Gonna spend all afternoon playing Diablo II, then watch an episode of the Simpsons before I do my homework.
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
So sad that the xbox 360 I bought doom for doesn’t have a headphone jack smh
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.
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.
Oh thank god I was going to post this, the "Antepasta" line gets me every time.
He is a hilarious man-child. My friends and I quote the bit from his Danzig Library video all the time. "Lots of great werewolf stories. All documented. All true."
I forgot about his spooky library! Gonna have to revisit that one now
Since we're talking about Danzig, how can I fail to mention the ridiculously bad horror movie Glenn made last year? Verotika includes tit eyes and this amazing line.
Saw that on release date. It was worse than expected. I guess he insisted on directing and that's why it looks like a high schooler shot it.
lmao youtube age blocked it, and are demanding ID or credit card info for age verification now apparently
That's dodgy as shit
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!"
does this mean we have to live through another generation of awful gamer webcomics because I don't know if my mind can take a cultural successor to Ctrl-Alt-Del
We weren't allowed to watch The Simpsons because Bart used swear words.
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?
Dungeons & Dragons has kids selling their eternal souls to Baal in exchange for levelly-uppy points
Mick Gordon has got you covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFit0nldf4
What if instead we had Gaul of Duty and it's just for the Celts?
This doesn't hold a candle to my Paul of Duty idea, where you serve your country with highest honors as: Paul Blart, mall cop
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.
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.
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?
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.
