I am a gamer and an adult and mostly secular. I am not sure there is no impact. I recently had a 16 year old friend commit suicide. There was a discussion, that perhaps, he suffered; mild post-traumatic stress, because he would spend, daily, hours a day, in battle simulation games on his game console. (I'm using no product names on purpose.) Considering, he was the most kind, generous, polite, emotionally stable young person, you could meet, questions remain about his death.
I did not read the study, so I don't know if they gathered facts regarding suicide.
In computer timelines, I know that Hypercard is ancient. The software wasn't much bigger that 800K bytes and ran from a floppy disk on Mac OS System 6. Hypercard was essentially cancelled by Apple Computer because, when Mac OS System 7 came out, Apple wanted extreme tight control over the graphical user interface of the computer. Apple wrote the "Human Interface Guidelines" and Hypercard broke all the rules.
A neat trick with Hypercard of 1987 was, if it was auto booted, it could replace your graphical user interface (GUI) on your computer, and because it was full screen, the menu bars and icons would disappear. Image being able to draw the GUI of the computer with a paint program, which was included in Hypercard, and create hyperlinks to files, applications, and basic interface functions. If one created text fields, a basic database form is created. This is why Hypercard was so cool and ahead of its time, way before the invention of the commercial Internet.
As a computer person, listening to computer users, the big complaint over and over again is the GUI forced on them. If the original Hypercard were available today, and you didn't like the "Start Menu" missing or the font change from iOS7 to iOS8, imagine being empowered to change those features, on your own.
I have no disrespect for current versions of Supercard and Livecode. I am not familiar with the 2014 versions of those products.
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I am a gamer and an adult and mostly secular. I am not sure there is no impact. I recently had a 16 year old friend commit suicide. There was a discussion, that perhaps, he suffered; mild post-traumatic stress, because he would spend, daily, hours a day, in battle simulation games on his game console. (I'm using no product names on purpose.) Considering, he was the most kind, generous, polite, emotionally stable young person, you could meet, questions remain about his death. I did not read the study, so I don't know if they gathered facts regarding suicide.
In computer timelines, I know that Hypercard is ancient. The software wasn't much bigger that 800K bytes and ran from a floppy disk on Mac OS System 6. Hypercard was essentially cancelled by Apple Computer because, when Mac OS System 7 came out, Apple wanted extreme tight control over the graphical user interface of the computer. Apple wrote the "Human Interface Guidelines" and Hypercard broke all the rules. A neat trick with Hypercard of 1987 was, if it was auto booted, it could replace your graphical user interface (GUI) on your computer, and because it was full screen, the menu bars and icons would disappear. Image being able to draw the GUI of the computer with a paint program, which was included in Hypercard, and create hyperlinks to files, applications, and basic interface functions. If one created text fields, a basic database form is created. This is why Hypercard was so cool and ahead of its time, way before the invention of the commercial Internet. As a computer person, listening to computer users, the big complaint over and over again is the GUI forced on them. If the original Hypercard were available today, and you didn't like the "Start Menu" missing or the font change from iOS7 to iOS8, imagine being empowered to change those features, on your own. I have no disrespect for current versions of Supercard and Livecode. I am not familiar with the 2014 versions of those products.