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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 184 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Massive boomer energy right there.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 55 points 1 week ago

Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won't fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

in nineteen-eighty

Immediately thought I was getting shittymorphed

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

News for Boomers Corporation

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 106 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Holy crap, I thought you were joking. Yeah, it's Among Us.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Next they'll tie AOC to this because she played Among Us on Twitch once.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

So AOC hired Luigi. And since AOC is a Congress woman, that would mean it was ordered by congress! Everything's coming together...

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago

I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait the “violent video game” is Among Us?!?!

WT actual F

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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! 🎺🎺🎺🎺

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

You can't argue that it's violent, but it's like Tom and Jerry Violent

News Outlets are dead to me.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 53 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's the problem. It's our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!

screenshot of NBC article
(Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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...

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Boomers' children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn't play anymore

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[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago
[–] UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Don't ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In other news, study ties dysfunctional healthcare system to video game violence. Details at 11.

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago

So, the solution to CEOs is more violent video games?

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn't know we're back to the 2000s

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.

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[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I noticed that of the late night hosts Seth Meyers had the least material on the subject to the point of it being conspicuous.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.

Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP and Al Jazeera)

Also, watch moderate people on the other side of the political divide. It may annoy you in some ways (like how I can't listen to Maher when he gets on the topic of Israel), but you'll learn more and you'll have more nuanced views, which will benefit you in ways you can't fully understand until you're able to think about things in a different way. I'm a leftist, so for me, it's been Bill Maher, Chris Williamson, or Jon Stewart. More people need to learn what they don't know that they don't know.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.

Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Our "news" outlets are simply pathetic.

It's embarrassing.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Huh, I thought NBC was a respectable news org...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's linked to social media. I guess they can't criticize that.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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.")

Monopoly? No? I guess that's the less visible kind of violence that makes it acceptable.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Who the fuck are these assholes, Jack Thompson?

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

He also breathed air.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.

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