Neurotherapist: Gamers think they're in actual combat

Just yesterday I witnessed a man get run over by a care.

To be fair, I tried to help. He was walking right in front of the car, and he wasn't really paying attention. I hypothesized that by shooting a portal both under him and on a high area of a wall, he would fall into the portal, and momentum would force him out of the wall at exceptional speeds. I would then place another portal where he was going to fall and then the exit portal on a wall next to me, and so when he fell into the third portal and exited from the fourth, he would land straight into another wall, where another portal would be placed, with the exit portal located right next to it. I would place another portal next to the previous exit one, albeit a little higher, and then again another portal on the ground below him. The momentum would force him through his front door, into the breasts of his spicy Latino lover.

Unfortunately, this plan proved to be far to unwieldy, and I decided that loading from my last save was an intelligent move on my part.

Cerussite

brilliant.....

When I read the thread title I thought it said Neuro The Rapist. :lol:needled24-7

kinda like when people get weirded out when i give them my card. i'm a cross analyst-therapist

[QUOTE="needled24-7"]When I read the thread title I thought it said Neuro The Rapist. :lol:jlh47

kinda like when people get weirded out when i give them my card. i'm a cross analyst-therapist

I think that you should stop doing it and maybe you should take off your actor pants and wear your therapist jacket.

Does anyone remember a thread about "interesting" links like "therapistfinder.com"?

Wow, its been a bad week for gaming. First a little girl gets the life beaten out of her by her idiot sister and boyfriend, then the NY DoJ releases a propaganda slideshow about how video games are so "killographic" (with a weblink to that hoax mavav site), and now this piece of garbage hits the airwaves. According to this neurotherapist gamers' brains can't tell the difference between playing violent games and being in real combat, and as a result develop post-traumatic stress disorder. I don't know about you guys but I think he may be onto something. Yesterday while eating at Denny's a waitress dropped a plate and immediately started having flashbacks of the flood level in Halo 1. It took 30 minutes before I could be calmed down. The whole time I was ducking behind a table and desperately trying to hit buttons on a controller that wasn't even there screaming "damnit! they just keep coming! why isn't my gun working! ****, no generic marine #5, don't go in there! Nooooo! You bastards killed Generic Marine #5! Ahhhhh!"

Also, the good doc states that he's seen gamers have withdrawl symptoms from games including the shakes. Now I know this is bs. Why? Because the stereotypical shakes caused by drug withdrawal are due to the brain being used to having a certain neurotransmitter that controls movement supressed. Take away the supression and suddenly your brain's neurons related to movement are hyperactive thus causing the shakes. You don't get that in a game. The only way that games could possibly cause addiction is through increased dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens (the brain's pleasure center), which in terms of withdrawal one would only expect a person to have cravings for the game or perhaps not be able to get as much pleasure out of activities that they used to find fun. The dopamine release isn't going to be anywhere else in the brain so you're not going to find shaking, cold sweating, nausea, or any other drug withdrawal symptoms. Sorry for the long winded explanation there, but all I'm trying to say is the guy is a quack (since all this is covered in undergrad intro neuroscience c.lasses).

gameguy6700

Great!! Now I know where I will be getting my retirement money from... sueing the gaming industry for my "post-traumatic Stress Disorder"!!!

[QUOTE="deshields538"]If I play a Total War for too long I feel the urge to conquer large portions of Europe. :(whatsit2ya

I get that feeling all the time...

Same! After an hour or so of playing RTW online, I end up calling my friends and we march into another suburb all fierce about it. Those with cars/bikes will be my cav - those that own BB guns and know how to throw items far and accurate will be my missles - ninjas and wrestlers my inf

I know that I'm not in real combat when I play games. Its common sense isn't it?

Whoever said the thing about the tools section in Home Depot gets a ZMSOA.

Wear it proudly. Wear it well.

TheZ3nMan

Yay! I won something!