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Video games Under Scrutiny AGAIN
Renegade:
Plus most videogames have a feature where if you screw up you get killed. That basic rule in nearly every game serves as a constant reminder that one cannot simply do this kind of thing for real, because in reality you can't respawn if you mess up and get shot. -SeraphimLabs (December 23, 2012, 12:56 AM)
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Then again, not to overestimate the intelligence of some gamers, they may well think that "the game will go on", and not really contemplate the consequences of their actions. Remember, this is the same crowd where you get reports of people dying because they forgot to do things like eat, drink, and sleep.
-Renegade (December 23, 2012, 01:02 AM)
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Yeah but such happenings are a minority among people who play videogames. There are the casuals- people who enjoy a game once and a while but don't seriously play any particular game, the weekend warriors (Like me) who will sit down with a game on a weekend or a night with a few hours free and enjoy it in depth, and the hardcore gamers who other than playing their game do nothing else that they don't absolutely have to do.
For the most part such events and related phenomena such as videogame addicts only appear in the hardcore category, as other types tend to maintain enough of an attachment to reality to not be consumed by their game for more than a session's duration at a time.
Otherwise said games would have long been deemed hazardous to one's health in more severe ways than just the risks of sitting around too much enjoying them, and would have been either regulated like smokes or outright pulled from shelves.
-SeraphimLabs (December 23, 2012, 01:29 AM)
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True enough. There's always an idiot in every crowd, and there's always someone ready to accept a Darwin Award. It doesn't really matter how innocuous an activity it - somebody will find a way to make it dangerous. Kind of reminds me about the guys out drinking and proving how macho they were... One fellow used a chainsaw to lop off his foot. The next fellow, not to be outdone, decapitated himself.
wraith808:
But we can't tailor society for those marginal people, can we?
rgdot:
The NRA laid a trap for themselves. The way the NRA guy talked was like video games are not ok but the actual physical device is ok and more of it is needed too.
Once upon a time the argument was both are dangerous and bad...
Renegade:
But we can't tailor society for those marginal people, can we?
-wraith808 (December 23, 2012, 02:27 PM)
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That's an exercise in futility.
4wd:
That's an exercise in futility. -Renegade (December 23, 2012, 05:11 PM)
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Quite right, they'll always create a better idiot.
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