Top 5 Things I Learned From Videogames

[venkman]

I thought this was pretty interesting:

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As a child, I always did extremely poorly on the spacial relations problems on standardized exams (as in 10-20 percentile below my score in the other areas). As I grew older, these scores kept going up and up while the rest stayed relatively similar so my spacia relations ability certainly did improve. I'm sure some of it was just getting older, but I wonder how much of it came from video games.

I do disagree with economics though, I think people tend to interpret the economic lessons poorly and come to fairly inaccurate conclusions. The economic concepts you do learn, like arbitrage, are things EVERYONE knows just from their day to day lives.

 

[JackBurton]

What video games did for me is improve my hand eye coordination and pattern solving skills.

 

[Oyeve]

Games taught me how to jack cars. GTA style.

 

[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
Games taught me how to jack cars. GTA style.

If they resist, kick them in the face.

 

[erwos]

Games and business school taught me the same thing: if you want to accomplish your goal, be prepared to endure some pain, and to dish it out.

 

[potato28]

They taught me that people aren't always going to help you in life and most of the time will be complete dicks unless you show them whos boss.

 

[Heller]

my xbox is my friend its like a buddy.

he has a name as well Cornelius Jenkins.

when my friends are over here Saturday morning hung over they get baked and talk trash in halo 3.

its simply amazing.

 

[Eeezee]

I disagree with you on the economics portion. It teaches you all of the basics of supply/demand, at the very least. It also teaches you about inflation if you've ever bothered to think for a moment.

Older servers = more readily available currency (ie more printed money) = all traded goods cost more due to inflation (1 gold on server X is worth less than 1 gold on server Y, vendor prices only barely alter this concept)

I remember once in Asheron's Call I had a level 20 alt, and a new patch dropped with a town that was ONLY accessible to characters level 20 and lower. Naturally this town had a dungeon underneath it with very common but very cool drops that could be used by players of any level. I was one of the first to go down there, since most players were busy playing the higher level content. I made a MINT off of selling the loot to higher level players. I bought my main a full set of the most expensive armor that you could trade for at the time off of one day's haul of low-level loot. No one had any idea where to get these particular items yet (I don't remember what they were called), so I had a monopoly and charged whatever the market would bear. I'd start by selling at 50,000 pyreals (was a lot back then), relieving the richest players of their purses first. I'd lower the price until around 5000 pyreals, at which point I'd close up shop and count my earnings.

No, you can definitely learn a few things about basic economics in addition to bartering (which is NOT a skill everyone starts off with) and arbitrage (again, this has to be learned, some people have no skill at taking advantage of markets)

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: potato28
They taught me that people aren't always going to help you in life and most of the time will be complete dicks unless you show them whos boss.

:laugh: