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They help us stay connected with people in our social network that we would otherwise grow distant from, if we weren't playing games together.
And Stanford University has been doing research for five years now to document how playing a game with an idealized avatar changes how we think and act in real life, making us more courageous, more ambitious, more committed to our goals.
Even people were playing it for terminal diagnoses like ALS.
I was playing nice.
You could walk outside on a sunny, warm day to find multiple groups of people in various states of intoxication and children playing in between them.
In chimpanzees, we have usually old males who are over the hill, who cannot be alpha male themselves anymore, but they start playing games and forming coalitions, and behind the backs of others.
I mean, people like Bill Buxton have been playing around with it in the '80s.
Mother dear was in the garden busy breaking up the soil, and I sat beside her, playing with mud pies in the flower bed.
Einstein is playing a game of snooker.
The problem is that many people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.
We require high-end talent management to keep the rock band together and playing.
A protease that had eluded determination for over 10 years was solved was by three players in a matter of days, perhaps the first major scientific advance to come from playing a video game.
You can imagine the tremendous joy of playing with a Tetris game that you wrote in JACK and then compiled into machine language in a compiler that you wrote also, and then seeing the result running on a machine that you built starting with nothing more than a few thousand NAND gates.
On Stack Overflow, it creates a level playing field, enabling the people with the real talent to rise to the top.
So for the first time, we don't have to look at just averages over single individuals, or have individuals playing computers, or try to make inferences that way.
That is, we exploit the fact that the healthy partner, playing somebody with major depression, or playing somebody with autism spectrum disorder, or playing somebody with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, we use that as a kind of biosensor, and then we use computer programs to model that person, and it gives us a kind of assay of this.
It was my first audition, and after three days of playing behind a screen in a trial week, I was offered the position.
Playing for Nathaniel, the music took on a deeper meaning, because now it was about communication, a communication where words failed, a communication of a message that went deeper than words, that registered at a fundamentally primal level in Nathaniel's psyche, yet came as a true musical offering from me.
And at the very core of this crisis of mine, I felt somehow the life of music had chosen me, where somehow, perhaps possibly in a very naive sense, I felt what Skid Row really needed was somebody like Paul Farmer and not another classical musician playing on Bunker Hill.
All we need is a playing card.
So I went back and dumped all my paintings in the Arno, and I thought, I'm going to just start playing around.
He moved to New York City, and he put together a list of verbs — to roll, to crease, to fold — more than a hundred of them, and as he said, he just started playing around.
I know most of you have had the experience of coming back home and finding your kids playing these kinds of games.
And I'm almost sure most of you have thought, "Oh, come on, can't you do something more intelligent than shooting at zombies?" I'd like you to put this kind of knee-jerk reaction in the context of what you would have thought if you had found your girl playing sudoku or your boy reading Shakespeare.
Well, I'm not going to tell you that playing video games days in and days out is actually good for your health.
The issue is what happens with these guys that actually indulge into playing video games like five hours per week, 10 hours per week, 15 hours per week.
So clearly playing those action games doesn't lead to attention problems.
You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games.
It doesn't really feel like playing mindless action video games.
It's happening on a constant basis, and the journalist is always playing catch up.
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