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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:09 pm
Would you say that video games have had a positive influence or negative on the world at large?
After all, games like Trauma Center can teach people how to do emergency surgery, should the situation call for it--it's very realistic.
And Cookin Mama loosely teaches cooking skills, like knife safety (the finger curling thing) and such.
Playing Metroid Prime and WiiSports actually improved my aim, too. 3nodding
However, video games also can breed laziness, lethargy, obsession, and general unhealthiness (from not going outside). You can also get carpal tunnel from repetitive motion, and they can adversely affect photosensitive people.
So what do you think? I've been wondering for the longest time whether it's better to be outside running around or doing emergency heart surgery on Trauma Center. -w-
(Assuming, of course, that you don't do both.)
Also, can you think of some alternate ways of exercising and playing games in the same life? Such as playing Gamecube while on a treadmill, or playing a DS or PSP or something while jogging.
And not just "balance your game time based on how much you exercised". That's an obvious one. xP
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:25 pm
Clearly, the answer is to play video games when you can, and exercise when you have to. wink
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:33 pm
Pardon my language in this post. ^_^
xD
But by the time you need to, your a** is falling outta your jeans and it's right back on the diet and exercise program you go! It's a nightmare, truly, to diet.
Doing both at the same time has it's flaws, too. You tend to fail at both of them if you do so--walking into walls, falling off the treadmill, lack of complete concentration in the game, that kinda thing.
I've tried it, it's not easy.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:35 pm
Pfft, it's all about self-control and priorities. If people in China could afford it, they would consider video games, and other things like it such as TV, soccer, basketball, and other leisure activities such as that, leisure. Before all else, they must always put their families and their country before themselves, in order to further combat the greedy imperialists swine that rule this earth. They must first put all luxuries below them, pick up their hammers, and squash the blood-sucking imperialists beneath their might! *Creepy Soviet music begins to play and flapping red flag rises behind me*
Ahem, ideoligically radicalist parodies aside, they're harmless in the hands of sensible people. Unfortunately, America is among the chief consumers and producers of video games, and look who we let be president for 8 years stare
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:41 pm
I can exercise self-control, but there's some people that don't. I may be lazy, but I have priorities.
And anyway, it's all hypothetical. -w-
Off-topic: Why does everyone hate Bush so much? >.>
I thought he did a good job, on the whole. >_<
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:05 pm
stare Oil prices, the economy, a bad job in Iraq, etc. Only thing he did right is not piss off the Ruskies or the Chinese and get us into nuclear war. And yeah, it's all hypothetical, but it's also demographics too; i.e., who can afford to play them and whose influenced most by them.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:13 pm
Oh, demographics... Right, that's true. That raises a good question, actually... But I just forgot what I was gonna say.
Oil prices = greedy oil companies.
I've been reading into it, and that's what it seems like to me. Not obsessively, but more than I normally would have.
And of course, the economy goes down the toilet when the oil is too expensive and no one can go anywhere and buy anything.
But I haven't been following the Iraq stuff, so I have no opinions there. ._.''
This is gonna slowly drift off-topic, I'm sure. >.>
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:17 pm
both?
there are some bad o nes, and some good ones!
...?
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:20 pm
True, but I guess one of my questions is, "Are there more negatively influential games than positive?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:25 pm
hmmmm lemme think. HELL NAWZ! >:[ now if you'll excuse me, i need to go and kill something.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:28 pm
True enough--they are good for venting frustration. ._.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:29 pm
L-zlhe True, but I guess one of my questions is, "Are there more negatively influential games than positive?" Nope, in fact, I think most video games are actually quite educational. Such as Dead Rising, a game where you are a reporter and end up fighting zombies. The moral of that story: when faced with zombie terrors, look for the boom stick. If no boom stick is available, look for a bladed weapon. If no such weapon is available, vacate your bowels in terror and run.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:33 pm
...I wanna play Dead Rising SO bad. gonk
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:38 pm
What you do, is you take every cop, and give them a FPS game with a gun shaped controller, and then you TEACH THEM HOW TO AIM. That would be a very helpful use for video games.
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Also: Bush is such an easy target for people, it's almost sad that they don't have the brains to think of another joke after 8 years. Really. How about Obama thinking that there are 52 states? Or that airing up your tires saves gas? Or how the man thinks he's the second ******** coming of Jesus!?
Let's do us all a favor and keep politics offa Gaia, cause its just gunna end up pissing people off, no matter what the opinion.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:39 pm
Chang524 L-zlhe True, but I guess one of my questions is, "Are there more negatively influential games than positive?" Nope, in fact, I think most video games are actually quite educational. Such as Dead Rising, a game where you are a reporter and end up fighting zombies. The moral of that story: when faced with zombie terrors, look for the boom stick. If no boom stick is available, look for a bladed weapon. If no such weapon is available, vacate your bowels in terror and run.
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