The Videogame Equivalent of Poison #shorts

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Published on April 28, 2023 7:04:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSkxxu8q19E

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Excerpted from "The Real Harm of Games" which can be found here in full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjuk-xsUL5U

If there are video games that are proven to help people's mental or physical health... then is it possible there are games that actually directly harm us? #shorts #videogames #addiction

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In the 80s, we were told Dungeons & Dragons would make us all satanists. In the 90s, first person shooters and Mortal Kombat were supposed to make us all murderers. Games have joined the long and storied history of books, music, movies, and television being primed to destroy us all. Thankfully, most of the fears around how games might harm us have proven false, misleading, or downright ridiculous. So what’s left? Lootboxes? What is the REAL harm of games? And what can we do about it?

Presented by GeekNights at PAX East 2019. Friday, March 29th at 3:30pm in the Cuttlefish Theatre:
http://frontrowcrew.com/news/163/live-at-pax-east-and-zenkaikon/

Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fXEa8J0L-LNlcT_NjkLxltwW9zHqDMMAX3mKduiIhJ0/edit?usp=sharing