The right has tried to censor video games for years.
I'm old enough to remember Doom being blamed for Columbine.
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I always liked to point out how little they played Doom compared to how often they went bowling. It was obviously the bowling that drove them to violence. ^/s^
Not gonna lie, as a terrible bowler I to have considered violence (particularly those fucking pins mocking me).
See also: Miniature Golf
See also: Miniature Golf
"YOU'RE GONNA DIE, CLOWN!"
So THAT'S why the movie is called Bowling For Columbine! 😁
Bowling and violence: exhibit B
This isn't 'Nam, man! Smokey's just a conscientious objector.
The religious right loved DOOM initiaĺly because the whole goal is to kill demons. Of course you had the whole Jack Thompson thing going on, though. What a nightmare.
Eric Harris made a columbine.wad for doom2
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
God I wish they would read this. But they are too busy licking windows
I played violent video games all my life and I turned out fine.
reflects on current financial and mental state
Wait a second...
c'mere a second mr politician
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so no halflife 3???
Jfc just tell these weirdos to work in North korea
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
What will happen first, Sims5 or GTA 6?
Well Sims 5 got cancelled but somehow I think it's still more likely
If any videogame series on earth could actually be made better by Ai, it's probably The Sims.
Entire families of Ai dipshits lighting themselves on fire and drowning in pools sounds like endless entertainment. Imagine convincing them to fight eachother, gaslighting them, god with a magnifying glass.
Half Life 4
bUt hiLarY ba—er, mean bUt kaMaL— er CoMraDe hArRis BenGazi?