School Essays and Pretentious Websites

[Max4344]

I am suprized there's no GTA

[Ad Bot]

[Visage]

The problem is playing any game has negative effects on people. You can play Angry Birds all day and you will still end up being more easily agitated, having a shorter attention span, and being more likely to be depressed just because how video games work. Achieving goals in video games basically rapes your brain with dopamine and after you stop you get a kind of withdrawal like effect that causes the previously mentioned side effects. I did a paper my senior year on video game addiction but I forgot most of it I got an A on it and it was like 14 pages long since the topic interested me.

[Jairo]

I am suprized there's no GTA

this

also, I love how mortal kombat is included considering it's the whole reason the esrb exists

[John Freeman]

You would rather pick this game, than Postal 2. You would rather pick this game, that Manhunt. You would rather pick this game, than a GTA game.
Disappoint

[Squideey]

BUT MOM I WANT TO PLA VIDOAGAMSSS

[Kumquat]

Soccer moms!

Finally! Ultra-Flattering Maternity Swimwear

[Swat 3]

Same thing.

For instance, if you constantly 'dwell on' or think about negative things like poverty and war daily, you'll eventually go insane.

That may be outdated (or totally false, as in from an unreliable source) information.
small children should not play games meant for adults, no

the only time it's ever OK for someone underage to own a game above their 'scope' of ratings is if they're obviously mature enough for it

aka this 12 year old who has all rated M games for his PS3. :3

[Pixel]

Why would you choose such a generic topic

[Ben Grapevine]

Penn and Teller debunked the correlation between videogames and real life violence.

[dorkdotdan]

Penn and Teller debunked the correlation between videogames and real life violence.

Bullstuff did a story on this and it was pretty funny.

[Trinick.]

I'm supposed to be writing an essay about the federal regulation of the internet and why it shouldn't happen.

It's due tomorrow, it was assigned a month ago, and I don't even have Microsoft Word installed.

[fawkes..]

I can't believe Halo Reach is on that list, wow.

I'm supposed to be writing an essay about the federal regulation of the internet and why it shouldn't happen.

It's due tomorrow, it was assigned a month ago, and I don't even have Microsoft Word installed.

Neither do I, all my homework is done on notepad:D

[Trinick.]

Neither do I, all my homework is done on notepad:D

You can't turn in a formal essay written in Notepad, otherwise I would do it all the time.

[fawkes..]

You can't turn in a formal essay written in Notepad, otherwise I would do it all the time.

I write stuff up in notepad, then take it on a usb into school where I use one of their computers to put it onto Microsoft word, only takes about 10 minutes.

[dorkdotdan]

I write stuff up in notepad, then take it on a usb into school where I use one of their computers to put it onto Microsoft word, only takes about 10 minutes.

Why not just use Open Office?