I rarely play videogames at all nowadays, but I used to play a lot of violent videogames before. And I would kick up another one any minute if I felt like it, though I am CERTAIN videogames have negative and positive impacts on us. First off one should ask, why are humans more interested in playing games where you rip the head off of someone than jumping around with Super Mario? And if you claim games don't affect you, then why do you play it?
Of course it affects you, though not only positively.
Every gamer talk about all the positive things about games, and I'd probably agree on a lot, but why do you absolutely refuse to see the negative ones? There's like nothing negative at all about videogames according to you, but why wouldn't there be bad things about it? Drug addicts wouldn't initially say there's anything wrong with heroin, though everyone from the outside knows this clearly.
There are the obvious negative aspects of videogames like obesity and generally bad health if you play all day and eat junkfood. The human body is evolutionary still in the stone ages, we're not meant to sit still for hours upon hours watching a screen, it undoubtedly does have a physically bad affect on us.
And when it comes to violent games that you play all day, it has to have some sort of affect on us, and why would it logically only be a positive one? Sure, I haven't done any studies, but neither have you.
Playing an hour or two a day probably isn't too bad for us, but you guys can't use that excuse because most of you here probably play between 5-8 hours a day, right?
