i deal with the weapons psychologists and psychiatrists argue whether or not the human mind can be affected by computer games and if so which part of the brain is responsible. virtual. actions these all have a very negative impact on a person. this is the same in the cortex is responsible for developing addictions we don't know yet to what extent. zone and christina both twenty two met through online gaming during a tournament called point blank she played against sergey but couldn't beat him using a keyboard mouse but she managed to defeat him offline while he was in the gaming

world christina turned out to be stronger in real life. we started talking. time. and sure was. now kristina is here with him at every place where sergey qualifies even though she is his most devoted fan she won't play on the same team as him. the same as working to get a thought and means what. the media needs that. said captain of the russian team she is taking part in the major battle of the year point blank. for the finals the largest european. we'll see action between twelve teams of gamers.

point blank is a post soviet cyber championship believed to be selected for the competition you need to be among the top three winners of the four online tournaments over the course of the year it started out with eight hundred teams that makes four thousand more years to rise to the top a professional cyber sportsman must train hard for six to eight hours a day. if i have to play for six hours a day doing one in the same thing as if that were work i do it and everybody will do it because we understand that this is the only way to victory. you can't just sit around doing what you like expect to get first place all the time you have to sacrifice something. good money through gaming after receiving his bachelor's degree in long he decided to focus on the online games his team has won tens of thousands of dollars in prize money and a car. professional gaming has opened up huge opportunities for sergei.

but i don't get married and have no kids and all the team from the start it out. twenty five years ago so good gamers used to play these arcade machines which could be found in every movie theater lobby it helps people idle away time before a film started today this machine sits in the office of a major i.t. company that deals with the promotion and placement of popular computer games including point blank this is a reminder of where we've come from and what we should aim to do in the past decade the video games market has been crazy those short few years have truly been a quantum leap in terms of the technology and the experiences we offer people. according to business development manager vasili today of the turnover in today's online games market in russia is about one billion dollars and it's showing no signs of slowing down. the alternative is a reality is an interesting concept the idea has been bounced around for the past

twenty years it implies that there is a brighter layer set apart from dull gray world which exists only inside the human brain we get connected to this virtual reality by means of a computer or potentially through some other interface like virtual reality headset games are just another facet of this from. psychologists are wary of the advance of this new alternative reality their observations suggest that online games can provoke heightened levels of aggression particularly shooting games. if a person gets used to certain reactions will become the norm for him as long as everything is ok in his life he keeps them in remote areas of his personal life you can separate different areas of reality but if for example tomorrow will be some sort of tragedy or some sort of anger or aggression in this person's life that can

become a trigger that will mix up all these realities. psychiatry however have a different argument they don't see a direct link between aggression in games and in real life. it is unusually ready to stab someone with a knife then a computer game is not to be blamed he is ready to stab someone with a knife regardless of computer games with the murderers of the one nine hundred centuries for example didn't play any games on the p.c. but still murder their victims. the gamers themselves are not concerned with such arguments their goal is simple they just want to win. at the polls i think it's just a myth made up by people by parents who say that their child spends too much time on the computer but says that it's too violent or whatever. but that's just nonsense it's a myth. but it is not a myth for the folk in family in kiev elaina. is a manager at a printing company she has two children twelve year old alexander and seven year

old alexy their mother raises them alone but spends most of her time at work. her son alexander became totally immersed in online games and lost all track of the time he spent on the internet and. alexander doesn't try to conceal his hobby from anyone.

else but. the ukrainian t.v. channel s.t.b. reported on the two boys that misbehavior alexander and alexey devote their free time to online games and the imbalance can be seen in every sphere of their lives such as their diet they feast on an endless and unhealthy mixture of junk food and sweets. now we know how your children are going to look when they are forty would you be interested to see the results.

psychologists help set new rules in the home now alexander is allowed to spend no more than one hour on the computer there's a complete ban on violent video games in the house in the morning preferably oatmeal and a low calorie food for lunch like boiled meat and vegetables. but alexander doesn't take kindly to the changes he refuses to eat the food given to him and rushes to the computer after his meals when she gets home from work their mother has no time to control the situation psychologist to believe that because of alexander intellects he's violent behavior at such a young age they could end up as criminals in later life. doing too well there. i have several pictures here the younger brother alexei was drawing a tree but he ended up drawing an x. . in this picture alexander

house but he finished drawing an x. now you could have doubts about it but the boy took that piece of paper and began using it as an x. . but i mean most computer. this is a computer computers all of us dozens of them. yet so you. bet i did say was that. alexander has been raised by his mother who had one point missed out on his upbringing and when she had the chance to take the situation under her control she failed to do so and it seems to me that she didn't do it because she doesn't want to. as a result a harsh outlook on life took root in the boy's impressionable but unchallenged minds yet. twenty nine

year old lawyer for a moscow pharmaceutical company dimitri vinogradova spent many hours playing violent computer games on november seventh two thousand and twelve she took two shotguns to work in took just eighteen seconds for him to shoot all of his colleagues down in cold blood six people died. when a crowd favorite game was manhunt now banned in many european countries. the murderer posted his guiding principle on his social network profile page i hate society and i can't stand being part of it. i hate this life i see only one way to fix it kill as many of the scum as possible. profile names demitra vinogradov. look year of birth nine hundred eighty three

where we born in moscow. are you married no children no what weapons were on your person. for twelve and a benelli i'm sorry. six months before the incident vinogradova had suffered from depression had seen a psychologist and was taking antidepressants. today scientists in russia and around the world are looking into how computer games especially violent ones can affect particularly in people with mental health problems. and the dollar is part of the brain responsible exclusively for emotions that in what's. on them when it came coincides while other parts the brain responsible for rational behavior. that is those sections that help us keep restraint and be pragmatic with our emotions and those parts start to shrink. in other words it is argued that computer

addiction leads to emotional stress and emotional stress leads to murder. is a common opinion among psychologists while psychiatry seem to disagree the brain institute of the russian academy of sciences does not confirm that prolonged exposure to computer games on a daily basis leads to physical changes in the brain which is why we're going to go to the i don't believe that there are some structures found in the brain of computer addicks that are responsible for this sort of addiction well they may have something to do with addiction but i can easily show you addicted people without any changes in their brain that was this is the singular gyrus i'm indicating it with a cursor here it is and it's pretty big. it's responsible for developing addictions but we don't know yet to what extent. we should.

tell you the truth i've never wanted to use something i learned from the games in practice or in real life that is to say if there's a fight in a game that i don't feel the urge to take a gun and shoot someone in the head. a little for me there is a. distinct boundaries between reality and what's on screen but. when they see a star appear in screen it means i can't. give it sounds reality is a cyber tournaments so far his team has been doing well they've made it to the finals soon they'll know who they'll face in the final battle. it seems most likely that they'll be up against the said nation team. it will be very difficult for the guys this is one of the most difficult steps on the way to the finals of the championship.

they should makes it through to the final after a decisive victory. but. we have the will to defeat those who seem stronger than us so you play to one hundred percent and then two hundred percent those guys pushed hard and really kicked our butts but it was what we needed to. know the two teams rocks and said nation will come face to face in virtual combat the big question of the season is whether the long standing underdogs will this time prevail.

there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of. over sixty two percent and. this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health

campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to a lot less a trophy a lot less human suffering. with . the consent you. choose to get to. choose the stories get him to to. choose . six.

tall strong and ready to defeat all enemies who stand in his way that's how alexander's in coal appears online behind the keyboard however the twenty seven year old gamer from minsk is wheelchair bound and suffers from cerebral palsy the computer is his only window on the world and his only chance to constantly train his muscles and exercises intellect it is hard for him to talk this is the only way he can communicate.

with. here. he. will new movie woo hoo. i. grew up in madison. alexander's in cause a favorite game is lineage too he spends twelve hours a day online. oh hello. hello

alexander. include your you're sasha. robert and alexander met ten years ago as they grew up in the same apartment block since then they talk every day. of the house lynage i've played in a while. due to that level ninety eight. it was robert who first introduced alexander to the game which is now part of his daily routine alexander quickly mastered it and has even surpassed his friend. don't go come on it was alexander doesn't want me to go of course he doesn't. already said by when i have some free time right now i have so much work already i was on earth call me on skype or something's up. banks everyone but you look thank you rob he's a bit don't forget come back good bye.

let's also prowl xander his computer the internet are everything to him it's the place where he works. playing. meets up with friends basically everything. this game is everything to him. currently lineage two is one of the most successful projects in russia and the c.i.s. countries they don't like games are basically endless they're constantly being updated over the course of several years something it's the stuff that's in the. localization of a game is not just about translation such games have no wind so every new detail must maintain the players' interest for instance designers draw inspiration from classical art forms. as much as move on you know what we were planning to make a project with. design. where we selected paintings

by google and bosch as references. for what i mean to say is that we were inspired by those works when working on the project of that. in the game the hero's appearance can be changed along with his costume and race in russia hundreds of thousands of people play the game daily it gets updated at least once a month giving players new opportunities like buying virtual clothes with money. at all for the designs to players maybe organize competition you know a competition is not a very good idea we could make a poll for users show them the pictures put them to a vote let's say a maximum of three then the best three are made and the next time we do another three. fans of the game and meet up at

a special party sporting the costumes and make up of their heroic avatars online. pursuit of my wife maria makes the costumes by deal with the weapons sign in medical physicist and i'm a sound engineer. every character has either black or white wings players use them to show which faction they belong to. they also serve as a reminder that within the game their characters are able to fly. at the party the players divide themselves into groups of allies and adversaries then take part in games on the dance floor and have as much fun as possible. the boundaries between the real world and of the virtual seem to dissolve sometimes video games overshadow everything else. that happens when you lose track of time when you play the game long after midnight and you have to go to work early in the morning. a computer game is not just something you should point your finger at and

prohibit but people must understand that it could be dangerous the most important thing is not to overstep the boundary. cyber sportsmen are at risk of some very specific injuries depending on their game of choice the intense daily training can lead to anything from a sharp deterioration of vision to muscle cramps or even a nervous breakdown. of the cup these guys have their eyes set on taking the throne of king of the hill everyone will. turn him in she has reached its climax rocks kiss and said nation are facing off in the final of the point blank turn of it. now let's welcome team rock's kiss to the stage. sergei's known and line as the negative and he plans to live up to his name

in front of the crowd. at the round doesn't go as expected for rock's kids their chief rivals is a nation begin to rack up point after point. it seems to be all over for iraq's kids but then a breakthrough comes quite unexpectedly. even though they were trailing in the final ranks managed to regain its rank and take the tournament. i.

think. the tour it was a complete blast after the first map i thought we were going to have a preliminary final and then the second come back and then the third. such a rush. that we tried to get the whole thing was neck and neck everyone was screaming on both sides i think i lost because in one match it was four against one that whole match set us back and swayed the balance they got a boost while we started to weekend update. said nation defeated victory in the point blank final minutes six thousand dollars for sergei bids on his team this is a victory opens the way for new challenges but sergei and christina realize of course that they can't keep playing forever. i would like to be a referee for example or

a community manager dealing with new media and it's communicating with players and localization companies and developers that. i have to make plans for the future in the short term it involves working with a company organizing these contests both local and global tournaments. so. the army of gamers is good. going very fast right in front of our eyes. of course there are going to be more tournaments and the prize money will increase. for the moment sergey bids on is a lucky there are few gamers out of the millions of players in the world who are able to earn a living through this activity. when saving for they can there yeah. on june first we'll have our wedding. and we're leaving for our honeymoon in the canaries right after that or somewhere else it's a great idea there's plenty of time. there is all the time in the world to play

games but not enough for everything else away from the computer sooner or later gamers will have to put down the keyboard if they don't they may end up losing something important that can't be fixed with a reset button. thank

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