Call of Duty is generally one of the most unrealistic games I've ever seen.
But yes, you have a good point.
Call of Duty is generally one of the most unrealistic games I've ever seen.
all the time playing that game, you'll be thinking "who wants to kill me next" or "who do i kill next". those thoughts set themselves into your brain like you learn anything else, causing you to absorb the emotions and behaviours that the game makes you take on
I think you are greatly underestimating the power that conscious thought has over sub or unconscious thought.theres no escaping sub-conscious thought
its not the logic behind it, its the basic thoughts behind it that you dont even realise you think:
all the time playing that game, you'll be thinking "who wants to kill me next" or "who do i kill next". those thoughts set themselves into your brain like you learn anything else, causing you to absorb the emotions and behaviours that the game makes you take on
theres no escaping sub-conscious thought
I don't buy this. Maybe it's just me but it's not 'who do i kill next' because there are no people to kill with this simulated weapon! There are basic AI creations (or people on some other end of the tubes) controlling the moving of bits, rendered through the magic of modern technology onto this flat plastic panel. If you see them as anything else, you probably shouldn't be playing the game!all the time playing that game, you'll be thinking "who wants to kill me next" or "who do i kill next". those thoughts set themselves into your brain like you learn anything else, causing you to absorb the emotions and behaviours that the game makes you take on
I don't buy this. Maybe it's just me but it's not 'who do i kill next' because there are no people to kill with this simulated weapon! There are basic AI creations (or people on some other end of the tubes) controlling the moving of bits, rendered through the magic of modern technology onto this flat plastic panel. If you see them as anything else, you probably shouldn't be playing the game!
It's really hard not to see the unreality of video games. :shrug:
Look. I had been in the army. I learned not just the thinking of "who wants to kill me next" or "who do I kill next", but also many very creative ways of doing so, that no computer game can yet reproduce. And that not in a computer game, but in the real dirt.
I don't go around kill people. I actually became much less aggressive since. Before I went in the army, you had a long list of events in which I was using violence against others. Not always in defense.
Since the army, I had much better senses of my own aggressions and learned to be emotionally more stable about it.
I can't imagine somebody not wanting to kill somebody someday. Maybe not intentionally, maybe you just want to use violence without knowing its effects. It is part of your dinosaur past. You can be the biggest and most peaceful pacifist, still you will have it in you, feel it. The difference is only that you can choose not to be violent, if you are really peaceful, you can even look behind the mask of aggression and see what makes you feel aggressive.
Computer games, don't do anything there. You can feel strange after computer games, with your reflexes seeing enemies everywhere. This is bad, but a sign that you are not yet professional enough to deal with such aggressions - you need to get more used to them, learn to understand the mechanism and how plain aggression will not bring you forward.
The best violence is always the precisely directed violence, at the right time, at the right spot, with the right effort. and this can only be learned, you are not born with the sense of knowing when you should be aggressive, and when you should not be it.
wow, didnt know that you were in the military. Youre right though, you arent born with discipline, you are taught it