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0 pointsnelsonenzo5y ago0 comments

no one outside of the video game industry would waste their time with this study because they already know the outcome from having passively observed several hundred million children not become violent from video games.

Video games do not make people violent - and based on my observation of at least several thousand peers - it actually has the opposite effect. The truth is video games are a healthy outlet, as well as self train an individual to deal with defeat over and over and over again.

I bet if you took groups of individuals whom played sports for X hours a week, and compared them to an equivalent number of individuals whom played video games for X hours a week, the sports group would have more violent tendencies. This isn't just hyperbola, after observing as many humans as we have in both these activities, it's practically self evident.

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boomboomsubban5y ago

>This isn't just hyperbola, after observing as many humans as we have in both these activities, it's practically self evident.

*hyperbole, though my autocorrect also tried to screw me.

I'm not sure about this comparison though, as there seems to be a connection between concussions and violent behavior. Comparing track members to video game players would be somewhat interesting.

eeZah7Ux5y ago

It's pretty dishonest to put all kinds of video games in the same bucket and then make sweeping generalizations about their health impact.

hombre_fatal5y ago

I don't understand what you're implying except that you think that there are violent video games that can affect behavior, something that the paper set out to test by comparing 789 games ranging from Boggle to Gears of War.

When I was a kid in the 90s, Oprah claims that Dungeons and Dragons caused Satanic worship and Grand Theft Auto groomed children for larceny. That's where our culture is coming from.

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