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 | DrEntropy (40)
12/13/2006 | Kids now spend an average of 40 hours a day in front of screens (TV/computer/videogames). There is nothing wrong with playing video games now and then, and they may even have some beneficial effects. The hysteria over violent games certainly seems overblown, compared to what's depicted in graphic detail in movies and comic books. A few computer games, like Civilization and Sim City, are probably more educational than just about anything kids are likely to come across in the mass media. However, spending half your waking life moving pixels across the screen is clearly not healthy, either for the mind or the body, and especially not for kids.
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 | texasyankee (22)
05/15/2005 | I do enjoy video games. I like racing ones, sports, and anything that takes logic. Not into fighting ones, to a point. I like runescape (online) but only because it's not 100% fighting.
I don't much get into my son's ps2 or gamecube because I can't get into all the buttons they have on the controllers now. I used to love original nintendo and even supernintendo. After that, it got too detailed for me.
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 | cutegurl (17)
05/04/2005 | Will be the downfall of Western civilization. Video games are a bad, evil invention that never should have caught on, but alas, they did. Think about, you are performing incredibly violent acts over and over again. It's not like movies where you are just watching, you are actually acting out the motions of stealing a car or killing a cop. Why is that appealling, I don't so much understand.
(Just so you guys know, I'm not totally serious about the downfall to civilization thing, just kind of serious.)
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 | abichara (63)
05/04/2005 | Cutegurl has a point. As a kid, I did play a good amount of video-games, but only as a form of entertainment among other things. It can become addictive to many people and it can de-sensitize them to violent acts. When it becomes all-consuming and obsessive, ones sense of reality shifts focus, thus causing a major loss of perspective. The especially bloody games seems to promote the notion that life is expendable and cheap. Playing videogames is not a passive activity like watching a movie. It can be fun, but watch out for the ones who live and die by it.
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