# Gaming is Good for you!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766
**Category:** random
**Created:** [July 16, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766 "2003-07-16T10:32:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![RussianBeer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/russianbeer/32/152_2.png) [@RussianBeer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RussianBeer)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/1 "2003-07-16T10:32:43Z")

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[SIZE=3] **Gaming ‘is good for you’** [/SIZE]  
 ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/281/af33ecb66fc3f4d4.jpg)  
Computer games are good for you, say researchers who studied the complex social interactions in the popular shoot-em-up Counter-Strike  
Its about danm time!

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2744449.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2744449.stm)

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/2 "2003-07-16T11:27:29Z")

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> “It gives people an option of actively participating in some kind of fantasy role they could not do in real life”

Professor Talmadge Wright, Loyola University

Try telling this to a CS geek. 😉

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/3 "2003-07-16T11:30:42Z")

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GAMES make me creat new websites ? I just dont know why or what 👽

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/4 "2003-07-16T11:38:17Z")

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I’ve already posted that before 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/5 "2003-07-16T11:43:02Z")

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Though you’ve known this for years anyway, right? 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/6 "2003-07-16T11:44:21Z")

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of course 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gaming-is-good-for-you/25766/7 "2003-07-16T13:45:22Z")

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Of course they are good for you… And you could quit anytime you wanted to… right? 😛

Cheers!  
-Niann