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Re: FPS players will one day rule the earth! by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/29/2003, 5:34pm PDT
laudablepuss wrote:

You too, Jonesy? What the hell is wrong with studying this stuff? It's not like a gigantic team of scientists with a grant of billions is frittering it away on GTA: Vice City. Who knows what useful information will be uncovered? And if no useful information comes of it, so what? I can garauntee that the military is interested (and probably doing their own unpublished studies) and that might mean MONEY IN THE BANK for the researchers.


If I were a student at the U of R, I guess I would be pissed off (presuming a part of my tuition went to fund the study). It just seems goofy, because I really can't see any benefits coming from the research -- computer games are so demonized in this country that even when an effective real-world benefit IS discovered (like apparently the peripheral vision thing) it's ultimately written off due to the perception that games are a waste of time, except for when you're shooting up your school, in which case they are the sole and only cause.

You make a good point regarding military operations. But I've never been anywhere near a combat situation, so I can't speak as to whether or not the awareness you evidently pick up playing shooters even compares in the slightest to spending a single night in the jungle next to Charlie.


Plus, in the article, everything that came out of the researchers' mouths seemed to have a "LOL!!!" coming on afterwards and that bugs the shit out of me.

Dr. Wolfe wrote:

"It might give every 14-year-old something to tell his parents," Dr. Wolfe said. " `Hey, don't make me study. Give me another grenade.' LOL!!"


Dr. Bavelier wrote:

"Please, keep doing your homework, kids," said Dr. Bavelier, who later added, 'LOL!!!'"


Dr. Fucking Fraud wrote:

"Learn about FDR, JFK and LBJ, kids, not the BFG, LOL!!!"




the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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        Hi! Have we met? NT by Satire 05/29/2003, 6:29pm PDT NEW
            No, but I believe I've met your cousin, Shitty Satire for Morons. NT by laudablepuss 05/29/2003, 6:58pm PDT NEW
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