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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Renville" data-source="post: 209059" data-attributes="member: 256"><p>I'm not going to say there is a definitive here BUT I can speak for myself a bit. I don't play video games very often, just a couple titles here and there since the ps3/4 era. I think they are fun and nice to pass some time on the rare occasion free time and possibly shitty weather make a guy want to hang on the couch for awhile. Anyway I'm not sure how anyone could say there is no effect at all. I consider myself a pretty regular I guess, I don't think anyone is "normal" but I've never been diagnosed with anything or been told I might need to get checked so I I'll stick with "pretty regular" guy. Any my point is the times I've put more than an hour or two in from of some of these games I can definitely feel the effect. Not violence, or even thoughts of it but sleep isn't the same and you can't help but have a bit less focus on what is in front of you. Now most importantly that in no way causes a person to do anything, violent, criminal, or otherwise. However consider the very time many if these guys spend soaking themselves in some of these games. It's mindblowing. For the average person that considers themselves a "gamer" 24 hours nonstop is still pretty amateur. If any human could focus on a productive endeavor for that kind of time day after day they would be rich or famous or revolutionary in whatever field they chose to take up. In the case of video games it's easy for tens of millions of just Americans to stay locked in like that. Name another stimuli that can claim such human obsession, I don't think I can. Meth maybe, and I don't even know if tweakers can pull of the numbers that gamers can. Now I'm usually among the first to say that this sort of this doesn't cause anyone to do anything heinous, but consider that powerful of a stimuli in a person/brain that's medically speaking irregular/maladjusted/medicated/overly-medicated and we very well could have a serious complication. At the end of the day certain people shouldn't be using certain stimuli, they are unable to handle/process it in a way most can. Mental heath issue, not necessarily a video game issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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