All the World's Wrongs: Games At Fault!

[wakka]

I find it hard to motivate myself to play games most days at the moment, let alone become addicted to them.

[Dogg Thang]

No. bbbb

Fair enough but I’m hardly going to watch a video without any context as to what it is.

[Family Fry]

Bullet point us, dude.

Basically a guy talks for 8 mins on how he was addicted to World of Warcraft and League of Legends and how that ruined his life, then after tells us how he’s fortunate enough to be paid to play games.

[Dogg Thang]

Basically a guy talks for 8 mins on how he was addicted to World of Warcraft and League of Legends and how that ruined his life, then after tells us how he’s fortunate enough to be paid to play games.

Lol. Thanks!

[MartyG]

Joy of being a software engineer is that everyone you work with plays video games. You don’t even need to check, you just ask what they’ve been playing recently and there’s your conversation opener.

Not in my office - in fact they barely like tech, show them the latest SBC and they shrug.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Not in my office - in fact they barely like tech, show them the latest SBC and they shrug.

Yeah mine is the same. They all pretty much hate tech. I tryed talking about VR gaming and they looked at me like I was talking about flower arranging.

[Neon Ignition]

If true...

[Asura]

If true...

Skipped through and still don't know what it was about. Can someone summarise it in a sentence?

[Family Fry]

All I know is the quartering, youtube guy above, is a piece of **** garbage human being so I won’t be watching any of his videos to summarise.

Looking from the other side via twitter, I follow the VG247 journalist who basically said throwing milkshakes at fascists is great, queue the above dick making a video posting the journalist in questions public email address to his YouTube followers, who all decided to spam the email address in question with porn account creations and horrible stuff.

Don’t worry thought the YouTube guy told his fans not to harass the journalist, so everything is ok.

Edit- as the video is about a Eurogamer journalist I’m assuming it’s about someone who said something flippant like wouldn’t it be a shame if he got lots of YouTube strikes against his account for posting someone’s work email. The youtube guy said the email was on the website and public so it was fair game.

Double edit - I’m all for journalists having ethics and being held up to a decent standard but I’m not and never will back or support people that set out to harass and then say oh it’s not me harassing them, all whilst posting someone’s work email, twitter handle, phone numbers, house address etc. They are basically saying to their subscribers do your worst just don’t mention me when you kill someone.

Triple edit

[Dogg Thang]

Yikes. Just looked at the list of his other videos.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Two Mass shootings in America + Trump... You know the rest.
What is quite surprising is I've seen a few mainstream articles defending videogames. I think maybe people with brains and the inclination to read (not trump) are beginning to agree games aren't to blame.

[MartyG]

Perhaps they've noticed that other countries have violent video games too but aren't shooting up supermarkets with semi-automatic rifles.

[charlesr]

CEO of company that sells guns in supermarkets says "I can't believe I'm sending a note like this twice in one week." (the thoughts and prayers note).

[prinnysquad]

I’m sure that if all violence in games, on tv and in movies was removed and/or banned, then all mass shootings will cease.

The hate filled, send them home rhetoric of President Throbber?
The accessibility of guns as easy as candy?
The relaxation of weapon accessibility for those with mental health issues?
The underlying widening of the gap between rich and poor and the breakdown of socio-economic justice in the US and the world at large?
The alienation of youth brought about by a myriad of societal and economic factors, worsened by the neo-con project?
The fear of difference, embodied in anti-immigrant rhetoric and legislation, and racial tensions plaguing society at large?

None of these matter. It’s teh gamz.

[Team Andromeda]

I’m sure that if all violence in games, on tv and in movies was removed and/or banned, then all mass shootings will cease.

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It's nothing new, like I've said before I remember Doom and Quake being blamed and id facing various court actions in the USA , it's one of the reasons why SOA never brought the DC official light gun to the USA. I remember on Going LIVE phone ins on the BBC on a Saturday morning, the BBC child psychologist ( Think his name was Phil) blaming video games, for kids bad behaviour and aggression.

For years the likes of Daily Mail, The Guardian have looked to blame video games, never mind that sex crazed, drug head Keith Vaz and his calls to ban GTA ...

Videogames are a easy target, much like films . I grew up in the era of video nastys being blamed and Video games, rather than the people who committed the crimes...