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Japanese Researcher Finds Gaming Stunts Brain

Posted by timothy on from the until-the-next-study-comes-out dept.

Bill Gates writes: "This story at the Guardian describes research done in Japan showing that playing video games in youth prevents development of the front lobe, leading to violent behavior." Turns out what at first appears to be arbitrary, mind-numbing violence may turn out to be just that. It seems this study might have returned different results, though, if it looked at the effects of video games which require lots of calculation instead.

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  1. Total Nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Senator Leiberman has already dismissed this report as unscientifically sound. If he can't use it for his rhetoric, you know it's crap.

  2. None of this matters. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's all water over the dam. All violent games released after Jan 1, 2002, will require a purchased parental code to unlock the violence. That's right - you pay for a game, go home, install it, and PAY AGAIN to get the complete game. What bullshit. The cost is only like $2, and I guess the theory is that only adults will have credit cards, but this has just gotten out of hand.

  3. i tell ya by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    thousands of hours of mind numming pornography sure hasn't stunted the growth of my cock. why its growing right now as a type this with one hand and furiously masturbate with the other.

  4. Impossible by talonyx · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's a bunch of bullshit. There's no way watching/experiencing something non-chemical can actually halt the development of your mind.

    If the kids were snorting coke while playing Quake that would be different.

    I'm sure this is just like the uncontrolled study of Rhesus monkeys that "showed" marijuana causing intense distruction of brain cells.

    I can think perfectly fine right now, but i'm stoned. So, if I can make a point, it must not be killing my mind.

    I play videogames often and I'm reasonably sure my straight-A's back up my intelligence.

    I remember playing lots of games like Wolfenstein when I was 10 or so....

    1. Re:Impossible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


      Nastard,

      Your name is almost a combination of Nads + Turds.

      Nastard dips his nads in turds! Eeewwe! Nastard likes having his dick sucked off by guys, lets his jizz drip down onto the floor, and then poops on it! And he eats it!

      Nastard like licking the greasy shit from other guys balls! Nastard, you sick faggot you! I can't beleive that you like to lick the sweat, cum, and shit out of some random black guy anus! You are such a fucking pervert. I can't believe you like it when a whole bunch of guys jack off all over your face and you sit there and swallow every last drop, and then vomit it all up and let them all shit on it and then suck it up with a straw.

      You queer, demented homo!

      Nastard, how many times are your going to take your sister's used tampons, stick them up your ass so they soak up 12 guys cum, put it in a blender with your mother's shit, and make a milkshake out of it?! How many times are you going to drink it on your webcam?

      You are one sick fucker, you!!

    2. Re:Impossible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


      But you're wrong. Nastard sucks cum and feces up his nose almost 24.7, and he's dumb as a stump. And gay, too. But I'm sure you know that already, as you're probably the one he's sucking off so you can shoot your wad all over his steaming pile of poo.

      Nastard = Nads + Turds.

      Since you're a straigh-A faggot, I bet you already now that Nastard is Latin for "one who like cum on his poop and eats it."

      Or maybe you're straight-A for sucking all your teacher's cocks.

      Whatever. Here's a review:

      - You are gay. And a loser.
      - Nastard = Nads + Turds.
      - If you blow up a Rhesus Monkey you have Rhesus Pieces.

      Thanks,

      Bruce Perens.

  5. Frontal lobes are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    I have a master's degree in human evolutionary science. I am currently working on my PHD. Despite the popular media's unwillingness to admit it, and the unpopular politically correctness of it, there are fundamental evolutionary differences between the different humand "races" other than skin tone. It only makes sense - why is skin tone and external appearances the only evolved differences between us. One of these differences is in the structure of the frontal lobe. Without going into too much detail, the structure of human lobe in those of oriental descent is markedly unique from those of other races. This report is of little value outside of Japan. Interesting, but hardly world news.

  6. New Japanese study ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Finds that Oriental bitches are HOT. Man, I love those gook cunts.

  7. Re:Warning: goatse.cx link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What are you talking about? The above was an informative and interesting take on violence in America. Do you somehow find intelligent discourse "yucky" or offensive?