Moving on. Many of today's most popular video
games take place in dangerous post apocalyptic
landscapes. But are these games really enough,
to prepare our kids,
for the actual post apocalyptic future we will
all soon face?
- I think that they are. Studies have shown
that these games,
are quite effective ar teaching our kids
skills that they'll need after the apocalypse.
Like finding shotgun ammo, and leading
elite squads of super soldiers.
- But these aren't the advanced skills that
they're going to need. - That is advanced.
- They're going to need the more practical skills
like how to build a shelter from abandoned cars,
or how to find drinking water by collecting the
morning dew in human skulls.
- Yes, or how to deal with depression when the
sun is blocked out for 5
by a cloud of radioactive dust.
- Absolutely, now that's the type of knowledge
these kids are going to need when their
world has been turned into a brutal hells gate.
- But these games don't have to be an accurate
depiction of a post apocalyptic world,
they just need to teach the basic concepts,
which they do.
72% of kids said that they know how to find
items to barter at weapons shops,
and how to use medicine packs to heal zombie
bites, with these video games.
- That's excellent. You know, the game Fall Out 3
has taught my son Charlie,
that it's easier to kill cyborgs with a grenade
then a machine gun.
- The games make it all seem deceptively simple.
I mean, in the future,
a kid's not going to be able to kill, a 6 foot
long irradiated beetle,
just by pressing a few buttons. And he's going
to have to get down there with an axe,
and hack and hack and hack. - David our
, kids are going to have the rest of their ilives
to get actual experience in how to desperately
fight for survival.
- Exactly. What's important is that we teach our
children the fundamentals now,
so that they can be successful in whatever
nightmare scenario that they may find
themselves in.
- Well, if they survive that long.
- Another flaw with these games, is that most
kids, will become mutants themselves,
once the apocalypse hits.
- It's a huge problem.
- I think that it's a chance that we're going
to have to take.
Playing video games, all day, alone and
friendless, is simply the best way
that we have to prepare our children for a life of
solitude in a bare wasteland.
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