MithraPride

Who woulda thunk it?

All you kitties who still live at home, or have friends or parents who get down on your case for gaming need to copy this article:

Video Games: An Hour A Day Is Key To Success In Life by Jane McGonigal in the Huffington Post.

Everything in moderation, you know your family will say you're not playing in moderation

Some things aren't quite true about that article though.

And the average young person racks up 10,000 hours of gaming by the age of 21.

I bet a few rack up that many hours in one year of FFXI or whatever MMO of your choice

The truth is this: in today's society, computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy.

Not every need

And when we play multiplayer games, we become more collaborative and more likely to help others.

Bullcrap

Sugami wrote:Everything in moderation, you know your family will say you're not playing in moderation

Everything in moderation including, of course moderation.

Sugami wrote:

And the average young person racks up 10,000 hours of gaming by the age of 21.

I bet a few rack up that many hours in one year of FFXI or whatever MMO of your choice

And some rack up 0. This is an average after all.

Sugami wrote:

The truth is this: in today's society, computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy.

Not every need

Yes EVERY need. You haven't seen the latest controllers out of Japan.

And pay attention to that final clause: that the real world is currently unable to satisfy.

Alya Mizar (Tsybil) wrote:Yes EVERY need. You haven't seen the latest controllers out of Japan.

And pay attention to that final clause: that the real world is currently unable to satisfy.

I don't want to I don't think the gaming world has one over on the real world when it comes to that

I spend a good majority of the day "Helping" Russians on NFS World and all they do is screw me over. There's that bit of article blown up.

Karou Ariyen wrote:I spend a good majority of the day "Helping" Russians on NFS World and all they do is screw me over. There's that bit of article blown up.

scientifically, you can't discredit an article with one or three case studies... emotionally... it only takes the right one.

I would actually like to see her research that went into writing that book she said she has out... as much as I'd like a pro-gaming book out, I'd want it to be as accurate as possible too...