Reply #24: Yes. [View All]

[gulliver]

I find the argument that simple graphical puzzles and the ability to navigate a user interface will make you smarter ridiculous. Video games are stunted, warped life. The body's whole range of motion is condensed to a few finger movements. Serious study of anything is not needed in video games, so it is not done.

Done to excess, most video games make you superficial, impatient, easily frustrated by reality, and emotionally dead to the feelings of others. They are just another drug, like TV. Only worse.

Some of the most chilling parts of F9/11 for me are the scenes where the soldiers talk about killing people like it was a video game. They piped music into their helmets...something like "Burn Motherf*ckers. Burn. Burn MotherF*ckers."