Following the release of Rockstar’s latest installment in the critically-acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series, a familiar controversy is already beginning to heat up over whether it – and video games in general – are negatively influencing our youth by inspiring them to run countless unnecessary errands for people they barely know or have never met.

Phyllis Butow, a psychology professor at Australia’s University of Sydney, spearheaded a study that showed children who spend upwards of fifteen hours a week playing video games were significantly more likely to do laborious and repetitive favours in exchange for meager payments or even just advice on what to do next. These children were found to be unusually satisfied with their rewards, even if the advice offered to them was to run yet another errand.
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That website looks like New Zealand's version of the onion

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Yesterday I killed a boar.... I threw a chicken on it... and it "poofed". I'm bad with myself... It had a family... 2 little boar to take care... And I... I... I'M SO SORRY!

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Didn't I told you to stop playing Don't Starve?

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Sounds like 仙剑奇侠传 4.

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Being an adult is a series of fetch quests. Kids may as well get used to it.

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Alternatively, it's really grinding for EXP points so you can buy more time in the game with them, as the game clears out the save file when you run out.

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I am not influenced by games -- I am not a murder, I am just a little triangle.

Now, hexagons really scare me.

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I periodically head out and collect 10 wolf pelts, out of pure habit, but then I don't really know who to hand them over to.

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You think that's bad? There was an article (and trial) about a family that played Katamari Damacy. That was just plain messed up.

He would run around neighbourhoods stealing all of your shit, sometimes even abducting pets, children, or entire families, then mash them all together until they were deformed and compressed, then get his dad to launch the resultant mess into the sky.

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Hey, cousin! Let's go bowling!

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Yes.

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Closed 11 years ago by DrPavelImCIA.