Video gaming and the lack of social interaction...

How would you combat the generic "video games are bad" no matter if you play them 30 minutes an hour or more argument in a day or week or whatever? We live in a nation that seems to be a prevailing health conscious nation and some feel that ever since video games became a public action, it has fattened or help fatten America. Another addition to this is the "lack of social interaction with people", that being face to face is something that needs to be done and taking away an hour a day or whatever of this interaction is bad, being that a board game is better then a video game.

Your thoughts?

Video games havent fattened America any more than McDonalds and Burger King with their "would you like to super size that?" meals that have enough calories for an entire day's intake. Also Soda machines in schools and the fact that families dont get out and enjoy the outside together anymore because both parents have to work to make ends meet and they just dont have the time to spend with the kids they once did.

People are alot lazier these days due to technology. From remote controlled ceiling fans to garage door openers, people can basically control everything while sitting on their ass.

Cant wait till technology progress's even further, cause damn, i one lazeh muda fucka.
Also humans cannot evolve any further without the assistance of technology rar rar rar.

Id blame television for "fattening idiots up" and "reducing social interaction" far more than i would video games. Not to mention that tv had what, a century head start?

Pernicious wrote:Cant wait till technology progress's even further, cause damn, i one lazeh muda fucka.
Also humans cannot evolve any further without the assistance of technology rar rar rar.

WALL-E?

If you are lazy enough as to not do a single sport activity in your freaking week i don't see why blaming videogames.
You can play lots of hours a day while only doing an hour of exercise 5 times a week and you will probably be in decently good health conditions.
Besides, I don't see why social interaction MUST be face to face.
I have managed to make lots of good friends online, lol'd with them, trust in them, etc, same as I would do with any other person IRL.
Like for example, I played tf2 for about 8 months, did some great friends, and now when I moved to study to the capital of my country, we did a tf2 meeting, got to know each other in person and I still hang out with some of them on the weekends.
Besides, many researchs have shown several gaming benefits :>

0nti wrote:did some great friends

you dirty bastard

0nti wrote: You can play lots of hours a day while only doing an hour of exercise 5 times a week and you will probably be in decently good health conditions.

But people are sitting down, and eating chips, burgers, etc. This could be an ok thing to do if dietary regulations were followed.

BlackRaven wrote:

0nti wrote:did some great friends

you dirty bastard

uhmm, I'm not sure if you get what you mean.
If I'm not mistaken, you "make" friends instead of "doing" them right? Do would have a sexual connotation. If so, damn, didn't realize that before posting, remember I still learn English day by day, I may make some mistakes here and there =(

badinfluence wrote:

0nti wrote: You can play lots of hours a day while only doing an hour of exercise 5 times a week and you will probably be in decently good health conditions.

But people are sitting down, and eating chips, burgers, etc. This could be an ok thing to do if dietary regulations were followed.

Yup that's true, but then again, that's a social problem that has to do with food and not videogames =$

DEATH-ANGEL wrote:How would you combat the generic "video games are bad" no matter if you play them 30 minutes an hour or more argument in a day or week or whatever? We live in a nation that seems to be a prevailing health conscious nation and some feel that ever since video games became a public action, it has fattened or help fatten America. Another addition to this is the "lack of social interaction with people", that being face to face is something that needs to be done and taking away an hour a day or whatever of this interaction is bad, being that a board game is better then a video game.

Your thoughts?

To combat it, name any hobby you can think of that is not considered physical activity. Reading for one lol.
But another thing i wonder about, is how they come up with these stats I know I have been considered 'fat' simply because of my height to weight. These stats don't considered my fat percentage which is 10-14%. Every NFL player would be considered morbidly obese or any other professional athlete.

lol according to this thing I am 'obese' 6'1 - 230lbs
http://www.laparoscopy.com/pleatman/am- ... -obese.htm
But these charts are severely failed as they do not consider muscle weight what so ever.
For the winter I work out 5 times a week of very intense work outs. Only way I am gonna be 'healthy' according to this chart is by starving myself. Only people that will be considered healthy on these charts are athletes that actively cut weight or people that are very skinny with no muscle mass.

ninojman wrote:

DEATH-ANGEL wrote:How would you combat the generic "video games are bad" no matter if you play them 30 minutes an hour or more argument in a day or week or whatever? We live in a nation that seems to be a prevailing health conscious nation and some feel that ever since video games became a public action, it has fattened or help fatten America. Another addition to this is the "lack of social interaction with people", that being face to face is something that needs to be done and taking away an hour a day or whatever of this interaction is bad, being that a board game is better then a video game.

Your thoughts?

To combat it, name any hobby you can think of that is not considered physical activity. Reading for one lol.
But another thing i wonder about, is how they come up with these stats I know I have been considered 'fat' simply because of my height to weight. These stats don't considered my fat percentage which is 10-14%. Every NFL player would be considered morbidly obese or any other professional athlete.

For athletes, they do that test that grabs your skin. They don't just do that math.

Watch Idiocracy. That is where mankind is headed. At least we won't sound all faggy and tarded.

The Argumentalizer wrote:Watch Idiocracy. That is where mankind is headed. At least we won't sound all faggy and tarded.

Do not watch that movie, holy crap that is the worst movie of all time.

badinfluence wrote:For athletes, they do that test that grabs your skin. They don't just do that math.

That is why I know my fat %, but as this says

. Today 97 million Americans, more than one-third of the adult population, are overweight or obese. An estimated 5 to 10 million
of those are considered morbidly obese.

I am sure that I and all of the NFL, NBA, MLB are all part of that 97 million number. Since no one has come to test my Fat % but they could find my weight and height.

It's all about wii fit, best of both worlds!

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herbalizer wrote:It's all about wii fit, best of both worlds!

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Nutri-Grain wrote:I'm 6 feet tall, lots of muscle, 5 percent body fat, and i weigh 145 pounds. lolololololol.

Video games allow me to eat my daily intake of junk food But they don't make me fat.

asl?

someone who's 6 feet tall with lots of muscle should weigh more than 145. I weigh that much, and I'm 5'10 and thin

Nutri-Grain wrote:I'm 6 feet tall, lots of muscle, 5 percent body fat, and i weigh 145 pounds. lolololololol.

Video games allow me to eat my daily intake of junk food But they don't make me fat.

I was too until I quti smoking, 1 year after I quti I put on well over 1.5 stone (21lbs) When smoking aIwas 10.5 stone now I weigh 13.5. Iwas a skinny fucker too.

Smoking takes your apetite away and many females know this which is why more women smoke than men these days.


Germany is considering bannign all violent videogames not just the selling of but also makign of in their country.

People should be able to balance what's good for them in time and space.

That's the only problem i can see.
People will USE game as a sneaky way to satisfy their needs of communication in the same way a guy with total lack of self-esteem will abuse alcohol to give himself some gut.

A hammer can be used to build stuff or smash people's head. It depends on who uses it.

Same goes for anything in life.

Its just funny because my girlfriend considers any type of gaming bad because there is a lack of social face to face interaction, generally your sitting on your butt, etc. People should go outside and socialize and be with people in her eyes. Yet she openly admits to loving Super Mario Brothers and Rockband, and even though she plays them when she can get her hands on them, she still curses gaming. Then again shes a very active athlete and has a major in Psychology so that mess could have seeped in her head. But then one could argue that her drinking habits are bad, but then she could argue that she is socializing with people through her partying and that's good. Its just a never ending cycle. I am actively getting more into becoming a distance runner and maybe doing triathlons one day, but I still keep gaming as a past time. As she says, everyone has their vice... For most athletes apparently its drinking. For me, its gaming.

Well you could always say that at least she knows where you are when you're gaming. You're not out carousing with all the other women in town.

I have been collecting unemployment since Feburary 2008. (thanks to michigan being one of the worst states to find a job, I got 2 13 week extensions, so I just stayed home and raised the kid and started college since that was free cuz Im labeled poor with a kid) The free $ ended this month however.

I've always had phsyically demanding jobs, and I spent years playing soccer competitvely, meaning practices 2-3 times a week, not your bullshit city recreational crap. I can honestly say I have been rather inactive since I've been laid off. I have gained 9 lbs in over a year of inactivity.

I eat one meal a day. Dinner. (When I work, its the full 3 meal deal, I got a high metabolism) I stretch continusouly throughout the day, just to keep shit relaxed. Am I healthy? doubtful. Im sure my cholestrol is rather high. 5'10" @ 171 lbs at the moment. I do not play soccer any longer, havent in roughly 3 years, the most exercise I've been getting is riding bikes with my son, minimal exercises at home when I get bored, and not eating fast food. I still got the flat stomach and man boobs of muscle. Just lacking the endurance now due to laziness.

oh yeah, I like video games and most surveys done about the population of the United States seem faulty at best.

Paradox wrote:Well you could always say that at least she knows where you are when you're gaming. You're not out carousing with all the other women in town.

Ive used this in my defense before actually. It's hard for your better half to deny this excuse for gaming.

Tranthor wrote:someone who's 6 feet tall with lots of muscle should weigh more than 145. I weigh that much, and I'm 5'10 and thin

Perhaps, but I was 5'10 and weighed 130 and had "lots of muscle" at his age. It's simply a matter of having 0 body fat thanks to sports. Fast forward to 16 years later, now Im considered overweight and weigh 177. I would have to agree, but I look alot healthier. I just got to get a handle on my beer/soda gut

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Yea, and I suppose when I think about it my upper body isn't really built, by my legs are cranked from soccer.

anyways, nothing wrong with video games unless you're a fatass already

Here is a very timely and appropriate news story

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/200 ... ss_foxnews

whitewolf wrote:

Paradox wrote:Well you could always say that at least she knows where you are when you're gaming. You're not out carousing with all the other women in town.

Ive used this in my defense before actually. It's hard for your better half to deny this excuse for gaming.

She doesn't care what I do as long as I'm not sleeping with anyone so this wouldnt matter to her. From my take of it, she'd prefer me out partying then sitting on my ass shooting shit LOL.

well my grand master once said "too much of one thing is usually a bad thing" so guess it how much of it takes over your life. I my self try and balance how much I play I have notice thro the years it does effect me mentally and it some cases in the past I lost focus on more important things in life. I say right now its just about right I do play but do try and get out often or do creative work and learn new skills from tutorials. But I seen first hand gaming take over peeps life I even read news stories of one member of a couple get so involved in WOW that their is hardly any time they spend with their partner or even kids in some cases. I knew a guy that used play this game he was in his 30s and from what I understand his life was a mess been divorced and has a kid he not seen for years. It got to a point where I frankly told the guy to quti the game and sort his life.

On the social thing I heard peeps argue that their social is more important than anything in fact I when I was in school a girl said same thing 5 years latter she has no qualifications and no future and possible does not have much cash to enjoy a proper social life. So it all about balance problem is we live in a world of excess and extremes.

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Did someone say deformed mutant spawn from hell?

yes, and its name is Nutri-Moly.

Or Holy-Grain. In any case it's about the creepiest thing I have ever heard of on these forums.

Jeeez, that fucking kid would be a TROLL!

mmmm moles, fulll of vitamins and minerals?

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