Gamers live in virtual reality

How very stereotypically American of you. Not only have you put words into Someone Special's mouth so to speak but you've taken the opportunity to have a pop at Dawkins who wasn't even mentioned. Way to show your hand at the start of the poker game.

I find your comment hard to take seriously anyway as you appear obsessed with masturbation or at least imagining gamers masturbating in dark rooms.

Furthermore, where do you get off bringing creation beliefs into this? It's an article on gaming. Besides, if you believe we are all God's creation and all that then gamers and games are his creation too so doing something god put us here to do can't be all that much of a waste can it?

I have to ask, who made you the authority on who can have a belief or an opinion about something anyway? I'm not religious myself - I'm more of a live and let live type, but I do know that religion is about tolerance. You seem to have lost your way a bit trolling the net cutting down people who don't share your beliefs. Why not actually put up a convincing counter argument instead of just firing a cowardly, pious broadside form the anonymous safety of the web?

If you want something to get all
p!$$ed about try this hot shot: America's time as world police has ended, the Chinese own you now. Now that a non Christian nation is rising to global dominance, non Christian religion won't be far behind it.

Peace out.

In my personal experience I found that due to playing FPS I do tend to look and take notice of people standing on roofs or balconies and such, places you'd normally not look at in daily life.
Also when I was intensely playing I had the annoying feeling about not being able to move at a constant speed for long times and scale things left and right at a whim, but that might also be because of cartoon based action movies, you feel so limited and slow as a normal human on foot.
That does not mean you are delusional though, the gamer is full well aware of real life, it's just annoying that there are these limitation you are aware of.
And don't forget that we overcame some, in the old days when you wanted to contact people you'd have to walk around and ask people if there was a phonebooth nearby, all quite slow. Same for getting some cash from a bank, you had to find a branch, of which there often was only one in a town, which closed at 4, and stand in line and fill in a form.

Your definition of 'mass delusion' is a product of your own corrupt delusional mind. Whether people believe the earth was created by a 'one horned, one eyed, flying purple people eater' has basically nothing to do with you. I suggest you stop wasting your time obsessing about some Dawkinsesque mass delusion and get on with your own life. You'll soon be dead.

What the survey doesn't mention is that these gamers are sad, virginal, masturbators who live in the dark and REALLY need a life. If that makes them happy, who am I to say. But, I think, after years of playing with themselves in the dark, they will regret all that time as wasted.

The problem with these studies is that they are biaased.

First of all, who is to say that imagining a menu with possible replies is somehow harmful? perhaps this is the next course of human evolution which use computers with menus whether they game or not. Maybe this is an adaptation of a younger, better generation?

How can a study claim to know what's the best way to perceive reality?

There are large groups of people out there that believe there are physical manifestations of "evil", like posessed people. People that believe they can see auras, people that are adamant that an all seeing all knowing entity is watching them.

There are people that believe in heaven, aliens, reincarnation, that a certain animal is "holy". Many of these people plan their lives in accordance to these beliefs, to appease a code of conduct that has all the signs of mass delusion.

I argue that gamers that see themselves doing game related activities and develop reactions according to those games are far more rooted in reality that most religions. At least a gamer that merges perception of reality and game elements is doing so in regards to things they can demonstrate and prove are visually real. This can be peer reviewed tested and reproduced.

Can we now try to do the same study for a belief in Mithra?

Does repeating religious gestures not constitute a disconnect and at the same time merge from and with reality?

does he know most gamers are bullshitting him? i would act like i was thinking random crap if someone was actually doing a study on this as well.

So, all those people pushing you around like cattle in shopping malls, airports and carnivals, choking you with smoke, farting and vomitting at you aren't zombies and you are not supposed to want to kill them all???

Geee... who would have thought of that?

Now they need to study the virtual reality at a lot of work sites ...where people pretend to work and the company pretends to pay them

Well I know I must be exercising as it gets very hot inside that Master-chief suit..lol

So have they studied transfer from movies which, let's face it, have been exploiting addictive emotions and distorting reality a lot longer than games.

By your own statement, you "envisage" yourself "driving the Halo warthog" while bicycling. You at the least add support for the study's conclusion of loose grip on reality.

I class my self as being obsessed with gaming and the world of pc gaming hardware and yet still find time for other things....today for example, a mile walk in the park followed by my regular 20 mile cycle and then another mile walk to the supermarket....interspersed with regular checks to see whats new on the tech web site....and now an evening of gaming.
It really makes no difference that when I'm on my mountain bike I envisage myself driving the Halo warthog does it?...:-/

Reminds me of politicians who also believe their fantasies and games are real, except they are much deeper into it and it's much more important to find a cure for them.

While computers can be fun and great for learning and work, they should be considered a tool. Just going for a walk or time with a hobby (mine is wood turning) can be much more fun and it's real.

...beginning to not know reality?