Not sure why you are getting so riled up over this. He's just providing a possibility.
It is baseless speculation without any evidence to back up his claims. It is bs.
Saying one person can party the night before a game and still perform highly doesn't mean they all can. Saying ten players can still doesn't mean they all can. Saying 1,000 can toke up before a game and still perform highly doesn't mean they all can.
Just like one person relaxing from maryj, and the other flying off into anxiety attacks. Everyone is different.
Gaming can be addictive to those prone to addictive behaviors of any type. I mostly now stay away from it because I know full well I can sit in a chair from sun up to sun down gaming and never get bored of it. I love the competition of it and you don't have to deal with your body breaking down much from it like daily grind of sports. However it can break your body down slowly. It can turn you into a turd if you let it. You start feeling it in your fingers/wrists going numb, or your back or shoulders doing something weird it's best to give it up for good.
What does any of this have to do with Wiggins going to a COD event? Or the random times you see him snap about fort nite or cod?
The dude is in fantastic shape and is rarely injured. Lerbon, Lillard, Hayward, Paul George, Anthony Davis, Towns, Booker, LaVine all play video games. This rush to blame video games for everything reminds me a lot of when people rush to blame weed for everything it is all stupid. What people do in their free time is up to them and there is no evidence that Wiggins is playing video games sun up to sun down. Stop creating boogeymen out of nothing. Gaming can be addictive, but is there any evidence to suggest that Wiggins is a gaming addict. To the point where people can rip his professionalism for it? While we hold up idols like Michael Jordan and other 90s stars who were horrible gambling addicts? Wiggins clearly has the talent to dominate when he wants to. It is his heart. He has the skill to score whenever so I have a hard time believing that Video Games are negatively impacting his mental or physical abilities. The guy just doesn't play hard.
I often wonder about eye hand coordination changes. All of a sudden you are intensely training your fingers and wrists into small actions to perform major actions in these game. Muscle memory and eye/hand coordination are real things built on repetitive motions. I wonder further about our eyes, trained intently on a single forward screen position and depth for hours on end. You hip and butt, sitting in a chair position for hours on end. Like office workers spending 30-40 years for 8 hour days in a chair. It morphs people into bean bags that fit their chairs, their eyes can probably stare a laser hole through your head if they concentrate, and their fingers from typing and clicking can probably poke holes through two by fours. I'm kidding, but ask them to get off their chair and go hit a baseball with a bat or sink a basket like when they were kids and they will tell you something is no longer the same.
Again how does this relate to Andrew Wiggins? Guy could probably run a 4.4 forty if he wanted to even after playing in a cod tournament. Most of my friend play video games one guy is up at 6AM in the cold going to the gym everyday, another goes rowing in Seattle, another plays in a rec league with me, most of the people I grew up on traveling teams with play video games and none of them are in bad shape. If there is one stereotype that needs to end is that people who play video games are slobs or uncoordinated.
Mattya, you went off on his idea about motion sickness saying that only some people have that issue. That's true. So why in this case can't this person be someone feeling the impacts of this? Maybe they don't even realize it. Maybe it's not a strong effect they notice, but it throws off their balance just enough, or their eye/hand coordination just enough.
I went off on this idea of motion sickness? It was literally Vagelis' proof of "video games being bad for your brain"
and again is there any evidence that Wiggins has motion sickness? I've never had motion sickness. None of my friends who play video games get motion sickness. You have to be predisposed to motion sickness to be impacted by video games or anything else that causes motion sickness. I've never felt sick playing a video game ever.
I'm not going to overrule on such a suggestion just because google/internet doesn't have a link on this for you to research. Maybe someone should yet start research on the further impact gaming has on such things.
There has been and still needs to be.
"We focused on how the brain reacts to video game exposure, but these effects do not always translate to real-life changes," notes Palaus. The research into the effects of video gaming is still in its infancy and scientists are still scrutinizing what aspects of gaming impact what brain regions and how.
"It's likely that video games have both positive (on attention, visual and motor skills) and negative aspects (risk of addiction), and it is essential we embrace this complexity," Palaus continues.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318345.php#11There are plenty of studies out there, but you have to be open to the idea that you might be wrong.
but listing freaking dizziness as proof of the negative impact on someone's brain is incredibly stupid.
