Added: 1 year ago
From: nalts
Views: 23,303
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (764)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • it wont work if my dad paid me i would play video games everyday to get lots and lots on monies :)

  • hahah BUY CRAP! you are tottaly crazy hahaha

  • Subliminal Message! Brainwashing!

  • hey its been a couple of months so did it work?

    

  • crazy. i think thats kind of cool though. but i don't think you should trick your kids not to play video games. of course i am a heavy addict that plays whenever i don't work or have anything else to do. get them modern warfare 2. i do have a question. do they mainly play online games or offline games?

  • You should tie in money management and math too. Give them an alternative income based on repetition and not time, like $X per Y times you do something, like weeds in a garden or something. I just think if anything they'll play more initially and go back to their previous state.  There's no incentive to play less. Do the same thing you do but get paid.

  • video games kill brain cells... nuff said....

  • @laxedskater009 Lies.

  • Dude you are crazy and funny

  • Ha if my dad payed me to play video games i would play on hours upon hours on a day :D I love gaming incentive or not. it just is fulfilling to play.

  • don't know about the research but Mark Twain had mentioned something similar in Tom Sawyer. Tom had discovered that the same activity can be considered entertainment when you pay for it and a chore when you are paid to do it. thus, he convinced a bunch of kids to paint his aunt's fence for him :D pls, keep us informed of the results from your experoment. i'm REALLY curious to know them :)

  • LOL @ 2:24 "buy crap"

  • ....and next they'll be posting a new law! "Do not opperate a video camra while driving." lol

  • hopr it works

  • this might actually work when i think about it.... but only after you endure, indeed! you are brilliant! let me explain what i think you should do. pay em bucks for every hour they spend for years on end and eventually NOT give them anything any longer. This way they will have a feeling of wasting they're time and move on to things that reward (social,material,emotional etc) and if you sense that they realize what they are doing it for, then i guess your mission is completed!

  • who cares if he's driving... im sure every single one of you is guilty of texting and driving; which is a lot more dangerous than letting his camera stare him in the face while he's behind the wheel. Or your a smoker that drives with one hand and a knee while texing and puffing on your lung dart. Its his car let him do what the hell he wants to. just frown upon it like Masturbating on an airplane.

  • is that a green screen

  • is it safe to drive and make videos? lol

  • buy crap

  • Shame on you for encouraging talking/not paying attention while driving!

    Even if if was fake!

  • I love your vids. But this 1 I rated only 1 star, because you were driving, which I think is dangerous. Keep up the great vids, but please don't vid & drive.

  • LOOL love the sublime massage at 2:24 ''Buy crap''

  • Look! Its another douche bag that doensnt want his kids playing video games all the time! Sheltering your kids wont help them later in life!

  • It would work if you made them play video games from this hour to this hour and not let them come to you and say.. hey I played for an hour wheres my buck.. say whoa whoa whoa.. its 6pm.. why aren't you playing video games!? You're fired...

  • @sslanchi

    He's not driving

  • i aint gona buy crap ahhhhhhhhh. sub message

  • I am someone that lived this experiment and it is completely right. My mom never limited my videogame time as a kid and now, i havent played one in years. Im 17, and i spend all my time playing guitar, singing, writing music, and now im in a popular local band. You rock, Nalts!!!

  • you've obviously never played video games Nalts =P

    they'll keep on parasiting all the time ^^

  • haha, i dont think it will work.. hell ill play games for money

  • Why are you staring at a camera while you're driving?

  • Lol the flash screen of "Buy Crap" is bloody funny lmao

  • this has nothing to do with anything but my friend just told me to say "irish wrist watch". and i can not do it. can you?

  • i'd luvv to get paid to play video games.

    if i played video games every day for 2 months, i would get sort of bored.

    but EVEN IF I WASN'T paid, i would still get bored, so,

    NO, if i was a parent, i would not pay my kids to play video games.

    on the other hand, You could reward your kids for playing outside or something.

  • How about you not shoot video of yourself while you are driving?

  • I remember learning this in a psychology class. Basically, it has to do with your subconscious mind and why it thinks you're doing what you're doing. I mean, if you do a puzzle just because then it's easier for you to believe that you enjoyed doing the puzzle because otherwise why did you spend all that time and not stop yourself?

    On the other hand, if you are paid to do the puzzle your rationale is "Well, I was paid to do it so that's why I did it. If it was fun they wouldn't have had to pay"

  • there are actually published journal articles about this very effect so this is legit.

    i can't say I completely understand it right now but i am interested in learning more.

  • Dont pay your kids to play video games!! they will turn out like the person in my video!

  • @ 1:40 Who can you SAFELY say in this world are NOT in a finnancial crisis?

    Seriously. I'm a born gamer and I could use money. I'm in debt, probally 60% of the world is. I'd do it for $0.50/hour.

  • @CourtneyGamerGirl

    Remember that an hour of your time alone is pretty valuable. That hour is probably better spent doing a less enjoyable task for several times that amount, if you really need it. A real job is a better idea for getting yourself out of debt.

  • who cares if u pay your kids. o_o

  • It might only work if you let them play the same old videogames over and over.

    Or perhaps let them buy their new videogames from the money they make. Don't pay them too much so that it will take a good while.

  • Comment removed

  • @NathanJames21 your a douche, if you dont like his videos then dont watch them

  • HI nalts! I have a suggestin if your kids are still playing video games. Me and my bro sold all are war games(we played em most) and now we have great games still, but they're not so fun anymore cause we already beat em. So, we dont play as much or not at all. It does take time however for this method but now, I(Im using my bros channel) as a 17 year old, dont wanna play video games at all or very little. Keep up the awsome work nalts!

  • I think most people who do not understand this idea doesn't have a job. You can get a job that your passionate about, but, once you have to do it to survive its not longer fun. But, that fact that your kids dont have to, nothing happens if they dont play video games....maybe make them give you a dollar for dinner..LOL, that might work better :)

  • genius!!!! i believe your kids will play the exact same amount as before except now they get money which is a bonus for them.

  • better make sure they dont watch this video :D

  • Seriously, you are the subject of my Vlog, you should post my response! :)

  • huh?

  • it not will work if your kids are  real gamers but if they just play to play most likely it will work

  • well people arent born gamers

  • dont wach this its stupid you should go throw your selve in front of a bus

  • how long do you have to endure to know if you are successful or not?

  • As a gamer and educator, I have a few additions to the experiment that I think would enhance the desired effect.

    1) Only pay them to play when you're around, "so you know they're really playing."

    2) Make them fill out a semi-complicated time sheet to keep track of how much they're playing.

    3) Pay them small bonuses (5 cents?) for special achievements recognized by the game. The achievements in a game are often the most tedious to obtain and the added payment would highlight this.

  • be my dad

  • Genius!

  • oh yeah people try to get me to make stuff for them it always make me not want to do it anymore i dont like selling my drawings or scarves if you want me to i hate the pressure

  • lol thats funny you payed them to play and yes i agree your right

  • I recently started playing poker all the time for money and you might be right about this, I used to love it but when I try to force myself to play it's not as fun anymore and I just feel like taking weeks and weeks off when before I couldn't get enough. But... I still love it.

  • I watched till 1:53.

  • cxszfSfdsaffe

  • i really dont think this'l work. theyl just intise u to buy more video games when they get bored. then they'l just play more. if u make them PAY for the video games, that may work better. cuz then they buy it and they could get bored of it easily. then they think huh? yd i do this? ill go and make myself a facebook....

  • But if you have teenagers or kids then it'll be a defiant sort of state of mind which might promote them to play games more.

  • I think it'll work man. I have wanted to do the same thing.

  • you people below me are stupid (not all of you just the stupid ones you know who you are) nalts should be able to do what he wants without being called an "asshole" or a "fuck" and its not greenscreen hes really driving but just because you like putting down other people and their videos doesn't mean you should so all of you just shut up and quit being dickheads

  • lol all you fucks spent a straight 4 minute clip on some fuck driving? ....aha holy fuck

  • so did you dumb ass

  • no i went straight to the comments you fuckin goof

  • you cant proove that nice insult btw you window licker

  • Good Luck, Does it work with video game addicted husbands too?

  • dude, are you seriously vlogging while driving? what an asshole.

  • It is nothing new. Asshole

  • green screen

  • pretty fucking good green screen effect, then.

  • dude, are seriously commenting on a video negatively to try and make people think you're some kind of genius? what a douche.

  • Wow, you must be edgy seeing how your avatar is the buddy Jesus from Dogma. How does it feel to be so unquestionably awesome?

  • You have no idea how great it is. :D

  • Very nice idea, not too sure if it will work on kids, especially with vidya gaemz.

    Quite an interesting result from those studies, but I guess you're right.

  • i think its a good idea. i hope it works for you

  • im just speaking for myself but im basically addicted to video games, i would love to get paid for playing video games since its already part of my life, but then again im a 21 year old male with a girl friend so on second thought, no thanks, i'd get dumped

  • If you want to speed up their disinterest, cut their pay to 75¢ or 50¢. Once they have accepted the idea of being paid $1, a pay cut will make the activity even more distasteful to them.

  • Oh yeah, and make sure they turn in a full hour to get paid. If you do this, they'll be watching the clock and hating the last few minutes, especially if they have something else they want to do. Everything becomes less enjoyable if you have to do it beyond your natural interest.

  • so it's like reverse sycology? <-------- i know thats not spelled right.

  • Comment removed

  • Kevin I am not sure why it won't let me post the link but check out Dan Pinks blog. Dan is an old friend and I sent him this video.

  • lol it says buy crap

  • thats true, they're going to do it anyway, so why not pay them! pay me!!!

  • he looks at the camera more than the road! it makes me so nervous!

  • @kimberlyy I don't know if Nalts does this, but some people record while they're not driving, and greenscreen in the motion.

  • I'm aware of that but I'm pretty certain Nalts in actually driving. I've seen his editing work in other videos, not very professional. Lol.

  • I hope some day when ur recording a vid in ur car u crash lol

  • Dude, why did you go to dr. bauman...

  • A test with kids that paint or sing showed that if the parents rewarded them AND pushed them to do it they were less likely do continue doing it. You should pay them and push them to play games to make them play less.

  • I think you're crazy Nalts, but I'd like to see how this turns out.

  • wow. lol its actually true a lot of the time.

    i used to do yard work for my mom for years, and now she started to pay $10 an hour for me and my sibling and his friend to do it, and all of a sudden, no yard work is being done haha - backfired in my mom's face lol

    GO NALTS!

  • i'm excited if it works...

  • hmmm interesting view. aaand lawl! The Subliminal "Buy Crap" was funny

  • I used to play video games all the time. Then I grew up. I think it really depends on what other options there are for kids to do. I hardly ever play games now. Usually it's just a social thing

  • LOL BUY CRAP

  • its not gonna work johnny boom boom

  • fake and gay

  • I think it'll work if they aren't dedicated by heart to the video games, such as MLG people, they play with heart, lol. It's the same with most famous musicians and bands, it just depends on how dedicated you are.

  • i get it!!!!!!!! so u pay ur kids to play video games for a shorter time? Not for like 6 hours a day but for like 2 or 3 hours? Is that what ur paying them for?

  • What was with that "Buy Crap" lol

  • @Jakeyboyshow its not a camera hes using a 17 inch computer

  • @mattman9656 o rly?

  • I think it will actually work.

  • Comment removed

  • What the f*ck

  • I totally figured out your plan on paying the kids to play video games, i figured it out soo quick, an i just thought to myself.... BRILLIANT

  • wot if they see your video and keep playin video games so you don't win

  • buy crap? lol

  • hmm good idea,kids will actually have money and do something else with it

  • @Fonzersbox do something with the money Nalts givesthem, like buy drugs?.

  • buy chocolate,mmmmmmmmmmm chocolate XD

  • what an idiot

  • wtf after i watched this video i went and brought a bag of crap off a tramp outside.....

  • Um if i got paid to play my video games i wouldnt stop

  • I don't know how your kids think, but I know if I got paid to play video games, I would play them more than I do now.

  • 2:26 Philosopher Nalts

  • you have to let us know the outcome. i think you're wife is right

  • I really wonder if this would work.

    Please do update on this nalts

  • don't remember to forget to rate?

  • lol Nalts will the kids save up the money to buy video games!? hahaha

  • Haha this is great and yeah I can see where it would work.

  • i kinda get it, lol but wow, good luck

  • Buy crap.. Lol!

  • love you shay! =) you got me and the government is sending my wife (10yrs) to live outside the country! WE ARE GOING TO VLOG EVERYTHING to show that familys that VLOG together can stay together!!! check us out anyone whos interested =) xx please subscribe!

  • @troybank Shaycarl??? I'm confused.

  • Nalts,

    You are crazy. I can get an entire hospital to change their practices forever by changing the payout structure of a hospital and other rewards. This sounds like something a consultant will tell you.

    The other problem is that there may be a natural cycle in kids as they become more or less interested in certain activities. You are not accounting for those variables. Yes, they will lose interest, but probably would lose interest anyway.

  • oh, shut up you idiot.

  • It's hard to pay attention to what you're saying while I'm trying to pay attention to the road for you but I can't.

    Like I said, it's hard. =/

  • dude i love you and all but watch the road. do you want to become a statistic. but hey youd probably produce a bunch of tizight videos on your car crash experience.

  • I'm thinking that you won't reduce their intrinsic motivation UNLESS you require that they complete specific tasks. The other problem is that your experiment could backfire and they might start expecting rewards for not doing things that annoy you in some way...

  • pay me

  • "Buy crap"

    Lolz at subliminal message

  • In the long run, I could see this working

    --JC

  • i think this would work. (serious)

  • i am extremely interested to see if this works. Please do a follow up video.

  • I suddenly have the desire to buy crap...

  • @IndianaPopovich yah me 2 lol

  • i think youre brilliant :)

  • Well the kids will be counting the minutes when they play the games and not really enjoy the games. They may want to play it for a couple more hours to get the couple more bucks, but they'll just spend that time waiting for the money, and not enjoying the game.

  • i dont think it will, being me, im on monster craavings skate seshes and video game time, and if i got payed? everything would work out. so id quit maybe, unless you really think its gonna work.

  • How's the book coming? ;-)

  • Great experiment! I agree with you. The money will lessen the video games in the long run. Very similar to the idea that you should never take a fun hobby and turn it into a job.

  • do i have to buy crap? its kind of unusual :)

  • lol have you noticed that almost every sec.he lets go of the steering wheel :] =p lol

  • i don't think this will work :(. i think it would depend on what video games they're playing, though. what games DO your kids play?

    if the games are addictive for more than just the game (like if there are social rewards in games like WoW), then this is like paying someone a dollar for each line of cocaine they do.

  • if i was your son i wouldn't care about the money. I would just play the normal amount each day i usually do.

  • 2:24

    "Buy crap"

  • 2:24-  LOL!

  • too good to be true...thats wat i think

  • pause @2:24

  • BUY CRAP, LOL

  • If that works, that's kinda mean man. I love video games and if I was losing interest in them I would be bored outa my mind. There's not much to do for kids/teenagers anymore in this world.

  • not really

  • now they can buy more games...

  • Its Gonna Work

  • how come u video tape urself while ur driving?... lol

  • new age idea + $ + video games = Fail

  • awesome!

  • lol in like all ur vids ur in the car

  • dont loook at the camera when ur driving nalts

  • aha dude how ya gnna make em quite? just play videogames fer 48 hours on the weekend n play another 10 monday n have enought to buy mw2 er bfbc2 er kz2 then just keep playin them lmao!!!

  • I agree with you Nalts

  • your rocks a max

  • Buy crap!

  • kids will play video games they will never lose interest so i think that this will not work..just sayin

  • I think this is genius!

  • buy crap

  • I love this. One of my teacher friends reccomended I read Alfie Kohn's Punished By Rewards, and I haven't gotten around to it yet, but after watching your video and reading your doobly-doo, I'm guessing that it is probably along the same lines of Drive. I'm really interested to see how this works.

  • great theory, Nalts."

    Good video.

  • SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE!

  • So showing my parents this

  • A plan so diabolically crazy that it has no room to fail!

  • Well you don't pay me to watch your video's and I'm still watching. I'd probably stop if I were paid to do it.....it would be a chore then rather than something I do for fun. I think the idea will work better though with adults who find their time valuable.

  • uhh intresting let us know your results

  • OMG! i wish my dad did this, i play vidiogames all the time.

  • lol BUY CRAP

  • "BUY CRAP" @