Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you’re normalizing that behavior in your brain.
But as for why we don’t see more games along those lines, I don’t know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to “destroy” your windows desktop (an image of it).
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
much like abusing animals doesn’t “get it out of your system”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That said, showing love to animals in response to negative emotions is an effective solution