How many calories does your BF1942 have?

Apperantly, McDonalds isn't the problem. Follow up study on adults to be titled. "Video Games make adults drunk, ignore wife - Sweedish experts say". See below


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Reuters
Video games make kids fat, violent-Swedish experts
Monday March 1, 2:45 pm ET
By Peter Starck


STOCKHOLM, March 1 (Reuters) - Video games can make children fat and, in the case of violent games popular among teenage and younger boys, aggressive and even criminal, Swedish experts said on Monday.
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The games industry, estimated at $200 million a year in Sweden and $10 billion in the United States, is dominated on the hardware side by Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) Xbox, Sony Corp's (Tokyo:6758.T - News) PlayStation and Nintendo Co. Ltd's (7974.OS) Game Boy and GameCube consoles.

Electronic Arts Inc. (NasdaqNM:ERTS - News), Nintendo, Activision Inc. (NasdaqNM:ATVI - News), and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NasdaqNM:TTWO - News) are among leading games title publishers.

Take-Two's Rockstar unit's Grand Theft Auto -- a game condemned as "horrendous" by former U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman -- is among titles mentioned by a Swedish television documentary in connection with violent youth crimes.

"It's concerning because they (video game players) are rehearsing scripts of behaviour that will possibly play themselves out in real life," Michael Rich, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics who has studied the effects of entertainment media on the physical and mental health of children, was quoted as saying in the 45-minute "Deadly Game" documentary.

Monday's preview of the film, due for prime time broadcasting on Swedish TV4 (Stockholm:TV4B.ST - News) television on Wednesday, was followed by a panel debate, which concluded that scientific findings of the effects, if any, of violent video games were scant.

"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behaviour," said Frank Lindblad, a child psychiatrist at Sweden's Karolinska Institute university hospital.

DIFFUSE BORDER

"They run a very high risk of criminal behaviour ... there's a lot suggesting that video games are worse," he said, noting that many players tended to identify themselves with game heroes.

"The border between the virtual reality and the real world becomes diffuse and that is dangerous," Lindblad said.

Gustav Niel-Berggren, a 16-year-old student who said he tended to spend many hours a day several days a week playing an interactive online action game called Counter-Strike, which focuses on killing opponent soldiers, disagreed.

"Shooting somebody in a game is just like scoring a goal in a football match," he said, dismissing the documentary's suggestion and Lindblad's fear that youths could not distinguish between the game world and real life.

Elisabeth Junttila, a mother of six and head of a nationwide association promoting closer ties between homes and schools, said some children became addicted to video games, spending all their waking hours in front of a computer screen gorging potato chips, pizza and soft drinks.

Anne Folke, co-founder of a lobby seeking to counteract through public awareness campaigns what it sees as the ill effects of video games, said games were consuming ever more of children's time.

"They are in poor physical shape, they eat unhealthily, grow fat and suffer insomnia," she said.

[Colonel Ingus]

Hehe, you can't call it insomnia when you force yourself to stay awake until the wee hours with bleeding eyes.

Well, that's funny.

I play video games on a daily basis, I don't drink alchohol, do drugs, and I have a clean criminal history - I've never even gotten a speeding ticket (though I have played copious amounts of racing games).

I'm also in good shape - I exercise daily, I'm within my height's ideal weight range (6'3 - 190lbs), as are my other friends I know who play video games as regularly as I do.

I have a full-time job which I've had for four years, two of which I hadn't called in sick once. I have a girlfriend with whom I've been with for five years, and when she comes over to spend time with me, I get off of the computer (which usually results in her jumping on and buying clothes on e-bay, but that's another story). I have a six-year-old daughter with whom I spend alot of my time. I also find time to read books and have plenty of other hobbies.

So, am I in some "functional video game addict" minority? Or could it be that the people who wrote this article are full of it?

But then again, I am preaching to the choir...

Originally posted by C. Murgatroyd
Well, that's funny.

I play video games on a daily basis, I don't drink alchohol, do drugs, and I have a clean criminal history - I've never even gotten a speeding ticket (though I have played copious amounts of racing games).

I'm also in good shape - I exercise daily, I'm within my height's ideal weight range (6'3 - 190lbs), as are my other friends I know who play video games as regularly as I do.

I have a full-time job which I've had for four years, two of which I hadn't called in sick once. I have a girlfriend with whom I've been with for five years, and when she comes over to spend time with me, I get off of the computer (which usually results in her jumping on and buying clothes on e-bay, but that's another story). I have a six-year-old daughter with whom I spend alot of my time. I also find time to read books and have plenty of other hobbies.

So, am I in some "functional video game addict" minority? Or could it be that the people who wrote this article are full of it?

But then again, I am preaching to the choir...

I don't even pay attention to these studies, they're biased and one sided.
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"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behaviour," said Frank Lindblad, a child psychiatrist at Sweden's Karolinska Institute university hospital.

"They run a very high risk of criminal behaviour ... there's a lot suggesting that video games are worse," he said, noting that many players tended to identify themselves with game heroes.

"The border between the virtual reality and the real world becomes diffuse and that is dangerous," Lindblad said.
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I'm a second year college student, with a 3.4GPA in business finance. I have a part time job that I work 20 hours a week, I attend friday fellowship at church on friday nights, i never miss church every sunday morning. I have a gf who's a print ads model ^_^ and the most incredible intelligent girl i've ever met in my life, when she calls I always quit playing games or go to my room and talk to her. If she comes over last place u'd find me is in front of the comp. unless we're selecting the music to play hehe... I volunteer in a ministry where I visit the homeless on the streets every thursday afternoon, hand out food and water to them, and talk to them about the bible. I've never got a speeding ticket, clean driving record, don't smoke, don't drink excessively... I'm 5"11 and I'm about 130-135lbs, which is healthy for someone my height. I play ice hockey in winter, soccer in the summer and even roller hockey at times.

So can these experts tell me where my criminal behavior is? Yes I play Battlefield 1942 and it makes me want to go outside and shoot or knife someone cause they're all Imperialists or Fascists pigs! I watch a lot of war movies, Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan I watch over and over again from time to time. Yes, I want to go out and kill someone...someone save the lot of them please. /sarcasm

Those studies...

I'm willing to bet any amount of money that these "studies" are "funded" by organizations that feel as if their business is being undermined by the video game industry.

You don't drink alcohol at all Murgatroyd? Not even a little bit?

Originally posted by Ralph Wiggum
You don't drink alcohol at all Murgatroyd? Not even a little bit?

Nope, never touch it. I'm not anti-alchohol - to each his own -but I have my reasons for not drinking.

Originally posted by C. Murgatroyd
I'm willing to bet any amount of money that these "studies" are "funded" by organizations that feel as if their business is being undermined by the video game industry.

Agreed, or someone just looking for a scapegoat. Why go after video games, why not blame Arnold Governator Schwarzenegger for being in all those violent movies years before? Or why not blame The Lord of the Rings for making a movie about war and a ring of power?

Or blame the gun makers for the acts of criminals. Oh wait, they do do that.

Originally posted by Agent-Commando
Or why not blame The Lord of the Rings for making a movie about war and a ring of power?

Hey! I resent that.

-Bagginses