Violence and Video Games

This has since been clarified to Red Cross contemplates how they can use video games to help raise awareness of the Geneva and Hague conventions

Sadly? The fact that he came across as a raving loon pretty much shot his arguments in the foot. I'd have hated to see what someone who kept their wits about them (or since we're talking about Jack, even had wits to begin with) would have done.

I don't think they understand that people playing games are usually doing so to escape real life. We (again usually) aren't interested in being educated just entertained.

Perhaps that's the point: only someone who was unable to "keep their wits about them" like Jack would have ever been able to become the poster boy of pointless "make a mountain out of a molehole" causes like his.

As someone who both grew up with video games and spent the last 3.5 years studying how to design them, I have to counter your point with another: It's very satisfying to play a video game as an end user and realize after you're done that, hey, not only was that a lot of fun, but you took something away from it too!

Video games (especially RPGs) are excellent teachers of reading comprehension, vocabulary, math, critical thinking, typing ability, hand-eye coordination, manual dexterity, and other skills.

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Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

I actually learned the correct pronunciation of azure from a video game.

Fixed.

On the contrary, I think we are all in agreement with this rare moment of sanity