[Giggy88]

(Original post by LeeC)
A study showed that people who play games respond quicker in emergency situations, so it can kind of be like a training for real life if you have things blowing up around you or whatever.

Things blowing up around you , rather unlikely.

[LeeC]

(Original post by Giggy88)
Things blowing up around you , rather unlikely.

No, you're wrong.

It's extremely likely that today, something has blown up around someone somewhere in the world.

[cannibalcrickets]

(Original post by 99llewellyn99)
wtf is up with this guy

The kid? He was trying to be cool, I doubt he actually knew what a dildo was but there's a cheat on GTA that turns all weapons into dildos and you can beat people to death with them. Also he was five and a bit of an attention grabber. He shouldn't really have played GTA, but like I said I don't think it's had any effect in his development.

[StarBunny]

I heard that some convicted murderers have read a book at some point in their lives.

Clearly books cause murder!

[like a boss]

Playing cover shooters has made me much better at snowball fights.

[Jamsebob]

YES I play a lot of civilization and me and my friends constantly start our own civs and try and take over the world (culturally of course).
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No they don't.

[ThatPerson]

(Original post by 99llewellyn99)
do you think games which puts you in the place of the person you are playing changes your outlook like for example in the popular Grand Theft Auto series would youngsters driving around the game like a lunatic affect the way they drive in reality. or does killing and robbing people make you more violent in real life

I don't feel more violent but sometimes when I wasn't listening to a conversation I feel like rewinding it. Sky+ does that to you.

[Bhumbauze]

No but when COD4 first came out, I had played a marathon 12 hour session on it, and later was walking into town... saw a friend of mine in the distance coming towards me, and for a split second GENUINELY wondered why his name wasn't floating above his head

[slylee]

Video games taught me to always loot dead bodies...It was so hard explaining that at the last funeral I attended x-x

[TheKingoftheJews]

(Original post by zaliack)
WoW has a side effect of turning you into a psychotic serial killer (e.g. Breivik) but besides that, not really.