Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn’t know we’re back to the 2000s
Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.
Don’t ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.
In other news, study ties dysfunctional healthcare system to video game violence. Details at 11.
It’s likely more than half of adults in the US play video games. About 40% of those play some kind of shooter. There are 258 million adults in the US. That’s ~129 million gamers, and ~51 million “shooters”.
Out of 51 million, they think they can link one to a game and condemn the genre?
Whatever. Try again. The only people that think so are the pearl-clutchers and the press.
Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!
(Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.
Brilliant.
90s house party game here, I’m sure people played it earlier.
Not too much earlier; Wikipedia says the game was invented in 1986 by psychology student Dimitry Davidoff, a psychology student at Moscow State University.
Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.
Also… of course
In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.
This has been done over and over again to entice boomer parents to get their kids to stop playing video games. My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini becuase they thought it was a exploration game…
Boomers’ children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn’t play anymore
I’m talking about boomer parents. In respects to the millennial parents, of course they are laughing at this shit (or I would hope so)
Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense.my parents are boomers and im a millennial (90)
That’s cool. Playing the outlier game could go on all day, but it’s obviously not the norm.
Ok. Maybe it was just me then, but growing up in the 90s there was a push for “video games bad they are violent”
It’s rock music. It’s “reefer madness”. Then it’s metal music with satanic messaging when played backwards. Now it’s video games. Same old blame game while never tackling the actual problems of lack of psych care, real societal pressures like financial difficulties, and more.
I mean aside from LSD being introduced by the CIA into the public, everything else the government tries to blame someone else.
My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini
At least you landed on solid gold! Jet Force Gemini was the single best shooter for the N64. Far superior to Golden Eye. Yes, I’ll die on this hill.
It was actually a really hard game. I never beat it, i sold my N64 anyways as i needed the cash.
Especially in the era before just looking shit up on the internet when you hit a snag. I remember scouring levels in that looking for a path that I’d missed when I couldn’t figure out where I was supposed to go next.
Definitely a highlight of the N64 for me. It’s up there with the Zeldas in my book.
beating majoras mask was the best thing ever.
…in an it was the worst thing ever kind of way - cuz that meant it was over Q_Q
yeah…true
Wait the “violent video game” is Among Us?!?!
WT actual F
I think they interviewed people in his circles, and I think a friend flippantly noticed it was kinda ironic that they played Among Us with someone who went on to actually assassinate sometime, and now the media is twisting that into the standard “video games cause violence” bugbear.
It could be in this very room! It could be NBA 2024! It could be Red Dead Redemption 2! It could even be-
WWE 2024! 🎺🎺🎺🎺
You can’t argue that it’s violent, but it’s like Tom and Jerry Violent
News Outlets are dead to me.
Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.
Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP and Al Jazeera)
Also, watch moderate people on the other side of the political divide. It may annoy you in some ways (like how I can’t listen to Maher when he gets on the topic of Israel), but you’ll learn more and you’ll have more nuanced views, which will benefit you in ways you can’t fully understand until you’re able to think about things in a different way. I’m a leftist, so for me, it’s been Bill Maher, Chris Williamson, or Jon Stewart. More people need to learn what they don’t know that they don’t know.
I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.
Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.
This is how you radicalize actual children. It’s clear these people are completely oblivious to the fact that every 10 year old in the country knows among us and plays it. Actual children will see how completely absurd all of this is. I love this move. Go ahead, show the children how utterly out of touch the top is.
Our “news” outlets are simply pathetic.
It’s embarrassing.
It’s called ragebait, now they’re getting all kinds of engagement on their article. They know it’s stupid, but people fall for it every time.
So, the solution to CEOs is more violent video games?
Massive boomer energy right there.
Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won’t fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.
Hello! I played D&D first in nineteen-eighty-fucking-one and lived through the Satanic Panic. Have you seen Tom Hanks in his first big acting role? My parents sat me down in front of that. But I’m still playing D&D in a campaign right now, and my son plays as well. Aha, take that Satanic Panic!
It’s the same shit every decade. They just need something to blame violence on, because surely it can’t be gun culture.
Your parents made you watch a film because they were concerned you could not distinguish reality from fiction?
in nineteen-eighty
Immediately thought I was getting shittymorphed
an absolute legend.
One of the very few things I actually miss from that other site.
Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.
Yeah I am like, what year is it?
News for Boomers Corporation
Im guessing Among Us?
I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus
Holy crap, I thought you were joking. Yeah, it’s Among Us.
Next they’ll tie AOC to this because she played Among Us on Twitch once.
So AOC hired Luigi. And since AOC is a Congress woman, that would mean it was ordered by congress! Everything’s coming together…
BuT He wAS aN ASSassIn!
Trained in Among Us. We should ban it!
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