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  1. May 2018
    1. On Tuesday, cereal and snack giant Kellogg’s announced it was pulling ads from Breitbart on the grounds that Breitbart is a giant racist shithole of a site and who would want to be associated with that?

      I didn't know they would be saying something that rough for ad on the first day it comes out

  2. Mar 2018
    1. You should establish limits for kids, both in time spent gaming and the content, Dr. Bilge-Johnson said. She

      Kids should be able to create their own limit and parents should review it. They should have a certain amount of play time and not break that limit. It'll help them and the parents.

    2. “It engages the complex thinking system in a child’s brain that may actually help them think critically and also may help them deal with frustration,” she said.

      This helps kids if they play more complex games. It can actually improve their mind and they can share their ideas with other people online. Whenever their agree they can release just by playing, there wouldn't be any harm.

    3. But benefits turn into negatives for the heaviest users.

      What the author means by this is that if you been play video games for years, you're likely to experience a lot of procrastination. Or you'll be too addicted to playing that you won't focus to do anything else/

    4. Video game addiction is recognized as a psychological disorder. It impacts sleep, academic performance, listening and reasoning ability, and social skills.

      Most people sleep late all the time because they play video games for hours. And they will have trouble sleeping because they forgot to do homework or anything else important to do.

    5. Games such as Minecraft can benefit kids in several ways. Through these brain games they learn problem solving, strategizing, flexibility and also social skills, Dr. Bilge-Johnson said.

      This is extremely beneficial to kids because Minecraft you can create anything you want which is good for kids. It's like drawing except you can actually build things the way you want.

    1. Longitudinal studies support the idea that children’s school performance worsens as their gaming time increases.

      In my opinion, it just depends how you are. If you can have a specific amount time to play each day, then you'll have time to do homework. Like me I play an hour or two before I go to bed, before that I do my homework.

    2. Some games require cooperation and teamwork for success. For example, in some quests of the multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, players with different skills must work together to solve puzzles and to overcome barriers. Other games, such as the battle simulator Call of Duty, require real-time coordinated action. Games that involve teamwork may improve players’ skills in cooperation and coordination, but scientists have conducted almost no research in this area.

      I myself know this since I always work in a team. If you work alone even in video games you're social skills won't improve. Since you're in some type of group, you'll be talkative.

    3. We would expect that as people spend more time playing video games, their risk of performing poorly in school, becoming overweight or obese, and developing specific negative physical health outcomes (such as carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive stress injuries) would increase.

      To prevent from being obese or overweight from situations like this, get a game console that moves your body around, not just your hands. Good ones are the Wii, Xbox Kinect, and maybe a VR.

    4. Video games also can adapt themselves to individual learners and train players in a way that helps them transfer knowledge or skills to the real world.

      It's telling you to play more strategy games to increase your knowledge. Or you can get a game that has a lot of dialogue, but you should be able to enjoy the same time while reading it.

    5. When playing a high-violence video game, players accustomed to such games showed lower activity (measured via signals from magnetic resonance imaging) in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), whereas players used to low-violence games displayed higher activity

      This is showing you the details between a person who plays an huge amount of high violence video games compared to a low violence one and shows violent games desensitized aggression and violence.