Quack Professor Releases Dumbest Violent Video Game Theory Ever
from the yeah,-it's-really-that-bad dept
If you have sensed an increase in the levels of air-borne stupidity in the world lately, as have I, you might be looking for the root cause of this collective mental climate change. I think I've found it. I believe it's caused by emissions of stupid generated by the debate over violent video games. Where else can you go for opinions that so blatantly ignore statistics and reason? You have retired military trumping up the next generations of "killers," despite violence and mass shootings being down in America. We have the damned Vice President of the United States showing his complete blind spot on the legality of taxing supposedly violent games. Not to mention newspaper industries that rely on the 1st Amendment to operate considering whether censorship of violent media might just be the answer to all of our problems.But if you thought that was as bad as the theories get, on how violent games are harmful, oh boy were you wrong. See, a South Korean professor now believes that violent games are a plague on all of us...because they make our video cards run hotter and the resulting radio waves are harmful.
Korean site Inven (via tipster Sang) reports that the professor's study apparently revealed that a game's graphics card temperature was 36°C when idling. Now, that sounds about right. The card's temperature apparently increased to 45°C during a racing game. But then, Professor Cho's study stated that when a "violent game" was played, the temperature supposedly shot up to 57°C. In turn, the game emitted more radio waves.For those of you who aren't suffering face-palm-induced concussion syndrome, you're probably already thinking about all the other everyday things that can cause your GPU to run hotter, such as graphic design work or, you know, watching HD movies. In fact, those activities can push the temperatures even higher. Or maybe you're thinking about how correlating how much work a GPU does to how violent a game is just might be the kind of thing that can cause a brain to commit suicide. Or maybe you're wondering if having your notebook computer on your lap every time you've played Doom has put your testicles at risk of mutation, turning them into monstrous, sentient testicilians, a race of self-reproductive hell-nuts bent on destroying the world.
Well, whatever you're thinking, calm the hell down and put your pants back on. This guy is as crackers as crackers gets.
Previously, Professor Cho has apparently published research on how drinking for three days straight will cause liver damage, how watching porn will cause unmarried men liver damage, and how smartphones cause people to have irregular voices. He sounds like a very serious researcher!Were any of that actually true, I can assure you I'd be speaking in falsetto about my double-liver-damage instead of remarking on how crazy Professor Cho is.
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Timothy Geigner just won the Noble Prize for the Internetz with that sentence.
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So apparently getting married causes your liver to develop anti-porn agents or something, who knew?
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If that's true, then I've apparently got about six months to live...
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'Nuts' is not a word that does justice to this guy's level of nuttiness.
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Actually, I believe it was from the same website where I got Max, my cat, a BSc and an MSc in macroeconomics by filling out a couple of forms and paying $750 on my credit card.
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Over 100C!!!
Even submerging your graphics card in distilled water would keep it at 100C. Above that, and it would start boiling off.
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According to this professor's logic if I had a laptop running at 100C that's like double 57C so that's double the harmful radio waves! And since the graphics card was situated right above my unmentionables we can further multiply the effects of the harmful radio waves by tenfold!
But that means... OH NO! I'M HITLER!
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double 57c is 114DegC, just in case you were away the day they taught maths.
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Thank
You have finally developed a theory that explains the loons in DC.
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Suicide or Mass murder
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Suicide or Mass murder
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Bitcoin mining
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And I can't tell you how many times I've felt an uncontrollable urge to kill dragons and bandits after an overnight Skyrim marathon. All this time I thought it was just sleep deprivation and the half-dozen bottles of NOS.
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I rarely add comments to Techdirt....
Thanks for the opportunity to leave them guessing.
Brilliant.
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Wait, he doesn't have any connections to the tinfoil industry does he?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
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That's just science
I thought of other causes, but that 10 year old can of baked beans from the back of the pantry that I had for lunch was totally okay. Sure the can was bulging, but everyone knows that beans cause gas.
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Down to what??? Epidemic levels? We will fight like hell for the unborn - but once there are here, they are fair game.
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Minecraft as empirical evidence of validity ...
2. My best friend likes a high-res Minecraft texture pack and is hell bent on killing mobs. I stick with a 64x res pack and hide from mobs in a hole at night.
3. He sometimes gets drunk and wants to start a fight. I do not.
Therefore, using hi-res texture packs on the violent game of Minecraft has been shown to make people more violent than those who use lower res, video-card-heat-friendly texture packs.
Proven.
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Do you know the Difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
A hypothesis is a guess that hasn't been proved yet.
Sounds like you're using 'theory' in this article when you mean 'hypothesis'.
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Best Quote Ever!
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Correct me if I am wrong.
I fairly sure, it would be the video card emitting more radio waves, not the game, games are not really known for their radio emissions.
Heat is also infrared radiation, although on the same spectrum as radio, most people consider it as LIGHT.
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Timbo
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Um, I never said he shouldn't be allowed to say stupid shit, I'm just pointing out it's stupid shit. Not sure why you don't understand the distinction....
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I never thought I'd actually say this
The guy may have been an overzealous anti-video game crusader, but at least his "arguments" were slightly more realistic than some of the bizzaro claims made by today's anti-violent video game crowd.
How long is the video game industry going to put up with this bullshit?
As the Zen Master says, "We'll see."
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The violence stems from the detachment from reality and not knowing between what is real and what is not real. Watching violence doesn't affectively make one violent, but it does make us slightly less prone to sympathizing with victims of violence and abuse if we are exposed to it at an early age.
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No offence Wally, but unless you have lengthy actual professional experience to back it up, the A+ does not make you a professional in the field. It's an entry level certification that even the COMPTIA website lists as "the starting point for a career in IT". It means you're qualified to fix PCs and mobile devices up to a certain level, not that you're an expert in any field.
You can certainly use your studies to make informed opinions in some areas, but in professional terms you're barely a newcomer, let alone a seasoned professional. Your opinion is welcome, but please stop waving around your basic certificate as if it makes you an expert. Enjoy the Network+ and hopefully that will lead to better things, but once you pass it you won't be an expert on networking.
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Quack Professor Releases Dumbest Violent Video Game Theory Ever
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