He also breathed air.
What year is it ?
“news”
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.
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
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.
If you enjoy the game you should check out The Traitors with its many international variants. I was surprised to read that the productions provide psychologists to help the contestants as it gets traumatic, but when I watched the first UK season there were a lot of people getting into emotional distress.
There have been a lot of people cast who really shouldn’t be on the show; it’s just a game!
I love the game, that show sounds really fun!
The biggest difference of the TV show versus the home game is the home game just ends whenever all the killers are found. The TV show has to reach a set number of episodes, so there are mechanisms built-in to make sure there’s always at least one traitor up to the final episode.
In op’s linked article:
Im guessing Among Us?
Holy crap, I thought you were joking. Yeah, it’s Among Us.
BuT He wAS aN ASSassIn!
Trained in Among Us. We should ban it!
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…
I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus
I noticed that of the late night hosts Seth Meyers had the least material on the subject to the point of it being conspicuous.
Pretty sus.
Red voted.
Yeah, that’s the problem. It’s our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.
Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.
It’s linked to social media. I guess they can’t criticize that.
and shitty health insurance.
This is the same tired horse shit they’ve been peddling for decades.
The problem is the for profit healthcare system. The system is designed to turn blood into money. It needs to be torn down, then rebuilt as nationalized, socialized healthcare system for all. Everything profit seeking needs banned.
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?
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?
Well, I was something like 13, and I remember it on TV. I lived in a rural area, where we got about 6 channels on an antenna tower. I watched what they watched.
in nineteen-eighty
Immediately thought I was getting shittymorphed
One of the very few things I actually miss from that other site.
an absolute legend.
News for Boomers Corporation
Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.
Yeah I am like, what year is it?
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.
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
Sure, but they’ve only ever had correlational evidence to suggest video games cause violence. Their own correlational evidence does not support their conclusions, and that should be called out and ridiculed.
I’m pretty sure that is the point
Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn’t know we’re back to the 2000s
FR
The fact that we’re wasting time talking about this means NBC’s strategy is working.
Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.
Don’t ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.
Who the fuck are these assholes, Jack Thompson?
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.
