{"id":4,"date":"2017-01-06T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infomagz.com\/gaming\/?p=4"},"modified":"2016-06-24T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T07:08:00","slug":"not-just-for-nerds-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/not-just-for-nerds-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just For Nerds Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of <strong>video gaming<\/strong> has been  a comfortable source for many news stories over the years. They are  something to blame if something goes wrong in a high school, for teenage  obesity, and even in some places for the lowering in quality of outdoor  sports. A poor supply of players in skill positions? <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because  they were playing the game on a screen rather than on a patch of turf  somewhere, honing their skills. Is it valid reasoning? Almost certainly  not. Does it provide a handy way of abdicating responsibility for the  failure of a system? Sure it does.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that video games have their  good and bad points, but it is entirely unfair to make baseless generalisations  about them to cover for a deeper malaise. <\/p>\n<p>High school shootings have  been blamed on <strong>violent video games<\/strong>, even when it is clear to anyone  with an understanding of psychology that the tiniest fraction of people  playing a <strong>video game<\/strong> will be unable to understand the clear difference  between what goes on onscreen and what is acceptable in real life. <\/p>\n<p>Not  only that, but if people are convinced by a video game that what they  do in the game is OK in real life, then they can realistically think  that about a TV show, a movie or even a news broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of gamers are completely  ordinary people, and anyone with any common sense realizes that. But  the stories won&#8217;t go away, and we should probably accept this fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of video gaming has been a comfortable source for many news stories over the years. They are something to blame if something goes wrong in a high school, for teenage obesity, and even in some places for the lowering in quality of outdoor sports. A poor supply of players in skill positions? It&#8217;s because they were playing the game on a screen rather than on a patch of turf somewhere, honing their skills. Is it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,22,14,20,18,17,19,21],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-video-gaming","tag-cheapest","tag-cheats","tag-cool","tag-disney","tag-kids","tag-latest","tag-list-of","tag-online"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}