Of course, violence in video games can be about more than puzzle-solving, tapping into something more primal and aggressive inside us.
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Most scientists spend most (if not all) of their careers, accepting the prevailing paradigm and proceeding in a puzzle-solving mode within its basic assumptions.
This three-dimensional experience makes the puzzle-solving more apparent, but every shooter, whether against AI or real people, is really about overcoming a set of obstacles.
Violence in video games is often just a form of puzzle-solving.
However, unless you are possessed of a decent puzzle-solving intellect (and like crossword puzzles adventure games get easier to work out the more one plays them) or have a very high tolerance for trial and error, you may find that occasionally consulting an online walkthrough will ease frustration.
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Despite the anomalies, puzzle-solving within the existing mental framework continues and is indeed pursued with even greater tenacity, because prior successes generated by the prevailing paradigm encourage the belief that a solution to resolving the anomalies must exist, even though it seems to be very hard to find.
We should demand more from our video games, even if the violence therein is often little more than a frenetic sort of puzzle-solving, and we should demand more from those who make our games in the first place, as well as from gamers whose often overly knee-jerk reaction to this sort of thing only helps to make level-headed conversation impossible.
Are there different ways to succeed--through battle, through puzzle solving, through dialog?
The work began as "a long-standing puzzle that we were interested in solving, " he said.
If the equivalent of an earthquake were to occur on one (and they are known to occur on pulsars), it would be powerful enough to erupt with a blast of gamma rays thereby solving puzzle number three, the soft gamma-ray repeaters.
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