What Game Are You Playing Now?

[Johno6]

my nat type just keeps going to strict.... thats it.
havent played it too much in last week tho

[The Sleeping Giant]

anyone ahving problems playing MW3 online? i can hook up to black ops no probs but MW3 just wont connect. keeps coming up with a couple of different error codes. only started doing it in the last week and im getting pretty annoyed.
thanks for your help fellow nerds

i have had no problems with it on ps3... except i suck

Run and gun my man. Run and gun.

[BIG SEXY]

im playing on ps3. doing some google searches. random people seem to have the problem but noone has solved it.

[woodublieve12]

anyone ahving problems playing MW3 online? i can hook up to black ops no probs but MW3 just wont connect. keeps coming up with a couple of different error codes. only started doing it in the last week and im getting pretty annoyed.
thanks for your help fellow nerds

i have had no problems with it on ps3... except i suck

Run and gun my man. Run and gun.

haha!!! i may have been a touch critical of myself... i love kill confirmed... love the run and gun... i used to be a bit of a camper on Black ops, but since been on MW3 my kill rate has gone up and im actually getting on the top 3 of my team a lot more theni used too...
however i find it hilarious how serious people take it when there on there mic... very funny...

[Psyber]

BEWARE: read this before you proceed! http://www.medconnect.com.au/tabid/84/s ... fault.aspx
The site may not let you in without a log in so I quote it.

Violent Video Games Alter Brain Activity
Thursday, December 01, 2011 - Elsevier Global Medical News
BY SUSAN BIRK
CHICAGO (EGMN)–One week of violent video game play produced significant changes in brain function, a small study of men aged 18-28 shows.
Violent video games were associated with reduced activity in regions of the brain involved in attention, inhibition, and monitoring of emotions, Dr. Vincent P. Matthews of Indiana University, Indianapolis, reported.

The study is one of the first to document the effects of violent video games on brain activity, Dr. Matthews said in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

Although numerous behavioral studies have shown a correlation between violent video games and increased aggression, few neuroimaging studies have been done, said Dr. Matthews, professor of radiology at the university. Gathering that neurophysiologic data is important, because researchers believe the active role-playing involved in violent video games might make them more harmful than violent television shows or movies, he said.

The detrimental effects of violent video games described in behavioral studies include desensitization to violence; observational learning, in which repeated exposure to violent behavior is rewarded and aggressive behavior becomes encoded as appropriate; an increasingly hostile view of the world; and behavioral and cognitive scripts that might counteract positive environmental influences and in which violence can come to be seen as acceptable or even necessary.

Recent work by Dr. Matthews and his colleagues demonstrated the short-term effects of violent video games on brain function in adolescents. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) revealed decreased activity in areas of the brain involved in inhibition and attention after 30 minutes of game time.
“In this study we wanted to look at longer-term violent video game play and its potential to alter brain function,” Dr. Matthews said.
For the study, 28 young men, none of whom were heavy video game players, were randomized to experimental and control groups. The groups did not differ significantly in age, IQ, or video game experience.

Subjects in the video game group were given a computer loaded with a first-person shooter video game (industry-rated for mature audiences) for home use and were asked to play the game 2 hours daily for 1 week, followed by 1 week of no game play. Subjects averaged a total of 10 hours of game time. The control group refrained from video games throughout the study period.

Functional MRI was performed on all subjects at baseline, 1 week, and 2 weeks. Subjects performed two Stroop psychological tests: an emotional task and a counting task. The emotional task required participants to name the color of words in a series, which included both neutral (run, walk) and emotional (hit, kill) words. Emotionally charged words have been shown to produce a subconscious interference effect that results in a delayed response.
The counting task required subjects to view number words (two, three) and respond with the number of visual stimuli presented, not the words themselves (for example, the correct response to the word “three” shown twice would be “two”). This task also is designed to produce an interference effect.
Dr. Matthews and his colleagues looked specifically at changes in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain known to be most highly activated by the interference effect and an area involved in emotional modulation and inhibition, and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is involved in attention.
Statistical maps showed that brain activation in these regions remained unchanged in the nongame group from baseline to week 1 and week 2. Brain activation in the video game group did not differ significantly from the nongame group at baseline.
However, activation decreased significantly in the video game group, compared with the nongame group, after 1 week of daily violent video game playing. Activation in this group returned almost to baseline at week 2 after 1 week of no game playing. Maps of brain activation also showed significant differences in the video game group between baseline and week 1 and between weeks 1 and 2.

“What we’re seeing is that there’s a decrease in normal blood flow to that area after a week of playing violent games,” Dr. Matthews said.
“Because the groups were randomly assigned and didn’t have any significant differences in their demographics, the differences can be assumed to be a result of the violent video game playing,” he said. “Our results may be an explanation for these behavioral studies that show increased aggressive behavior following violent video games. So this actually is a physiologic explanation for what others have previously measured in behavioral studies.”
This study was supported by the Center for Successful Parenting, a group that seeks to help parents understand the consequences of “children watching video violence.” Dr. Matthews had no disclosures.

[The Dark Knight]

Here comes the fun police.

[smac]

Here comes the fun police.

Shall we shoot him just like in the game? :grin:

[Kahuna]

Any one tried World of Tanks?
Free online multi player tank battles.
About a 2 gig download
http://worldoftanks.com/game/

[Psyber]

Here comes the fun police.

Shall we shoot him just like in the game? :grin:

If you guys want to gamble with your own brain feel free to go for it.
I just thought you should know the risks are real...

I've had Neurology training and experience, and as I've said in other threads I don't use WiFi either. (And I use phones hands free...)
They make brain changes too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_pho ... and_health

[The Dark Knight]

Here comes the fun police.

Shall we shoot him just like in the game? :grin:

If you guys want to gamble with your own brain feel free to go for it.
I just thought you should know the risks are real...

I've had Neurology training and experience, and as I've said in other threads I don't use WiFi either. (And I use phones hands free...)
They make brain changes too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_pho ... and_health

Thanks dad, I'll be in my room playing PS3 if you need me, if not let me know when dinners ready.

[Psyber]

Thanks dad, I'll be in my room playing PS3 if you need me, if not let me know when dinners ready.

OK - if you don't want to know, you don't want to know - but, as a doctor, I am concerned about what people are doing to themselves.
So, my last comment is that the brain modifications toward facilitating aggression may be associated with Epigenetic messengers switching genes on and off.
If that is the case the changes become inheritable with the genes, so you may not be just inflicting them on yourself.

Shoot the messenger, or just ignore him, as you wish...
I'll but out at this point.

[Westsider]

[Westsider]

I guess you don't use your microwave oven either. No bluetooth devices? You change your route to work to avoid mobile towers. You triple insulate all electrical cables?

As a doctor you should also stop sprouting bullshit that has never been proven, only speculated.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Thanks for your concern Psyber.

Even though you have some flimsy evidence, I have never come across a gamer who I would consider aggressive or threatening. In fact 99% are the least threatening people you could meet. Check out the people who compete in the MLG.

[HH3]

Got a bunch of PC games the other day

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Fable 3 (pretty gay)
Farcry 2

and an oldie but a goody - Need For Speed Underground 2

[The Sleeping Giant]

I made the mistake of buying minecraft the other day. Goodbye life.

[BIG SEXY]

Thanks for your concern Psyber.

Even though you have some flimsy evidence, I have never come across a gamer who I would consider aggressive or threatening. In fact 99% are the least threatening people you could meet. Check out the people who compete in the MLG.

since i fall outside the demographic of 18-28 im just going to speculate that it doesnt effect me at all and continue playing FPS games and violent games. followed by me runningpeople down in the street with stolen cars

[Wedgie]

Woohoo. Defense Grid has a new expansion pack out now. That'll keep me away from World of Warcraft forba couple of hours.

[Psyber]

I guess you don't use your microwave oven either. No bluetooth devices? You change your route to work to avoid mobile towers. You triple insulate all electrical cables?
As a doctor you should also stop sprouting bullshit that has never been proven, only speculated.

OK one reply.. to the "bullshit" issue

I do use a microwave but I don't stand near it - distance helps.
I don't use bluetooth the antenna does concentrate the field and the distance from your brain is short.
I rely on the car to shield me to some extend as avoiding the towers is impossible.
The 50 Hz of the electrical cables is not as worrying as GHz frequencies in these devices - but I wouldn't live under high tension wires.
(There is strong evidence they increase the abortion rate in farm stock.)

The evidence about the issues I raised, and those above that you raised, is not purely speculative "bullshit", but substantial and growing.
Sure there is dispute in it at the moment, just as there is in most fields of science, but why gamble with your safety and your kids' safety?
This guy is one world expert who urges caution: http://www.brain-surgery.us/index.html
See also: http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobilephone.html

But, hey, if you want to ignore - go for it.
Just remember all industries are "safe" until they can't lie any longer - look at asbestos...

[tipper]

Any one tried World of Tanks?
Free online multi player tank battles.
About a 2 gig download
http://worldoftanks.com/game/

love it! i have used nearly eery American and Russian tank in the game, and up to teir six on the Germans. i have found it very addictive obviously!

do you play it a lot Kahuna? are you in a clan?