Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah.

  I can’t speak to Mexico. But, at least in the US, video games very much have been a pipeline for both rehabilitation of the military’s image and direct recruitment. It is what leads to generations that believe tier ninety special force operators are the greatest people ever which both provides “They know what they are doing and have their reasons” and “I want to be one of those”

  I am not aware of any cartel friendly games (unless you REALLY disliked Fifty Cent, I guess?) but I wouldn’t immediately rule this out IF it is part of a wider media push.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is definitely a good point about games making the military look good. At one point the US Army had its own game called America’s Army too.

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    • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought me being stabbed in the back is kinda of like a jump scare and you almost make zero noise.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are definitely some ways I’d like to see media shifts, but I’m always very cautious about govt regulation around it.

    For instance, I always hated how much we parodize authoritarian dystopias. The “parody” element is often lost on people, and they end up respecting it; like people who lose the irony in vouching for Helldivers’ “For Managed Democracy!” or feel like Warhammer40k’s Imperium of Man is awesome.

    We probably need more Spec Ops: The Line’s, but also more hero fantasies about destroying those dystopias.

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, ban itself? You can’t hire corruption to clean out corruption.

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