begin quoting Todd Walton as of Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:49:50AM -0600: > On 2/20/07, Rick Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >No. I do not have the expertise to argue it one way or the other. As a > >citizen with a few years of life experience I suspect that viewed within > >a vacuum there is no evidence of video games fomenting violent behavior. > > Personal story: I used to play Raiden D/X all the time out at > Grossmont College. It's a scroll up airplane shooter type arcade > game. Takes a lot of split second reacting and makes my already RSI'd > hands hurt. I started to notice after a while that when I played this > game and then took the commute back home to Serra Mesa, I'd drive > worse than if I hadn't been playing Raiden. I'd get itchy and keep > lane changing. San Diego traffic does that to me anyway, but it was > definitely worse after playing Raiden. > > So, I don't know about violence, but I know that video games can make > a person jittery.
There are a number of "studies" that "show" that video games have a beneficial effect, so there's an argument that there's *some* effect. Obviously, we need a more scientific approach. We need to start cloning children, and then raising them in a variety of environments. Then we'll finally have some hard data on the subject. -- Why are you-all muttering about ethics committees? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
