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Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity
Richard C writes "A Japanese researcher, Akio Mori, from the Nihon University's College of Humanities and Sciences, claims to have found a link between the playing of video games and the balance of activity in the brain. It is also claimed that this effect can cause behavioural changes, such as lack of concentration, difficulty with social association, and short temper. These effects are also thought to be, to some extent, nonreversible." I was gonna say something witty and insightful here, but
I can't think of anything. At least I can't make a windows machine stable
enough to run Neverwinter or my brain would be toast.
He used to distinct groups, one for people that played video games, one for people that didn't.
The video game players: blacks.
The control (non video game players): whites.
Obviously, the video game players were stupider, and more short tempered. Hrll, they smelled worse too!
I hate to tell all of you slashdotters this, but if you sit in your room and play Everquest or Neverwinter Nights or Diablo II everyday for hours upon hours, you aren't developing a social disorder, you already have one. Go out and get drunk and have sex with some ugly girl, atleast it will be better than your hand.
How will Windows eXtra Porous (more security holes than ever before) help his computer be more stable?
Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90)
Wow, you're pretty fucking stupid. I guess you call it "Neverwinter" for short because that's "cool", too.
First of all, how did the emperor not censor thsi article? It's gonna put little tokyo out of business. Say goodbye to nintendo and sega. SOny will receive a crushing economic blow. Anyway, this article shows how useless psychology and sociology really are. Its nothing more than trying to find connections between two quantities that may not exist. By using their so called scientific studies which basically involves continually modifying your samples until they support your hypothesis, anything is possible. Thats why you can find 100s of articles supporting both sides. No wonder graduating with a psych degree or sociolagy is a quick way to the unemployment line!
But then, people pushing political agendas on /., or in your case, pushing their religion on others when it was neither solicited nor germane to the discussion at hand, tend to be pretty ignorant, so I guess I'm not surprised.
You are free to jack off to your Bible all ya want buddy, but can you please keep it the fuck outta my face?
Secondly, and back on-topic for a sec, your little analogy about the gun-toting maniac was stupid. Whoever modded that tripe up is on crack (as usual)
Thirdly - what's the point of bragging that you are a UT player? No one asked, and no one cares.
You need to get your head out of your Bible and read up on what very important people like Jefferson, Paine, G.Washington, and A. Lincoln had to say about religion and government. Then maybe you could check out what Eisenhower said when he signed the "under God" part of the pledge into law........that's correct, it wasn't always there..........it was put in as part of some paranoid response to the evil Communists.
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." -- Thomas Jefferson .sig, btw)
(this ain't my
I'll define it for you, it's not games, but Windows causes brain damage.