People won’t the special removed from Netflix. If he wants to host it himself somewhere else, I doubt many people would really care. Though perhaps that’s splitting hairs and I do think your question is fair. I guess I’d say that I think there’s a difference between passive influencing a set of beliefs and actions…

Yeah. I saw similar complaints about Schitt’s Creek after it rose in popularity over the pandemic. A lot of “I didn’t find this funny so it doesn’t count as a comedy” tweets. Which ignores the fact that a ton of beloved comedy films and shows are more about relationships and telling stories than being joke delivery…

What a special guy.

Sorry, Masked Farter. You’re trying to have a legitimate discussion and I would like to participate, but Kinja is broken and won’t let me pull you out of the greys. I can’t even read the rest of the second comment, but I’ll respond to what I can read.

Absolutely. I play violent games as well. The Assassin’s Creed series is one of my favorites and it’s literally just a historical murder simulator. I also love a lot of filmmakers like Scorsese and Tarantino who make very violent films. But I try to balance those things out with more humanistic, compassionate fare.

Yeah. Not to Godwin’s law this shit, but there were negative depictions of Jews in media and popular discussion for centuries leading up to the Holocaust. Media obviously reflects and reinforces our beliefs and prejudices and that can lead to more violence over time. I don’t really get how anyone could disagree with…

I agree. That’s part of what makes it so good.

Thanks!

Yeah. It for sure has jokes. But it transitions from jokes to more serious discussion pretty early on and never returns to a setup>punchline style.

See my response to dirtside. I’m aware of that argument, but I don’t really buy it. I don’t think they’re a direct cause, but I think they contribute to an overall climate where people justify and glorify violence in the same way that other positive media depictions of violence do.

Yeah. I agree. It’s certainly funny. It’s just more than that too.

I can’t incontrovertibly prove it I suppose, but it stands to reason that any piece of media that glorifies a certain action is going to lead to more of that action. It’s not exactly a secret that how things are depicted in media affects people’s perceptions over time. As I said, it’s not a 1:1 thing where if you play…

Yes. Because I clearly said that all violent video games should be thrown into a pit of eternal fire, never to return. Everyone who even mildly criticizes any kind of media wants every trace of it to be obliterated from the earth. This is literally 1984.

Telling me that my opinion doesn’t matter while vomiting yours all over the same comment section is pretty rich.

Surprising. The comedy special the article mentions, Nanette, made quite a stir. It was heavily praised but also got a lot of backlash from people who objected to the fact that it’s more of a personal essay than a series of jokes. Which is stupid in my opinion. If something is good, then it’s good. Who cares about the…

Violent video games don’t directly cause violence, but they sure as shit don’t make it less likely.

“While some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.”

It always irks me when people ask young children if they have a girlfriend or boyfriend way before dating should be on their radar. It’s even worse when an adult caregiver will say something like “Hunter is my boyfriend” because the two of them bonded. So creepy.

The point is not to shame anyone for using these knee-jerk go-to phrases; it’s how we’ve been trained as a society to talk to girls and women. (If I can go to book club without someone’s haircut, clothes, makeup, purse, or earrings being mentioned in the first five minutes, then strike me dead.) The point is to bring…

I just want to go on the record and say that they’re both bad.