Is is true that videogames are bad for your brain?

[Deleted member 132407]

Again, a super-minority. I would also question their parents as to why their kids have no common sense. Do we ban cinnamon due to the equally silly "cinnamon challenge?"

"Silly" is not the word, progressive parents literally permit the problem or boredom.

 

[Frickinfrik]

No, video games can actually enhance your brain. Hell, Brain Age has made people smarter.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

It kind of goes both ways, but that could be said for anything. We're quite a species

 

[Deleted member 132407]

No, video games can actually enhance your brain. Hell, Brain Age has made people smarter.

That I can agree on. If its becomes an addicting habit like playing the game on the toilet then there's a problem.

 

[RageBurner]

That I can agree on. If its becomes an addicting habit like playing the game on the toilet then there's a problem.

Well, some games are so bad that this would be an appropriate environment for them.

 

[Deleted member 132407]

Well, some games are so bad that this would be an appropriate environment for them.

Agreed

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

This was long disproven, same with the notion that video games make you go blind (at worse, they give you eye strain which is temporary)

Too much at once isn’t good for exercise and focusing on homework and whatnot and that’s the real worries. Also dismissiveness can happen the more invested you are in a game, but I’m willing to bet books and movies aren’t much different.

 

[Bonkers225]

No, but TikTok is for sure.

 

[RageBurner]

No, but TikTok is for sure.

Yes, and I'd extend this to social media in general.

 

[Questless Knight]

No but internet is. The more I hang on internet the more I feel my brain cells dying left and right. I mean it I can feel them dying all while Im becoming dumber and dumber seeing all the dumb shit people say and all these we must be mindful and kind crap they talk about all while killing each other in schools and over dirt and paper.


So short answer is no.

 

[RageBurner]

Well, humans can rot each other's brains whether they are sitting beside you or on a different continent. It's definitely necessary to have the ability to filter what (and who) matters.

 

[Deleted member 132407]

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

"Silly" is not the word, progressive parents literally permit the problem or boredom.

What do you mean by "Progressive parents"? If it is what I think it is then you deserve this:

 

[Deleted member 132407]

What do you mean by "Progressive parents"? If it is what I think it is then you deserve this:

Yes the type of parents that let their children do anything then later on in life bail them out of jail.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

They have Wii's in Senior Centers in America for a reason. Specifically the Wii actually has been found to help with Alzheimer's and Dementia onset in the elderly, because it gives them a way to activate their brain in a fun, exciting way.

Certain games that ask the most out of their players, like Ninja Gaiden or Dark Souls, increase hand eye coordination, and can help increase your reflexes.

There's even educational games, like Brain Age, that have actually helped people do better on tests and such, because they are learning topics like Math with muscle memory, which my 4th grade teacher actually had me doing at the time.

Most people who say this are people who lived through the scares that news outlets put the public through because Video Games were at the time a new and misunderstood thing, it's kinda like the 90's with the Satanic Panic, where parents thought almost everything, mostly Heavy Metal Music, would make their kids follow Satan, which was bull.

Don't worry too much about all these labels that gets put on everything. Just enjoy what you enjoy and don't let naysayers ruin your mood.

 

[otogirisou]

Is it true?

yes

 

[soulsas]

Amen to that! Better to mess things up by opening up the field of imagination in an undeniable form of art than to live all 'morally correct,' hating people, full of prejudice, and closed off to the world. Yeah, mess it up! Worse than that is only gaming forums on the internet lol.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Yes the type of parents that let their children do anything then later on in life bail them out of jail.

Did you mean permissive parents? Cause progressive has nothing to do with that.

 

[Deleted member 132407]

@RageBurner @ciro64
Will one of you hit the big red button & close this thread please. Thanks in advance.

 

[RageBurner]

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