The following report is from Study Finds:
Life may not be as simple as a game, but a new study finds playing them sure helps people reach the “next level” in their careers. Nearly half of Americans credit many of their successes in life to playing video games.
A new survey polled 2,000 Americans about the biggest lessons they’ve learned from video games and discovered 47% say gaming prepared them for success. Another six in 10 believe they gained a keener creative eye or better problem-solving skills. A similar amount (59%) add video games improved their hand-eye coordination, while others learned time management skills (50%).
‘Call Of Duty’ Over College?
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of World of Warships by Wargaming, the survey reveals 42% feel like they’ve learned more life skills through video games than in school.
Does the “video game mentality” also hold the secret to a successful career? Nearly three in four (74%) think being competitive is necessary in the workforce. While over four in five (82%) find video games to be generally relaxing, three in five also find that competitive video games relieve stress and 79% even think a little friendly competition can be therapeutic.
Sixty-eight percent admit to getting competitive playing video games, even when they’re playing alone. However, 46% of Americans admit that they can let their passionate nature get the best of them. Still, nearly two in three people (63%) consider their competitiveness an advantage when it comes to pushing through difficult situations.
Video games aren’t all about being the best on your own though. Respondents also enjoy teaming up with others (49%), facing challenges (48%), and meeting new people in general (41%).
It’s clear from the results that gaming has so many benefits to our society. Whether it’s critical thinking, problem solving or communication – we all have something to gain from gaming. The results show that one of the biggest benefits of gaming is that collaboration with other players.
Artur Plociennik, Regional Publishing Director, World of Warships by Wargaming
It’s All Fun And Video Games Until Someone Starts Losing
Unfortunately, competition can turn a little unfriendly for nearly a quarter of gamers (23%) who have lost respect for a friend because of their lack of gaming skills. Even though respondents have lost an average of two friends after an intense game, 67% say they always reconnect through gaming.
Good sportsmanship makes for good times, but gamers are most likely to quit if others are behaving disrespectfully (55%) or if they’re on an infuriating losing streak (42%). Two-thirds (67%) can relate to “rage-quitting,” or being so frustrated by a video game that they quit playing it. Typically, these gamers need an average of four days to recover from the awful experience.
Other extreme reactions to frustrating games include yelling obscenities (40%), throwing their controller across the room (33%), or turning off the entire console without saving (31%). One in 10 claim they’ve even thrown out that particular video game for good.
Gaming can be so immersive it’s easy to get wrapped up into it and have a rough moment. At the end of the day, everyone games to have fun and be a part of a community, so it’s all about finding a way to take a step back and remember why you’re gaming in the first place.
Artur Plociennik
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
What you just read is one of the many reasons America is dead: it is full losers and sluggards that have accomplished absolutely nothing, and is why the country is dead spiritually, morally, financially, and so on.
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
Proverbs 26:14
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs 10:26
I am by no means an advocate for America’s laughing stock of a “education” system, but this study translates to millions across the nation that think that playing video games has taught them MORE than school! Do you realize how asinine that sounds? So, what did you learn: how to carjack someone in GTA? Of course, ‘That’s just “one” game, there are tons of “educational” ones!’
And it’s even more hilarious to see that these people actually have convinced themselves that their finger-flicking has taught them the meaning of tenacity and adversity.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Ecclesiastes 7:14
[3] Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. [4] No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.2 Timothy 2:3-4
And then people wonder why productivity and quality continually of products and services dip annually, people are getting fatter and lazier, the divide between athletes and healthy competitors in sports widen, children getting more and more maleducated (in tandem with a useless education system), and so on and so forth.
Bottom line is this: video games’ sole purpose is to addict. They are a vice that offer no real benefits to them. I know there are some losers reading this right now and are getting seriously triggered; so, I ask those people: put your acquired “skills” to save you and protect when the power goes out for lengthy period of time, let alone a couple of hours.
Additionally, I continue to cover these video games reports because the World Economic Forum and other institutions have made it clear that video gaming and virtual reality will become an integral part of everyday life, so I am trying to warn against it as more and more propaganda studies will continue to come out making it look like video games are so wonderful and beneficial.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I was a video game addict for 16 years (from the age of 6 to the age of 22). I am 24 now and looking back, I wish I was outside more and eating less junk food (I was a fast food fanatic since high school because I would go to McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s etc. you name it), especially candy. If I never played videos games, I would be more productive, in better shape, & even a little bit taller. But that’s okay because I am at least doing something about it. Ever since I stopped going for vaccinations, I feel my health is actually improving and my body is recovering (it will take a while). I know that the health implications will come upon me, but it won’t be as bad. Should I continue on the path of fast food, and stuff, I would experience those affects sooner and for a lot longer.
I refuse to go near another video game and the day I pick up the more modern ones on XBOX and PS5 or computer games like World of Warcraft or Diablo (Spanish for devil, so steer clear of that for sure) and GTA, COD, Animal Crossing, the latest Super Mario game, that will be the day pigs sprout wings and fly.
Like Bryan Denlinger said to all the lazy smug gamers “YOURE PATHETIC YOURE A LOSER YOUR LIFE IS A JOKE YOURE WORTHLESS!!!”
Reminds me, that game reviewing dork who is already over 40 years of age, the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN his real name is James Rolfe) I highly advise you to NOT look him up, he is a potty mouth that would make sailors blush! Reviewing all of his video games and basking in his video game prowess, he dedicated his life to being a first class loser!
As someone who has worked with tech for a very long time, I would say that it is the downfall of mankind. The instrument of our enslavement. I was lucky enough to also have been very poor as a child. Once I got saved, I started to go back to the old ways. If you can not live without it, it is no longer a convenience.
.\\itch – John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall
be done unto you.
I am sure the Carter Connon Maze would be very impressed with the article, and use it to justify their video game addiction. Perhaps they could be the elders of a new; “First Gamers Church”!
No doubt there’ll be a “gamers church,” where either they quote end quote “worship God” with gaming or christian games, OR it will be comic con for World of Warcraft players where they worship their games and favorite characters. There’s a satanic temple called liquid church where they have Star Wars themed “sermons” and they’re Star Wars fans. Video game themed church is next! They’ll probably be liberal and lukewarm enough to have a gospel according to “saint Mario” or “from Sonic the Hedgehog to Sonic the Apostle.” Sickening!