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Massive boomer energy right there.
Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won’t fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.
Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.
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.
BuT He wAS aN ASSassIn!
I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus
Yeah, that’s the problem. It’s our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.
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.
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.
Wait the “violent video game” is Among Us?!?!
WT actual F
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! 🎺🎺🎺🎺
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.
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…
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.
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.
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!
