edit - Yeah I play video games with violence too, my point is that video games are a mirror that exposes a less brutal image of ourselves than we are convinced of. The truth of what we desire is as often silly or altruistic as it is selfish or violent, even in the realm of fantasy where the violence is unreal as everything else.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Speak for yourself; I am a VERY violent gamer! There’s a mission in Cyberpunk that really gets my blood boiling. These two guys are into human trafficking and shooting pornography of their sexual exploits. The father of a little boy they abused and filmed themselves abusing and murdering hires you to find them and kill them. Well, they don’t just shoot porn, they shoot brain dances, which are like interactive VR videos where you play a role. And they “shoot” while “in” the brain dance… so when you find them, they’re in their rigs and unaware you’re there. You can shoot them. You can wake them up and shoot them. You can shoot one and listen to the other mourn the one you shot (they’re father and son). Or you can leave them for the police. I always wake them up, shoot the son, let the father mourn him for a few minutes, then pull out a sword and take his head off. Can’t do anything about the people who do that for real, so I do it in a video game.

    Though I just finished my third run through Night City, this time on the Xbox. I think I’m done for a while (it is a VERY long game and I insist on doing ALL the quests… my game time was something like 250 hours). I recently bought it on Mac (it was just ported) so I will go through it again on my computer with the keyboard and mouse. Sure, it looks like ass on the Mac (the whole computer, storage and all is one chip, there’s no dedicated graphics card) but it plays!

    I’m gonna do the Mass Effect trilogy next. Just got the remastered trilogy for $6 on Xbox. I’ve started the first one a couple times but never finished it. I keep hearing it’s a masterpiece. This time I’m gonna get through the first one, and then do the second one. I expect them to take a long time.

    I also play Animal Crossing. As of last year, that’s my main game. I’ve got everything unlocked, I’m just trying to finish the museum (without cheating). I got both the tarantula and the scorpion, so I never need to run around at night with my net out (which is what makes them attack, the only “scary” thing in Animal Crossing). They do sell for 8,000 Bells (the in-game currency) each, which is nice, but I make so much more than that every day, and I could make ~130,000 every 3 days harvesting all my fruit. Wasps is 15k (5 x 3,000 each), the money rock is 16.1k, I don’t need the hassle of catching the high value bugs (plus they’re rare). I’ve paid off all my loans to Tom Nook. The new update coming out in January will add two more storage upgrades, but I have 5.5M Bells banked, so I think I’m good and I don’t need more storage anyway (but buying it might unlock more fun stuff). They showed us more than they told us about, so there’s probably features they didn’t even show. Definitely a good time to book a deserted island getaway!

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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      1 month ago

      This just made me imagine a sport that contains both and it would be awesome, call it Guerrilla Valet.

  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I’d be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.

  • skeptomatic@lemmy.ca
    12·
    1 month ago

    Probably put military in our cities, rename Department of Defence to Department of War… Make preparations to invade Venezuela or something…
    GOoD ThiNg viDYa gAmeS don’T AFfeCt the ReAL WorlD!

      • skeptomatic@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        Over the years too many 12 year old COD players told him they fucked his mom while teabagging him I guess. He snapped

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

    For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.

    The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

    So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”

    He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      Fox news might only go back to 96 but it was almost always politically motivated, I will accept that it may be deteriorating though

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Imagine a dad making that argument these days and then they look at their kid’s steam library and all they play is “shower with your dad simulator”

  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’d just be living in a small town, digging through trash cans, giving fish to the local homeless man, giving beer to the alcoholic and mostly just planting an ungodly amount of fruit trees on my land.