What would the world be like if Ralph Baer (dude that invented videogames) never thought of making games. Instead he just used all of his money on hookers and lottery tickets. I bet that we would have more deaths since it is a proven fact that playing games help doctors operate.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685909/

I'd be hooked on smack and crank if not for video games. Thank you video games.

I'm sure we'd survive without them. Still can't deny that I do enjoy my video games, though probably don't play them as much as I used to when I was a teenager.

Fuck off with your trolling Giga Flare, obviously the entire world would be aflame, ruled by cyborg apes with a lust for cranberry sauce and pecan sandies if not for video games. YOU HAVE MADE MY LIST. YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR.

I think i would be trying to ride a hoerse liek teh gehneral in ma avatars

A horse made of fire and plague given the world's state of pure, unbridled chaos

Hmm... A world with no video games... In that case... Tiddlywinks, chess, draughts, monopoly, atmosfear... :)

What would the world be like if Ralph Baer (dude that invented videogames) never thought of making games. Instead he just used all of his money on hookers and lottery tickets. I bet that we would have more deaths since it is a proven fact that playing games help doctors operate.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685909/

Someone else would have invented them eventually.

Fuck off with your trolling Giga Flare, obviously the entire world would be aflame, ruled by cyborg apes with a lust for cranberry sauce and pecan sandies if not for video games. YOU HAVE MADE MY LIST. YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR.

Can assure you that I wasn't trolling at all, just giving my answer to the question asked. I wasn't trying to imply that I was against video games in the least, believe it or not.

And the answer to the "fuck off" instruction is nope! :)

Truth be told, I don't play that much to be honest. Only like two to three hours a week.

The world would be a physically healthier, but more monotonous place.

Someone else would have invented them eventually.

I'd be addicted to something else. I don't know what it would be though.

Pringles and zero gravity fencing

The world would be a physically healthier, but more monotonous place.

no



why?







everyone would be on movies








and game actually gives me a fucking imagination




like never before. couple it with books and films, and you got joorself the nitro of imagination

no

why?

everyone would be on movies

and game actually gives me a fucking imagination






Yeah, I know what you mean.

Given the choice between playing the Silent Hill game and watching the movie, I'd pick the game over the film anyday - though like the film well enough.

Now we need less industrialised stuff in the gaming industry... Because it's becoming poop to some extent.

Well, assuming that no one actually got around invented video games, and assuming that the invention of video games prompted the computer industry that we need home computers, and thus because video games weren't invented computers would continue to be big, bulky beige boxes that used rolls of tape instead of CDs... I'd say I'd be a couch potato. Instead of having 8 computers like I have now, I'd probably have like 8 TVs and 8 VCRs instead. Or maybe even more.

Assuming that those two weren't linked however, and personal computers are still invented, I'd say I'd probably only be a computer gamer, and probably a happier one too, since computer games probably wouldn't be overly-realism-driven to compete with videogames, and thus development would probably be slower. Ah, the good ol' days of Karateka, where a 3.58MHz 8086 CPU with 768k of RAM and a PC beeper pwns everything. And people play games using the numeric 8-6-4-2 keypad instead of the wasd and wasz and arrow keys that I find clumsy to use.

Assuming that computer games weren't invented by Robert Baer, but eventually invented by a Japanese, Maybe we'll all have PS9s which are actually affordable and truly region-free by now.

What would the world be like if Ralph Baer (dude that invented videogames) never thought of making games. Instead he just used all of his money on hookers and lottery tickets. I bet that we would have more deaths since it is a proven fact that playing games help doctors operate.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685909/

it would have been a whole hel of alot better because not so many people would drop out of college and everyone would be smarter because the would read books instead of playing Final Fantasy all day every day. Although it really doesn't matter because someone else would have invented them later.

I read the article and I'm not sure about the validity of the research.

Most likely they used convenience sampling, since there isn't any probability-factor in which they select their sample from the population (which is surgeons all over the world). Using convenience sampling, a rough and ready rule to determine the number of required responses needed for analysis is that for each major sub-category that needs to be compared there should be about 20-30 responses [T.F.Burgess, 2001, University of Leeds]. In this case, we want to compare the results of two major segments (surgeons who have been playing videogames for 3 hours per week or more versus surgeons who don't do that). If all groups are equally represented in the sample, we should aim at least at 40 responses.

If they would have used probability sampling, instead of convenience sampling -which would not have been a wise decision, because of earlier stated arguments-, they should have used over 50 responses.

Seeing that they merely used 33 responses, it can't be considered a valid research, which means, Prezelman, your argument is void.

Oh and btw, I think the world would be gay ass boring.

If there were no videogames I think I'd have to get off my arse and do something productive.

Please don't take take them away from me. :laugh:

I grow up without Video games or computergames hm i dident care we had Table games it was funny too.
I wouldent mind if my kids would grow up that way too,but that doesent work this days.
So i let them play no more than half an houre a day,never more never less.

I read the article and I'm not sure about the validity of the research.

Most likely they used convenience sampling, since there isn't any probability-factor in which they select their sample from the population (which is surgeons all over the world). Using convenience sampling, a rough and ready rule to determine the number of required responses needed for analysis is that for each major sub-category that needs to be compared there should be about 20-30 responses [T.F.Burgess, 2001, University of Leeds]. In this case, we want to compare the results of two major segments (surgeons who have been playing videogames for 3 hours per week or more versus surgeons who don't do that). If all groups are equally represented in the sample, we should aim at least at 40 responses.

If they would have used probability sampling, instead of convenience sampling -which would not have been a wise decision, because of earlier stated arguments-, they should have used over 50 responses.

Seeing that they merely used 33 responses, it can't be considered a valid research, which means, Prezelman, your argument is void.



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I read the article and I'm not sure about the validity of the research.

Most likely they used convenience sampling, since there isn't any probability-factor in which they select their sample from the population (which is surgeons all over the world). Using convenience sampling, a rough and ready rule to determine the number of required responses needed for analysis is that for each major sub-category that needs to be compared there should be about 20-30 responses [T.F.Burgess, 2001, University of Leeds]. In this case, we want to compare the results of two major segments (surgeons who have been playing videogames for 3 hours per week or more versus surgeons who don't do that). If all groups are equally represented in the sample, we should aim at least at 40 responses.

If they would have used probability sampling, instead of convenience sampling -which would not have been a wise decision, because of earlier stated arguments-, they should have used over 50 responses.

Seeing that they merely used 33 responses, it can't be considered a valid research, which means, Prezelman, your argument is void.

I didnt even really look at this article. I just already knew that this was true and tried to find an article about it as proof. They're alot of other articles about this subject not this one. Even if this one cant make for a considerable argument one of the others possibly can.

The world would cease to exist as we know it. And Hitler would've won WWII! An alternate reality!

I know I had a point in there someplace, I think I'll have another drink...

What would life be like without video games? I'd probably be an 18 year old virgin with chronic masturbation. Wait, I think it's the other way around.

Without video games, I would have gone on to obtain my masters in biology, astrophysics, biochemistry, quantum physics, english, engineering, and 20 other sciences. I would have created the cure for cance, aids, herpes, the avian flu, and the common cold. I would have gone to war, found osama, brought him back, and converted him to christianity. I would have figured out how to master my chi energy, learned to fly unaided, shoot energy balls, breathe in space, jump super high, and save the world from frieza.


Yah. it would have been hell. o_o

d&d would be more mainstream, lol. I grew up as a gamer. I can't imagine life without them, and it hurts too bad to try.

i'll be playing scrabble

Ah, hey sausage. :)

Dude Ekinserge. What the heck his your avatar doing?

oviously he is zipping his pants after a kind gentlenam, told him his fly was down

A world without video games?

Everyone would be dead of obeisity, since playing video games loses weight due to the rapid movement of the fingers and arms.
Everyone would be on forums posting in topics like 'What would life be like with videogames.'.
Everyone would be sitting in front of the TV instead of the computer.
There would be a lot more homeless people.
There would be a lot more suicides.
There would be a lot more operation related deaths.
Everyone's reflexes would be slower.
People would be even less social.
Other businesses would be booming.
Less people with glasses.
Fat people would be shunned by society even more so.
Physically demented people would be shunned by society even more so.

That's what life would be like without video games (there's more, just can't be bothered anymore)

People shunned by society use video games to escape reality, and online games to make friends. Sure there's still msn etc. but how would they meet their contacts?

Without video games, the world would be completely different. It wouldn't necessarily be like the way i said, as people would have found other activities to amuse themselves. but if you were to suddenly remove the existence of video games from reality and everyone's memory without replacing it with something else. Most of that would probably be true.

We can live without videogames or a computer, I think.

Heh, yep. Human life has adapted to computers and video games as a regular thing, we can't really go back now.

SORRY! Double post -_-;;