Bye Video-Games..

[Roman_s]

Originally Posted by TheBoneIII

Hello, Mr. Jack Thompson. How is your day today?

Darn, I became a zombie

[zidart]

Originally Posted by arelik

Hi, I'm 16 and my life has been destroyed by video games. I won't go into detail about the consequences of playing them, but I can say that I would be much more developed physically, mentally and socially if I never started playing them, or played less than 2 hours a day. Video games took all of my time and have given me nothing. The OP describes it quite accurately. Now I'm trying to find interesting activities to occupy the time I would spend playing video games. I'll try to stop playing time consuming games soon and stick with games you can play for a short period of time (like Touhou games).


Yes they are and that's what's bad about them. Maybe I should go play a sport, read a book or do my homework... nah I'll just spend 6 hours a day pressing buttons with minimal brain activity. Take a break? **** no, I could be leveling my character during this time.

Edit: Ok I wouldn't say destroyed, but really, playing video games causes many bad long-term effects.

that's you, i play a lot of videogames, my GPA is 4.0 i am in the soccer team and i read all of the harry potter/narnia/ john grishman books and i have a big group of close friends. yes videogames are addictive, so it's everything you like to do, the only thing you need it's not completely destroy it or avoid it because that makes it even worse..... what you have to do it's to learn to control yourself.... in just one year my grades changed from D/C to B/A in honors classes... autocontrol its the key of everything

[Shamo0]

Don't blame video games blame yourself. It was your choice, I hate when video games are portrayed as the ones to blame for negative results. It's completely wrong.

[Roman_s]

Originally Posted by Shamo0

Don't blame video games blame yourself. It was your choice, I hate when video games are portrayed as the ones to blame for negative results. It's completely wrong.

Read the other posts, I already blamed myself.

2nd. Thats like saying cigs are not negative and arn't addicting

[concertm]

You're gonna fail if you continue playing FFR. You're going to play FFR more and more often as you crave games. Eventually, you'll think it's ok to play similar games like SM, DDR, and move on to stuff like Guitar Hero, etc. You'll then think it's ok to play any game with decent music on it, leading to other random games. You'll realize how much you failed and end up returning to the gaming life. [/prophecy]

[smartdude1212]

FFR is the only game you're allowed to play when you have 9 million assignments due within 3 days.
And get away with it.

[beaner692]

Didn't a rather large group of people try to blame Columbine on video games

[zidart]

Originally Posted by Roman_s

Read the other posts, I already blamed myself.

2nd. Thats like saying cigs are not negative and arn't addicting

there's a difference cigs have a chemical that makes them addictive, videogames just are fun.

besides videogames helped me a lot.... i got interested in english thanks to them and guess what? i moved to the United Estates.

also some kind of videogames (rpgs and puzzle games like zelda) make you smarter, and some videogames have a lot of script that you can read like if they are a book (fire emblem) they are not negative, they are positive but of course like everything in life (except breathing) a lot of it can ruin you

[Roman_s]

Originally Posted by concertm

You're gonna fail if you continue playing FFR. You're going to play FFR more and more often as you crave games. Eventually, you'll think it's ok to play similar games like SM, DDR, and move on to stuff like Guitar Hero, etc. You'll then think it's ok to play any game with decent music on it, leading to other random games. You'll realize how much you failed and end up returning to the gaming life. [/prophecy]

Actually I said sometimes and that means barely :], I'm usually here to chit chat :]



@smartdude1212; True

@beaner692; Don't know =/, but I bet

zidart; Yes, but every goal of a video game designer is to make the game addicting as possible, you know people killed themself because of Tetris? They started failing and then killed themself. Damn commies ,

P.S, I am a russian so I can say commie xD

[Telvanni_guard]

I really don't like going else much. Video games give me a social life. I know that sounds sad, but I don't really care.

[PunkNJunk]

***tttt....
I played WWII video games and I'm like a master at history class.
It's kinda funny cuz when my teacher talks about it I already know all the stuff he's saying, so instead of studying I just turn on CoD or CWET.
Video games do alot more good than what people give them credit for.
Such as:
-Tactics
-Problem solving skill building
-Coordination skill building
-Grammar and reading
etc., etc...

Oh, and BTW I said the same thing a while back... I would say I only lasted about 3 or 4 months. But I'm not nearly as addicted as I used to be.
A piece of advice, getting a job REALLY helps. It keeps you busy and away from video games.

[zidart]

Originally Posted by PunkNJunk

***tttt....
I played WWII video games and I'm like a master at history class.
It's kinda funny cuz when my teacher talks about it I already know all the stuff he's saying, so instead of studying I just turn on CoD or CWET.
Video games do alot more good than what people give them credit for.
Such as:
-Tactics
-Problem solving skill building
-Coordination skill building
-Grammar and reading
etc., etc...

Oh, and BTW I said the same thing a while back... I would say I only lasted about 3 or 4 months. But I'm not nearly as addicted as I used to be.
A piece of advice, getting a job REALLY helps. It keeps you busy and away from video games.

i got good grades in my ancient greece test thanks to god of war XD

[PunkNJunk]

Haha, GoW pwnz.
What grade are you in?

[zidart]

Originally Posted by PunkNJunk

Haha, GoW pwnz.
What grade are you in?

i'm in 11th grade but because i didn't have world history in my country now i have to take it, it's a cool class with the right teacher (and mine is the right one XD)

and also thanks to final fantasy i got an A in an english project

[PunkNJunk]

Ah, I'm in 10th cuz I was an idiot 6th grade and never did any of my work so I failed.
But I make strait B's in all of my classes (which are all honors)

And how did Final Fantasy get you an A on your English project?

[Telvanni_guard]

Obviously stole the writing. >_>

Or wrote a report on the game. Games make good things to do reports on when teachers allow them.

[zidart]

Originally Posted by Telvanni_guard

Obviously stole the writing. >_>

Or wrote a report on the game. Games make good things to do reports on when teachers allow them.

a report, but my teacher had to read the story first so i printed final fantasy VII story then after he read it i was able to do the report on it

characters, plot, and all that kind of stuff then i had to do a acted presentation (oh boy it was soo hard to omit some parts of the story so it could fit in the allowed time)

[PunkNJunk]

Geez, sounds hard.
All of my teachers are so cool.
Like yesterday Mr. Haines (my Civics teacher) was asking how my Halo 3 party went, and I started telling him how bad ass it was.
Come to think of it, I'm thinkin bout having another...

[Tails99]

DDR is good enough for me. And puzzle games do require some form of brain work.

[zidart]

Originally Posted by PunkNJunk

Geez, sounds hard.
All of my teachers are so cool.
Like yesterday Mr. Haines (my Civics teacher) was asking how my Halo 3 party went, and I started telling him how bad ass it was.
Come to think of it, I'm thinkin bout having another...

not if you and your friends played the game a lot of times XD

seriously videogames can help even with social relationships (halo party for example)