{"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":"

The popularity of 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

It’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

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

High school shootings have been blamed on violent video games<\/strong>, even when it is clear to anyone with an understanding of psychology that the tiniest fraction of people playing a 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

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

The vast majority of gamers are completely ordinary people, and anyone with any common sense realizes that. But the stories won’t go away, and we should probably accept this fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’s because they were playing the game on a screen rather than on a patch of turf somewhere, honing their skills. Is it…<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t