Wow, I can’t believe I get to dredge up this ancient photo again:
(Obviously this is satire. I furthermore still haven’t quite made peace with the fact that every single item on Daniel Rutter’s web site can now be considered “retro.”)
Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn’t know we’re back to the 2000s
Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.
FR
The fact that we’re wasting time talking about this means NBC’s strategy is working.
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.
I’m pretty sure that is the point
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.
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).
Don’t ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.
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.
Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.
I am Jack Thompson’s uncontrollable rage.
🤡
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 someone, and now the media is twisting that into the standard “video games cause violence” bugbear.
He had some shitty friends if they yap to the media.
Wait until the media hears about Garry’s Mod
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.
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)In op’s linked 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…
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.
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”
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
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.
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.
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.
News for Boomers Corporation
Yeah I am like, what year is it?
In other news, study ties dysfunctional healthcare system to video game violence. Details at 11.
If someone wanted to make a fast buck right now, I bet a game where you go hunt down CEO’s and virtually… you know, accomplish your mission goals on them, it would be wildly popular.
What year is it ?
Im guessing Among Us?
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!
I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus
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.
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.