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“Get off that damn machine” my mum usually yells at me after around 2 hours of non-stop usage.
Claiming its not good for your health, she says I should be outside, playing football or hanging out with friends. True, I guess I should, but I don’t, well, not much. I just have to knock that annoying Fox into the abyss (yes, I still play Smash Brothers!) one more time!
Alas. Playing videogames is not all that bad. Sure it can lead to unhealthiness, but, it can also improve your reactions.
The main reaction it tunes up is hand-to-eye. This means that when you see something your hands and fingers can see it and move to it or from it quicker than usual. This can be particularly helpful when playing a ball game like football or cricket, in which you need to use your hands, and your fingers, to catch or stop a fast-flying ball.
You don’t realise this is happening, but one sign of increasing reactions is when you get better at a game. You learn the controls better, and need to be quick to pull them off.
One type of game especially: Fighting and beat ‘em ups. You must be quick to react to what your TV screen tells you, and press the right buttons to attack back or to counter or whatever.
Though, depending what game you are playing, it can also improve your foot-to-eye reactions as well. Games like Time Crisis that require you to duck and hide behind boxes via the use of a peddle. There’s also that arcade dancing game, as well as racing games like GT (that is if you use peddles for your acceleration and braking) can be included as well.
So I don’t see videogames as a completely unhealthy thing, and, when the gaming industry booms as it should do soon when the GBA, GC, and Xbox are released, I will be playing on consoles for longer than ever before.
Thanks for reading,
Swish
Claiming its not good for your health, she says I should be outside, playing football or hanging out with friends. True, I guess I should, but I don’t, well, not much. I just have to knock that annoying Fox into the abyss (yes, I still play Smash Brothers!) one more time!
Alas. Playing videogames is not all that bad. Sure it can lead to unhealthiness, but, it can also improve your reactions.
The main reaction it tunes up is hand-to-eye. This means that when you see something your hands and fingers can see it and move to it or from it quicker than usual. This can be particularly helpful when playing a ball game like football or cricket, in which you need to use your hands, and your fingers, to catch or stop a fast-flying ball.
You don’t realise this is happening, but one sign of increasing reactions is when you get better at a game. You learn the controls better, and need to be quick to pull them off.
One type of game especially: Fighting and beat ‘em ups. You must be quick to react to what your TV screen tells you, and press the right buttons to attack back or to counter or whatever.
Though, depending what game you are playing, it can also improve your foot-to-eye reactions as well. Games like Time Crisis that require you to duck and hide behind boxes via the use of a peddle. There’s also that arcade dancing game, as well as racing games like GT (that is if you use peddles for your acceleration and braking) can be included as well.
So I don’t see videogames as a completely unhealthy thing, and, when the gaming industry booms as it should do soon when the GBA, GC, and Xbox are released, I will be playing on consoles for longer than ever before.
Thanks for reading,
Swish
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Grix Thraves wrote:
> And stair lifts.
If he gets one I need to find some gremilns to invade his home!!
> And stair lifts.
If he gets one I need to find some gremilns to invade his home!!
And stair lifts.
I want my slippers and some cocoa.
And that nice Thora Hird to tell me about antiques.
And that nice Thora Hird to tell me about antiques.
Don't worry about the mid life crisis. I've only really left school and I'm going through one.
Oooh...I mean...Ooooh
How dare you, you young whippersnapper.
And as for Prix, you can watch most of them in order and they won't make much more sense, so it's ok.
How dare you, you young whippersnapper.
And as for Prix, you can watch most of them in order and they won't make much more sense, so it's ok.
Goatboy wrote:
> I smoke and all my friends think I'm cool and adult.
We just think your old and starting a mid life crisis!!
> I smoke and all my friends think I'm cool and adult.
We just think your old and starting a mid life crisis!!
I watched an episode in the middle of the series and it made no sense what so ever.
You'd be surprised, I'm sure, to hear that I have all those on video.
Excellent.
Excellent.
I had a psychotic episode once......
I actually watched an episode of Twin Peaks!
I actually watched an episode of Twin Peaks!
Not that I remember no.
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