Gaming - For Stupid Nonintellectuals Who Can't Appreciate Thinking?

Who gives a flying **** what you teachers say! You can do what you wanna do! they're juss jealous... BubbaCheese

gamers on average are smarter than non-gamers.  that is what i have experienced.skyyfox1

Discover magazine had an interesting article I read a couple years ago. The article basically was an in-depth analysis of how video games affected a random sample of people. The end results were basically this: the games made these people overall smarter. I can't remember everything about the article but they tested things like problem solving, critical analysis, reaction time, hand-eye coordination and much more. Not to mention it kept a few "bad kids" off the streets, and kept them away from bad influences. It also debunked the rumour of video games causing violence.

If you are having a hard time with your parents and school figures over video games, I suggest you try and find this article to "educate" your parents and these so-called teachers.

PM me if you really want help in finding this article.

Sorry after this bragging paragraph i lost interest in your topic

Well, currently at my school, I stand a great chance of becoming Valedictorian. I'm smart, I do my work, I learn music and can play multiple instruments, etc. I also work out and am overall rather well. However, because of my skills in school, my parents have began working with my school counselors on how to make it easier for me to enroll into MIT, CalTech, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford, etc. The main thing they complain about? My enjoyment of video games.

I'd bet my car that these drones sit and zone out in front of the TV almost if not every night. Being a snob, is a stupid nonintellectual who must denigrate others in order to cover-up their own self doubts.roulettethedog

The simpliest form way of looking at this is that its a form of entertainment, which has advantages and and disadvantages like everything else. And if you put it crudely at least its non-violent effect on the real world (roughly) if you compared it to a sport like hunting. Also, if you look at some games, they aren't all non intellectual. Look at the myst games for example, which are all puzzle based, and good for stretching the brain. And if you look at something like Bioshock, that has some moral issues in it that the player has to face. Also, if you look at Psychonauts, then that has some pretty interesting concepts about how the brain works even if it is in a cartoon game like format (for example having a dual personality and having one personality over-ride the other). As long as its kept in balance, I don't see why anyone shouldn't be able to play computer games.

Edit: I forgot to mention Planescape Torment as well, which is where my Avatar is from, which has some pretty deep questions about life and death in it.

gamers on average are smarter than non-gamers. that is what i have experienced.skyyfox1

Sorry after this bragging paragraph i lost interest in your topic

Well, currently at my school, I stand a great chance of becoming Valedictorian. I'm smart, I do my work, I learn music and can play multiple instruments, etc. I also work out and am overall rather well. However, because of my skills in school, my parents have began working with my school counselors on how to make it easier for me to enroll into MIT, CalTech, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford, etc. The main thing they complain about? My enjoyment of video games.wurn

Wow, I cant believe theyre targeting your hobby.  I mean, all work and no play, you know?  You gotta have some form of an outlet.  I mean, if you give up games and you go to one of those schools, all youre gonna be doing is studying studying working working for the next 4+ years.  And after that, guess what!??! YOU GET  A JOB AND HAVE TO WORK MORE!

People need an outlet, especially people with lots of pressure on them (i.e. prospective and current college students), and video games and sports are an ideal place to channel your frustration, anger, happiness, and creativity.

successful people usually don't play games. they work their asses off 24/7kpsting

oh boy, I am feeling a sense of philosophical wonder coming over me.....

ahhh, my child.  What is success?  Is it monetary, or is it how much you have accomplished, how many people know your name, or is it sheer happiness?

What makes a doctor, you is alone and depresses, more successful than a cook, who works 10 hours a day but at the end of the shift comes home to a family?  Is it bringing culinary joy to thousands of people, or saving that little boy's kidneys?

my parents dont really care, so long as it doesnt totally affect our 'family life'

yeah, they're kinda weird ya know?

but i am not allowed to play the GTA series, but i do because i am alone by myself a lot. but i dunno

sure it kinda sucks to be in that situation

Sorry after this bragging paragraph i lost interest in your topic

Well, currently at my school, I stand a great chance of becoming Valedictorian. I'm smart, I do my work, I learn music and can play multiple instruments, etc. I also work out and am overall rather well. However, because of my skills in school, my parents have began working with my school counselors on how to make it easier for me to enroll into MIT, CalTech, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford, etc. The main thing they complain about? My enjoyment of video games.wurn

lol same for me, painful.  There is another thread concerning this very topic which does not kick off with the bragging.  You should be able to find it on page 1 as it is getting a lot of hits.  Some interesting discussion there, check it out.

To the original poster:
Play this song on your favourite instrument to your parents, maybe they will get it then.johnny977

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

Cool song, I think that part has my favorite lyrics.

i only read about 1/3 of the TC post and all i can say is this.

if you want to use your supposed talent to make military weapons then yes, you are stupid, nonintellegent, and apparently have skewed morals. (by my moral compass atleast)

the military has ALL diffrent kinds of ways to kill another human.  porably lotsa ways we don't/can't even imagine.  if your as gifted as you say you are why not put your efforts into the betterment off mankind?  not its subversion?  and no, the military of the past 100 years has in no way, shape, or form helped to better mankind.

to paraphrase another..."If the military can shoot a missle 1,000 miles and hit a mailbox can't is use that same tech to launch food to starving people?"

wow man, you must be gifted to be able to do all that as you said up there.
I play single instrument (cello) have 4.0 GPA, and play no sports :D
I dont plan to go to colleges like HARVARD or STANFORD like you might, but education still is important to me.
regardless, I play. and face consequences for that afterwards...
haha, thats some life you have there though
have fun leading it... to a right path.
horadriclucifer

i only read about 1/3 of the TC post and all i can say is this.

if you want to use your supposed talent to make military weapons then yes, you are stupid, nonintellegent, and apparently have skewed morals. (by my moral compass atleast)

the military has ALL diffrent kinds of ways to kill another human.  porably lotsa ways we don't/can't even imagine.  if your as gifted as you say you are why not put your efforts into the betterment off mankind?  not its subversion?  and no, the military of the past 100 years has in no way, shape, or form helped to better mankind.

to paraphrase another..."If the military can shoot a missle 1,000 miles and hit a mailbox can't is use that same tech to launch food to starving people?"

broqz

*sniff sniff* I smell hippy.

Some of the smartest men have had their greatest acheivements associated with the military.  Flight, jet propulsion, chemistry (gunpowder, for example), plastics, nuclear science (atomic bomb, for example).

So saying that using your talent to develop weapons is stupid, well, is stupid.  If anything, the military is the one area of our government that deserves our unconditional respect.  Theyre out there, killing and dying for us.  And if someone can develop a better bullet, a better bomb, a better something, that will help my friends in Iraq kill their enemies faster and more safely, then that is fine with me, and that is morally right.

In short, stop being an idealist.  Wars are a necessary evil, and geniuses often contribute the most acheivements to the military...not idiots.  We tried to stop Hitler by non-military means...it was called appeasement.  Did it accomplish anything?  Nope, he kept taking country after country, and killing Jew after Jew.  But what did accomplish something?  War.  And mankind is definately better off without Hitler so I think thats one such justification of war.

As for the food being launched or whatever...that just doesnt work.  I worked at soup kitchens throughout high school, and I always saw the same people in there.  Nobody ever bettered themselves.  So, my question is this: are we supposed to just give out stuff for all eternity, just because someone needs it?  How are we helping people by actively encouraging them to not better themselves?  I would sooner kick a bum in the ass and tell him to get a job than give him a handout.  That may sound cruel, but someday he is gonna get that one kick in the ass that makes him question his current predicament.

Sorry for the tangent, but what you said was extremely insulting both to the military and anyone who has contributed to the military.