1. The 21st Century Video Game Plague
Not only does the fantasmatic effect of associating cheering and euphoria to his player making a basket let the gamer know that he is at home court where all the people are happy to see him score, but it also reminds him of a real life game. ... Video games capitalize on the fact that the human race is a visualistic one and bombard the gamer with many fragmentary impressions, forcing the gamer to focus solely on the stimulus of sight in order to grasp what is going on in the game; sadly, "the singling out of any one sense for intense stimulus has the effect of numbing the rest" (Buck...
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