http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/playing-action-video-games-may-be-bad-for-your-brain-study-finds-1.4237361
Uh oh guys, it looks like FPS games might give you alzheimers.
On the plus side, action and platforming games help your brain.
>>386495935
Damn near everything that I enjoy is bad for me in some way now. To hell with it we all have to die sooner or later.
>>386495935
>The neuroimaging study's participants were all healthy 18 to 30 year olds with no history of playing video games.
Where would you even find these people?
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>>386497024
Girls
>>386497215
No, the correct response is /v/.
Everything is bad for you, you can be the healthiest fucker around and still get randomly cancer at 30.
>West pointed to the inclusion of GPS and way-finding markers in many current action games as examples of potentially problematic features.
>"These type of markers, we hypothesize, encourage people to ignore landmarks and follow routes that recruit and rely on the brain's rewards system," he said.
>tfw thanks to this system in open world games such Skyrim and GTA V I get lost and confused without a GPS marker telling me where to go even for basic navigation.
>>386495935
Why don't they provide a link to the article? I don't care for their breakdown of it. They could put any spin on it they want without sourcing it.
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>>386497664
I think this comes from the lack of interest in the gameworld itself, rather than inability, at least for me.
I don't care to learn and memorize the entire topography of every game I play.
>>386497983
Nah, it's the map for sure.
Even something as cool as BotW
>>386495935
>canada
oh it's nothing
how come no one reports on the dangers of being canadian?