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should games like this be banned?

should games like this be banned?


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Heh. Gotta hate it when science makes one face a reality they wish not to.

Gotta hate it when one person thinks their "reality" is somehow actually reality.

Time to bust out the good ol argumentum ad populam fallacy.

Looks like the poll is in my favor, OVERWHELMINGLY :)
 
Gotta hate it when one person thinks their "reality" is somehow actually reality.

Time to bust out the good ol argumentum ad populam fallacy.

Looks like the poll is in my favor, OVERWHELMINGLY :)
I wasn't under the impression that this was a competition or that opinion of other members of this forum really mattered all that much. Interesting you would bring this up.
 
I wasn't aware this was a competition. Interesting.

It is a competition, should the game be banned? It's a competition of how much your side (Because you definitely picked a side, and I think I know where that singular yes vote came from) can get versus mine/anyone who agrees with me.
 
We're gotten by interested parties whenever possible.
I am aware and its one of the worst things about society.
 
It is a competition, should the game be banned? It's a competition of how much your side (Because you definitely picked a side, and I think I know where that singular yes vote came from) can get versus mine/anyone who agrees with me.

Wow. You are the text book definition of a forum hack. There goes my respect for you.

Anyway back to the point.

Yes that's how reality works. (Which isn't a competition ;))

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845016/ -- NiMH explanation of how gambling addiction works.
 
I have just yet to understand why entire companies should be put to death and thousands of people out of jobs just because they know how to make a great video game.

That is entirely the opposite of American, to kill business and with it, opportunity.
 
I have just yet to understand why entire companies should be put to death and thousands of people out of jobs just because they know how to make a great video game.

That is entirely the opposite of American, to kill business and with it, opportunity.
Sometimes social costs are worth more than mere money
 
An article that just allows the weak-willed to feel good about themselves.
Lol. I am glad you are so determined to keep your beliefs in the face of fact
 
It is basic gaming theory. Another example of games that uses similar mechanisms are RPGs.

Hogwash! I've never spent three straight weeks farming for some super-mega-uber-elite sword or armor.......or even boots......come on, where the hell is it!!!!!
 
That's not the way addiction (or free will) works. The neurochemicals become less stimulating over time, requiring higher doses, strongly influencing or overriding the pre-frontal cortex lessening our ability to make alternative decisions.

And so it becomes increasingly difficult to stop playing and you do it anyway.
 
And so it becomes increasingly difficult to stop playing and you do it anyway.
Most of the time people can pull away, yes
 
This is what Candy Crush Saga does to your brain | Dana Smith | Science | theguardian.com

Candy Crush is basically designed to exploit human neurochemical weaknesses.



This is the sort of mechanism which fuels gambling addiction. As science and psychology becomes more sophisticated, more problems with how the human brain processes information will be revealed, opening the door for more ways to exploit that weakness.

I personally view this as extremely unethical at best as it purposefully undermines free will. What is your take?

That's funny. Seems they've done the same thing with sex. In the beginning it's fairly easy and exciting but as you get better at it there's more stuff you need to do to get the same results. Eventually, when you finally get the system figured out they give you a flimsy sword!
 
Hell yeah ban it. Also, execute the players.
 
Candy Crush? Well, that certainly isn't what I was expecting this thread to be about. Anyway, people should just get more intelligent virtual addictions. Like DP.
 
I found Candy Crush to be annoying when it started to throw in the jelly or whatever it was that you had to break.

Perhaps I'm different from the people that article is talking about, but when I fail five time in a row because of an annoying gaming feature and then I have to stop for twenty minutes I'm less motivated to play again, not somehow more.
 
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It is basic gaming theory. Another example of games that uses similar mechanisms are RPGs.

Yep, I used to be addicted to RPGs, my kids too. So we did a test, only one of the three of us could play RPGs for two weeks, then the next two weeks we changed, and the next til each of us had been an "observer" four weeks of two players and a "player" two weeks. Each time the observing team observed that the player's attitudes and emotions even when not playing the game were notably more aggressive and unreasonable.

So with the acceptance of the kids, I banned video games in our house. Our lives with each other improved dramatically. My daughter has slid back into playing them, and I can to this day tell when in phone conversations with her, if she's been playing them recently just by the way she talks about her life. My son and I have not picked them back up. My daughter sent me some of her older games to play on the pc recently, and after about 20 minutes I was tired of it. It's all just basically go here and kill monsters pick something up go there and kill harder monsters.... this idea that any of them actually have a story line is complete bs. The only actual story line is "go here and kill these, get something, go there and kill those, get something, go ...." That's the entire story line, the stuff they all claim is story line, really doesn't change or effect the game at all except to give you a video clip to watch.

Now I stick to really boring stuff so I won't play very much, solitaire, minesweep. The only involved game I play on the pc anymore are jigsaws puzzles.
 
Almost nothing should ever be banned.

Sane, consenting adults should always be the final decider as to what they can or cannot handle/want...not the government.
 
Heh. Gotta hate it when science makes one face a reality they wish not to.

They are kinda of moronic though.

Them: Here is a study that proves everything we have been saying right.

Anyone with a half of a brain: Ah..why is the study size only forty people? How does forty people prove anything when talking about the entire population of the human race??

Then they come back with a study of fifty people and think the point just made against them no longer stands. :doh
 
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They are kinda of moronic though.

Them: Here is a study that proves everything we have been saying right.

Anyone with a half of a brain: Ah..why is the study size only forty people? How is forty people prove anything when talking about the entire population of the human race??

Then they come back with study of fifty people and think the point just made no longer stands. :doh
I tend to try to stick to things supported by multiple studies.
That being one of the reasons. Peer review is an important aspect of scientific discovery.
 
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