The point I was hoping to make though wasn’t ‘Will this actually be harmful’ as in many ways that’s besides the point (even though it shouldn’t be). Since people are already saying that games ‘train’ people to kill, having them doing the physical action as well as the conceptual action is going to upset those people even more, while lending strength to their arguments.

Oh and if JT is disbarred in Alabama it only means he can’t practice law in Alabama. It won’t be the first time someone tried to disbar him, and he’s succesfully fought similar moves before, so I wouldn’t start reading too much into it yet.

I don’t really understand how the Brain Age stuff works at all. But let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you are training your brain by doing reptitive tasks. You learn to identfy the number of objects on screen because you do it and as you do it, the game flashes objects faster. Or asks you to do math questions faster or whatever. It is rote learning to keep your mind sharp.

If you play a Resident Evil-like game where threatening human-shaped objects come at you and your in-game/real-life action is to make a stabbing motion with the object in your hand, it isn’t hard to believe that after a few hours of playing a game like that, if someone comes at you unexpectedly or in a threatening manner, you will react in the way that you have trained yourself. (run-on sentence for the win)

If you don’t think that’s how it works, and I’m not trying to sound like a dick, take some kind of martial arts training or combat training. You repeat the actions and movements until they become second nature so that you can defend yourself or attack in a situation without pausing to think about what you are doing. That isn’t to say people are mindless, but that’s the idea behind training. If someone throws a punch at your face, you aren’t supposed to think about whether or not you should let it make contact. You train yourself so you at least attempt to block it without thinking.

Even if you are right and the difference is in neurology and psychology, the first time a parent sees Little Johnny stabbing at the ground with his RevMote while his on-screen avatar mercilessly kills, let’s stay a woman, will be the day Nintendo gets sued.

Plagiarize is right, this is a powder keg waiting to explode. The only thing that will diffuse it is if parents take an interest in their child’s choice of hobby and actively consider what games to purchase for them and what games are appropriate.

So…there will be a huge lawsuit by December, I’d imagine.