anonomama asked:


I figure this would go along the lines of soldiers using videogames to make them better at fighting in certain senarios why wouldnt it be the same with driving? I you spend enough time in a well built racing game (something where the traffic tries to avoid the wreck doesnt just drive into you) you may learn how to avoid accidents.
i am really surprised by the aggression still directed at gamers, but i have yet to see a real answer
people need to stop looking at videogames as “videogames” (a term from the 80’s to the 90’s) and look at them more as simulations. I would think that by the US military, the most powerful military in the world, using videogames to train its troops that videogames might get a little more credit than some nerdy kid wasting his time in front of a tv, hell even the president has said he plays videogames, I don’t remember where but Bush said he liked the series of Sid Meier’s Civilization

Arnold

armyntt asked:


After reading about laws trying to be passed around the country it seems to me that the majority of these laws are being made by people ignorant to the videogaming culture. Videogames are not only played by teenagers anymore. Im 26, married and in the military with my first child on the way too. I work fulltime and own a house. Pretty much the average american but i play videogames as well. This stereotype that we have in america hasnt changed since the advent of videogames about the average “gamer”. If im a 15,16 year old boy would anyone care if im watching most R rated action movies? So why should they care if im playing an R rated videogame. As real as videgames have become, movies are still more realistic. Videogames get the “M” rating just like TV shows, so is CSI wrong for the same 15,16 year old boy to watch? If you make laws for one shouldnt they make laws for them all? Make a law banning videogames, ban movies and TV too. Isnt it all relative?

Jennifer