Edit - Lotta video game apologists in this thread. Look past your capitalist dependency on causing violence to other people/animals, and recognize what you're doing. Stop Video Games.
Video Games are a media (superstructure) that reflect the economic base we live in. It is part of the cultural hegemony we live under, that the state uses to justify itself and capitalism.
Violence is an inherent part of this ideological propaganda apparatus (along with patriarchy, racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, anti-communism, capitalist normalization etc.)
All media influences the people that receive it. It is "pure liberalism" to believe it does not. If you're a Marxist, you must stand against video games under capitalism.
I know this is a bit, but that said, while there is no direct connection between "played MechWarrior" and "hijacked the family BattleMech to blow up the school after those stravags refused a batchall," the arrogant claim that the media we consume has no effect on our attitudes, beliefs, or behavior at all is both presumptive and dangerous.
You mean im supposed to let me Black Knight just catch dust and rust without ever using it?
I mean, you should have when Operation REVIVAL began and the Clans came to save you from yourselves. :FrothingNicolai: