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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.
.. second post? Please??
Hulk smash meddling scientists!
Hey pal, was that dig really necessary?
I pretty sure he meant Microsoft Windows, not video games.
Was that a dig at Microsoft or a dig at himself for not being able to maintain a stable computer? I'm expecting any minute now a flood of posts "Well, I CAN maintain" blah blah blah
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
-a friend of mine playing a game on his TI86 during yet another semi-boring APCS lecture
How does this compare with a comparable level of exposure to TV?
I can't imagine that watching TV would be more helpful than playing a video game where atleast some thought was required.
He didn't say you had to sleep with tons of people. He just said that you should have advanced social skills, so that you could walk into any social situation and walk out with someone who would be willing to do whatever you want.
Social skills are important. And I mean real social skills, not chatting on AIM or IRC.
My other first post is car post.
wow. my brains rotting! 1, 2, 5, 3, q, 0?
yay!
Table reflex scene is in (among others) "Ronin", a rather poorly written movie (at least dialogue wise) with some seriously intense car chase scenes. Four wheel power drift turns of a S8 through the streets of Paris. Mmmmmm.
If its that stupid porno Japanese anime fucking crap, no wonder they brain activity is fucking zero.
.COMs, .BOMBS, 9/11, Enron, Global Crossing, Xerox, HPQ Merger, Lucent on the verge, Worldcom, you name the disaster of late, and still the US is a better investment than baking on Japan's economy. And this will most likely remain true. Those Japs are a great addition to the world, but their society is fucked, this study sounds gay and their games are fucking goofy. FUCK YOU nips, get laid. Get fucking laid. WEIRDOS.
I'm so sick of this Anime shit. I used to think it was interesting. Adult content cartoons. Then it turned into half and hour aura building, screaming, tentacle rape, stupid music, shit plots, unrealistic physics, utter stupidity.
Stick to making cars you fucking Jap ass-fucks - they rule. And stop assembling them here. (Hahaha to all you faggot Rice Burning fucks with Hondas, made in Ohio.)
I hate this neo-Tokyo shit. They have the second largest economy and its going to stay that way. Ever seen Jap porn? Poops, kitty littler, bondage, bukake, tentacle rape, wire/rope necrosis, you name it. Not that I'm against a good jerk-before-work to supplement the fine supply of hetero sex, but the Jap culture is on the verge of implosion, with people screaming for air - manifested in horribly twisted pornography and animated entertainment, amongst other things.
Stop playing WarCraft 3... It's enough that looking at all that porn is making you go blind, you hoser!
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
What I find the most disturbing is that all those stories could be true!
Come On! Everyone knows that sex is just a myth. Now go back to gaming...
What are you saying - people who are expert sportsmen has a smaller brain activity ?!?
Well, I will never let MY shildren sport - No shild of mine shall become dumb.
"Nihon" == "Japan" in Japanese.
[insert witty comment here]
Nope, actually most house/techno comes from europe, it was invented in Germany and the Netherlands, expanded to Great Brittain, and to the USA. Certain styles never even made it to North America.
Make a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
Hmmm let me check:
Pink floyd, nope, very different build.
Within Temptation, some yes, some no.
Rhapsody, Not a single 'normal' song.
I'll stop here, my music is probally not popular enough, not being from the USA etc.....
Make a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
Right! I can just say: dyslexics of the world untie!
Enoc
Got any hints for us girls?
We wanna see when we're 90 too.
You, sir, are quite obviously a video game player. If you stop playing them, I'm sure you can come up with a more creative troll than than "smelly open sores hippies who can't get laid." That categorization is beyond beating a dead horse - the horse has had its entrails ripped out, its eyeballs plucked, been run over with a bulldozer and an asphalt flattener, burned with a flamethrower, and the remains ground into powder and filled into Jell-O packs.