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| Video Games Make You Smarter | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 20 2014, 12:35:11 PM (234 Views) | |
| pokeplayer984 | Jan 20 2014, 12:35:11 PM Post #1 |
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Yes, that's a new Pokemon!
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Check out this video. Here's something we can throw at all those anti-gamers out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOsqkQytHOs Yeah for video games!
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| rhombus | Feb 14 2014, 12:24:05 AM Post #2 |
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The Friendly Parallelogram
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That was an interesting video. I will have to read the cited studies later in order to assess the full implications of their findings. I can kind of relate to this video due to some of the events that I went through during my early childhood years. During those years I had noticeable delays in certain developmental milestones due to being born over two months premature and being on the autism spectrum. When I was a small child a pediatrician actually recommended that my parents encourage me to play video games like Super Mario Brothers in order to improve my hand-eye coordination, which was much poorer than what it should have been at that stage of development. During my next several appointment my test results had improved markedly. |
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| LettuceBacon&Tomato | Feb 14 2014, 02:10:33 AM Post #3 |
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Rations
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I've been recently hired as a tax preparer/office tech support/business-to-business marketer despite being completely untrained or qualified in any of these fields. I believe that video games played a huge role in how I learned to see the world. In particular, the Adventure games I used to play that relied almost entirely on puzzles involving using objects in unusual ways, it really helped me develop a sense of creativity. I'm constantly solving problems at work by using the tools at hand in unusual or unorthodox ways (those hypochondriac printers!), and I know that those old adventure games were some of the first experiences I had with that form of problem-solving. In addition, my skill as a tax preparer can almost entirely be attributed to my hours of meticulously learning every single numerical aspect of Team Fortress 2 so I could optimize my loadout and performance for competitive play. It taught me how to see the rules from multiple points of view and understand that you can't beat a system without learning it inside and out. |
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| Kor | Feb 14 2014, 09:31:21 PM Post #4 |
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I guess playing video games can be good for various helping with various things. |
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| Deatharte | Feb 16 2014, 12:45:54 AM Post #5 |
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Well, this is a good thing to keep tucked away. Just as long as nobody learns to drive from video games, it's all good. |
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| Kor | Feb 16 2014, 01:54:26 AM Post #6 |
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Unless it is done as a very realistic car simulator, which would take up quite a bit of room. |
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