Lia’s Reviews > Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us > Status Update

Like maybe its because I'm listening to this sped up but this book feels so random and I never know what the guys point is. This chapter started about competitive spectator sports, and ended about how Overwatch was meant to be an inclusive game and yet excluded women from its league.

Somehow chapter 11 goes from talking about the author playing Ocarina of Time as a teen, to Alzheimers, to using games for research and eventually mentions a study that found women are worse than men at a navigational game - but the gap of how much worse they are, is worse in regions where gender equality is less of a thing. Wild.

Chapter 10 is all about VR, and how it could be so good with all the ways it could be applied. Except I'm listening to this book 6 years post its release and I'm not sure there has been many crazy leaps in VR because instead everyone is obsessed with AI now. Like it very quickly became just a novelty thing. But maybe there's more use of VR that I just don't hear about.

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Chapter 9: blah blah screen time maybe good? But also lots of people say screen time bad. Once again people doing bad science to suit their agendas. Testing on people who use their screen time for wildly different things?

This book is very: I looked at some research but I didn't want to really make my own statements other than point out we need to do better research on this topic.

so chapter 6 was talking about the whole "do violent video games cause violent behaviour" except it was really repetitive and basically just said all the studies done so far are really unreliable bc there are so many factors...

Not reeeeally hearing anything I don't already know or hadn't already thought - mainly just some details about specific video games/consoles. But next chapter is about the idea whether violent video games actually affect people - soooo we will see

After nearly a month I've remembered to get back to this audiobook

Interesting so far. Mostly for hearing more about video game history I didn't know: the evolution to and from coin operated arcade games and the impact d&d had on story based games, and how even in the 70s, people were arguing over who had the idea first

Non fiction books are best in audio format for me i think