Also, you stand 5 feet away from Joseph

Neil, I gotta say I'm a little amused at the argument that CS translates into real life useful skills. Maybe you're joking, but... ---> NO <---. I think any game teaches a bit of teamwork, communication, and all that crap. CS probably does improve your reflexes, but I don't know if it goes any farther than your wrist.

On the other hand, I do believe people who play FPS are uncanny shots IRL even if they've never fired a gun. When I shoot Joseph Smith with my airsoft gun, it surprises me how often I can put one through his tiny paper eye without carefully sighting. Also, I'm sure that if we all suddenly had to clear a building, we'd be good at setting up firing angles without even thinking about it.

But useful skills? Eh.

I don't know why anyone would carry on an argument about what game is more useful than what. I have my opinions, such as that WoW is gay, but all games come out to time and money that could be more productively spent. They're hobbies. They're fun. Different stuff is fun for different people. Neil, assrott, I, and other manly men prefer FPS, which don't (yet) require subscription fees. All the gay people like MMORPG's. lawl

Cliffs for Hapy: everyone stfu, the argument's pointless

Applicable MooKeTTe quote: useless

lawl, countless Gaydot stories fortell the existence of heightened hand-eye coordination, because of fast-twitch games.

Hogg: "blah blah blah only involves your wrist" um... hand-eye coordination? HAND = wrist = you = suck my balls.

-edit lawl @ reading comprehension, you guys have agreed with my points in the process of disagreeing... i said "blah blah improves hand-eye, hearing (where it involves locational/directional positioning) blah blah"

read plz, kthxbai.

Hapy,

This thread is basically about you're mawm. No need to go any deeper than that. (She's deep enough.)

-Glim

Think this is the first I've done any reading of this thread. Just wow.

Think this is the first I've done any reading of this thread. Just wow.

Yep, I went there.

Also: WoW has nothing to do with much of anything real life. Could make an argument for small market supply/demand economics, and for extended math computation (as seen in most games people get overly involved in) figuring out damage/rate of fire/armor pen./etc. compounded with attack type sequencing. Once you get all that figured out it just becomes repetition.

But comparing CS to real life skills is pretty meaningless also. Yes, you get eye/hand coordination and a little bit of teamwork, but video game 'shooting' and real life weapons have little to do with each other. Add in to it that CS 'teaches' you to approach situations with the idea "if this doesn't work I'll be back next round!" and it's a good trainer on how to get shot and die.

SPOILER! Highlight it to read it.
IRL at 1% health you bleed out real quick and don't clutch shit.

I don't disagree but my point was still more +hand/eye not really saying CS would teach you to be a better shooter. I was trying to find SOME real-world benefit to MY video game of choice, in order to further demonize a lower form of video game. I still stand by that, by the way. I would rather have what I do give me *something* (albeit slight) useful to real world action, instead of just making me really good at Excel.

SPOILER! Highlight it to read it.
IRL at 1% health you bleed out real quick and don't clutch shit.

I shouldn't have read that.
Now I know how my story ends.
Bleeding out, the only clutching I do is at my wang.