{"id":1183,"date":"2016-12-01T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:31:38","slug":"1183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2016\/12\/01\/1183\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Gamers Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside A Gamer\u2019s Mind<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a gamer\u2019s head, and why they get so frustrated when they lose or die in a game? It\u2019s just a game.Many people wonder why people become so angry when they play video games! Well, I interviewed many people, and these are my results.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that more than 99% of the United States population plays games in any way? Either if it\u2019s a computer, Xbox, PS4, most people have at least 1 of the gaming systems. Also, did you know that people\u2019s personality changes when they play violent games? Such as: the Black Ops series, Rainbow Six Siege, and many more. People that play violent games tend to decrease their frustration threshold; it also in a way makes them more violent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1184 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/20161109_131847-2-e1480616698834-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"20161109_131847-2\" width=\"115\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/20161109_131847-2-e1480616698834-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/20161109_131847-2-e1480616698834-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/20161109_131847-2-e1480616698834-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/20161109_131847-2-e1480616698834-280x498.jpg 280w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/20161109_131847-2-e1480616698834-660x1173.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><br \/>\nI interviewed Mohamad Aboutaam, a student attending Unis Middle School, says, \u201cI play games like assassin&#8217;s creed, madden 17 and violent games like those. I also started playing games around the age of 5. But I started to get more competitive at age 10 or 11.&#8221; Mohamad said he rages at games when he dies to the same players more than once, or if he is bad at the game.<\/p>\n<p>I also interviewed Zaradasht Barakat,<br \/>\nanother Unis Middle School student, says,\u201cI play a lot of FPS (first person shooter) games a lot, and sports games. And the games that get me the most frustrated are the games that require a lot of skill, and a lot of practice. Such as: NBA 2k17, madden 17, rainbow six siege, call of duty black ops 3, etc.\u201d Zaradasht also started playing competitively when I was around the age of 6 or 7 but the age when I started to get very frustrated is 12.<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1185 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"resized_20161109_164918-2\" width=\"171\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2-280x373.jpg 280w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2-660x880.jpg 660w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/929\/2016\/12\/Resized_20161109_164918-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last person I interviewed is Jamil Beydoun, he said \u201cI play games a lot of games the games I play most are FPS and graphic horror games.\u201d I get mad when the game gets too difficult, and I don&#8217;t know what to do or when I die to the same player multiple times in a row, or when my teammates are not helping me with the objective of the game. I think I get mad because either I\u2019m not good enough at the game or because my teammates are not helping at all and just messing around when I\u2019m being serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People get frustrated with games when the game mechanics don&#8217;t cooperate. The main age people get mad at games is 12 or 11, this is caused when you enter a certain age group the Cerebral Cortex in the brain is worked up and begins to expand. This stimulates an aggressive and angry state to the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside A Gamer\u2019s Mind Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a gamer\u2019s head, and why they get so frustrated when they lose or die in a game? It\u2019s just a game.Many people wonder why people become so angry when they play video games! Well, I interviewed many people, and these are my results. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2016\/12\/01\/1183\/\" class=\"more-link\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}