this guy has already made my forth pointsummerof2010 said:I had no idea that Morgan Webb was a professional psychologist.
The kind of game's people play is dependant on their psyche. I play single-player games because I'm a loner, and don't like to depend on others too much. Same concept.AccursedTheory said:
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I would have fired her so hard if I was her boss. She basically said that anyone who plays video games has some type of complex. Why can't people just accept that it's ENTERTAINMENT.
Um... excuse me?zega frega omega said:The kind of game's people play is dependant on their psyche. I play single-player games because I'm a loner, and don't like to depend on others too much. Same concept.AccursedTheory said:
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I would have fired her so hard if I was her boss. She basically said that anyone who plays video games has some type of complex. Why can't people just accept that it's ENTERTAINMENT.
It has everything to do with it. One doesn't find an arbitrary satisfaction in playing a videogame. You're implying there is a superficial sense of fun in a videogame when there's clearly more to it; it's not as if the programmers can code fun into a game. I guess you can boil the question down to why: why is this entertaining to me? Why is this satisfying? I wouldn't call the study of one's videogame tastes a preffered way to diagnose of psyche, but it's undeniable that the psyche has a baring on one's taste in games (or any art for that matter). You clearly haven't done much psychology.Um... excuse me?
Most people play games because their fun. Their psyche has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I feel so sorry for the guy who had actually done some research and had to sit there listening to those retards who just spewed made up fact number x, although some of the annotations annoyed me just as much.GiantRaven said:It's official! Games are for thirteen year olds! It's true because Tyra said so!
Eugh. Everything that came out of that 'expert' was a load of drivel. Games are entertainment. Games are fun. That's all there is to it (well, ignoring the experiences of narrative and story).
Also, holy shit! Games aren't real life?! Well who would'a thunk it?
From this video I get the impression that this guy's girlfriend is a woman who wants to mould a guy into her perfect vision of what her boyfriend should be, rather than just letting them be themselves. I could be entirely wrong about that but still...that's not a good thing to place a relationship upon.
edit: At least it wasn't as bad as the segment on the Alan Titchmarsh show.
What!?zega frega omega said:It has everything to do with it. One doesn't find an arbitrary satisfaction in playing a video-game. You're implying there is a superficial sense of fun in a video-game when there's clearly more to it; it's not as if the programmers can code fun into a game. I guess you can boil the question down to why: why is this entertaining to me? Why is this satisfying? I wouldn't call the study of one's video-game tastes a preferred way to diagnose of psyche, but it's undeniable that the psyche has a baring on one's taste in games (or any art for that matter). You clearly haven't done much psychology.
Yeah, I really wish I could've found a non-annotated version.Chairman Miaow said:I feel so sorry for the guy who had actually done some research and had to sit there listening to those retards who just spewed made up fact number x, although some of the annotations annoyed me just as much.
One does not "escape" without knowing where he is going... certain people escape to certain things: if I like to day-dream in school about being a space-marine, I'm not going to go home and play Final Fantasy.What!?
No.
It is you who hasn't "done much psychology".
It is quite proven that games are "fun" because they are a form of "escapism". Just like books, television and all other media.
There are two (general) forms of escapism, thus two reasons for playing video-games:
1. "Escaping" the banalities of life, doing things that one could never do in real life.
2. "Escaping" life, because of dissatisfaction with it, immersing oneself in the video-game world because it is "better" than life.
Yes, I am quite aware of this. Nowhere have I stated otherwise, and if I did, then that is my mistake. Like I said, taste in videogames is not a good way to learn about someone, but nevertheless, the signs pertaining to personality there.You claiming is if it is common psychological knowledge that you can infer psyche, on whether or not they play single-player games, or what genre they play, is very narrow-minded. Not to mention outright false.
You may find some correlation (people who are like this, tend to play games that are like this).
Here is the kicker:
Correlation does not imply causation.