Why would it be Anita Sarkeesian? Googled her and she also hasn’t really done anything new in 10 years, and her mainstream outlet is retired. So what’s the deal?
AustynSN
6 hours ago
They’re skipping “thoughts and prayers” because pretending to give a shit has gotten too hard to do.
Even as incompetent people as the traditional media wouldn’t describe Quake Arena and the like as “pretending to be an assassin”.
Maybe Spy in Team Fortress 2, but that’s still killing the enemy team. At least in amongus the imposter does actually pretends (or supposed to pretend) to be friends with everyone.
They probably mean “friends” as in other players.
Not like they are putting much thought into it.
Also they are wrong about one other thing.
Many games are based on real historical events (battles and wars) or general way things worked in human history (f.ex. there are wars in games like Civilization).
So, games don’t cause violence.Violence causes video games. 😉
The bully effect will cause people to not be your friend so they don’t get bullied, too. Als people will be prevented from seeking friendships because people will randomly join the bullying (disappointment / danger of more suffering)
GUNnibal
5 hours ago
This feels like the beginning of a new conflict between our dynamic duo and Elija (the super fast guy), since this was almost exactly his argument last time they met.
Jack0r
5 hours ago
Is video game scape goating still a thing in your part of the world?
It was really big before like 2010 where I live, but then died down rapidly when gaming went from a thing kids and nerds did to something that everyone and their mom did.
Haven’t heard any video game scape goating in at least 10 years.
Of course it’s still a thing in the USA. Mass shootings are still a thing in the USA. And most politicians will blame anything and I mean anything to avoid addressing the real problem: the easy access to guns that were designed specifically to kill humans. If the shooter played violent video games, you bet your butt they’re gonna bring that up. It’s more common to go after the mental health of the shooter (while of course voting against any bill that might make access to mental health care easier and more affordable), along with the typical useless “thoughts and… Read more »
Just because people are dumb enough to believe it doesn’t make it true, people still think that republicans are good for the economy even though every economic recession that we’ve had in the last thirty or forty years has been caused by them and their stupid idea that if you give rich people more money that they will just share
Liberal media isn’t the one being found repeatedly in studies to have more people ignorant of issues after watching it than if they watched no media at all, only conservative media has that distinction. I don’t think liberal media is completely trustworthy, but the distinction is pretty clear
“Interesting” thing – the guns aren’t inherently the problem, but the people who wield them. It’s the whole “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” thing. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be harder to get a gun in the US – I think it absolutely should – but the real problem is all the fear mongering. Libs of TikTok once posted a map of American schools as “sites of Anti-American activity.” People like Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh are telling their listeners all the time that teachers are trans-ing their kids in schools. There’s a general anti-education rhetoric throughout the… Read more »
You know, some years ago I thought that what the US needs to prevent shootings and lower the level of gun violence is stricter gun control. But then I found out that in Switzerland the percentage of weaponry in the hands of civil population is not lower (and I think even higher) than in the US. And still we don’t hear about frequent shootings in that country. so yeah, it seems that the main problem is not in guns, but in heads. :-/ (I must say, I am not an American. European. Own a couple of guns, for sports mainly.… Read more »
The “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is a rubbish argument. What guns do is allow people to kill and damage over distance in quantity. A gun’s only function is to destroy, it has no other purpose. The UK, where I live, had a school gun massacre in 1996. It led to tighter gun legislation and we have not had a school gun massacre since. People still own guns (my friend has 8!) but they are not easily available over the counter for a couple of hundred pounds to anyone who passes a cursory check. Fear mongering is not… Read more »
‘Gargling old piss’ party. Same issue, different day. heaven help them if they are Made to swallow, not spit. Bullets X10 the cost and locked up tighter than legal marijuana or firing pins DNA coded. Easy solve.
It’s certainly not as loud as it used to be, but there are still some people consistently trying to link events like this to video games. It just tends to get quickly buried under all the OTHER scapegoating.
I feel like those voices might be a bit louder in a world that has actual video game themed vigilantes.
Only in the United States, less often now cause its not being secretly funded by the NRA. NRA used to sponsor groups who were anti-video game violence, like Jack Thompson and other “experts” and trot them out to the news networks. Since all the news outlets were scared to be sued by the NRA… they took the scrapes they offered to fill air time. Nowadays, gun manufacturers earn tonnes of money for licensing their trademarks/copyright on their guns to the big games like Call of Duty etc. and see games effecting weapon sales. They don’t want to bring attention to… Read more »
They literally just did this with Luigi Mangione in December. So yeah, it’s still a thing. (This is from the NYPOST, but many outlets ran with the same “news”)
Jedi
4 hours ago
Luckily, that scapegoat is a blast from the past …. i hope ?
“Where is a police man
when you need one
to blame the color TV”
Del Cox
4 hours ago
Well that’s not the direction I was expecting the story to go.
Qstknight
3 hours ago
I remember the time before video games when playing D&D and listening to heavy metal music was the scapegoats for something like this.
Brian
2 hours ago
Yeah, the title of this is making sense now get a feeling someone is gonna have issue with videogame-themed supers in the city.
Daniel
2 hours ago
Oh! So we get the return of this “anti-gaming” guy, whose name I don’t remember but have superspeed and brother killed by gamer?
PhobosRising
54 minutes ago
Now would be the perfect time for Ethan to gamble with his power, put on a jesus outfit, and go fuck with the zealots. Full “mental middle-finger so hard it scratches the itch on your shoulder”. By death 8 he will have an off-shoot cult that would make Josef Seed jealous.
24
Is their world’s version of Jack Thompson about to appear?
Jack Thompson did interact with Ethan 1.0 if you count the animated series as canon.
Wouldn’t be the first time Tim’s brought him up.
Nah got to update the material, it’s Anita Sarkeesian equivalent now. Thompson hasn’t been relevant in 10 years at least.
Had to google this Anita thingy … wish I didn’t … *sigh*
Why would it be Anita Sarkeesian? Googled her and she also hasn’t really done anything new in 10 years, and her mainstream outlet is retired. So what’s the deal?
They’re skipping “thoughts and prayers” because pretending to give a shit has gotten too hard to do.
True, I think it’s “things like that take place” by now.
What video game would have you actually killing friends and not enemies from the ingame lore point of view?
Wait. Oh.
They’re talking about ‘mongus
Assasins Creed Unity (the multiplayer part)
where you are a litteral assasin playing online with your friends and your goal is to murder them.
Quake / arena shooters / old UT
Basically any game that has a ladder/leaderboard and is not my little pony/hello kitty online.
Methinks
Even as incompetent people as the traditional media wouldn’t describe Quake Arena and the like as “pretending to be an assassin”.
Maybe Spy in Team Fortress 2, but that’s still killing the enemy team. At least in amongus the imposter does actually pretends (or supposed to pretend) to be friends with everyone.
They probably mean “friends” as in other players.
Not like they are putting much thought into it.
Also they are wrong about one other thing.
Many games are based on real historical events (battles and wars) or general way things worked in human history (f.ex. there are wars in games like Civilization).
So, games don’t cause violence.Violence causes video games. 😉
It doesn’t even have to be “ingame lore,” I can think of two MMOs where you can kill your friends in PvP.
The bully effect will cause people to not be your friend so they don’t get bullied, too. Als people will be prevented from seeking friendships because people will randomly join the bullying (disappointment / danger of more suffering)
This feels like the beginning of a new conflict between our dynamic duo and Elija (the super fast guy), since this was almost exactly his argument last time they met.
Is video game scape goating still a thing in your part of the world?
It was really big before like 2010 where I live, but then died down rapidly when gaming went from a thing kids and nerds did to something that everyone and their mom did.
Haven’t heard any video game scape goating in at least 10 years.
Of course it’s still a thing in the USA. Mass shootings are still a thing in the USA. And most politicians will blame anything and I mean anything to avoid addressing the real problem: the easy access to guns that were designed specifically to kill humans. If the shooter played violent video games, you bet your butt they’re gonna bring that up. It’s more common to go after the mental health of the shooter (while of course voting against any bill that might make access to mental health care easier and more affordable), along with the typical useless “thoughts and… Read more »
Isn’t that just on conservative media though? None of those are really considered trustworthy or credible
Tell that to the millions of people listening to conservative media, which are billion dollar businesses.
Just because people are dumb enough to believe it doesn’t make it true, people still think that republicans are good for the economy even though every economic recession that we’ve had in the last thirty or forty years has been caused by them and their stupid idea that if you give rich people more money that they will just share
like the liberal mainstream media is trustworthy???
Liberal media isn’t the one being found repeatedly in studies to have more people ignorant of issues after watching it than if they watched no media at all, only conservative media has that distinction. I don’t think liberal media is completely trustworthy, but the distinction is pretty clear
“Interesting” thing – the guns aren’t inherently the problem, but the people who wield them. It’s the whole “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” thing. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be harder to get a gun in the US – I think it absolutely should – but the real problem is all the fear mongering. Libs of TikTok once posted a map of American schools as “sites of Anti-American activity.” People like Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh are telling their listeners all the time that teachers are trans-ing their kids in schools. There’s a general anti-education rhetoric throughout the… Read more »
You know, some years ago I thought that what the US needs to prevent shootings and lower the level of gun violence is stricter gun control. But then I found out that in Switzerland the percentage of weaponry in the hands of civil population is not lower (and I think even higher) than in the US. And still we don’t hear about frequent shootings in that country. so yeah, it seems that the main problem is not in guns, but in heads. :-/ (I must say, I am not an American. European. Own a couple of guns, for sports mainly.… Read more »
The “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is a rubbish argument. What guns do is allow people to kill and damage over distance in quantity. A gun’s only function is to destroy, it has no other purpose. The UK, where I live, had a school gun massacre in 1996. It led to tighter gun legislation and we have not had a school gun massacre since. People still own guns (my friend has 8!) but they are not easily available over the counter for a couple of hundred pounds to anyone who passes a cursory check. Fear mongering is not… Read more »
‘Gargling old piss’ party. Same issue, different day. heaven help them if they are Made to swallow, not spit. Bullets X10 the cost and locked up tighter than legal marijuana or firing pins DNA coded. Easy solve.
It’s certainly not as loud as it used to be, but there are still some people consistently trying to link events like this to video games. It just tends to get quickly buried under all the OTHER scapegoating.
I feel like those voices might be a bit louder in a world that has actual video game themed vigilantes.
Still a thing in France, and I want to murder them for relaying that kind of fake news… Oh wait…
Only in the United States, less often now cause its not being secretly funded by the NRA. NRA used to sponsor groups who were anti-video game violence, like Jack Thompson and other “experts” and trot them out to the news networks. Since all the news outlets were scared to be sued by the NRA… they took the scrapes they offered to fill air time. Nowadays, gun manufacturers earn tonnes of money for licensing their trademarks/copyright on their guns to the big games like Call of Duty etc. and see games effecting weapon sales. They don’t want to bring attention to… Read more »
They literally just did this with Luigi Mangione in December. So yeah, it’s still a thing. (This is from the NYPOST, but many outlets ran with the same “news”)
Luckily, that scapegoat is a blast from the past …. i hope ?
Games is already the update.
“Where is a police man
when you need one
to blame the color TV”
Well that’s not the direction I was expecting the story to go.
I remember the time before video games when playing D&D and listening to heavy metal music was the scapegoats for something like this.
Yeah, the title of this is making sense now get a feeling someone is gonna have issue with videogame-themed supers in the city.
Oh! So we get the return of this “anti-gaming” guy, whose name I don’t remember but have superspeed and brother killed by gamer?
Now would be the perfect time for Ethan to gamble with his power, put on a jesus outfit, and go fuck with the zealots. Full “mental middle-finger so hard it scratches the itch on your shoulder”. By death 8 he will have an off-shoot cult that would make Josef Seed jealous.