The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Are video games good or bad for us?

Non-gamers tend to take a dim view of video games and their fans, assuming they're all a bunch of sweaty man-children clutching leader bottles of Mountain Dew between Cheeto-dusted fingers and screaming racist obscenities that diffuse muffled through thick neckbeard thatches into their headsets at online opponents.

And a few weeks ago, even I referenced the stereotypical World of Warcraft addicts set up

of pee bottles and poop buckets.

But the latest statistics indicate that the popular stereotype isn't very representative of most gamers.

In fact, if you're an American, you're more likely to be a gamer than not.

In the United States, the average gamer is 30.

In the UK, it's 35.

As the kids who grew up playing Nintendo and Sega Genesis get all groans up and continue playing, the average

age will only grow. 62% of gamers are adults. 29% of gamers are over the age of 55. 45% of US

gamers are female and 58% of Americans play games.

Surely, though, video gaming is unhealthy.

I mean, you're sitting there on a couch or in a computer chair or hunched over a smartphone

for hours at a time.

If watching TV for hours is bad for us, why wouldn't video games be bad for us?

There are differences between the two.

TV is wholly consumptive.

You're sitting there, passive and placid.

While the TV does the work.

You just consume it.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure a Ken Burns documentary is qualitatively different than binge watching

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