Posted Jun 17, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC
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I was playing P4G a couple weekends ago after being ghosted by someone who I really liked at that time. I did Daisuke social link which unknowingly was all about getting over an ex. Shit was therapeutic af.
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Spiritfarer coming out during the pandemic strangely couldn't have been timed any better.
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Got dumped by a long term s/o and playing street fighter kept me from getting completely depressed
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Does this apply to multiplayer games or not? because I imagine those could exacerbate issues with how toxic they can get.
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The paper did mention and reference some specific MP games. But I doubt they are controlling for toxic players. More likely the studies would classify a type of game and then have someone rate how they feel before and after playing. I doubt the referenced studies invoked any more objective data endpoints other than subjective self-evaluation.
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I didn’t see any mention in the paper about loot boxes or slot machine reward mechanics. But still it’s nice to see some scientific vindication.
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I mean, when I roll, I get my dopamine hit, how can that be bad?
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It depends on how addicting that dopamine hit is. “Just one more” can be disastrous for some.
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A therapist I did see told me to never touch drugs because I could easily get addicted, but funnily enough don't really have that problem in gacha games. I can have problems grinding for some stuff too long though in stuff like MMOs.
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Ya obviously games are good for you. Now if you will excuse me I will resume my daily ritual of playing GG strive and becoming an anxious mess for the next 2 hours.
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I mean…that’s nice. But please also do therapy
Edit: ah the paper mentions that. Nvm
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I don't have the time to read through the entire study itself (and it's a bitch to get to it on Mobile anyway) but I am really curious if they talk at all about amount of time playing games/escapism.
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stigma-free
That's very subjective.
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You haven’t seen Death Note!?!?
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I thought, from the title, that it would be another of that one guy's crazy wrestling compilations featuring the legendary WOO WOO WOO WOO-off.
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I was going for more of a world-weary, unenthusiastic, deadpan woo.
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No shit
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Folks gon take the wrong message from this 😂
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As usual, science has proven me right.
I can see this being being true, but it'd be funny if it turns out like the "Eating red meat is bad/good"/"Fish feel pain/don't feel pain"/"Drinking alcohol is bad/good" like articles where multiple studies contradict each other.
Well, this is the latest in a long line of articles that show good things about video games. We've been seeing "video games are good for you, actually" articles for decades now.
I see it like any hobby. It's good for you with moderation, but if you let it control your life it becomes a problem.
The same could be said for all religions. Uh, I mean, anything.
And wasn’t there something a while back about how the group funding some of these studies didn’t want to consider any positive results, so they just threw out the data and ordered more studies until they could get one proving video games are bad for you?
Yeah. Most of the time when a study says video games are bad, it's because the people threw out any results that said otherwise.
Oh sure, haven't seen one about depression and anxiety though, but it is funny how "not settled" science can be, and pop science can have issues in how studies are presented.
It's not funny at all. Science is never settled. That's the whole point of science.
The problem is a study by itself isn’t “true”, it presents evidence to the hypothesis presented. Another study can have a different outcome based on how the study was conducted. It’s why there are so few “laws” in biology when compared to physics or chemistry, it’s too complex to have a “truth” be right 100% of the time.
You’re too powerful, I’m gonna have to stop you
You will try.
John Williams intensifies