Video-Game Killing Builds Visual Skills, Researchers Report.

In this article, it would appear that all those hours of playing Unreal Tournament or your FPS of choice have paid off. Have you felt any more aware since you spent hours a day playing these types of games?

Paid off in one respect, taken away much much more in every other. :smiley:

Can’t focus… vision stuck at 1 foot depth perception…

As we speak I am e-mailing that Article to my mother. For years (well 2 really) she told me that my dedication to Unreall was unheathty and way to violent. I need to play that somemore, i feel my visual thing-a-jig slipping

::Runs off tosounds of “Die bitch” and explostions::

Maybe we should start having kids play Doom and Half-Life in school? :slight_smile:

What? You can’t be serious, Gassendi. Imagine the horrors: all those kids being dragged to the computer screen, screaming that they want to play baseball and read the Bible and recite poetry instead of committing random acts of violence with BGF’s on collections of pixels and vertices. :wink:

I cut that article out and put it up on our fridge at home. I agree–for me, it has done plenty for my reaction time and hand-eye coordination and stuff.