Don’t ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.
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).
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.
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.
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.”)
Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.
I am Jack Thompson’s uncontrollable rage.
🤡
What year is it ?
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.
Hmm, of course.
Massive boomer energy right there.
Yeah I am like, what year is it?
Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.
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.
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.
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.
News for Boomers Corporation
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
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.
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.
Yeah, that’s the problem. It’s our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.
