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Originally Posted by Catfish
Certainly, like with racing games my regular dosis of playing SH5 has made me sink all kinds of ships in reality, no really !
Not to mention i have become a serial killer after playing Wolfenstein or other games like it.
I only have the problem that in between all this time murdering people with all kinds of hardware (wait i forget Tank battles and Warthog) i seldomly find time to drive around with my car any more.
Greetings,
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I know you jest... but it is a known fact that certain simulations are used to train people and modify behavior. and that is the question at hand. if computer simulations were not capable of causing people to act a certain way, the military, the shipping industry, and the airlines etc wouldn't use them for the purposes they use them for.
No, i dont think people are so detached from reality that they would become a serial killer by playing something like
Call of Duty. Nor do i think an individual might become a serial ship sinker by playing
silent hunter 3.
*however*
I
do think that a person who plays a great deal of
call of duty or
Silent Hunter 3 for example - might be much more inclined to join the Army or the Navy than a person who
does not play such games.
Playing
Silent Hunter 3 and becoming interested in the history of the war in the Atlantic has caused me to read half a dozen books on the subject that i otherwise might have skipped over in the book store without the influence of the subsim genre. Therefore, in some way -
i was influenced by the simulation.
Additionally; Though i had always been interested in airplanes, i had my career sights firmly set on being an architect - had my father not purchased Microsoft Flight Simulator for me in my early teens... i might not have become a big fan of the MSFS Series and ultimately i may not have chosen aviation as a career path over architecture.
Additionally, i think it also boils down to personality types. People who are anti-social or Sociopaths - diagnosed or otherwise - might be more inclined to cave into the influences of video games than individuals
without those personality traits.
In the grand scheme of things, i not only think it is possible that racing simulations affect driving habits...
i think it is highly probable that they affect driving habits. and the amount of their effects are directly proportional to the exposure to the racing simulation. A person who plays one hour of racing simulation a month will have little or no influence on their driving habits when compared to a person who plays one hour (or more) of racing simulation
per day.
Yes, it could be argued that teens drive like A-holes already. a great many... perhaps as many as 90% of them do drive like maniacs;
despite the fact that dozens will come out of the wood work to post in this thread to the contrary - insisting that they are excellent drivers.
and
they may very well be good drivers. but for every one of them, there are thousands who are terrible drivers
. They are terrible drivers because of numerous factors, teens tend to drive with their emotions out of check much more often than adult drivers. Teens tend to overlook the consequences of their actions in almost every activity - including driving - more so than adult drivers.And the bottom line is that they are inexperienced in the activity of driving - woefully so. The reality of it is, that this has been numerous studies and the results of those studies have caused insurance companies to charge a higher premium for drivers under the age of 25.
As a flight instructor, i have used simulation to expose bad habits in flying and reinforce good habits in flying. and for that reason, i think racing simulations also have a positive impact on the way a person operates an automobile.
Though i think there are many negative impacts on driver habits... i also think exposure to racing simulation may cause drivers to drive more "defensively".
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I knew a kid who grew up playing the Gran Turismo series. When he was old enough to drive he didn't spend every moment on the road acting like it was a race.
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as reinforcement to my above personality trait comment... i knew a kid who grew up playing the Gran Turismo series as well. He routinely achieved 100+ MPH on the local highway - and always applied the breaks very heavily into turns - waiting until he was right on the turn to decelerate. I can only assume either he was a moron - or he was influences by the GT Series - or both.