tomiobj:
. Vice city. Such an awesome game. But saints row is better

Saints row should not be compared to GTA.. You can't even compare it to MAFIA 2..

Yes makes you smarter but you will lack knowledge. knowledge is in the books. Mind you, you can't be smarter than what you know. So books give you the knowledge, games give you a higher ability to manipulate that knowledge to solve problems quickly.

RomanceLander:


Ahhhh You don't dare .....
All my life I've been clinged to board games.
You won't believe I play checkers too

Since you play chess, checkers would probably be a kinda childs play to you...
But I still maintain my stand on scrabble, don't think we gonna use Oxford dictionary. Lol!

Ilekeh:
They make me pay attention to fine details. I love my PS4................

You write programs too?

ToyinDipo:


You write programs too?

Yes.

Adventure game thought me that when you don't see an enemy you are certainly heading towards the wrong direction.

Ishilove:
It makes you dull and anti-social

Took the words outta my mouth!


Just play games that help develop your brain, rather than spend time on senseless 'feel good' games.

digitalembrace:
Depends on the type of game and on your psyche architecture and also depends on how far along you're in your cognitive development and it depends on your definition of smart. For example, If you're scatterbrained smart (ADHD type) you wouldn't suffer from the flattening of your associative hierarchy that fast paced FPS style games induce. It could actually benefit you. But if you're the extremely focused clear minded type with a steep associative hierarchy your attention span could suffer.

There are many more examples along those lines that affect core components of one's cognitive complex; working memory, fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, spacial reasoning, etc.

Games do shift psyche design. Whether you come out of that shift smarter would depend on so many things.

So I guess the answer is it depends.

Oga!! We know say you go school



But sometimes try write something were everybody go understand.


No be say you go dey form intelligent

Ilekeh:


Yes.

You are a strong lady.
Which programming language?

tomiobj:
. Vice city. Such an awesome game. But saints row is better

talk of medal of honor

Ishilove:
It makes you dull and anti-social

I guess you don't play chess

Viciyus:


Oga!! We know say you go school



But sometimes try write something were everybody go understand.


No be say you go dey form intelligent

lolz....we can still learn from stuffs like dis o

ToyinDipo:


You are a strong lady.
Which programming language?

You're the first to call me a female for a long time. Dem don "bro"me tired lol. There are lots of women programming over here

C++, PHP and Phyton and Java. I also work within the realm of Drupal, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and SQL. I'm not an expert, just intermediate. Still in school, still getting there.

Ilekeh:


You're the first to call me a female for a long time. Dem don "bro"me tired lol. There are lots of women programming over here

C++, PHP and Phyton and Java. I also work within the realm of Drupal, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and SQL. I'm not an expert, just intermediate. Still in school, still getting there.

Lool, bro Ilekeh Ilekeh sounds feminine now.
You know all these? Respect!
Are you sure we have many female programmers here, 'cos I'm always on the lookout for them.

Vicorolex1:


lolz....we can still learn from stuffs like dis o

Lolz
But you have to make it much readable na.

Viciyus:


Oga!! We know say you go school



But sometimes try write something were everybody go understand.


No be say you go dey form intelligent

Lol no vex. It's not intentional. This is something I'vet hought about so I just regurgitated some of the main ideas I remember.

The only uncommon thing there is associative hierarchy which is just a fancy word for your ability to associate things with one another. Its common amongst multitaskers and polyglots (speakers of many languages) To illustrate what I mean if I say "apple" to someone who isn't highly associative he would just think "fruit" but a highly associative fellow would think "fruit, red, computer, sweet, Steve Jobs"

The other somewhat technical psychology terms aren't that uncommon. Working memory; capacity to hold items in memory. Spatial reasoning; ability to reason about positions in space. Fluid intelligence; ability to solve novel problems that typically don't rely on stale information. Crystallized intelligence, brilliance that depends on long term memory.

My point is that we all have different helpings of all these features of intelligence. Different games shift the proportions in different ways that could reinforce or degrade ones original state.

How can someone claim game dulls the mind? Even some female geeks I've met play sudoku to exercise the mind.

Ilekeh:


You're the first to call me a female for a long time. Dem don "bro"me tired lol. There are lots of women programming over here

C++, PHP and Phyton and Java. I also work within the realm of Drupal, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and SQL. I'm not an expert, just intermediate. Still in school, still getting there.

wen i go come for tutorials na?

ToyinDipo:


Lool, bro Ilekeh Ilekeh sounds feminine now.
You know all these? Respect!
Are you sure we have many female programmers here, 'cos I'm always on the lookout for them.

I don't know about nl, but where I am.
Respect? Why? If men can do it, so can we.

Respect to you too.

Ilekeh:


I don't know about nl, but where I am.
Respect? Why? If men can do it, so can we.

Respect to you too.

Oh, by over here, you meant outside naija then, I guess.
Men dominate programming field you know?
But I don't know half of what you do

I used to play FIFA and Ghost Recon until I figured out the American Football game Madden. It's like playing chess with computer images. Literally. The smartest guy usually wins. If two smart guys play, it comes down to computer luck.

digitalembrace:


Lol no vex. It's not intentional. This is something I'vet hought about so I just regurgitated some of the main ideas I remember.

The only uncommon thing there is associative hierarchy which is just a fancy word for your ability to associate things with one another. Its common amongst multitaskers and polyglots (speakers of many languages) To illustrate what I mean if I say "apple" to someone who isn't highly associative he would just think "fruit" but a highly associative fellow would think "fruit, red, computer, sweet, Steve Jobs"

The other somewhat technical psychology terms aren't that uncommon. Working memory; capacity to hold items in memory. Spatial reasoning; ability to reason about positions in space. Fluid intelligence; ability to solve novel problems that typically don't rely on new knowledge. Crystallized intelligence, brilliance that depends on acquired information.

My point is that we all have different helpings of all these features of intelligence. Different games shift the proportions in different ways that could reinforce or degrade ones original state.

Torrr,

Na only the last paragraph I understand.


The rest, na only you know weti you write

Makes u smart.. Very smart... U gonna posses the ability to think fast, move fast, punch fast, steal cars, f**k women, Rob banks, perform heists, kill civilians.. GTA 5.. JUST KIDDING.. OF COURSE IT MAKES U SMART

Depending on the game

;Dwish i could throw moloktov cocktail 2 those who think games make u dull.

Everybody is busy talkin about video games. What of 'chess'?

play any legend of zelda game and come back a chnged man., broaddens mind and horizons .,, allows you to think in an unconventional way.,.,

kishimi8:
play any legend of zelda game and come back a chnged man., broaddens mind and horizons .,, allows you to think in an unconventional way.,.,

How many people still have game boy... Or SNES.

Clara16:
Everybody is busy talkin about video games. What of 'chess'?

The OP means video games..

Chess is like playing NFL( American football) on PS or xbox..

kishimi8:
play any legend of zelda game and come back a chnged man., broaddens mind and horizons .,, allows you to think in an unconventional way.,.,

will definitely check it out

Clara16:
Everybody is busy talkin about video games. What of 'chess'?

Too complex for human beings. Computers have ruined chess for everyone. 15, 20 years ago, Kasparov was competitive against the IBM Deep Blue computer. Kasparov is arguably the best player in the history of the game, btw. Today, the world champ, who is rated HIGHER than Kasparov EVER was, would need to play a handicapped computer just to fight for a DRAW!!!! And the computer could be on an iPhone, not even a specially built computer.

Btw, the current champ played to a draw against then world champ Kasparov when he was only 13 yrs old in 2004.