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More correctly - Video games are only bad for you in excess. Then again, so is water.

I said exactly what I meant. Video games are bad for you. They are also very bad for you in excess. They are bad for you, by that I mean the opposite of good for you, and are only worse in overuse. Water is a terrible analogy, we don't need 8 liters of video games per day to survive. A better comparison would have been cigarettes. One is bad for you in a minuscule way. No portion is good for you. Get it?

Fuck off it is, video games require (and develop) reaction times, motor function, problem solving, lateral thinking, cause and effect

Ha! They develop fake reaction to fake stimuli. They improve motor function, of your thumbs. The rest of you is not getting any more fit sitting on the couch all day. May be if you play a lot of Wii, but sitting in a chair all day long is not in any way helpful for your 'motor function'. The problem solving of retarded psudeo-reality, that has little to do with problem solving in real solid reality. I mean the thing itself is bad problem solving. EvF (who I hold in high regard) said he plays video games because 'life is unfair', is he exhibiting healthy problem solving by playing video games? Are these video games teaching him anything more than the blue key opens the blue door? Lateral thinking, while being hypnotized and half asleep...

Video games either do not do these things, or do them in such a slanted, minor way as to be laughable.

It doesn't resemble hypnosis in any way.

It does in every way. Repetition, fight or flight stimuli overload. The flashing light in your TV is the biggest part of the hypnotic state, but since you can't see it flashing with your naked eye, it must not be doing that at all. Your TV flashes between 60 and 80 times a second, and that pushes your brain to adapt to that rhythm, and pushes your brain wave state from alpha to beta. Your brain literally slows down, enters what is usually referred to as forced hypnotization. Your eyes focus, your breathing slows noticeably. You lose the ability to pay attention to the outside world, all you see is the TV screen. Then comes the brain training, as your video game character jumps you mind thinks' jump!'. If something is flying towards you, you cringe.

So you are demonstrably in a semi-sleep state playing games (or watching TV), and you're unable to rationally consider what information and experiences you are uploading through the idiot box.

Video games are (as i pointed out above) an efficient tool for learning.

So is hitting your hand with a hammer. There are much better ways to learn than being hypnotized and crashing cars and killing dudes.

So is fiction, but i bet you read fiction books right?

We have been over this. Fiction itself is not bad, but bad fiction is. Reading a book is not the same as watching TV. Firstly there is no blinking light, and you don't get as mesmerized. Secondly you are not reacting the same way. If you see a moving picture (with sound) of a duck quacking, your mind reacts to duck, it sees duck. But if you read about a duck than your mind has to remember and conjure up said idea of a duck, therby strengthening synaptic connections.

But i bet you don't find it strange if someone reads for comfort right?

Of course not, and I don't find it weird that you play video games. I just think it's unhealthy.

If i am not in control of my thoughts then nobody is.

I strongly disagree. It is not possible for us as complex humans in this modern paradigm to have "no one" in charge of our thoughts. There are two options. You are in charge, or they are in charge. If you outsource your cognition to the boob tube, then I find it hard to believe that you or nobody is in charge.

Even if i was forced to watch pre selected programming and play pre selected games, how does that in any way give someone else access to my thoughts?

Because it controls the thoughts you do and don't have. It creates it's own causal chains. If frames the decisions you make with it's own information.

You truly are one weird, pathetic little man.

Because I don't play video games or watch TV because they are demonstratively unhealthy? And you think no one is controlling your thoughts for you? So you take full responsibility for your own stupidity then?