[PIGMI] R18 Classification Review

[Kat Black]

Three of them if you count wii and kinect ;)


On 1 December 2010 18:16, Liam Jones <ijebus at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Fitness, skill development and teamwork"
>
> I think that it could be argued that gaming develops two of those three.
>
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> From: "George" <gt at crunchyfrog.com.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:11 PM
> To: <pigmi at pigmi.org>
> Subject: Re: [PIGMI] R18 Classification Review
>
>> A very good question Jack.
>>
>> Is it because sports have more obvious positives to them, such as fitness,
>> skill development and teamwork, whereas playing a game has less obvious or
>> immediate positive benefit, other than simply being entertaining...?
>>
>> I think it was Penn & Teller that did an excellent comparison of the
>> actual likelihood of your kids being injured as a result of competitive
>> sport vs playing video games. No prizes for guessing which one was the more
>> dangerous activity :)
>>
>>
>> On 1/12/2010 3:29 PM, Jack Casey wrote:
>>>
>>> Why doesn't someone do a comparison of violent behaviour of young adult
>>> video gamers vs young adult AFL players?
>>> I don't get why people are trying to prove or disprove that playing a
>>> violent game might make you more hyped up and violent for the next hour
>>> (duh). When it surely also happens with most any other competitive activity
>>> (let's say, paintball?) and no one has any problem with those?
>>
>>
>> --
>>  George
>>
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