''Gamer Revolution''

1) According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing video-games for individuals and societies?

According to the film, the pros of playing video-games can be one recruitmen tool to attract the young to join the U.S military activity and fight for the country as a soldier.It can be a military trainning as well. Young people can play with the real soldiers and talk to them in the games. Moreover, young people only have one chance to live. If they died in the game, they cannot get a new start until the game finished, not likely to other games. It represents a ''realism'' in the virtual world of video-games. So, it can help the young learn and get more military experience in such realistic trainning.

Secondly, video-games can be a part of medical treatment and psychological therapy. For example, the young can learn how to live in the reality through playing ''remission''. They learn and practice more, then driving them to the next level. This games can help them have a special experience that they seem to live in a real world in the games.
On the contrary, there are some disadvantages of playing video-games. It promotes and encourages the violent behavior. Actually, players may imitate the violent behavior such as murdering others and do it in real world. They may enjoy killing people and have fun of it. Also, playing video-games will cultivate the aggressive minds of players and stimulate the violent sentiments or ideas. So, players will have violent behavior.

In addition, children will be addicted to playing video-games. It is because game reward engagment. In the virtual world, players can have virtual money and power and so on, that means they can be super hero or even the master of the universe when they are playing the video-games. It makes '' a false sense of identity''. At last, players loss their work,isolate themselves, fail to handle their study, or give up their life to go to death. These negative effects will decrease the productivity of the society further.


2) According to the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?

There are some evidence to show digital games can make people have aggressive values and anti-social actions. For example, the test of ''FMRI'' scanner proves that there are more activities in brain when players are playing digital games. Undoubtedly, players would have a stronger feeling or emotion in their brain activity. It is the charactristic of aggressive effects as playing digital games provide aggressive impluses to players. Therefore, people may have an anti-social actions as well.

Some research has shown that about 80% of games players would have violent mind that can increase aggressive behavior. I think the reason is that young people would imitate the behavior that is done in the games and then they do it in the real world. For example, one 18-year-old person robbed and murdered a taxi driver because of imitating the same behavior in the games' virtual world. It makes people have horrible desire to act in the reality definitely.

I agree that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world. Although some studies pointed out that there is no clear link between aggressive behavior and the violent ideas in the games and some anti addiction softwares are used in order to limit the hours young people can spend on playing games, it seems that games can give an incentive for the young to have such violent behavior.

Apart from that, I believe that some games such as ''first person shooter'' can promote and spread a message of violence or anti-social actions. It will affect how people think and act so that there are13 countries decided to ban it.

3) Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?

I think that government should not have the right to ban certain games. Although these games have such horrible effect on how people will act in the real world, citizen can have a right to choose certain games too. Also, there are some advantages of playing digital games. For example, people can improve their social network and relationship between their friends through playing digital games. Besides, they can relieve their pressure.

If people can have a self-control to play certain games and don't spend too much time on it. Then, they can enjoy the fun of it and thus there is no need for government to ban it.