Speaker reflects on gaming's cognitive benefits, discusses complexity of modern games like Crimson Desert.

kids with experts noting complimentary benefits alongside exercise. I needed this study when I was fucking 15 and I was trying to explain to my parents that, hey, if I play video games now instead of doing my homework, I'm going to have the better cognitive reasoning skills, verbal skills to someone 14 years younger than me. So I'm going to be way smarter than that one year old little baby because I'm playing RuneScape and Diablo all night instead of sleeping or doing any homework. But this kind of makes sense to me, especially with how insanely complex the average video game is nowadays. It requires a lot of thinking like these are complex. They're not like just basic point and shoot games anymore. These games are very complex with very in depth and deep mechanics. I tried to start playing Crimson Desert and I've just been overwhelmed with the amount of shit that you can do in the game where it's like, holy fuck, not only am I too old for this, I might be like not smart enough to do this. But I 100% buy into this idea that video games help you remain kind of more cognitively sharp because they, you know, work out parts of the brain that you might not work out otherwise. And I will be showing this study to my wife, the moment GTA six comes out, that's for sure. And listen, there is a absolute correlation between people who are playing video games like World of Warcraft, teaching you about markets,