Video Games Ruined My Brain?

I have been fortunate enough to have had video gaming systems in my home since I was about 9 years old. Each game that I played I focused on competition and getting better against human opponents. Supposedly, video games deprive the players of social interaction, but with the advent and popularity of online gaming, this is no longer so. In fact, I have specifically pinpointed numerous cases in my life where I have benefitted by playing video games my whole life. I have found that I know different mythologies quite well, I have a much larger vocabulary, I am fine tuned with internet culture, and I am much more creative becuase of the beautiful storylines I have "experienced" throughout my life. I am not whimsical, however, and my head is most certainly not in the clouds, but I think it is funny how much of a turnaround video games have made in popular culture.

Going to school when I was younger, I was made fun of because I would sit at home and play Nintendo, or Super Nintendo, and no one save for a small group of my friends could I relate to. Now every kid and adult has a gaming system in one form or another, and it is as main stream as pop music is. The last thing that I noticed before writing this entry is that my typing skills are pretty advanced if you consider my level of training, and I am extremely fast at manipulating computers and other devices... Part of the "twitch" training I've had throughout my life.