phosphor112
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Well... yes
Touche.
I'm keeping that picture of Reggie in the quote because it's great.
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CNN: How video games and porn are ruining a generation
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Touche.
I'm keeping that picture of Reggie in the quote because it's great.
linko9
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Tony Hawk games, and I think Kirby, if I'm remembering correctly. Of course, you can also use the analog stick if you want, but that's for chumps.
The tetris games. And the wrestling games.
Stabby McSter
Member
Well I'm sick. What else is there to do besides video games and porn?
A Twisty Fluken
Member
Killer instinct gold too.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
You know what else is ruining today's generation?
The shitty American 24 hour media/news system.
The shitty American 24 hour media/news system.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Everything in moderation. 16 hours a day is WAY TOO fucking much except for the occasional binge. And yes, I've binged on a new game. But it's not the norm. The norm is wake up, shower, go to work, realize I'm nude, go home, put on clothes, go back to work, work, go home, shower, relax with the shorty, get -maybe- an hour or two of gaming in that night and go to be.
Weekend it varies depending on what I'm doing. But 16 hours is only reserved for vacations where I'm just staying home and vegging.
Weekend it varies depending on what I'm doing. But 16 hours is only reserved for vacations where I'm just staying home and vegging.
phosphor112
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Lmao.
Be careful, it's a slippery slope to becoming a mass murderer from that point.
stuminus3
Member
There's a very good point to be made here but they fail because a) the "ruining a generation" thing is absurd hyperbole and b) the Breivik stuff. Then I decided it was yet another piece of sensationalist bullshit that does nothing to help people like me who know there's an issue but have nowhere to go to get help with it. They're only making things worse.
phosphor112
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He's turning into a BDSM fiend.
Foliorum Viridum
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He's an old, stuffy cunt. Not surprising.
I shit you not, I really would have.
The problem is the feedback loop games and porn provide. But TV, especially cable news, is also going in a similar direction with "News Alerts", "Check in with Twitter", "iReport", "Live Polls" etc.
IdreamofHIME
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N64 made me the sociopath that I am today
I think games and porn differ from TV, movies and music because they are both active tasks. i.e. in both situations you are tasked with repeated stimulation of a joystick.
Girls are wonderful and perfect and pure, guys are the source of all society's woes.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Everything in moderation. Doing ANYTHING for 16 hours a day, every day, is bad. Even work. I've seen marriages fail from the following:
-Infidelity
-Wife wanted hubby to stop gaming even though he was very moderate
-Hubby left wife to marry woman he met in EQ
-Wife cheated on hubby with dude from WoW
-Hubby had a HUGE pron addiction that got him fired and arrested
-Wife worked 16+ hours every day
It's all about moderation.
Messofanego
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Sho_Nuff82
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Women? On the internet? Now that's a liberal fantasy if I ever saw one.
Karsticles
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I read that article as saying:
"Men prefer videogames because real life is much less interesting."
Sounds about right to me. Also, N64 controllers.
Much respect to Zimbardo, but he still has a challenge ahead of him: why are videogames and porn only ruining young men?
"Men prefer videogames because real life is much less interesting."
Sounds about right to me. Also, N64 controllers.
Much respect to Zimbardo, but he still has a challenge ahead of him: why are videogames and porn only ruining young men?
phosphor112
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No, they don't. Not at all...
They don't fart either.
Dear God. :lol
Clearly, we need Tom Cruise for this...
Is he about to do the vagina licking motion ?
Some doors to hell you just don't open Anth0ny.
The Bioware Social Forums have ruined a generation
Sye d'Burns
Member
tv - porn
film - porn
music - porn... music
It all leads to
"And the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage."
bow chicka wow wow
I kid
better get rid of all that porn I have then. No use in keeping it if I'm never gonna watch it.
I could see that porn gives men, and young men, an unreasonable idea of what women should look like... it's probably part of the reason we see girls dressing sluttier and sluttier, younger and younger.
As for video games, games don't make you violent, games don't make you stupid. Some games teach you/make you think more than others do, but nevertheless gaming has little to do with anything but unfinished homework.
As for video games, games don't make you violent, games don't make you stupid. Some games teach you/make you think more than others do, but nevertheless gaming has little to do with anything but unfinished homework.
Haven't read the article yet, but isn't Zimbardo the guy that more or less forced increased scrutiny in ethical oversight of U.S. psych studies due to his prisoner experiment in the 70s, in which he became the defacto "warden" in a prison scenario of his own creation?! How is this guy still respected?
*goes to wikipedia*
Why, yes it is the same Zimbardo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbardo_prison_study
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
*goes to wikipedia*
Why, yes it is the same Zimbardo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbardo_prison_study
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
phosphor112
Banned
You don't fart either.
By the way, that's sexy.
Not talking about the farting thing lmao, but the porn thing. More girls should do it. =[
AkimbO_Arcana
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Enough video games for today. So what now....................................
*grabs laptop*
Sye d'Burns
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and MSNBC is proof of said destruction
Seraphinianus
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flyinpiranha
Member
Mainstream media and agendas has ruined people's perception more than any single game or XXX movie could.
ViperVisor
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I don't know about actual brain and psychology stuff but I am pretty sure the post Millennial gens are ruined in different way.
They are not going to be as well rounded. Though the 80s and 90s you had no to little internet or media that allowed self imposed bottlenecks. That was a natural phenomenon before. Your fate was a roll of the dice.
I don't see the issue with porn today cause that is a shallow agreement. You want to get off and many many many available direct paths to that seems helpful to me. That impulse is taken care of and you proceed.
Gaming is more mentally engaging and the lack of being forced to deal with some bumps in the road as a kid is troubling.
They are not going to be as well rounded. Though the 80s and 90s you had no to little internet or media that allowed self imposed bottlenecks. That was a natural phenomenon before. Your fate was a roll of the dice.
I don't see the issue with porn today cause that is a shallow agreement. You want to get off and many many many available direct paths to that seems helpful to me. That impulse is taken care of and you proceed.
Gaming is more mentally engaging and the lack of being forced to deal with some bumps in the road as a kid is troubling.