waste of time” but will gladly sit down in front of a t.v. to watch a ball game…Stones, glass houses, that sort of thing…

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard

[Anonymous 54]

I agree. I dont play vidio games,but i dont understand why people have a problem with it. Its interactive. Your working your brain and reflexes.Its actually good for you.F~~~ TV.

[ChuddoxParticipant 585]

Probably my favorite section

Contrary to conventional beliefs that playing video games
is intellectually lazy and sedating, it turns out that playing
these games promotes a wide range of cognitive skills. This
is particularly true for shooter video games (often called
“action” games by researchers), many of which are violent
in nature (e.g., Halo 4, Grand Theft Auto IV). The most
convincing evidence comes from the numerous training
studies that recruit naive gamers (those who have hardly or
never played shooter video games) and randomly assign
them to play either a shooter video game or another type of
video game for the same period of time. Compared to
control participants, those in the shooter video game condition
show faster and more accurate attention allocation,
higher spatial resolution in visual processing, and enhanced
mental rotation abilities (for a review, see C. S. Green &
Bavelier, 2012). A recently published meta-analysis (Uttal
et al., 2013) concluded that the spatial skills improvements
derived from playing commercially available shooter video
games are comparable to the effects of formal (high school
and university-level) courses aimed at enhancing these
same skills. Further, this recent meta-analysis showed that
spatial skills can be trained with video games in a relatively
brief period, that these training benefits last over an extended
period of time, and crucially, that these skills transfer
to other spatial tasks outside the video game context

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard

[Crazy CanuckMember 4215]

My niece ended up buying a game console and a video to improve her spell after she lost to a boy that beat her at a spelling bee.

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