War Robots and video gaming addiction

When i first started a couple of years ago i would of been concerned but thanks to Pixonic i play way less now

It doesn't matter who funds a study. It doesn't matter at all. Because it isn't how science works. This is unfortunately a fallacy people use to demonize science and call it into question, and is almost exclusively used by people who aren't educated.

Science is repeatable. Kids today in quality schools learn the scientific method and how apply it. And they produce papers which they list how they did the experiment and what tools they used. So you yourself, if you question it, can repeat the study. And people do that. Scientists repeat the studies they question until they get results they can be explained all the time. The science that article is based on, is peer reviewed, and explains how they did they study. Which means people who are skeptical have gone over it and possibly repeated the science. It's real science.

So if you want to question science, don't question who funds it, repeat the study and question the results. Become part of the peer reviewed process. Anyone can read this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105317740414?journalCode=hpqa . Anyone can repeat it.  But that's hard work, and involves learning new things and challenges you're existing ideas. And it's easier to be ignorant and pretend that who funds it matters so you don't have to change your views.

There are people and groups that fund fake science, such as people who deny climate change. And they get called out and ripped apart by scientists. And the people who believe the fakers, use the same argument you use. I would be shocked if you didn't deny climate that humans are responsible for global warming. 

This anti-intellectualism has to stop. The whole idea that your ignorance is as good as someone else's knowledge because you both have a single vote is destructive.

Yes, what ever. People(scientist) that are run by people that want/need money. Don't know if you were taught statistics in college, but I was. My professor always stated unless you were willing to do the math be skeptical. I guess you're willing to swallow that video games are responsible for mass killings? Sorry, that fact that the scientists are pressured to make money, and are told what the funders are hoping to find-yea right-no chance for bias? Try not thinking that a PHD behind someones name means that they know it all or are absolutely trustworthy. Oh, love how you went to climate change to boost yourself and your point-you really want to convince me of your point of view? Or just shut me up? Yea, for you.

Yes.

I’ve had numerous “addictions” over the year.

The easiest way is to “complete” the game.

If I I was playing war robots and didn’t have the time, and I was addicted, I would drop the 1k required to max my hangar mostly and let the addiction run it’s course over the next couple of weeks.

I found that once I completed the modules and pilots, my desire to play dropped off real fast.

I should have just dropped 500-1k a year ago and stopped.

It’s like finishing a beer , or finishing any other project. If your completionist, just complete the damn thing.

I used to be addicted to this game for sure! But since I got diagnosed with cancer And all that goes with it my playing time is almost down to none now.

Since starting radiation therapy I might play a few hours a week, where as I used to play 4 hours a day! My play time has dwindled because I don’t feel good most days. I really feel bad that I can’t be there for my clan like they need me to.

Enjoy what life gives you as none of it is a guarantee . Life is short so enjoy as much as you can.
I’m sure once I beat this I will start playing more again!

Stay strong bro!!!!

You can't blindly follow anything and be a scientist. Mutually exclusive principles. That shows you don't understand science.

The article is nothing special. Addiction is bad, gaming addiction is bad too. That is literally all it says.

Well, I did publish scientific articles for Clark University. The fact of the matter is what we choose to study is directly influenced by budgets and is subjective. But when we study something, the science itself is not subjective, it is objective or it isn't science (because it has to be repeatable to be science). That was in fact my thesis in college, as I asserted that science was objective in order to refute the claims of feminists who wanted to discredit certain sciences because they were male dominated. The fact certain things were studied because white men choose to study, doesn't mean the results weren't true. And that is now an accepted stance. But it always felt it should have been obvious. My house isn't collapsing right now because the funding for the architectural science it uses wasn't biased. It isn't collapsing because the science was objective regardless of funding.

Go ahead and publish bad science that encourages results that aren't true. It simply won't be reproducible by the critics and will get torn apart by the peer review process. It won't stand like my science did.

You had to say (I think), because you don't know. You have no idea what you're talking about.

I stopped playing War Robots and I immediately felt better.  Then a lot.   Playing War Robots was leaving me angry.  Its hard to justify spending a game that has no vision on trying to improve the player experience but instead, only looks to rip of you of more money with short term drugs and band aids.  

You see, its not about playing a game, its about playing the right game and the wrong game.  

I still have my gaming addiction, but I am playing other games.  Not just one, or two.  But a few different ones in fact.  Like for example, Pokemon Go since that game started.  I play a lot less of PoGo now but I still need the exercise it brings.  But do you know there are elderly who actively play this game so it can stave off their dementia?  That they became less lonely and suddenly more active, and less depressive about life?  

Every new game I play I discover new things.  I discover a lot of things, hell of a lot of things that I won't discover if I play a single game and take a myopic view of gaming trapped inside a tiny enclosure.  

You need to play games.  It exercises your mind, your memory, your eyes, your nerves.  Video games literally hardwire your brain and nervous system for performance.  Not just strategy games but shooting games.  There has been studies to that effect that video gamers do outperform certain mental tasks better than nongamers.  

I have never seen a good gamer depressed, or a gamer playing a good game.   Unless he is playing a game that sucks, or is a bad game, one that is frustrating him or is ripping him off.

robot 「popcorn」 ruined my life !

So, now it's your science due to you quoting Clark U.

What i know. Had a best friend that got his PHD, and then got the job he was sure was "the job." Doing research. Lab coats and white mice-the whole cliche. After a year and half. He started having problems, when he finally talked to me and his wife about it. He was being threaten with termination due to not "finding" the results they wanted. You can look down on anyone not posting link to something. What ever. After, going to the "climate change" to boost yourself. Not by facts, but in my opinion, by pulling others to join the usual public opinion dogma. Sorry, in my eyes it makes you not worth the effort.

There is a world of difference between “Science” and a “Funded Study” to the point of being oxymoronic.

I've worked in research for 23 years and couldn't disagree more. Studies can be worded and manipulated to get any outcome you want.

From global warming to Hillary is gonna win, it's all about the motivation of the person conducting the study.

Yep! Kick that sucker’s butt!