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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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To be fair, I have more problems with my knees through walking than I do with my wrists caused by computer games!! Does that mean I should stop walking to preserve my knees??
And young guys have more than one damaging hobby to their wrists!!
And young guys have more than one damaging hobby to their wrists!!
Of course...
Playing games for long periods of time, over a long period of time (say 10 hrs a week, every week for 5 years)...
Is actually detrimental to the health of your wrists... more often than not causing irreparible damage (of various degrees), promoting early aging and increases the chances of rheumtism whilst still young (well... under 30)... The positive effects are only short term...
(as is pointed out in the Simpsons 'I'm only 16, but I have the wrists of an 80 year old')
Playing games for long periods of time, over a long period of time (say 10 hrs a week, every week for 5 years)...
Is actually detrimental to the health of your wrists... more often than not causing irreparible damage (of various degrees), promoting early aging and increases the chances of rheumtism whilst still young (well... under 30)... The positive effects are only short term...
(as is pointed out in the Simpsons 'I'm only 16, but I have the wrists of an 80 year old')
...and they taste nice too....
Bonus wrote:
Some also claim that games such as
> Time Crisis teach kids how to kill people with real guns, if this is
> a worry then why not get rid of guns, and stop people killing each
> other.
This is true, also people have to remember that guns do not kill people, people kill people.
>Then there are the points about it being bad for your eyes
Well this is partly true, as i now need to wear glasses to read long distance.
Some also claim that games such as
> Time Crisis teach kids how to kill people with real guns, if this is
> a worry then why not get rid of guns, and stop people killing each
> other.
This is true, also people have to remember that guns do not kill people, people kill people.
>Then there are the points about it being bad for your eyes
Well this is partly true, as i now need to wear glasses to read long distance.
Kids my age these days have the hand eye co-ordination and reflexes at the same standard and sometimes higher than fighter pilots (i'm 18). Not to mention the ability to get out of any sticky situation and resurrect themselves by hitting the start button!!
Games aren't bad for the most of us, but some games can give an impression on some which isn't good for them. My little brother used to have nightmares after I used Kane to rip his heart out on Mortal Kombat, then my mum banned him from playing it because she was sick fed up being wakened in the middle of the night!!
So it is different depending on the individual, games certainly haven't done me any harm, hence me beginning a degree in computer games technology. If it's going to provide me with a living for the rest of my life it can't be bad can it??
Sitting for hours on end playing games and never going outside is scientifically bad for you and can lead to people getting rickets, but then looking around you probably would never notice with all of these fat people sitting on sofas all day anyway!
I can play football technically, but I amn't very good, so my mates dance rings around me, but give me a PS and ISS Pro Evo, and they don't get a look in, so it has to be good to promote competitiveness, and in this capitalist day and age, only the Chinese would frown on this!!
Some also claim that games such as Time Crisis teach kids how to kill people with real guns, if this is a worry then why not get rid of guns, and stop people killing each other. The other downfall to this arguement is that in Africa some Rebel forces are almost 60% under 13 year olds, and you can't tell me that they learned how to kill other humans by playing Time Crisis!!
Then there are the points about it being bad for your eyes, if you can still read this text after the length of this post, then you can't be doing too badly. But seriously, I have played games and sat infront of computers since my dad bought me a Speccy when I was 4!! I am the only person in my family with perfect eyesite, so how is this valid?? Even the laws of genetics would have given me less chance of this happening at birth, never mind playing games!!
So what does this tell us?? That adults never have and never will like the popular culture of their youth, and we will probably be the same when we are the age of our parents and all of these anti-games activists. But in this society we do have the freedom of speech, and they can believe and say what they like, but it is up to us to educate the mainstream and let them know that it hasn't done us any harm!!
Games aren't bad for the most of us, but some games can give an impression on some which isn't good for them. My little brother used to have nightmares after I used Kane to rip his heart out on Mortal Kombat, then my mum banned him from playing it because she was sick fed up being wakened in the middle of the night!!
So it is different depending on the individual, games certainly haven't done me any harm, hence me beginning a degree in computer games technology. If it's going to provide me with a living for the rest of my life it can't be bad can it??
Sitting for hours on end playing games and never going outside is scientifically bad for you and can lead to people getting rickets, but then looking around you probably would never notice with all of these fat people sitting on sofas all day anyway!
I can play football technically, but I amn't very good, so my mates dance rings around me, but give me a PS and ISS Pro Evo, and they don't get a look in, so it has to be good to promote competitiveness, and in this capitalist day and age, only the Chinese would frown on this!!
Some also claim that games such as Time Crisis teach kids how to kill people with real guns, if this is a worry then why not get rid of guns, and stop people killing each other. The other downfall to this arguement is that in Africa some Rebel forces are almost 60% under 13 year olds, and you can't tell me that they learned how to kill other humans by playing Time Crisis!!
Then there are the points about it being bad for your eyes, if you can still read this text after the length of this post, then you can't be doing too badly. But seriously, I have played games and sat infront of computers since my dad bought me a Speccy when I was 4!! I am the only person in my family with perfect eyesite, so how is this valid?? Even the laws of genetics would have given me less chance of this happening at birth, never mind playing games!!
So what does this tell us?? That adults never have and never will like the popular culture of their youth, and we will probably be the same when we are the age of our parents and all of these anti-games activists. But in this society we do have the freedom of speech, and they can believe and say what they like, but it is up to us to educate the mainstream and let them know that it hasn't done us any harm!!
§wˇ§µ wrote:
Alas. Playing videogames is not
> all that bad. Sure it can lead to unhealthiness, but, it can also
> improve your reactions.
I read an article a few weeks ago which showed exactly the opposite. in a recent study on Japanese kids it was proven that children who played games regularly, found it harder to track a fast moving object than those that did not play video games regularly.
Alas. Playing videogames is not
> all that bad. Sure it can lead to unhealthiness, but, it can also
> improve your reactions.
I read an article a few weeks ago which showed exactly the opposite. in a recent study on Japanese kids it was proven that children who played games regularly, found it harder to track a fast moving object than those that did not play video games regularly.
From the words of my parents and i quote
"Games consoles are fantastic!,they keep people like you off the street" hehehe
"Games consoles are fantastic!,they keep people like you off the street" hehehe
“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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