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New study reveals dark side of children gaming!

yomjosekiyomjoseki Registered User new member
edited July 2007 in Games and Technology
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/02/health/webmd/main3009349.shtml

DEAR GOD! What will games do next?

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Video games: more fun than homework.

    More at 11.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    What.

    Why.

    Why are they stating the obvious.

    And why is it newsworthy.

    And why is it threadworthy.

    Why/

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    DEAR GOD CHILDREN WOULD RATHER HAVE FUN THEN DO HOMEWORK!!


    WHAT A SHOCKING DISCOVERY!!!!11111OEN!

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  • HtR-LaserHtR-Laser Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Breaking News: kids would like to do something fun rather than their homework.

    EDIT: beaten so hard.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    There's a reason my parents would only let me play video games on weekends.

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  • tarnoktarnok Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    EDIT: beaten so hard.

    Oddly enough, that's the solution to this little problem.

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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited July 2007
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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Up next:

    People prefer to sit rather than stand.

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  • DangerousDangerous Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    New study reveals mice like cheese.

    I take this as evidence that we need more edutainment games for today's youth. I'm still waiting on Halo: Algebra evolved, and Grand Trail Oregon: Old west stories.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    So there's a lot of blabbering going on, but I think people missed the actual point, which was not that children would prefer to play games than do homework, but that children who use their leisure time to play games are less likely to do their homework than those who don't. They're comparing the gamers and non-gamers. The non-gamers get their homework done, the gamers don't.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Homework: less fun than video games.

    More at 11.

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  • DangerousDangerous Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    It's still kind of a no-brainer. It's correlation, not cause. I prefer playing games because I have a short attention span. I also sucked at getting my homework done because of said attention span. Ergo, games made me retarded.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    So children like having fun more than doing homework, eh?

    Maybe that's why there's a lot of my homework I didn't do.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Dangerous wrote: »
    New study reveals mice like cheese.

    I take this as evidence that we need more edutainment games for today's youth. I'm still waiting on Halo: Algebra evolved, and Grand Trail Oregon: Old west stories.
    Actually mice do not like cheese.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Goomba wrote: »
    Dangerous wrote: »
    New study reveals mice like cheese.

    I take this as evidence that we need more edutainment games for today's youth. I'm still waiting on Halo: Algebra evolved, and Grand Trail Oregon: Old west stories.
    Actually mice do not like cheese.

    That's what they wants you to believe.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    BREAKTHROUGH STUDY REVEALS FIRE IS HOT

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Dangerous wrote: »
    I take this as evidence that we need more edutainment games for today's youth. I'm still waiting on Halo: Algebra evolved, and Grand Trail Oregon: Old west stories.

    Lets admit that if a Grant Trail Oregon game was ever made, most kids would just end up killing most of the people in the starting town, make the rest their slaves, and then go to Oregon with their loot. Hell, I would do that.

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  • EvangirEvangir Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    BREAKTHROUGH STUDY REVEALS FIRE IS HOT

    START THE COMMITTEE TO BAN FIRE!

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  • HtR-LaserHtR-Laser Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    These kids aren't even champs like I was back in elementary school. 58 minutes? I used to pound through Kirby's Adventure and Megaman 2 once a day, and that took a hell of a lot longer than 58 minutes. They're just not trying.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Evangir wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    BREAKTHROUGH STUDY REVEALS FIRE IS HOT

    START THE COMMITTEE TO BAN FIRE!

    FIRE BURNS MAN, TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR QUESTIONING
    Fire denies claims of assault

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    It's funny because they're saying that video games should be banned!

    Otherwise would just be acting like overly defensive jackasses.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Evangir wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    BREAKTHROUGH STUDY REVEALS FIRE IS HOT

    START THE COMMITTEE TO BAN FIRE!

    Petition started: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-fire

    Sign it!

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    You expect me to just believe that?

    We gotta go find some children.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    urahonky wrote: »
    Evangir wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    BREAKTHROUGH STUDY REVEALS FIRE IS HOT

    START THE COMMITTEE TO BAN FIRE!

    Petition started: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-fire

    Sign it!

    (rofl, great comments on it so far)

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  • mausmalonemausmalone Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

    Children who leave the house are exposed to orders of magnitude more UV solar rays which can cause skin cancer than kids who spend all day indoors! Won't somebody please think of the children?!

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

    Maybe in America, but not here in Denmark. 'Cuz I have a rock that keeps bears away.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Peewi wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

    Maybe in America, but not here in Denmark. 'Cuz I have a rock that keeps bears away.

    How I train in rock?!?!one!!

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  • FreddyDFreddyD Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    When I was in school we played educational games. Video games were my homework. I'd like to see them wrap their heads around that.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    urahonky wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

    Maybe in America, but not here in Denmark. 'Cuz I have a rock that keeps bears away.

    How I train in rock?!?!one!!

    Can't help you. I don't speak american. They only taught me english at school.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Peewi wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

    Maybe in America, but not here in Denmark. 'Cuz I have a rock that keeps bears away.

    How I train in rock?!?!one!!

    Can't help you. I don't speak american. They only taught me english at school.

    :cry:

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  • Johnny FabulousJohnny Fabulous burgin' Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "This game may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, and simulated fun."

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  • SavantSavant Simply Barbaric Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Adrien wrote: »
    Oh man, there's totally room here for a study on the effects of letting kids outside the house during the day. Who knows how to write a grant proposal?

    There is a 90% chance of children who play outside to get mauled by bears.

    There is nothing more frightening than a desert bear with cubs.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    This news story is kind of crap, therefore, this thread is kind of crap.


    Don't take it personally yomjoseki.

    (what the hell does your username mean btw)

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