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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
January 25 2010 23:11 GMT
#61
What would have happened if they actually discovered that video games skill comes from how fat you are ?

What would incontrol dew?



ps: im fat so that would be amazing
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
opsayo
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
591 Posts
January 25 2010 23:11 GMT
#62
On January 26 2010 07:58 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Not finding a thread interesting and posting conclusions one receives from an OP is not "being an asshole"

Telling said person they are stupid to not view a thread the way they do and calling them names or asserting their reading comprehension is low IS being an asshole.

Hey guys, sorry that I didn't find portions of the brain being linked to video game adequacy interesting. Seems REALLY obvious that you use certain parts of the brain for video games and people with more activity in that portion would do better at video games.. how the hell is that really fascinating?

It's not so much finding that fact and actually locating the actual sectors of the brain.

But if you're all against scientific advancement, why are you using that computer?
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 25 2010 23:12 GMT
#63
On January 26 2010 08:11 opsayo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2010 07:58 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Not finding a thread interesting and posting conclusions one receives from an OP is not "being an asshole"

Telling said person they are stupid to not view a thread the way they do and calling them names or asserting their reading comprehension is low IS being an asshole.

Hey guys, sorry that I didn't find portions of the brain being linked to video game adequacy interesting. Seems REALLY obvious that you use certain parts of the brain for video games and people with more activity in that portion would do better at video games.. how the hell is that really fascinating?

It's not so much finding that fact and actually locating the actual sectors of the brain.

But if you're all against scientific advancement, why are you using that computer?


The conclusions people draw are astounding.. you think I am against ALL scientific advancements, and you deduct this from where?

People have the audacity to call me stupid yet I am having my reading comprehension assessed, my intelligence weighed and my body mocked because I deign to disagree with the fascination of an OP..

THis has been a great case study of some of the TL posting community haha
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
January 25 2010 23:13 GMT
#64
Difference is you're doing it for something you say you find uninteresting, so were forced to conclude you posted with the intent of being a douche.

Also I guess we should all make a post in every thread stating our disinterest.
TranslatorBaa!
Gigaudas
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Sweden1213 Posts
January 25 2010 23:13 GMT
#65
I didn't realize how TERRIBLE the name of the thread is until now. It definitely helps explain incontrol's behaviour.

I
alexpnd
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1857 Posts
January 25 2010 23:15 GMT
#66
On January 26 2010 08:10 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2010 08:09 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Why bother even posting if you didn't find it interesting? And if you don't, why did you come back to the thread at all? Because you posted with the original intent of trolling and decided to check up on your little project?


Why post on a forum at all? Do people need to find everything fascinating or agree with the OP? Nope. I posted, came back to check my post (oh btw, this is how forums function..) and saw I had replies. So I replied.. etc etc.

Do you post, then go away? Cause it wouldn't be me that has the strange habit then dude.


I hit F5 every 30 seconds, besides pee breaks. I honestly didn't think much of the article, nor do I think it's groundbreaking, or even that applicable. They're using ideas that have already been applied and applying it on video games no? If anyone cares to expand on the article please cause I read the first and last paragraph as I usually do and went meh.
www.brainyweb.ca //web stuff!
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 25 2010 23:16 GMT
#67
On January 26 2010 08:13 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Difference is you're doing it for something you say you find uninteresting, so were forced to conclude you posted with the intent of being a douche.

Also I guess we should all make a post in every thread stating our disinterest.


Yep, once again the extreme interpretation of my post.

EVERYONE POST IN EVERY THREAD BLAH BLAH

lol dude, sometimes people find things insignificant and they make fun of it. You might have seen that around TL a few times? Well this was one of them.. I just so happen to have a few moments on my hand and seeing what people are posting in response to me I am inclined to discuss the matter.

You can continue to psychoanalyze my purpose in this thread if you like but I'd recommend you stick to other hobbies.
Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
January 25 2010 23:25 GMT
#68
On January 26 2010 06:14 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Interesting.. so you are saying there is a link between how smart you are and how good you'd be at video games?

Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track.


lol kind of what I was thinking. Being able to think and react fast are pretty obvious skills to have in computer games
I know that deep inside of you there's a humongous set of testicles just waiting to pop out. Let 'em pop bro. //////////////////// AKA JensOfSweden // Lee Yoon Yeol forever.
hyst.eric.al
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2332 Posts
January 25 2010 23:25 GMT
#69
without handicaps, incontrol is unstoppable.
Leta , BeSt, Calm fan forever! 김정우, I am sorry I ever lost faith in you.
Manbear
Profile Joined August 2008
Canada306 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-25 23:28:54
January 25 2010 23:28 GMT
#70
On January 26 2010 08:25 hyst.eric.al wrote:
without handicaps, incontrol is unstoppable.


pretty much unstoppable no matter what imo
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
January 25 2010 23:28 GMT
#71
On January 26 2010 08:12 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2010 08:11 opsayo wrote:
On January 26 2010 07:58 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Not finding a thread interesting and posting conclusions one receives from an OP is not "being an asshole"

Telling said person they are stupid to not view a thread the way they do and calling them names or asserting their reading comprehension is low IS being an asshole.

Hey guys, sorry that I didn't find portions of the brain being linked to video game adequacy interesting. Seems REALLY obvious that you use certain parts of the brain for video games and people with more activity in that portion would do better at video games.. how the hell is that really fascinating?

It's not so much finding that fact and actually locating the actual sectors of the brain.

But if you're all against scientific advancement, why are you using that computer?


The conclusions people draw are astounding.. you think I am against ALL scientific advancements, and you deduct this from where?

People have the audacity to call me stupid yet I am having my reading comprehension assessed, my intelligence weighed and my body mocked because I deign to disagree with the fascination of an OP..

THis has been a great case study of some of the TL posting community haha


You do realize that this will be the next great breakthrough in science? Random conclusions drawn from absolute bullshit.

Oh wait that's physics LOL
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
plutonian
Profile Joined October 2009
United States6 Posts
January 25 2010 23:30 GMT
#72
At first I was puzzling over why this article seems to have been written with a third grader's understanding of the world in mind, and then I realized it was in a British publication, and it all made sense.
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
January 25 2010 23:31 GMT
#73
On January 26 2010 08:03 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
This isn't why people have natural talent to video games. It is a conglomeration of things. Surely you saw the pattern between intelligence and being good at video games right? Did you really need a thread about brain activity/size in certain parts to tell you that that could be linked to video game playing ability?

The brain doesn't have an area dedicated to video games guys, lol. It has a portion of the brain dedicated to skills/abilities that lend themselves towards playing video games. This was known. Having more mass there / activity would probably aid in the ability to play video games.. WOW!

But surely you realise that the point of this study wasn't to try and prove that there is a correlation between certain forms of intelligence and ones performance in a video game? The video game aspect was just a mean of measuring and the reason why we conduct 1000s of these sort of studies is so that at some point we can come to understand the brain. This study focused on the correlation between size of certain parts of the brain and various personality traits.

The idea that size and "smartness" as you call it are correlated is just your own silly assertion, but I guess scientists should just assume larger brain = intelligence because it makes sense. That sort of reasoning has worked out in the past, right?
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-25 23:37:34
January 25 2010 23:33 GMT
#74
On January 26 2010 06:55 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
oh my bad.

This thread just became FUCKING AMAZING.

GUYS.. the size of the brain had no correlation to how smart you are

Is there any reason to shit up a perfectly good thread? At least the news is interesting, it's very rare that such a concrete thing such as physical size actually has any effect in the brain (normally we can't begin to figure out what makes it work) so at the very least it's interesting that we're able to judge skill in an applied art simply by looking at the size of parts of the brain.

+ Show Spoiler +
And also, i just came to the conclusion that iNcontroL stopped being funny about the time i stopped thinking that a high post count here mattered. You're good at a video game, that doesn't give you leeway to act like you're the coolest, most witty, intelligent guy ever who's so cool he gets to derail threads all on his own. And after that i still respect you and think you're a cool person.

U Gotta Skate.
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
January 25 2010 23:34 GMT
#75
On January 26 2010 08:12 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2010 08:11 opsayo wrote:
On January 26 2010 07:58 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Not finding a thread interesting and posting conclusions one receives from an OP is not "being an asshole"

Telling said person they are stupid to not view a thread the way they do and calling them names or asserting their reading comprehension is low IS being an asshole.

Hey guys, sorry that I didn't find portions of the brain being linked to video game adequacy interesting. Seems REALLY obvious that you use certain parts of the brain for video games and people with more activity in that portion would do better at video games.. how the hell is that really fascinating?

It's not so much finding that fact and actually locating the actual sectors of the brain.

But if you're all against scientific advancement, why are you using that computer?


The conclusions people draw are astounding.. you think I am against ALL scientific advancements, and you deduct this from where?

People have the audacity to call me stupid yet I am having my reading comprehension assessed, my intelligence weighed and my body mocked because I deign to disagree with the fascination of an OP..

THis has been a great case study of some of the TL posting community haha




Not everything is about you.
Shiladie
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1631 Posts
January 25 2010 23:38 GMT
#76
Yea, it's not really suprising, video games take a bit of an extra step to be able to immerse yourself in them, which the better you are at it, the better you're gonna do off the bat.
hyst.eric.al
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2332 Posts
January 25 2010 23:41 GMT
#77
best part of the article is this:
"No matter what your brain size is it's what you do with it that counts"
Timothy Bates, University of Edinburgh

sounds strangely familiar+ Show Spoiler +
and reassuring
Leta , BeSt, Calm fan forever! 김정우, I am sorry I ever lost faith in you.
Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
January 25 2010 23:45 GMT
#78
On January 26 2010 08:28 Hypnosis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2010 08:12 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
On January 26 2010 08:11 opsayo wrote:
On January 26 2010 07:58 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Not finding a thread interesting and posting conclusions one receives from an OP is not "being an asshole"

Telling said person they are stupid to not view a thread the way they do and calling them names or asserting their reading comprehension is low IS being an asshole.

Hey guys, sorry that I didn't find portions of the brain being linked to video game adequacy interesting. Seems REALLY obvious that you use certain parts of the brain for video games and people with more activity in that portion would do better at video games.. how the hell is that really fascinating?

It's not so much finding that fact and actually locating the actual sectors of the brain.

But if you're all against scientific advancement, why are you using that computer?


The conclusions people draw are astounding.. you think I am against ALL scientific advancements, and you deduct this from where?

People have the audacity to call me stupid yet I am having my reading comprehension assessed, my intelligence weighed and my body mocked because I deign to disagree with the fascination of an OP..

THis has been a great case study of some of the TL posting community haha


You do realize that this will be the next great breakthrough in science? Random conclusions drawn from absolute bullshit.

Oh wait that's physics LOL


NOT COOL MAN

NOT FUCKING COOL
Hey! Listen!
zizou21
Profile Joined September 2006
United States3683 Posts
January 25 2010 23:49 GMT
#79
On January 26 2010 06:14 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Interesting.. so you are saying there is a link between how smart you are and how good you'd be at video games?

Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track.


LOL
its me, tasteless,s roomate LOL!
Romantic
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1844 Posts
January 25 2010 23:51 GMT
#80
On January 26 2010 08:28 Hypnosis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2010 08:12 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
On January 26 2010 08:11 opsayo wrote:
On January 26 2010 07:58 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Not finding a thread interesting and posting conclusions one receives from an OP is not "being an asshole"

Telling said person they are stupid to not view a thread the way they do and calling them names or asserting their reading comprehension is low IS being an asshole.

Hey guys, sorry that I didn't find portions of the brain being linked to video game adequacy interesting. Seems REALLY obvious that you use certain parts of the brain for video games and people with more activity in that portion would do better at video games.. how the hell is that really fascinating?

It's not so much finding that fact and actually locating the actual sectors of the brain.

But if you're all against scientific advancement, why are you using that computer?


The conclusions people draw are astounding.. you think I am against ALL scientific advancements, and you deduct this from where?

People have the audacity to call me stupid yet I am having my reading comprehension assessed, my intelligence weighed and my body mocked because I deign to disagree with the fascination of an OP..

THis has been a great case study of some of the TL posting community haha


You do realize that this will be the next great breakthrough in science? Random conclusions drawn from absolute bullshit.

Oh wait that's physics LOL


Oh wait you've never opened a math book beyond algebra I

It is no mystery people who get an emotional reward for winning or doing well are people who will try harder at video games. Its a really cheap and easy way to get that emotional high.
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