Video Games are a big thing now and days, but are the people playing them the alone person who lives in their mom’s basement, who has no social life? Gamers are stereotyped as anti social people who live alone, smell, bad, and are the mole of society. But on the other hand in reality they can be social, have lives outside of the video game world, and more. We are here to learn is the stereotype true, or is it not?
Back in the day gamer’s were limited to inviting friends over and handing them a control to play a game, but in recent years that has changed. How, people might ask, the internet; From a article's author Leonard. Some of his child’s friend would gather online to build a world in minecraft to build a community. And play don’t starve …show more content…
This is evident by the fact some gamers today live more social lives than non gamers. Video games are popular enough to be consider a community or a large enough one, with worldwide tournaments for League of legends, CS:GO, Dota, Starcraft, and a few more. Gamers are tend to consider friends far more important than a non-gamer. And they tend to be way more optimistic about many things in life, not looking down on it and getting stressed about the thing.
”Gamers express more confidence about themselves and their prospects. Six in 10 (61%) agree that they are "a natural leader," compared to only 35% of non-gamers. They consider themselves more creative (65% vs. 43%) and are more upbeat about their careers — 67% are "very positive" or "positive," compared to 42% of …show more content…
Games such as Counter Strike and star wars: knights of the old republic which are rated mature by the ESRB make gamers for violent. “In the game Knights of the Old Republic, a classic Star Wars spin-off, gamers can select whether to act like the "good" Jedi or the "evil" Sith. Sitting at their console, it might be hard to believe that what they will do next might actually impact who others become in the real world. But it turns out the Dark Side is very real.
“ ( Flanagan, Jack. "Violent Video Games Promote Antisocial Behaviors." ) They say they tend to be less empathic, and violent. Also they tend to live poorly in romance relationships. Real question is is this true for non mature games, or all games?
Doctors studying the brain of the gamer says it messes with the person's brain waves. Scanning of the brain showed less activity in the part of the brain which controlled emotion, the people ages 18 to 29. "For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home.... These brain regions are important for controlling emotion and aggressive behavior." ( Shepherd, Rupert. "Violent Video Games Change Young Men's Brainwaves." ) Although it was also shown that this could also happen when the subject would watch violent movies as well, and that it is not permanent is a short term with the brain
Back in the day gamer’s were limited to inviting friends over and handing them a control to play a game, but in recent years that has changed. How, people might ask, the internet; From a article's author Leonard. Some of his child’s friend would gather online to build a world in minecraft to build a community. And play don’t starve …show more content…
This is evident by the fact some gamers today live more social lives than non gamers. Video games are popular enough to be consider a community or a large enough one, with worldwide tournaments for League of legends, CS:GO, Dota, Starcraft, and a few more. Gamers are tend to consider friends far more important than a non-gamer. And they tend to be way more optimistic about many things in life, not looking down on it and getting stressed about the thing.
”Gamers express more confidence about themselves and their prospects. Six in 10 (61%) agree that they are "a natural leader," compared to only 35% of non-gamers. They consider themselves more creative (65% vs. 43%) and are more upbeat about their careers — 67% are "very positive" or "positive," compared to 42% of …show more content…
Games such as Counter Strike and star wars: knights of the old republic which are rated mature by the ESRB make gamers for violent. “In the game Knights of the Old Republic, a classic Star Wars spin-off, gamers can select whether to act like the "good" Jedi or the "evil" Sith. Sitting at their console, it might be hard to believe that what they will do next might actually impact who others become in the real world. But it turns out the Dark Side is very real.
“ ( Flanagan, Jack. "Violent Video Games Promote Antisocial Behaviors." ) They say they tend to be less empathic, and violent. Also they tend to live poorly in romance relationships. Real question is is this true for non mature games, or all games?
Doctors studying the brain of the gamer says it messes with the person's brain waves. Scanning of the brain showed less activity in the part of the brain which controlled emotion, the people ages 18 to 29. "For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home.... These brain regions are important for controlling emotion and aggressive behavior." ( Shepherd, Rupert. "Violent Video Games Change Young Men's Brainwaves." ) Although it was also shown that this could also happen when the subject would watch violent movies as well, and that it is not permanent is a short term with the brain