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Video Game Stereotypes

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Peterson weatherford
M Blair
English III
April 8 2015

Video games good for you or bad
Many people think that video games are bad for you and in some cases they may be right. But this is the truth behind all the stereotypes. I really hate the stereotypes like video games rot your brain, they make people anti-social, that games make people more violent, even the idea that all people that play games are fat and unhealthy. Liston up because this is why video games are actually good for you! so stereotype number one (video games rot your brain). Now then so many people say video games rot your brain. That’s funny I heard they said the same thing when they invented tv! I mean come on every time a new form of electronically interment comes along those people jump on. “oh my god that thing is making people stupid!” come on now just shut up. Every time people say that it ends up being proven wrong. According to Bavelier, who also holds a joint appointment at the University of Geneva, our brains keep predicting what will come next—whether when listening to a conversation, driving, or even preforming surgery. “In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or ‘templates,’ of the world,” she …show more content…

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