# Video Games are GOOD for you!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 20, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944 "2003-02-20T03:45:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Makaveli](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Makaveli)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/1 "2003-02-20T03:45:14Z")
Contrary to popular belief, gaming is GOOD for you…a new study has been released stating the benefits of playing video games, and in particular computer games. In it it is revealed that Professor Talmadge Wright and his colleagues at Loyola University in Chicago have been studying online gamers and their habits, most notably Counter-Strike players, and they’ve drawn the following conclusions:
[list]Online gamers form communities
The most common emotion expressed in those communites is laughter
The games played are more complex than most people suspect
Some of the most important aspects in online gaming are the banter, jokes and playful insults
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read more here
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2744449.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2744449.stm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/2 "2003-02-20T05:53:26Z")
2 people in Korea have died from playing counter-strike. I don’t know how good they are for you :).
But obviously they havent played that many games. Half the things i see in games are either someone hacking just to annoy people, someone whining cause someone is hacking (thats me :)), or someone just insulting people cause they aren’t 1337 like them (me again :)).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/3 "2003-02-20T05:57:56Z")
hahaha! an excuse to play internet games even MORE than i already do:P
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/4 "2003-02-20T06:00:18Z")
ah yes the deaths, those people are nuts, only a nut beyond even ME would do something like play for days on end without breaks or food and water. thats not the video games fault, how can you blame a video game for that. thats the stupidest thing i have ever heard ☹
anyways, regarding the “l33t” people…i found this hillarious guide to being “l33t” and i gaurantee you will enjoy it…it is SO true and i see people like this SO SO often…
[http://www.planetquake.com/turkey/b-l33t\_a.htm](http://www.planetquake.com/turkey/b-l33t_a.htm) enjoy!!! =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/5 "2003-02-20T06:24:53Z")
Just because something has redeaming qualities does not neccessarly make it good for you. Marjahuana will help eye sight, stomach problems, weight problems and social problems… that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have as much tar as 5 cigarrettes in it. 🙂
Everything in moderation, as I’ve said. If you’re playing so much online gaming that you fail to move for hours on end, then the benefits are not outweighing the downside.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/6 "2003-02-20T06:45:32Z")
exactly…david you are the guiding light of reason on this forum…what we would do without you…
_plans to get rid of david and let kirupaville forever be merged in darkness_
HEY DAVID CATCH!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/7 "2003-02-20T06:49:54Z")
roflmao… When I’m the guiding light… you should all kiss your @$$3$ goodbye. I’m a born again Pagan… a self proclaimed lunatic, a communist, and a post drug user. I don’t think that I would follow myself if I had any choice in the matter.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/8 "2003-02-20T07:03:17Z")
no you are the warrior clad in armor &  spoon boy of wisdom  and I am the dark lord who kills innocents at whim  and witout mercy 
you are the one, you shall bring balance to the force
and i am he, who has hidden WMD that noone can find  \<----- oh wait thats stalin!! I am  oh wait thats not me again…thats castro…ok ok i’ll just be this agent dude…for now! 
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/9 "2003-02-20T07:29:34Z")
lol… those are great man. I’m a big fan of the fascist Castro. He looks great as a smiley.
I deny that I’m the one though. that’s Jet Lee. (good movie, I thought)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/10 "2003-02-20T07:32:58Z")
did you like my storey?? i worked hard…to combine smilies with my story… give me acceptance or give me death 😠 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/11 "2003-02-20T07:41:18Z")
it was very creative Mak. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/12 "2003-02-20T07:46:31Z")
yay!! acceptance at last! and by david no less…i shall print this pg and place it on my mantle…oh wait i have no mantles…ok i’ll place it under my pillow!!!
what was this thread originally about again??
oh yea, GAMING IS GOOD FOR YOU, gives you HEALTHY dose of reality (terrorists and assasins lurk everywhere) games teach much… but like dave said…all in moderation! lest you die and give gaming a bad name! This has Mak decreed!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/13 "2003-02-20T07:51:25Z")
lol. Glad that my acceptance means something to someone. I’m officially taking you off of my “to beat” list Mak 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/14 "2003-02-20T07:51:54Z")
unless of course you like that kind of thing, in which case I’m sure I can fit you in my schedule somewhere.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/15 "2003-02-20T07:56:50Z")
…very clever…posting the 2 thoughts in 2 dif posts…so its like a disjointed thought! clever yes you are david
how do i reply… 😏 first off…i was on your “to-beat” list??? what harm have i ever incurred upon you? and with what were you to beat me with? for you say you cann’t break concrete with bear hands, so a weapon you must use!
and no i don’t like that kinda thing…thats a bit…kinky for me… 😉 :beam: :whistle:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/16 "2003-02-20T10:34:39Z")
why were you on my “to beat” list?
EVERYONE is on my “to beat” list. 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/17 "2003-02-20T10:40:55Z")
I’m going to stick my two pence worth in on this one and say that anyone who goes for two / three days or whatever without food, water and stuff just to play a computer game deserves all they get…
These people have intelligence, surely they must realise what happens to your body if you don’t keep it in good condition? This probably sounds a little harsh… But I mean, how dumb do you have to be? :cyclops:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/18 "2003-02-20T10:43:00Z")
I’m in agreement Kit. I think that effect is called “survival of the fittest.” or maybe just “destruction of the stupid”. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/19 "2003-02-20T10:44:26Z")
Kinda like the Darwin Awards. 🙂
Maybe these guys had their common sense glands removed?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-games-are-good-for-you/13944/20 "2003-02-20T11:04:16Z")
Maybe they’re on drugs!
Or maybe just born without this big thingy in your head called a brain!
:tie: \<- what the hell is this? =)
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