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Originally Posted by Sbudda
My hand eye coordination is amazing. There was a study that proved that surgeons that played at least 6 hours a week had fewer mistakes with endoscopic surgery. The Army uses a number of FPS games to teach the value of squad manuver and command structure. As a person who was always interested in figuring out how things worked, playing games got me interested in game development, and later enterprise level computer programming - which is what I do now.
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There's a mailing list I'm on that tries to explore more educational uses for games and looking at the applications that promote that. America's Army developed by the Army has been one of the more effective promotional tools to come out.
Serious Games if you're interested.
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Originally Posted by Sbudda
It is my opinion that people who choose to shield their children away from different aspects of life are doing the children a great disservice by not allowing them to find a moderate position when they make decisions on their own. I would never suggest that games are the end all be all solution for people - but I wouldn't suggest hiding it as if it was a bad thing either. I was forbidden to watch horror movies as a child, but my wife was forced to watch them all when she was a little kid. Guess who still gets scared at those movies today (that would be me).
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Hear hear!