Psychologists give gaming the thumbs up

[Digital_Trucker]

As usual, every ten or twenty years the "popular opinion" reverses itself. What caused cancer 10 years ago prevents it now and what was good for you 10 years ago will now kill you :rotfl:

[Wolfehunter]

duh I didn't need a specialist to tell me that.... My old man used to say games rott the mind... I always argued it enhanced it. I said Videogames tend to rott the body hehehe.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Even though history repeats itself, I never get tired of watching it.


Hehe, it even repeats itself more frequently on channel 70. How many more Modern Marvels re-runs do I have to see before something good comes on?

[SUBMAN1]

That's a good show. Heavy Metal is also entertaining, as is Dogfights!

-S

[Frederf]

This is as dumb as saying "Eating is good for you." Eating good things is good for you and eating bad things is bad for you. Not all food is made equal and not all games are.

[August]

Psychologists are not giving gaming the "thumbs up"

found that people of all ages and from all walks can benefit from certain types of videogames, such as brain training and educational games.

The important parts are bolded.

[Mush Martin]

Well we didnt all turn into nazis we all do trigonometry
and we definitely use analysis and probablities. we use
our maths to manipulate the odds of success of a random
search for traffic on the largest oceans of the world and
succeed we communicate and investigate methods
and perfections whereever we can find them

in short we are all obsessed with improving our game which
in the case of a "Complexity" based game (nice catchphrase mush)
means we are constantly polishing the cannonball on our intellects.

or at least thats what a day at subsim means to me.
thanks Neal.

[Sea Demon]

Originally Posted by August

Psychologists are not giving gaming the "thumbs up"

The important parts are bolded.

I guessed they were not talking about the Grand Theft Auto series here.