Mario Kart Saves Child From Blindness
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I just read that article and halfway down there was a spot reserved for advertisements, naturally, it was a large animated ad for the Nintendo DS price cut.SomeBoredGuy said:
Fucking hilarious.
Nice one. Apparently videogames can improve surgery skills, too.
Um..That picture..Which game is that from? I don't ever recall playing that level, and I've played Mario Kart DS to death.
Um..That picture..Which game is that from? I don't ever recall playing that level, and I've played Mario Kart DS to death.
*twitch* Daily Mail reporting *twitch*
I could make a joke about blue shells here, but I think everyone already knows what I'd say.
I could make a joke about blue shells here, but I think everyone already knows what I'd say.
I dunno, Mario Kart has a shitload going on at any time. Shooters have things to look at to shoot, normal racers have other cars, platformers have platforms. Mario Kart has other karts, weird track layouts, boosts/jumps, items, item boxes, weaponry and all kinds of other crap.danpascooch said:
oh yes clearly this is the GAME's credit, NOT the monitor giving visual clues to him. my bet it any other game OR cartoon OR tv series (to a certain degree) would have had the exact same effect on him. and when i say to a certain degree i mean that there would need to be a certain amount of color on screen before improvement would be likely to happen.
in either case, mariokart/nintendo receives no brownie points here, and neither does the stupidity at work in giving free advertising for nintendo because of misinformation.
in either case, mariokart/nintendo receives no brownie points here, and neither does the stupidity at work in giving free advertising for nintendo because of misinformation.
I've always wondered what the logic behind that was.Fraught said:
Visible light is visible light. I could see how a constant single color could cause strain on the cells of your eyes or how standing in a highly bright room for hours on end could indeed do the same. But alternating light colors from screens isn't any different, at least in the way your eyes process it, from walking through a colorful patch of forest or one of those acid trips at disney land.
I mean...if the screen was pumping out Gamma Waves I'd be on board. But it always felt like an old wives tale.
Kind of like the "If you read in the dark you'll go blind" thing.
It's not misinformation. Likewise a video game would work better than a TV series because you have to tell yourself to concentrate on things on a TV screen. With a video game it comes naturally because you invest in the character you control.theklng said:
He played a game with lots of moving and plenty of visual changes while piloting a character that was moving fast in four directions (as there are jumps in the game). They didn't say "Mario Kart and only Mario Kart can save you from going blind."
I'd be willing to wager that racing games in general would be a good genre to use as they tend to require rapid changes of scenery and location plotting.
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"For Every Action, there is an equal and opposite Reaction"AngryMongoose said:
-Newton's Third Law of Motion.
Calumon: I thought Gaming was bad for your eyes?
This is the Daily Mail we're talking about. The UK tabloid most likely to campaign to ban all video games, printing a good news story about video games. Fanboy or anti-fanboy, Nintendo earns many brownie points because it's the inverse of what we expect to see from the Mail on video games.theklng said:
I'm sorry, but your eyesight is in the other castle? Sorry, couldn't help it...Lavoscraft said:
Still, cool to see more useful applications for video games.
What's that, Daily Mail? Video games are curing a child's eyes? And here I thought video games were bad. Where did I get that impression?
WHATTHE...
Daily Mail? WTF Seriously?
Did the Earth spun off it's axis while I was asleep? Damn...
OT: Video games can cure a lot of ailments. Not just that lazy eye, but reportedly ADD, all kinds of psychological stuff, and help cancer patients and burn victims. They use video games as analgesic and to draw the attention of the patient away from the condition they are in and from the treatments that are very painful. The immersion factor is the real medication here. It also improves concentration, visual acuity, hand-eye coordination and a lot of other things.
But because video games are now the fucking scapegoat for every bad thing in the world today, people are only focused on the alleged harm they do, like addiction, aggression, deteriorating social skills and weight problems. Eh...
Daily Mail? WTF Seriously?
Did the Earth spun off it's axis while I was asleep? Damn...OT: Video games can cure a lot of ailments. Not just that lazy eye, but reportedly ADD, all kinds of psychological stuff, and help cancer patients and burn victims. They use video games as analgesic and to draw the attention of the patient away from the condition they are in and from the treatments that are very painful. The immersion factor is the real medication here. It also improves concentration, visual acuity, hand-eye coordination and a lot of other things.
But because video games are now the fucking scapegoat for every bad thing in the world today, people are only focused on the alleged harm they do, like addiction, aggression, deteriorating social skills and weight problems. Eh...
I'm waiting for this one to combine with the "video games turn kids into killers" nonsense. Just wait, before long we'll have stories like "video games give kids better eyesight for more accurate killing sprees"
