My favourite thing about the White-house video about video game violence is that, discounting the CoD MW 2 mass-shooting video which is sort of impossible to tally and universally regarded as tasteless and awful, a full third of the murders happening are of actual, card-carrying armband-wearing boot-stomping nazis. Just.. Something about showing video games as being bad for violence and then using violence against the world's token worst people ever as the example strikes me as funny.
[QUOTE=Riller;53196240]My favourite thing about the White-house video about video game violence is that, discounting the CoD MW 2 mass-shooting video which is sort of impossible to tally and universally regarded as tasteless and awful, a full third of the murders happening are of actual, card-carrying armband-wearing boot-stomping nazis. Just.. Something about showing video games as being bad for violence and then using violence against the world's token worst people ever as the example strikes me as funny.[/QUOTE]
It's especially humorous in the context of the current administration tbh.
Oh wow the news programs violence section wtf.
The things they posted should be fucking banned.
Probably the most annoying thing about the video is that they're trying to frame it like games have too much violence, but the thing is everything they showed is stripped of context and they aren't even searching for a consistent theme when it comes to examples (of course, this is even implying that they care about what they're showing). Like the No Russian thing is not only skippable in-game, you don't even have to fire on civilians to pass the mission, and the whole point of the mission anyway is the villain using an American undercover agent who doesn't know his identity has been compromised as a scapegoat for the airport attack, thus leading to the Russian government blaming America for the attack
Kind of funny how the themes in the games they chose to show have a lot of mirrors to the current political environment
The Evil Within is a straight up horror game so it's kind of disingenuous to show that and not equally blame violent gory horror movies for the same thing
Uh yeah, real life violence is way more traumatizing than video games. and the big news stations are constantly shoving that shit in peoples faces.
I laughed when they used Dead by Daylight footage.
If I wanted to go for shock value I'd show footage of burning VC alive in RS2 or something. Or Hatred.
[QUOTE=Richardroth;53196759]Uh yeah, real life violence is way more traumatizing than video games. and the big news stations are constantly shoving that shit in peoples faces.[/QUOTE]
Everytime theirs a mass shooting it has to be on Fox and CNN 24 hours a day for a week. And then people wonder why theirs a copycat mass shooting epidemic in the U.S.
I wish people would disregard this "blame vidya games" distraction tactic entirely, because it's working too well.
Instead, we should redirect everyone's focus onto the real issues instead (mental health, racism, radicalization, gun laws, NRA's lobbying power...)
[QUOTE=Ager O'Eggers;53196920]I wish people would disregard this "blame vidya games" distraction tactic entirely, because it's working too well.
Instead, we should redirect everyone's focus onto the real issues instead (mental health, racism, radicalization, gun laws, NRA's lobbying power...)[/QUOTE]
How's Trump gonna get paid by his pupeteers then?
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