Right. If anything propaganda in video games is just as effective as on TV/movies, if not more. The US Army capitalized on this through their recruitment measures and pushed it by having their own games made. Why this works because it creates an easy “Us VS Them” narrative that is very effective on people living…

Grand Theft Auto has always been a wide open sandbox with a deliberately tongue in cheek vibe in a setting that’s distinctly a little unreal - where almost every civilian has a gag and/or is a stereotype if they get a few lines of dialogue, and where the characters are basically superhuman and living in a world where…

Ah, a straggler from the Jack Thompson crusade. Well, I’ll be delighted to fill you in: Violent video games don’t cause violence, bad environments do. When it comes to the recent ‘trend’ of anti-protesters running people over in their cars, it’s probably because they’re not being held accountable for their actions,…

It’s one thing when players have the option to do crazy shit in the game. You can absolutely not run people over or murder your way through the city outside of missions.

It’s another when the purpose of a level itself is to simulate a school shooting. There are any number of scenarios where SWAT is involved that can…

That was my take exactly lol. I was reading this and thought ‘this might actually be done with care and sensitivity to the-’

These hot takes come mostly from guys who have never been shot at as they are generally military service dodgers because you know, Daddy Warbucks didn’t want their scion to get shot.

Nah, that would only apply if there was a level where you were a “medic” at a protest.

So, this is basically a conservative’s wet dream? “If only there was a good guy with a gun in that classroom... and now it can be YOU!”

“you better believe it’s gonna”

It’s a scam used by money launderers to get money that cant be easily traced by using blockchain crap to create what they think is artificial scarcity. 

I think they are really good for avoiding paying taxes also. At least, I think that’s part of why Art-Related-NFTs are blowing up.

It’s a receipt that uses too much energy that crypto bros want you to believe has more value than it actually does.

It’s a of means of parting fools from their money.

This is, to my memory, the absolute dumbest take I’ve ever seen on this constellation of websites. It is a poem - a pure distillation of stupidity. It contains so many fallacies, both explicitly and implicitly, that I only wish I could ever hope to provide such a density of information in one comment - Such a thing…

Idiot, only if you own capital are you a capitalist. A worker who only sells their labor for a wage is a proletarian and not a capitalist. Read theory before talking out your ass. 

OK, but I’m not clear exactly what’s being objected to here.

FFS, drink a cup of nuance.

Their comment history is sending off some strong GamerGater vibes. 

Your “point” is like accusing a hostage of “participating” in a hostage situation.  There’s no other game in town, and no other way to survive in this society. The fact that the system of Capitalism makes us all complicit in its inherent inequality is not an argument in its favor. Quite the opposite, actually.