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new meaning of Head Shot you say? um yea.
Announcer: HEADSHOT!
Me: GAH my HEAD! *Bigger migraine than when the program started*
Head asplodes.
Good job doctor.
overall though, how the hell do you not know how this works? That amazes me.
Announcer: HEADSHOT!
Me: GAH my HEAD! *Bigger migraine than when the program started*
Head asplodes.
Good job doctor.
overall though, how the hell do you not know how this works? That amazes me.
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The brain is so complex, and there are so many million and millions of different little parts and connections and pathways that we simply don't have the technology yet to understand how it all works and interacts. I mean, we have the basics down, like "This big section here does stuff with movement", but we just don't have the ability or technology yet to figure out what exactly is going on. Even brain scans and things like that will mostly only tell you what parts of the brain are being activated when you do certain things, not why or how they're activated. Neuroscience and neuropsychology are still very young.
The brain is so complex, and there are so many million and millions of different little parts and connections and pathways that we simply don't have the technology yet to understand how it all works and interacts. I mean, we have the basics down, like "This big section here does stuff with movement", but we just don't have the ability or technology yet to figure out what exactly is going on. Even brain scans and things like that will mostly only tell you what parts of the brain are being activated when you do certain things, not why or how they're activated. Neuroscience and neuropsychology are still very young.
Thank you Aerox. Besides, it's entirely possible that this experiment was first stumbled upon as a noticed side-effect of a different study. Regardless, anyone who's ever suffered a serious migraine will find this news absolutely bitchin'. As it is, I'm already waiting for the home kit. Maybe then I can hack it and at least turn it into a centipede-esque scroller...
That's pretty smart, give the mind a tool to view their mental state, then let them balance their own brainwaves. Gimme!
Too bad you'll need a brainwave detecting device to play it. Virtualboy 2.0?
Too bad you'll need a brainwave detecting device to play it. Virtualboy 2.0?
Hrn, sounds kind of like vipassana meditation. Interesting concept for those who need direct reward/stimuli in order to do anything.
that's really fascinating. Call me a nut, but I've always thought some games can have a healing quality to them. Putting you in a meditative, simplified reactive sort of state, allowing your body to just work its kinks out.
Conversely, I'm nearly sure that playing Madden cultivated my hypertension . . .
Conversely, I'm nearly sure that playing Madden cultivated my hypertension . . .
I suffer from severe migraines (Thanks mom), lucky for me I only get them once or twice a year. My problem is this though... how can any game cure me when I am so debilitated that I am bed ridden for two days straight... throwing up, praying for death?
Maybe during the week after the two days as the migraine lingers...
Maybe during the week after the two days as the migraine lingers...
I used to get really bad migraines... and for some odd reason after my head ache started to fade, I would get nauseated and then throw up...
Those people they're testing on must get some freaking mild migraines. Like Electrobes (except I get a migraine about once a month), there's not much you can do to stop the pain. The environment (light and sounds) alone cause a ton of pain that I'm not even going to be considering trying to do more than necessary when I have one.
I find that when i get a migraine, playing video games kind of distracts from the pain nearly to the point of me forgetting i have one.
Although, once i stop playing it's like a trillion time worse due to my poor gaming posture -_-
Although, once i stop playing it's like a trillion time worse due to my poor gaming posture -_-
I've never had video games cure my headache; in fact, I'm more prone to getting a headache from video games.
Videogames curing migraines. No, I don't think so. I've spend many a day in bed because I spent too much time playing Call of Duty 2 or Oblivion.
Videogames cause me to puke and to get headaches. Not to cure them.
I have a real love/hate relationship with 3D environment games.
Videogames cause me to puke and to get headaches. Not to cure them.
I have a real love/hate relationship with 3D environment games.
I can testify to the bit which says "It seems to give them some sort of stability so they don't have migraines or meltdowns or whatever it is they're having problems with,".
I used to have unpleasant intrusive thoughts several years ago (I got the right medication thanks to the grace of God, and I mean it), and I found that my only release during that nasty period was concentrating on playing a game.
I used to have unpleasant intrusive thoughts several years ago (I got the right medication thanks to the grace of God, and I mean it), and I found that my only release during that nasty period was concentrating on playing a game.
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