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New Study Claims Playing Violent Games Can Actually Reduce Your Stress

A PhD researcher has suggested in their study that playing violent video games could have a relaxing effect on their players.

Vengeance113895d ago (Edited 95d ago )

They really needed a "Study" to know this? Pretty common sense. When stressed people need to blow off steam, they can't exactly go around killing people in real life, so they get to do so in the digital world. Punch people, murder them, torture them, everything can be done in the digital world. Everything that is pent up inside in the real world, just release in the digital, its just very very common sense.

Tapani95d ago (Edited 95d ago )

Be careful with your generalisation and jumping to conclusion mindset.

If you read the wording carefully, it says "has concluded that violent video games may relieve stress in some players". Keywords: "may" and "some".

Also, you say "stressed people" instead of "some male players" - there's a significant difference between those categories. One is pretty much every adult in the world who has high cortisol levels (stress hormone), including females (who were not tested in this research), and other is a test group of selected male participants for a small scale experiment in restricted environment.

You need to read science in a scientific way.

What is common sense to you, or in your culture or in the circle of people you know, may very well not be common sense to someone else in an entirely different part of the world where value sets are different.

It is very easy to say in hindsight after seeing objective evidence on something that "I knew it, it is common sense!" If the results were the very opposite, you would not be able to say the same thing, right?

Why don't we let the empirical and evidence based science, rather than let our "common sense" which is entirely subjective, dictate our way of thinking.

That being said, personally, I like metanalysis more than one study here and there, even though most of these singular studies say very clearly that "more evidence and research is needed before we can make clear conclusions." And that is the way it should be in exact science as well.

Vengeance113895d ago (Edited 95d ago )

Lmao how much time did you waste writing all that nonsense you just vomited?

How about you be "careful" and I comment exactly how I please? Sound good kid?

Again, no study was needed, as it's very common sense. Releasing stress in a game via killing will always be a great thing as it's not possible in reality.

JackBNimble95d ago

Assumptions are not common sense.

Tapani95d ago

@Vengeance1138
I'm 42-years old father and husband and also have a scientific background from early part of my career. I would like to think I know what I'm talking about.

Maybe your common sense was mistaken here as you thought I was a kid?

thorstein95d ago

Yes. We really need to study these things and make them quantifiable and falsifiable. That is the beauty of science and why it is so much better than conjecture.

Sure, it makes sense to US that games relieve stress, but proving it makes it amazing.

Oh so many years ago, when I was in college, for extra credit, I helped with experiments on violent games impact on players. After the data was collected, we discovered that violent games did not make people more violent.

Sure, most of us knew that already (it wasn't my study, I wasn't credited) but to prove it and put the methodology out there for others to replicate in peer review was really awesome.

So, yes. These studies are needed. Not everyone is a gamer.

Demetrius95d ago (Edited 95d ago )

Lmao playing gems period reduces and relaxes ya fr specially when you're single no kids 😌

ZeekQuattro95d ago

Best kind of game for me to relax to is a musou game. Mindless fun.

jznrpg95d ago

Of course it does. Sit down, escape for a little bit and have some fun.

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Rebel_Scum1d 10h ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.