I remember the first time I fired a shotgun...nothing prepared me for it, even my friends saying “Make sure you have a good grip on it.” Yeah yeah of course I have a good HOLY SHIT OMG I’M SORRY OH TAKE IT AWAY WOW. 

Modern shooting games are mostly just super macho versions of “Tag”* .

I think there is a difference from copying art styles and using it as inspiration and building from it. Mysplaced looks like it didn’t bring anything new to the table. Like how movie production companies make movies with public domain stories (Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, etc) to ride off the success of Disney.…

If there’s one thing most shooters are missing it’s full penetration.

Underrated rip-off.

But you didn’t at all address his concerns about your title and making it a race issue?

Jeremy, seriously, just shut up. Your article sucked, the formatting sucked, and you don’t need to be coming back and posting from behind “Blackdev” like you’ve been vindicated.

Okay, Stephen Ddungu here. Firstly Jeremy, I didn’t know you were going to make it a race issue, I’m quite disappointed to be honest.

Despite not being military myself, I’ve fired all sorts of weaponry you’d find in video games. M4A1 Carbines, AK47's, Uzi, M242 Saw, G36c (honestly, my fav) and plenty more. Nothing in a videogame comes close to shooting a real firearm. Not even games like Arma or Insurgency that pride themselves on realism, can…

I am an exact opposite example with the same outcome.

Absolutely. I don’t exactly agree with  most of their viewpoints (including the one on taxes) but they did make some solid points. That and the vaccination demonstration. 

Even with the gruesome realness of modern games compared with ones from the days of wolfenstein 3d. It’s still not the same thing.

There is an old episode of “Bullshit!” with Penn and Teller about gun control. It ends with a young boy, who was a big fan of CoD, being taken to a range with his mother and being allowed to fire an AR.

Ten years ago I got a death threat at work after being harassed by someone for four hours. When I was leaving work, I looked out the tinted doors of our office building, and the person who said, “You never know who’s going to be waiting in the parking lot to blow your brains out,” was in the parking lot, ten feet away…

I am saying a lot of games are directly marketed to those being radicalized and groomed for fascism.

There is nothing, NOTHING in a videogame that can prepare you for that level of force and power.

They’re not—because the world is absolute garbage and beyond saving. Nobody responsible for anything like this will face consequences that measure up to their offense. I’d give anything to be wrong, but I don’t feel like I am.

But see, this is the rub... lets assume a video game desensitizes you.. (it doesn’t but lets just go with that theory).. its still missing the main issue, which is the impetuous for even engaging in violence in the first place.. which is getting riled up and acting as a “warrior” over some misguided notion planted Fox…

Oh, yeah. It’s definitely the video games and not Fox News’ very own agenda of radicalizing the right. Fox News and Tucker Carlson definitely don’t have culpability for pushing reactionary racist, xenophobic, bigoted, and nationalistic ideas with every minute of airtime they have.

Anything to distract from the way their own network’s white supremacy adjacent talking points influenced this particular shooting I guess