Got bad vision? Why not hone those homicidal skills god gave you?
With video games?
That’s right. Video games are apparently the way to go if your vision’s going. But not just any one will do. The first person shooter game “Medal of Honor” has apparently passed both the wandering eye and cataract test. Between the “back and forth” motion your optical muscles are required to do – to the “rush” of dopamine players get in the heat of screen battle, it’s said to help both focus and plasticity.
Back in 2012, results from a study with lazy-eyed folk challenged the belief that the visual disorder had to be cured before age seven. It was previously thought that after that age, you’d be stuck with a migrant eyeball forever. Thanks to violence, though – science says no! Of a group of lazy-eyed adults who played a bit of MOH, 30 percent of them realized an increase in their ability to see detail. Then, in a cataract study done, patients noticed an improvement in their vision after a mere month as well.
Alright, we’re dealing with a vast age gap here: seven year olds with a single emancipated look-ball versus seventy year olds with a cloudy blue new layer of reptilian lens. The thing about that is, I’m alright with the Notebook couple sitting in Sunset Nursing Home, taking to the trigger, and unleashing anger about the fading memories of when they loved being together solely because their parents loathed it. That’s alright.
But I’m more worried about their grandson sitting at home, stewing in the words of bullies and the unrequited love of some unassuming cheerleader. Because it’s their words and her face he’s gonna be thinking of when he takes to a college campus in ten years and annihilates his classmates.
With impeccable aim.
Just sayin’.
I get that hand eye coordination and focus can be retrained – and that’s great news! So why not develop a less soul-sucking game sans focus on firearms? That whole “dopamine” rush thing might be fine for people who’ve already grown up and are about to die anyway. But they use a super similar game (Soldier Of Fortune, is it?) to desensitize grown ass men for battle. So, inculcating the death and dopamine association for pre-pubescent, perpetually inquisitive, sentient sponges? That’ll last forever. You can bet your ass. Doesn’t take any kinda science to “see” that durrr-worthy fact.
My ruling? The scientific find is cool, but let’s make a brand new game.
’cause killing’s rarely the answer.
And Dr. Optical prescribing murder would be a myopic at best.