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rayb


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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1816237

Interesting new study proves that the portion of the brain that reacts to violence when first seeing it, actually does become more "lazy" the more violence it is subjected to... and of course this particularly implicates the use of violent media and videogames.

On the bright side, if we could figure a way to create games to create positive changes in the brain... to sharpen our sensitivity to certain elements or increase our memory, or something like that, maybe we could harness this knowledge rather than bemoaning the eventual banning of games like Halo. :)

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Ban Halo!!!!!!!! Them's fightin words!!!!!

I think my dulled mental reactions to violence have more to do with watching the results of a 25 grain chunk of lead travelling at 3800 feet per second coming in contact with a evil ground squirrel.

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...or evil bobcats...

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Yea, but the evil bobcats make a small hole going in and don't have the carnage factor. The evils squirrels litterally explode and often get airborn.

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Nice avatar Duke (Jason). I think I've seen that somewhere before. Just couldn't stay away could ya? You can't ban Halo in our house cuz we don't have it!

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Oh, since in you are in last place again with the post count, let's see how long it takes you to catch up. biggrin.gif I'm waaaayyy ahead of you now! I reached 1000 posts today. Though that may not necessarily be a good thing.

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Yeah, the Halo debate. Son1 feels soooo hard done by because we won't let him play it.

"But...but...the Bishop's kids play it."

Euphrasie's not the only one who's a mean mommy.

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I've even got a Halo Ring Tone!

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That's cuz, as the article proves, you're desensitized to violence.bleh


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Now I've got something to brag about.

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-- Edited by alabamabelle at 23:14, 2008-01-04

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You'd love the new Xbox. I hear that parents can set limits on the amount of time the kid can use it.

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-- Edited by alabamabelle at 23:14, 2008-01-04

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The Playstation 2 is enough to alter my kids brain chemistry thank you very much.


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I remember the Christmas when I was thirteen and we got an Atari.  My mom's words at that time have finally been proven true--TV games (as she called them) rot yer brain.  Who knew that little blocky battle tanks could do so much damage?

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I remember being mesmermized by computer table tennis and our atari-type game version of Pac-man. Though it wasn't the "real" Pac-man.

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