Gonna spend all afternoon playing Diablo II, then watch an episode of the Simpsons before I do my homework.

  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    If they want to ban games that make people violent they should ban football that leaves 40 year olds with massive brain trauma and can lead to suicidal/homicidal actions

  • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I’ve meet right wing gamers who argue this is a clever ploy by the republicans. They claim the republicans know this will never actually work due to the first amendment, but trying will win them points with Midwest fundie boomers. Republicans actually love vidya but need grandmas vote so they ineffectually try to censor them every 10 years or so.

    • Phat_Joe [he/him,none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      well I mean that's what democrats do with any kind of progressive legislation. Act as if they want it, knowing it will never pass, and then when they have power suddenly it's too far.

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        There was just something perfect about the arc ending in him following ads from site to site until he ended up at gay porn, then printing out pages of gay porn, handing it to a judge, and being like "Hey, look at all the gay porn the defendant has!"

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If we are to have the "video games are making kids violent" bit back, can we also have "satanic messages in heavy metal records are turning kids into murderous psychos" bit back also?

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    We have a deal if they ban Call of Duty lmao.

  • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I like how the moral panic is always about the unintended side effect of normal media and the intentionally coercive media like advertisement which is abundant to the point that there's next to no chance of even avoiding ads if you tried. They brainwash people in purpose and put money into doing it.

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Carjackings have gone thru the roof in the past two years in Chicago, which is probably what's driving this rhetoric. Lot of the carjackings are being done by kids that have admitted that they're drawing influence from GTA. Most of em take the cars for joyrides and then abandon them, while some of them just use it to commit other crimes.

    All that to say that once again, Democrats putting the cart before the horse.

      • regenerativedespair [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Really makes one reconsider the relationship of culture to materiality with stories like this lmao. Normally I'm confident in my approach but...did these people really commit to long term criminal records to LARP as Niko Bellic?

        • Harukiller14 [they/them,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          If you were to provide an analysis to the situation, the the part of GTA that is harmful to kids is the capitalist part of it. The entire point of GTA is to make money by commiting crimes. The gangster businessman will always be the main figure of rebellion in American capitalism because it's really the only figure it can produce while still maintaining hegemony.