'video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent'

ZaphodZaphod Join Date: 2003-12-30 Member: 24882Members
<div class="IPBDescription">With a gun in one hand wearing a moomoo</div> More anti-gaming reports:

<a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040301/hl_nm/leisure_games_dc' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...eisure_games_dc</a>


I'd go kick their arses if I could manage to get out of my computer chair... <jk> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->


This in the heels of an earlier report saying that gamers are sociable and fit. Horray for the media...
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  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    Bah, its only the Swedes, they just want attention anyway...
  • Soylent_greenSoylent_green Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11220Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Bah, its only the Swedes, they just want attention anyway... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    No we don't... (oops <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
  • Phoenix_SixPhoenix_Six Join Date: 2003-11-10 Member: 22442Members
    The games industry is starting to become such a huge economic force that I wonder, even if the report was true, that we wouldn't just accept the costs in obesity and increased crime as price paid for the economic spinoffs?
    The same is done with many other products. (cigarettes, alcohol, among others.)
    I'm sure the government can think up a nice nifty "Games Tax" if they put their minds to it.
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Phoenix Six+Mar 1 2004, 07:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Phoenix Six @ Mar 1 2004, 07:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm sure the government can think up a nice nifty "Games Tax" if they put their minds to it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    SHHH!! Quiet, they will hear you!
  • dr_ddr_d Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14979Members
    edited March 2004
    Actually I think at this point corporations are more worried about losing TV ratings to video games because it is a lot harder to run endless amounts of comercials on your copy of FF-X or Halo.


    PS once video games start to have comercials I am moving....




    ....to the moon.


    On a horrible side note I have actually heard attempts to implement comercials into MMORPGs such as EverQuest

    *Entering Loading Zone*

    Enjoy Pepsi

    /me pukes.



    Here's a horrible social experiment, ok everyone

    A.) Name 10 US presidents

    B.) Name 10 junk food products.
  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    And now, it is time to fight me! The big bad end boss! RAWR! But first, a word from my sponsor...
  • dr_ddr_d Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14979Members
    "It's Time to choose Mr. Freeman..."

    "Yes...time to choose....."

    "Coke or Pepsi Mr. Freeman."

    Freeman choices the Pepsi which comes bundled with a machine gun

    The coke came with a clownsuit.

    Weah that was close.
  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    edited March 2004
    Food causes heart disease and oxygen causes hyperventilation! Ban them ban them!

    Video games have become a bad parent's scapegoat (the new tv, now that most of us have caught on to that doozey), and the media and political organizations exploit this to make them look like they're out to help people or something.

    I'm gonna go win a Nobel prize and proudly exclaim during the award ceremony, "I play video games! Eat that media!"

    edit: extra but somewhat important letter
  • Har_Har_the_PirateHar_Har_the_Pirate Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19388Members, Constellation
    hey i have to do an essay argueing for something i disagree with
    this will work perfect
    <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-dr.d+Mar 1 2004, 07:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ Mar 1 2004, 07:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->

    Here's a horrible social experiment, ok everyone

    A.) Name 10 US presidents

    B.) Name 10 junk food products. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I could do that, just not going to do it now because people would think I was cheating!

    I still blame the swedes, nobody could be that nuetral and have a report like that....
  • ZiGGYZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
    theres no actual scientific study done according to that report, you wouldnt have much to argue about.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    They wanna argue it makes us fat? Makes us violent? Ha.

    First off, I've been raised in a home that is pro-death penalty, and believes heartily in the "Eye for a Eye" rule.

    I personally am considered "Overweight", but thats mostly due to a HUGE amount of muscle on my arms, legs, and chest(I will admit, I've got a gut[not a beer gut], but Video Games aren't making kids fat). I can probably bench 3 of whoever wrote that damned thing.

    And when it comes to violence, I believe in the death penalty, but I fight against pointless violence, and idiocy. This is a example of idiocy, just not my kind.

    Friggin idiots.
  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Zaphod+Mar 1 2004, 07:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zaphod @ Mar 1 2004, 07:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> More anti-gaming reports:

    <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040301/hl_nm/leisure_games_dc' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...eisure_games_dc</a>


    I'd go kick their arses if I could manage to get out of my computer chair... <jk> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->


    This in the heels of an earlier report saying that gamers are sociable and fit. Horray for the media... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    heh speak for yourself.

    Its a good thing my computer chair has wheels b/c Im so fat I think my body has grafted itself into the chair.

    Im like a chair cyborg... *heavy breathing *gasp

    phew all this typing (physical exertion) is making me dizzy. I better go wheel myself over to the nearest window, eat a snickers bar and shoot someone.
  • The_FinchThe_Finch Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8498Members
    10 U.S. Presidents:

    Benjamin Harrison
    Grover Cleveland
    William Taft
    John Quincy Adams
    Harry Truman
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Woodrow Wilson
    Rutherford B. Hayes
    James K. Polk
    Andrew Jackson


    It's a shame no politician will speak up in defense of games. But, you don't get elected by telling 30 million soccer moms that they're mediocre parents.
  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    I wonder if these people ever think, "Hmm, maybe little Timmy didn't bring an automatic rifle to school because he played Half-Life, maybe its because he's a freaking moron and his parents probably are too..."



    Guns don't kill people, being a complete and utter fool kills people (that, and small pieces of metal moving very, very fast).
  • ZaphodZaphod Join Date: 2003-12-30 Member: 24882Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I still blame the swedes, nobody could be that nuetral and have a report like that.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    You're confusing the Swiss w/ the Swedes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Zaphod+Mar 1 2004, 10:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zaphod @ Mar 1 2004, 10:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I still blame the swedes, nobody could be that nuetral and have a report like that.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    You're confusing the Swiss w/ the Swedes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I am, darn.... my bad

    *shoots self*
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Actually, there is a GROUP of politicians defending games. The NIRA or something like that. All I know is, is that they've made games legal where they were made illegal over 3000 times all over america for the past 7 years.

    I <3 Doug Lombardi(the guy who runs it and owns it)
  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    We <i>all</i> love Doug Lombardi...
  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Here's a horrible social experiment, ok everyone

    A.) Name 10 US presidents

    B.) Name 10 junk food products. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I'll name all 43 (I promise I'm not using any help at all)

    George Washington
    John Adams
    Thomas Jefferson
    James Madison
    James Monroe
    John Q. Adams
    Andrew Jackson
    Martin Van Buren
    William Harrison
    John Tyler
    James K Polk
    Zachary Taylor
    Millard Fillmore
    Franklin Pierce
    James Buchanan
    Abraham Lincoln
    Andrew Johnson
    Ulysses S Grant
    Rutherford B Hayes
    James Garfield
    Chester A Arthur
    Grover Cleveland
    Benjamin Harrison
    Grover Cleveland
    William McKinley
    Theodore Roosevelt
    William H. Taft
    Woodrow Wilson
    William Harding
    Calvin Coolidge
    Herbert C Hoover
    Franklin D Roosevelt
    Harry S. Truman
    Dwight D Eisenhower
    John F. Kennedy
    Lyndon B Johnson
    Richard Nixon
    Gerald R. Ford
    Jimmy Carter
    Ronald Reagan
    George H. W. Bush Sr.
    Bill Clinton
    George W. Bush Jr.

    Ta da !

    Now for the Junk foods.

    Cheetos.
    Doritos.
    Pringles
    Ruffles
    Lays
    Hostess thingys
    Uh...
    Snickers
    Milky Way
    Butterfinger
    Twix
    M&Ms
    Baby Ruth
    Twizzlers

    That's all that I can think of right now.
  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I proved to my english teacher that games are good for you, i knew what a tycoon was (thanks Railroad Tycoon) and that was a question.
  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cpl.Davis+Mar 2 2004, 12:35 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cpl.Davis @ Mar 2 2004, 12:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> phew all this typing (physical exertion) is making me dizzy. I better go wheel myself over to the nearest window, eat a snickers bar and shoot someone. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hohohohohoho.

    Doug Lombardi works at valve too. I think that's a wee bit sus.

    --Scythe--
  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    the powers of punctuation <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent, Swedish, Experts Say
  • ZiGGYZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Burr+Mar 2 2004, 04:01 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Burr @ Mar 2 2004, 04:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Zaphod+Mar 1 2004, 10:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zaphod @ Mar 1 2004, 10:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I still blame the swedes, nobody could be that nuetral and have a report like that.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    You're confusing the Swiss w/ the Swedes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I am, darn.... my bad

    *shoots self* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    lol thats what you get for posting in the earlier hours of teh mornin!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I COULD be getting the name wrong...I forgot. I'll have to check again.
  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Black Mage+Mar 2 2004, 07:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Black Mage @ Mar 2 2004, 07:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> the powers of punctuation <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent, Swedish, Experts Say <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Video Games Make Kids, Fat Violent Swedish Experts Say
  • P-KhanP-Khan Join Date: 2003-05-27 Member: 16776Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behavior," said Frank Lindblad, a child psychiatrist at Sweden's Karolinska Institute university hospital. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Right.... then almost every kid in the world will become a serial killer. Suuure.


    Funny thing is, I just did a presentation on video games during my portuguese class. Took me two whole periods to present it and answer questions. But it was good.... I actually managed to convince my teacher and a girl from the class that video games are actually good for you!! Bombarded them with good info on games, but to be fair, I had to include some bad stuff. However, I had another 2 people there who are like me, and they helped also by including constructive commentaries.

    One example (which is true, since I know these people):
    I knew some kids who were video game addicts. They used to play it everyday. They then began to play Tony Hawk. Finding that game fun, they began to wonder how it would be to actually skateboard like the people in the game, and they went out and liked the sport. In simple words, video game made them go out and <i>practice </i>sports! Now, how would that make them fat?!

    Something else which people complain about is that games actually make kids stupid. Ha! That's ridiculous. I love games, and I'm the best male student in my class, being that the top 3 best male students are all video game fans, like me!
  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    edited March 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-dr.d+Mar 1 2004, 07:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ Mar 1 2004, 07:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    A.) Name 10 US presidents

    B.) Name 10 junk food products. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    A:) George Washington
    Abraham Lincoln
    FDR
    Tenny Roosevelt
    James Madison
    James Monroe
    John Adams
    JQ Adams
    Woodrow Wilson
    James K. (Legolas) Polk
    Kennedy
    Ford
    Hoover
    Coolidge
    ....Yeah....

    Maybe I should have read all the posts first, Sirus kind of humiliated me there <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Ehh, I'll get them later when I study for the college boards.

    Don't pay heed to the anti-gamer hype. Just work to change the steriotype.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited March 2004
    We ARE the exception of the steriotype. Most of us, at least.

    One thing I'd like to say, because it fits here:
    "Dude, I made 16,000 on Final Fantasy XI last night, I couldn't believe it."
    "Is that all you guys do every night? Just play video games."
    "Yeah, why?"
    "You need to get a life."
    "Well, what do you do every night?"
    "Well...I usually watch TV"
    "..."
    "What?"

    This just shows how STUPID people are now. I mean, at least ours improves reflexes and requires thinking.
  • TransmissionTransmission Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14456Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Quaunaut+Mar 3 2004, 12:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quaunaut @ Mar 3 2004, 12:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> at least ours improves reflexes and requires thinking. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Television can be intelligent as well, not all of it is the latest reality show. Programs can make you think.

    Some video games also require thinking, but fragging in a deathmatch isn't much higher over watching the Bachelor.

    Also, I doubt playing video games improves anyone's reflexes enough to be called an advantage.


    Stereotypes are bad.
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