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What is the socially acceptable cut off age for playing video games?

Agree. I think like anything it depends on ones responsibilities and balance - basically, don't get addicted and let other areas of your life suffer at the expense of games - moderation. Games can also help to strengthen problem solving in the young, stave off Alzheimer's Disease in the elderly and just straight up entertain at any point in life - No point in setting a gaming age cap.

miscbrahh said:
more and more older people are getting into playing video games tbh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture#Demographics

I honestly don't think there is a cut off for video games anymore, especially since a ps3 for example can be used for blu-ray movies.
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I think it's laughable that people are having opinions against people playing videogames. Like One Thousand Words said about "when do you stop playing chess?"... I go with this.

The only difference is, chess isn't animated, which we associate with cartoons/childhood. This means nothing, though, really.

Would you feel less mature if you were playing a game with just the lines of the polys, and basic shading? I doubt it. It's simply that we associate it with cartoons. Many of the themes, like headshotting an opponent, are not "childish". If we think of it as such, we are wrong, surely.

The thing about Obama better be a joke. Too, I mean.. Drone pilots...
 
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the obama thing is a joke - it's a comical reference to droppersneck's "liberals are responsible for everything bad that happens" trolling in ce&p.

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MrGrunge said:
You absolutely must stop playing video games by the time you graduate high school. After that, you have to become an adult - all your entertainment must come from the Wallstreet Journal and doing your taxes.
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I'd put it in the nightclub class.
So 25.
Once you are over 25 you CAN NOT go out to nightclubs and should sell your games console. The good news is that stag do's and festivals and just maybe house parties are ok till you're 65. %)
 
it isn't 1995 any more, there isn't an age too old for movies, why video games

there's currently 40 year olds who grew up with video games, been a constant part of their lives

40 year olds didn't have any idea wtf a Nintendo was in 1990, fuck that foreign/foreign bullshit, I gotta wash my truck for the 3rd time tonight
 
i think if you like video games play them no matter how old you are unless you're a fiend. that shit can ruin someone. personally i don't play them at all because i feel it's a poor use of my time.
 
@L2R, I think that guy's hitting on me :(

There shouldn't ever be a socially acceptable cut-off age, since video games are essentially generalized training tools that can sharpen reaction time and problem-solving skills. And they're fun! Why should we cut off such a valuable source of fun and education when we hit a certain age?

I also think they should make more jungle gyms for adults.
 
^lol

Well if you have nothing to do and it's raining outside/snowing what are you gonna do? I'd just play video games you know lols that or watch a movie, tv show, bluelight read a novel depending on my mood.
 
Adding weight to the argument that video games can actually be good for you, here's part of an article that was posted six days ago on Science Daily....

Playing Video Games Can Boost Brain Power

Aug. 21, 2013 — Certain types of video games can help to train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL).

The researchers recruited 72 volunteers and measured their 'cognitive flexibility' described as a person's ability to adapt and switch between tasks, and think about multiple ideas at a given time to solve problems.

Two groups of volunteers were trained to play different versions of a real-time strategy game called StarCraft, a fast-paced game where players have to construct and organise armies to battle an enemy. A third of the group played a life simulation video game called The Sims, which does not require much memory or many tactics.

All the volunteers played the video games for 40 hours over six to eight weeks, and were subjected to a variety of psychological tests before and after. All the participants happened to be female as the study was unable to recruit a sufficient number of male volunteers who played video games for less than two hours a week.

The researchers discovered that those who played StarCraft were quicker and more accurate in performing cognitive flexibility tasks, than those who played The Sims.

Dr Brian Glass from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, said: "Previous research has demonstrated that action video games, such as Halo, can speed up decision making but the current work finds that real-time strategy games can promote our ability to think on the fly and learn from past mistakes."

"Our paper shows that cognitive flexibility, a cornerstone of human intelligence, is not a static trait but can be trained and improved using fun learning tools like gaming."
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continued: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130821094924.htm
 
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