Video games harmful ?

[AgentChicken]

Video games will always be apart of my life, I will teach my future children about video games and their future children and so on. Video game's has always been my escape from the real world, video games lets you escape into someone else's story, you are being apart of someone else's life. Gordon Freeman is one of my Favorite game characters right, And when i play Half life games, i feel like i'm actually fighting along side him, Protecting earth from invasions or aliens and the Combine. VIdeo game's are NOT the culprits causing violence in the real world its the Parents who are buying these games for their children who are the real Villains. 

 

If Parents had a Ounce of intelligence in their Skulls they would think "Maybe this is to violent for my child?" and Not buy the game for the kid. So maybe when the media want a scape goat, maybe they should look at themselves. Kids don't get money from jobs or working they get the money from Parents. Video game store's should be asking for ID if your under age buying an 18+ video game anyway. My parent's let me play violent video games at a young age, resident evil and gta were my first games. and i'm not a Murdering psychopath or some insane Lunatic. I'm just a "Normal" 19 turning 20 Young adult who makes his own decisions. 

 

 

[Emily]

Recovering from gaming lifestyle is a long hard mental and emotional  journey.

 

You'll lost your world, gain the universe at the same time.

[sen4mi]

You'll lost your world, gain the universe at the same time.

 

I think the real important thing, here, is the game players.  The game is just something people choose to do with their time.

 

Playing games can be fun, and fun is an important part of life, so playing games can be good. 

 

But life has other things in it also. We need to sleep, we need to eat, we need motion and exercise.  We have interests of a variety of sorts.  We need sexual interactions, sometimes, and to some degree, and with time in between (because these things are parts of cycles and relationships, and it's not just one thing).

 

If someone stopped eating because they only wanted to sleep, would that mean that sleep was bad? 

 

Personally, I think that people are asking the wrong questions, here.  These are interesting wrong questions, and they are related to important issues, so they can sometimes be worth discussing.

 

Of course, video games can be harmful. If you take a video game cartridge and accelerate it to nearly the speed of light, it could destroy a whole town.     

 

Seriously, though, people routinely have problems -- problems are like an annoyingly essential part of life. And, people will blame problems on stuff, which can lead to them testing whether that blaming really makes sense (if it did, the problem is solved, if not, maybe blame something else?) And, problems are an important part of art. So we should expect to see videogames cast in a "problematic" role in some people's fantasies.

 

But if people are seriously interested in solving problems (instead of just "enjoying" problems), it's hard to see how video games can be the real issue. And I do not mean that video games cannot be a real problem (just accelerate one to nearly the speed of light, for example!) but that the real problem would not be the game itself but the thing that made the game into a problem. 

 

Still... the need for sleep is much higher than the needs for video games, for many people.  And, if you were sleeping too much you would have to stop that, so if you are playing video games too much I think it just makes sense to cut back.

 

Fortunately, for me, when I have played games too much they stopped being fun.  So, if games are boring? That is probably a hint that you need to be doing something else, instead! 

[Curseddonut]

They said the same thing about the TV, Elvis etc. They're just afraid of it because they dont know it.

[Emily]

and gay stuff too.