Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not too much earlier; Wikipedia says the game was invented in 1986 by psychology student Dimitry Davidoff, a psychology student at Moscow State University.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.

        Also… of course

        In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.

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  • BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In op’s linked article: Image

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• 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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…

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean aside from LSD being introduced by the CIA into the public, everything else the government tries to blame someone else.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m talking about boomer parents. In respects to the millennial parents, of course they are laughing at this shit (or I would hope so)

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
        What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense.

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini

    At least you landed on solid gold! Jet Force Gemini was the single best shooter for the N64. Far superior to Golden Eye. Yes, I’ll die on this hill.

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It was actually a really hard game. I never beat it, i sold my N64 anyways as i needed the cash.

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      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Especially in the era before just looking shit up on the internet when you hit a snag. I remember scouring levels in that looking for a path that I’d missed when I couldn’t figure out where I was supposed to go next.

        Definitely a highlight of the N64 for me. It’s up there with the Zeldas in my book.

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