A News Article That Games Are Good For You?

MonsieurEvil · February 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">The hell you say!</div> <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2744449.stm' target='_blank'>Gaming 'is good for you'</a>

I will go out on a limb and say that no nitwit congressman, armchair psychologist, or ambulance-chasing lawyer will be bothered to read this at all.

Burr · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It was often obvious when teenage boys were playing, he said, because there was much more trashtalk and sexist or homophobic insults flying around.

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Haha, this is a great quote! Now we have a scientific view of young people acting like idiots when they play these games!!

DOOManiac · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Computer games are good for you, say researchers who studied the complex social interactions in the popular shoot-em-up Counter-Strike.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

complex social interactions... of CS!?!? wtf?

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(2)Player: CHEATER
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Join us next week as we study the complex social interactions of mildew... :P

MonsieurEvil · February 2003

ROFL.

What's funny is, I had a couple apartments in the same neigborhood as Loyola (where the study was done). It's a Catholic university, so I wonder what the Jesuit professors running that study had for CS handles?

'j3sus_1s_l0rd'
'Last Supper... FOR YOU!'
'Ezekial 25:17'
'Thy smackdown cometh, and it is good'

Leprechaun · February 2003

It's nice to know that not everyone thinks I'm going to whip out a shotgun and take out passers-by from the roof of my friendly neighborhood school.

AllUrHiveRblong2us · February 2003

O gees, next they're gonne be doing a study of the socio-economic significance of 1337

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Silver_Fox · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Feb 13 2003, 04:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> 'Thy smackdown cometh, and it is good'  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
<b>ah hahaha</b>

TychoCelchuuu · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Leprechaun @ Feb 13 2003, 04:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It's nice to know that not everyone thinks I'm going to whip out a shotgun and take out passers-by from the roof of my friendly neighborhood school.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Yeah. Let's snipe people from the roof with <b>shotguns</b>.

Heh, back on topic, there are actually a lot of people in the UK saying that computer games aren't so bad. This is the first thing I've seen saying they were <i>good</i> though.

Epoch · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>"It gives people an option of actively participating in some kind of fantasy role they could not do in real life that allows them to play with their own feelings," said Prof Wright.

"It is an area that's bricked off from everyday life that you can enter and leave at will," he said. "It offers you a way to play with things you may be scared of in a safe way where there are very few consequences." </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Duh. It takes a group of professors doing research projects to come to the conslusion that people enjoy games because they are a form of escape? Sheesh, that's goofy.

Cyborgguineapig · February 2003

finally an article promoting games

Cry_Havoc · February 2003

CS isn't good for anyone.

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Teufel_Eldritch · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It was often obvious when teenage boys were playing, he said, because there was much more trashtalk and sexist or homophobic insults flying around. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>So true, so true.

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Feb 14 2003, 02:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah. Let's snipe people from the roof with <b>shotguns</b>. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>With slugs you could, but I still understand where you are coming from. Much better to use a rifle.

Dubers · February 2003

There was no need to get technical <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

A News Article That Games Are Good For You?

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