Apparently Playing Video Games Makes You Feel Like You Could Win A Fight – Weird Week Ep 2



What A Weird Week is back and this week had so many stories that I actually had to cut this down. For one, EA is back at it again making sure you never enjoy another video game. Square Enix’s Avengers game may not be the greatest but there might be a real life Avenger out there. Gaming finds a new bag to hit when it comes to Outriders. Outriders still isn’t completely working if you didn’t know, and much more!

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26 thoughts on “Apparently Playing Video Games Makes You Feel Like You Could Win A Fight – Weird Week Ep 2”

  1. What is the weirdest thing you saw this week?

    So wanted to add a bit about story 2. This one is interesting to me. The point of the study is to prove that these kinds of games make you feel like a better fighter. The problem with the study is that it doesn't talk too much about the tendency for people who feel more confident in physical conflict, to engage more frequently in physical conflict as well as the tendency to instigate it more often. It's essentially just another 'Gta is too real' thesis. There are MANY studies that support the reality of people with inflated senses of confidence in physical altercations being WAY more likely to engage in and instigate physical altercations (again over-inflated, not actual prowess like a trained fighter). It even says it in the study, that they simply have a lessened IQ when it comes to others anger and their physical prowess. It only takes a tiny bit of common sense to understand that that might lead to increased penchant for engaging other people physically. Don’t even need the studies. I'm curious as to whether or not YOU think you're a better fighter after YOU play videogames?

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  2. (I'm talking about story 2) right hear me out I kinda agree with the experiment because say I play battlefield 4 or call of duty and I do good then I think the next time I got play airsoft I go in thinking I'm gunna do so good but then I do shit…

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  3. As far as making dinosaurs or doing a real life "Jurassic Park" goes, they would still be very limited in what they could feasibly keep alive. Some smaller dinos could maybe be possible with some genetic modifications to adapt them to our current atmosphere. The larger dinos however, would be much less likely to be capable of surviving in our current earths climate and atmosphere. For one thing, the earth was far warmer and more humid back when the majority of the dinos featured in Jurassic Park were alive, but that isn't even the biggest hurdle to overcome. The biggest challenge to overcome would come down to oxygen. The oxygen concentration was way higher when the dinos roamed the earth; that's why some of them could even grow to such colossal sizes despite earths relatively high gravity. In fact, the oxygen concentration was so high back then that if a human being were to step back in time to then, the atmosphere itself would kill them in a mater of hours. . .That is, if the local flora or fauna didn't do it first.

    So in other words, even if they could create a near perfect clone of something like a T-rex, it wouldn't be able to survive in our atmosphere because there wouldn't be enough oxygen in the air to sustain it's massive size. It would simply suffocate. The only way they could keep it alive is to build a very specialized containment unit for it that could generate and sustain an atmosphere that could mimic what the earths was like back then. . .Not to mention it would have to be insanely large and durable just to contain one of them. It would be an unbelievably expensive and asinine exercise in futility. . .So it's probably about a decade off from being done by Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.

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  4. 1 : I would definitely never set foot in a Jurassic Park. I've seen the movies, I've learnt the lesson. Apparently they didn't.
    2 : love the content but it would be nice to have the links to those articles

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  5. I played a lot of racing games. Even including some arcade ones (burnout series!!).

    Grew up and it feels so natural to drive a car. Getting the license is a cinch its boring. Can relate to this video. But well, driving a car isn't that hard to begin with haha.

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  6. I think as a general gamer. You miss what outriders is going for. The narrative and single player stuff ain't it. It's end game high level team driven content that is what keeps people playing outriders.

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  7. That's just embarrassing with the "you wouldn't kill a dog argument". As an Australian and YouTuber – I'd just like to say the rest of us have our heads on straight (and every Gamer here HATES the ratings board for banning Games in the past so often).

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  8. Actual. Yes it is what people are interested in when it comes to gaming. Gaming used to be an escape. Now real life contraversies are being interjected. Regardless of your political stance this is a problem.

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