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Danish Psychiatrists To Use Counter-Strike
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Boomtown.net article discussing a Danish hospital's use of Counter-Strike in tests regarding long-term depression. According to the article, experts "..will develop a special version of Counter-Strike for the [Aarhus psychiatric] hospital, which is ripped of all violent content, but still retains its unique 3D design.. Senior doctor Poul Videbech wants to use the maps for testing the navigational skills of patients, who have suffered from severe depression over a long time." Fraggin' awesome.
whenever i play CS i get more depressed (i suck)
No, I'm not a pathetic web surfer pouring my heart out to slapdash :)
The interesting thing is, I have _extremely_ poor navigation skills, both IRL and in *FPSes.
BTW, happy, happily married, etc. these days.
posted as AC because I don't talk about my personal life on teh Interweb.
* it is my only weakness! Once I overcome it, I will 0wnX0r j00!
CS gives a kind of virtual freedom that captivates the person and time passes by fast. The sames true with MMORPGs but in a different way. I could see CS kiosks in mental institutions with patients fragging the hell online players and being regular clanmembers. Much better than staring at the blank walls and flat nurses anyway.
CS also makes for an excellent relief of anger and control, and it takes mental energy to really own a good team. Such exercises, if not portrayed too violent, could improve the quality of life for the casterated ones among us.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
I'm just wondering why he's using Counter-Strike in particular. Why not just the plain vanilla Half-Life engine? Or even still, the Quake or Quake II engine, which are open-source and can be changed to meet one's needs.
Has Counter-Strike changed the Half-Life engine dramatically?
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
...with psychological disorders. Virtual treatment for phobias has been shown to have a positive effect.
When I was in university, one of the things I worked on was the Psychology department's computer visualisation system. They had made a 3D map of the department and got people who lose spacial awareness and forget where they are to perform tasks like "fetch something from room 21B and return to the coffee area".
They used SGI's Inventor system on an Onyx machine at that time, not a PC game engine.
Does my bum look big in this?
I guess this guy is lazy. Rather than use ANY raycasting engine with ANY other game, he just took the source to CS, stripped out the guns, and wants to watch retards amble around De_dust and Cs_cock.
Whenever I play Half Speed, Camperstrike, or is it Quiet Life? I get more depressed!! You spend 10 minutes hiding behind a box and then someone snipes the 1 pixel that's showing using 1 of the 10 types of er.. railgun that the game has (sure it has chainguns etc, but you ever see anyone frag anything with it? - It's an A team special chaingun - the bullets don't do any damage..) All the damn guns that work are sniper efforts - railguns. It's bloomin Half Speed Instagib I tell ya!
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All that creeping about and hiding - and when you do try and run, your man moves like his pants are round his ankles. CS is the only game I've found I can play whilst having a smoke, eating me dinner or reading a book - and it makes very little difference to the outcome.
If you take out the violence - how will you kill off those annoying hostage thingies that constantly get in your way?
That was the problem with Half a Life single player - I played it for 5 minutes: it involved endless scientists and they had neglected to issue me with a firearm! (some excuse about them being on my side or something).
Give them 3Wave Capturestrike - pure full on carnage with no tedious camping behind crates.
I must go now - I have a rocket launcher to strip down and clean
Without weapons, it will still cause depression. These guys will get stuck in some level and unable to get out, will wrap the mouse cord around their neck.