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L6 investigation
Haonan Wang
L6 investigation
Good games offer players identities that trigger a deep investment on the part of the
player. They achieve this goal in one of two ways. Some games offer a character so intriguing
that players want to inhabit the character and can readily project their own fantasies, desires, and
pleasures onto the character. Other games offer a relatively empty character whose traits the
player must determine, but in such a way that the player can create a deep and consequential life
systems and systems. Interaction between them (Kelly, 1994). Entertainment is a necessary and
insufficient condition for mankind to maintain production and life. If all entertainment industries
are banned, it will not be far from social collapse. After clarifying the value of recreational
activities in human society, a new question arises. Why has video games developed so fast in
recent years? Why do people like video games? Video games are one of the cheapest options for
known entertainment. With the popularity of pcs and mobile phones, video games can be pushed
(acquired) to users in a very convenient manner. And the invention of the network could
theoretically be able to escape the limitations of time and space, allowing you to play with
people who you know, do not know, and various orders of magnitude.
But there is a different voice there. The game poisons teenagers. Many teenagers who
indulge in online games have irregular diets. They do not rest well and do not study well. They
are also reluctant to reach out to society, and they cannot grow into a social person with strong
professional knowledge, good physical health, and smooth communication with others. And if
there are no game, young people spend their time learning or playing with friends. At least, they
will grow up to be physically healthy. But Is it because young people are "indulged in the
Video, websites.
internet" and are they "unwilling to contact society"? Is there such a possibility that some of the
young people are actually "being unwilling to contact the community" and therefore "sinking in
the Internet"?
In a sense, all learning involves “playing a character." (Gee. J. P. 2003. CIE) The
essence of entertainment is: Let you divorce yourself from your real life for a period of time and
immerse yourself in another life experience, which is called entertainment. The key here is
temporarily being separated from the identity in real life. Since the nature of the game is to
make people out of reality, it is obviously not possible to produce direct production benefits to
society. However, it allows people to supplement their energy production work, so that
production activities are more lasting and effective. This is the indirect benefit of games to social
production.
The results suggest that the violent content alone was not sufficient to produce elevations
in aggressive behavior compared with a nonviolent video game. (Paul J. C. Adachi and Teena
Willoughby. 2011) "Playing 3 hours of Call of Duty may make you feel sore muscles, but you
will not run out to attack others." Mark Coulson, an associate professor of psychology at the
University of Middlesex in the United Kingdom, told the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC). The BBC pointed out that today, when violent video games are in vogue, the incidence
of violence among young people around the world is at the lowest point in 40 years. Peter Gray,
a child psychologist at Boston University in the United States, also stated that the connection
between violent video games and real-life violence is "very small." "We have to let children
make their own choices." In fact, Gray thinks that children want to play violent video games may
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