Gaming Scene

Video games have always received a bad rap. Maybe it’s because first-generation games. Pong, Space Invaders and the like were little more than time-wasters with bad graphics. But all that changed long ago. There are now countless highly sophisticated, social-based games with devoted fanbases. Video games can certainly be addictive, sometimes with tragic results, and plenty of games are criticized for extreme violence. There is also the problem of all the sitting that goes along with gaming, and the detrimental health effects. It's really pissed me off when someone start to talk about it. It belongs to a topic called bullshit. It gets on my nerves when people start blaming games for crime and other tragic behavioral issues when the problem is with the people. We have created a cult of other peoples' problems.

I kill lots of people in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3. Skinned a lot of animals in Far Cry and Assassin's Creed. Shooting random strangers, stealing cars. I play a game called Little Inferno, which, as the title suggests, all you do is set things on fire. However, I'm not a pyromaniac, I would never set anything on fire in real life. I play GTA, Watchdogs and many others, though I would never kill or harm another person, games aren't to blame, people are. Obviously these people were not right in the head in the first place, and with the case of children, the brain isn't fully developed yet and the good normally outweighs the bad. Blaming video games is awful, next they will be blaming movies. Bad parenting is what went wrong with the majority of these. It's an offensive gesture when video games game criticized for making people do bad things. Simple truth is, there are just bad people in the world, it's human nature. Yes, a video game murdered your child. I'm sure your absolute piss poor parenting job, your overall lack of supervision or involvement in your kids life had nothing to do with it. These people should be charged with abandonment of a child, incarcerated, and sterilized. If they have any children left they should be taken and given to people who actually want kids and take responsibility for them. Every single one of these could have been prevented with better parenting. This is so emblematic of today society, blaming video games for the stuff you could prevent. When i was younger, if i spent more then a few hours behind a computer my parents would yell at me to get off. It's called parenting!

There are a lot of statistics out there shows how gaming can be bad for you, this and that. Sad truth is a lot of people fell for this. I'm a human being that you can't quantify by crunching statistical numbers. Statistics are very useless. They are just numbers. Do you know what the statistics are that you'd develop Diabetis in your life time? Suffer a stroke, heart disease, dementia, cancer, etc? The statistic shows that smokers are likely to get cancers than non smokers. Well, I knew someone that has a lung cancer even though he have never touch a single cigarette in his life. Point is, one way or another you ain't going to live forever and while you're here stop burying your head in statistics and enjoy living your life. I haven't had the inclination to gun down people on the street at least not today. Personally i have played video games all throughout my life. I am now 21, I am not obese, I don't not have any anger issues and not that too remotely an anti social person. I can not see how games would have a true link the "overt aggression, gun violence, and other forms of antisocial behaviour". I find that playing games are more of a stress reliever. I know others my age would definitely agree. Obesity is not an issue with kids playing video games. I would say its more of a link between the amount of phyical activity they get at school and what their parents feed them.

I play a lot, like a lot of video games, I watch horror and action films a lot. Listen to Marilyn Manson, Ramstein and such. And have done so since I was an embryo. Metaphorically speaking.  There are plenty of people out there that play violent video games like me but I never even imagine actually imitating the things in the games, or actually harming someone to play it. I couldn't hurt a fly. Unless that little fucker pulled a gun on me. It is awful how far some people will go. I think the video game situation is the same with music. Its just the psychological process of some individuals. These people were already dysfunctional and unstable, and the games were just the catalyst that nudged them over the edge. The stories about neglect, suicide and murder were particularly sad. I love playing games, but I have not become addicted, and fortunately refrained from becoming batshit insane. I think my personal record for playing a game without stopping to take a break was 8 hours. Sucks to see people become obsessed. They could not sleep at night for fear of losing their cities and armies, and it affected their work since they did not know what they would find when they got home and could log on again. They ended up suffering from depression, losing their jobs etc.

Video games aren't as bad as people like to make you think. But I'm a little on the fence about a couple things. For eyesight, I know video games will make people more attentive and start noticing their surroundings better, even anticipate movement. But I can also attest that long periods of video gaming will temporarily mess up 3D peripheral vision for an hour or two immediately afterwards(I get nervous driving when this happens because my eyes are partially stuck in 2D near sighted mode). I believe that games like MineCraft is great for kids, especially when they realize you can do more than dig and build a house, when they start to dabble in the game's redstone circuit features, then the brain really gets a workout. I also believe that games like Call of Duty makes you dumber. Heh, that is just my opinion. Different people have different feelings towards playing video games. People should have know how to separate fantasy from reality. Just because you had lost a battle, that doesn't mean you have lose the war. I mean, games supposed to bring you fun, treat like it. These are my rants. Peace out. Assalamualaikum.

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