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9/7/2016 4:57:43 AM
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Anyone who is emotionally connected to a video game character needs psychotherapy and should not be allowed to operate anything bigger than a toaster
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You sound like an overly intelligent asshole who got betrayed and decided to be prisoner of himself x) (But you have a point)
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I'd rather be an asshole with a 150 iq than be a really nice idiot. I don't want waste my time with someone that isn't perceptive enough to notice that solar burn is a modifier.
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True. Although I don't know about you, but sometimes in certain situations, I wish i could just be stupid and do like everyone else...
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Why do you think stupid people are always smiling? Ignorance is bliss
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A bliss indeed but sometimes i feel like awareness can be a curse... I would love it if my brain could stop analysing and thinking too much over everything... Sometimes i would like it if i could just simply put a smile on my face and pretend i don't know anything... Like an ignorant idiot basicly
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That's why God invented narcotics.
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Yeah well...
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If one can make an emotional connection to a movie they watch for 90 minutes, or a 90 second news story on a plane crashing, why would one not be able to make an emotional connection to a video game they've spent hundreds of hours playing?
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If you think it is possible to make an emotional connection watching a 90 sec. News clip, you are a weak minded individual that can be easily manipulated. It is normal to feel empathy for strangers in tragic situations. People that are easily manipulated conflate others experiences as if they have gone through it. This has been used for thousands of years to guide people into thinking and behaving in certain ways. The ends may be for entertainment purposes (Greek tragedies, movies) or for more nefarious ends (politics and business)
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To suggest I'm weak minded because I make an emotional connection to a 90 sec. news clip is rather narrow minded, especially not knowing my story, or what I or my family has suffered. But to put my statement into some sort of perspective - I think (know) my heart goes out to people who suffer tragedies, the ripple effect that a tragedy can cause in the lives of others is not a thing to be trivialized. And some of those 90 sec. news clips (stories) do hit close to home. The reality - the events in ones life help to shape and mold a person, and dependent on the strength of ones character, and the support they get from others, will often dictate how they turn out from it in the end. Narrow it down to empathy if you feel the need, but it's still an emotional connection that is made.
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Those "events" you see on tv did not happen to you. You are projecting your experiences onto events that do not involve you. In psychology, it is referred to as affect. You are still confusing empathy with true emotional connection
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I have to admit, I read your responses, and your derogatory comments seem to trigger a negative response from me, they beg for me to want to respond back in kind. But after doing a little research, and coming to a better understanding of emotional connections / empathy, I concede you are right, in a literal sense I've confused the two in my previous statements. In what I believe to be the context of the OP's original post, knowing a virtual character is not capable of sharing true emotions back, I ignored the emotional part of the connection entirely, while using the words myself regardless. As people we make connections with inanimate things all the time. Context is a funny thing that way.
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All that "emotionally connected" means is that you care what happens to it. Not that you fall apart and rage.
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You never played FF VII did you?
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To be fair... I saw it coming from a ways away.
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I didn't know flowers could grow in the slums.
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You're emotionally connected with the progress you've made with your characters though. If someone came in and deleted all of your stuff and all of your characters, I'm guess you would be pretty angry. That's still being emotionally connected..
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I'd be pissed that my gear was gone. I would not morn the loss of the characters. Your argument is tenuous at best. Showing emotion (anger) is not the same as an emotional connection between individuals. If someone stole your car and drove it off a cliff, you would feel angry and violated. If someone kidnaped your girlfriend and threw her off a cliff, you would have a completely different reaction.
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Being angry about something is having an emotional connection to it.. Don't be dumb.
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I would argue the exact opposite: that people who are unable to form attachments to characters they play as for hundreds, thousands of hours are emotionally stunted. I strongly recommend this book, [i]Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games[/i] by Jamie Madigan.
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Right? wtf was that about? someone needs to lay off the estrogen shots
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I would argue the exact opposite: that people who are unable to form attachments to characters they play as for hundreds, thousands of hours are emotionally stunted. I strongly recommend this book, [i]Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games[/i] by Jamie Madigan.
