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Do Videogame Skills Transfer To Real Life?

Posted by simoniker on from the i'm-a-superlative-tomb-raider dept.

macshune writes "Lately, I've been wanting to try my hand at firearms, just to see if a youth spent playing Duck Hunt and an adolescence playing FPS games has given me a preternatural shooting ability. This got me thinking, do videogame skills, both reaction-based and of other kinds, transfer to real life? My friends that play D&D are good storytellers, but do games like Counter-Strike build teamwork skills? Inquiring minds want to know!"

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  1. Haven't you heard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    FPS games teach our children to kill! What are they called again...ah yes, murder simulators!

    /sarcasm

    Of course, that's what irresponsible parents and clueless politicans would like you to think.

  2. Boobs of Fighting girls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've noticed that after logging many many hours of watching the knockers of Chun-Li and Mai Shiranui bounce around onscreen, I pay more attention to tits whenever I watch a B-grade movie with some karate chick in it. Does that count as videogame skills transferring to real life?