Playing shooter video games damages the brain, study suggests

[jimboa24]

I know for sure that I'm not the only person on this website who almost destroyed their life through a World of Warcraft addiction so I'm pretty sure I have some clue about what I'm talking about.

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Also the amount of hours that unemployed men in the US spend playing video games is truly pathetic.

That's a personal problem, and I'm sure the amount of alcohol and pot consumed by unemployed men in the US is equally pathetic.

[Krawu]

Way too many variables, way too small a sample size and way too short a study.

For this you'd need to run the study over at least 10, better 15 years, have thousands of participants and a control group and follow them over the course of those 15 years to see how shooter players diverge from the control group. Even better to have 2 control groups: Non-Gamers and players of other games.

You don't gain or lose brain matter over the course of just 90 hours. The only thing that can do that is a lobotomy.

[pionock]

Don't you go coming after my Borderlands....them's fighting words.

[Nihilist74]

Do they have less grey matter because they play the game or do they play the game because they have less grey matter?

[chazus]

I know for sure that I'm not the only person on this website who almost destroyed their life through a World of Warcraft addiction so I'm pretty sure I have some clue about what I'm talking about..

That's like saying a guy who gambled himself out of his house proves that gambling causes brain damage. These are two entirely unrelated things.

[DechCJC]

Pretty sure everything we do is detrimental to us in one way or another, just enjoy yourself and do anything that's obviously harmful to you in moderation.

[Deletedaccount1]

That's like saying a guy who gambled himself out of his house proves that gambling causes brain damage. These are two entirely unrelated things.

I didn't say it caused brain damage, I said it was bad for you just as gambling is in a different way.

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That's a personal problem, and I'm sure the amount of alcohol and pot consumed by unemployed men in the US is equally pathetic.

It was a personal problem but it is indicative of a larger problem. Drug consumption among the unemployed is another problem as well but that doesn't mean video games aren't also a problem.

[chazus]

I didn't say it caused brain damage, I said it was bad for you just as gambling is in a different way.

You kinda did. You were agreeing with the study to some degree because of your experience, but your experience has no relation to the topic. Video games largely aren't bad, but people can have issues due to their own mental state.... This is like comparing apples to airplanes, since the study wasn't about that, but actual brain activity.

[Deleted]

I bet shooting at each other for real is even more dangerous! But I sadly can't link a solid research on that

[Archon14]

The only thing that can do that is a lobotomy.

Which is what some of those shooter players already have.

hue hue

[Deleted]

This is why I don't trust any study.

[Blade Wolf]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2...tudy-suggests/

Whew. I barely play games with shooting so I should be fine. How about you?

Quite clearly fake news.

[Rennadrel]

You can get brain damage in other ways. No reason to believe you should be fine.

Yeah, reading the shit the OP posts...kek

[Deleted]

I do roughly 120 hours in a 2 week span. I work in the games industry and play video games 40 hours a week at work... and I put in about 20 hours a week outside of that.

Yea yea, you know damn well what I mean.

[Belize]

So does that mean I'm safe with my empire building and 4X games?

Yeah, you're fine.

Just don't skip dick day.

[Luckx]

Video games are more different from each other than movies and books.

There is NFS like racing games, and there is turn based strategies like Civilization. Not all folks playing video games have addiction to them, there is folks who play only for 20-30mins evry 2-3days or even a week.

There is much more ppl addicted to movies and TV series, those ppl spending much more life on time on movies/TV series than average casual player on video games and when you playing offline games you can pause it or quit it any time without screwing experience for your team members and friends.

[Shibito]

Remind me why this flame-baiting reposter hasn't been perma-banned yet?

Some say its Endus's alter ego.

[Deleted]

I doubt it's the amount of gaming, but the lack of other activity instead.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

I heard as time passes you get brain damage too. By the time your 100 its fucked. Stop aging today. Die.

[idunnowatdo]

ive got tons of hours on fps like quake, halo, cod, battlefield, killing floor1 and 2, left 4 dead 2. RIP my brain i suppose