Sex Drugs and Pimply Teenagers A Positive Perspective On Video Games essays

Sex Drugs and Pimply Teenagers A Positive Perspective On Video Games essays When you watch TV, you vegetate. TV is a passive medium, you sit, eyes open mouth open if you are of a lesser stock. You take in all that is thrown at you with only two options change the channel and take a chance that you will something important(like the people who were taking a whiz when JR was shot) or you can turn it off. No one turns it off, ever, some people dont even watch it but they leave it on. That is called background noise, just the fact that they do that, shows that TV is fluff with rarely important things on it. Video Games, some challenge the mind, some satisfy a Neolithic bloodlust that is innate in all humans(mostly active in men). In some of these First person shooters(I will refer to them as FPS from now on) strategy is involved, you are constantly planning, analyzing, every noise every movement every pixel on your screen COULD be something thats trying to kill you. It excites the mind AND the senses, however if you have all the planning and strategy in the world it doesnt make a lick of difference when someone points a desert eagle at your head. The key to satisfying the bloodlust is KNOWING HOW TO AIM. IF YOU CANT AIM THE GUN THEN NOTHING DIES, and thats pretty pointless isnt it? So not only does one require a sharp and strategizing mind, one also must have excellent hand-eye coordination. If you havent played a game like this before, you are probably one of those people who says : Thats easy, anyone can do that, or, Video games affect children in the wrong way. They do not, you have no clue about the subject youre speaking about, so shut up. If you want to see how easy it is then go and get a copy of Counter-Strike, and ill show you just how easy it is, ok? Which brings me to my next point : Competition. The world (except for some bas-ackward places) runs on a system that is based on capitalist democ ...