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Body and Brains of Gamers Probed
ElvenMonkey writes "The BBC News is reporting about researchers at the University of Hull who are performing what they call the first scientific research into what actually happens when you play computer games, using a method called 'mood testing' (previously used on athletes.) Hardly surprisingly results so far show that we don't like losing, and that gaming puts you into an altered state. I can see it now.. computer games, the next designer drug."
EVER!!
I'm not sure I'd want to probe the bodies of computer gamers. Some of those players aren't in the best shape or display the best higiene
WTF? The article mentions nothing about bleeding eyes?!
This time they don't have to pay that girl on the corner of fifth and broad in camden!
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I'd like to see the brain readings when a console game gets started up. Nothing like seven unskippable splash screens in a row to really affect the enjoyment of a game.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
>>computer games, the next designer drug
Just as well computer games arent addictive.
*cough evercrack cough*
Body: fatter
Brain cells: fewer
Skin tone: paler
Wallet: less money
English skills: worse
Frankly, I don't really care what actually happens when I play computer games, since games are mostly for children. Real, adult men, especially those of high IQ, seem to be addicted to Wikipedia much more often than to games. What I would really like to know is what actually happens when I keep clicking Special:Randompage all day. Sorry, gotta go now!
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Sex feels good! (Readers here will have to take my word for it)
What is after that?
Chocolate is addictive?
Feh.
method called 'mood testing'
After the title incuding the word "probe" I read this as "wood testing" and was very disturbed.
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umm really boss..playing doom 3 helps me do my job better ..no really..ohh about the explosions in the office i can explain that.
Video games already are the best contraceptive on the market.
Hell I started with the gateway drug, Space Invaders, and I've never looked back since!
"Talk minus action equals nothing" - Joey Shithead, D.O.A.
"Talk minus action equals
It's not the *next* drug, it's the *current* drug.
Or, have you ever heard a group of boys ages 11-14 play Halo? Yikes!!
My friends and I (all 26-28) routinely play Mario Kart Double Dash, and get *way* into it. So much so that a) little kids don't want to play with us because we "race too mean", and b) I've used a *lot* of language I wouldn't want my mother to hear me use. We are extremely competitive, and social pecking order is somewhat determined by video game prowess.
We're such nerds.
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nevermind a group of boys ages 11-14...
all my friends at college would carry their big 21 inch TV 2 blocks away to another friends house and play 8 person halo... nevermind the times we tried to have a party while they where playing...
any age of guys (and some girls) got into another state when playing...
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Tetris altered my mind!
When I look at mass produced cookie cutter houses all I want to do is destroy them with my mind!
This seems to be a similar state to that of having sex, or so I've read. Could anyone confirm that?
No, I believe none of us can confirm that for you. Sorry.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Next you'll be claiming you have a "Girlfriend". We don't believe your lies!
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Anyone else find it odd that a self-proclaimed mother would use the name "enforcer999" online?
Jeez, maybe that little "M0rpH3uS69" punk I fragged the other day was actually the nice old lady down the street!
I mean seriously, how do you get funding? I could use some cash right about now.
I have another more distrubing situation happen to me.
I have been a Tribes fan since it first came out, and when I was in school after a long night of intensive gaming, my comments and speach were restricted to things like: vgh
(which in Tribes these 3 keys activate a voice command: (V)oice (G)lobal (H)i!
Another simplar situation occurs after long periods of time on IRC. I would goto speak with someone in real-life, and my fingers would move to the imaginary keyboard, and in my minds eye the keys would be in front of me.
I found that both amusing and scary at the same time.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
...and then someone slams their pint on the table and yells, "ALRIGHT! That's it. You and me, on the net, right now!"
Please help metamoderate.
xXx-juggalo-xXx: fuk!!1 enforcer999 iz a sniper bitch!
enforcer999: Don't swear, Jason! And don't call your mother a bitch!
xXx-juggalo-xXx: wtf mom! you play cf?
enforcer999: That's right, kiddo! And *you* are up past your bed time! Turn off that computer right now!
xXx-juggalo-xXx: fuk!!
enforcer999: pwn3d!
yeah, I am the undispputed master of warcraft3, Halo and Kart in my peer group... strangely it does not help my standing on the social pecking order.
What losers. Think of all the great television programs they're missing.
One of my first english words I learned from Maniac Mansion
Chainsaw!
Of course no upbringing is complete without being a player in Leisure suit Larry 1 at the age of 9.
Open Door
Take Rose
Look at wall
Knock
Ken sent me
etc etc