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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 3793522" data-attributes="member: 35678">I think your "rotting brains" and "child zombie" bit is a bit overstated; for example in grade 6 I was not only the top reader in the class, but also in my grade - I read about 40,000 pages that year (that's about a 450 page book every 4 days or so). But I was also playing my Nintendo64 constantly and watching TV and going to movies - and I was on a soccer team, I went to my cabin almost every weekend Friday night to Sunday evening, and I did a lot of walking around and hanging out with friends.Video games can definitely inspire children (or anyone) to be creative, and engage the brain. There have been studies that children who play racing games make better drivers because their reaction time is better then average, and many of the world's pilots train in flight simulators - these are the people who are up there every day, commercial and military alike. Video gamers can help with camaraderie and friendship, co-ordination of efforts and any number of other inter-personal skills. Games like Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero can help with hand-eye co-ordination, and the Nintendo Wii encourages you to get off your feet and get active with the game - and is selling in droves to non-traditional video game audiences, like middle aged women looking for an interactive form of exercise that she and the whole family can share in.My point is that people do not give video games nearly enough credit that it deserves. Some games are simply garbage - fun, addictive garbage, but garbage none-the-less. However, many games are far-removed from the malignity you attribute them.And Pielorinho, as a long-term fan of GTA, I can only shake my head at that child's colossally inept parents. Theres nothing in that game a 6 year old should be exposed to for the next 10 years of his life. It's people like that which make me think that breeding licences should be mandatory <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> (only partially kidding on that, but *shudder* that's definitely a sickening story mate)cheers,--N</blockquote>

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