If I had a son (I have daughters who dfag) I wouldn't let him play these game(is this gamer dude code? Don’t ...fuss about games?)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
Wtf are we talking about video games? Last time I checked other countries have video games too
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
Anyways don’t mind me. I’m drunk on vacation and really shouldn’t be looking at this kinda thread atm
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
srsly tho, otm
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
xp in most other countries when a kid puts down the console there is not an actual arsenal of the same irl weapons in the next room
anyway why does this topic keep tipping into this zero-sum thing like anybody here is actually suggesting vdeo games are even fractionally as much to blame as actual fucking guns
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
sic I don't get yr question
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
The problem is that's precisely what some prominent voices in the US are in fact suggesting. So swooping in to say "you know what? Maybe they have a point." is inevitably going to cause folks on here to get their backs up.
xp
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
....prioritisation?
guns
opiates
mental health treatment
tbh video games, movies, rock music etc etc are all such classic obfuscatory tropes that kickback against raising any of them- even in a zero-sum context- is surely to be expected
xp as stated
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
They took prayer out of the schools and now....(Fill in the blank)
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
xxp I know, I feel like Tipper Gore up in here
anyway sic I am saying that if I had a son I would say nope I don't think that's healthy, play FIFA or your guitar or jerk off instead
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
I am trying to make a distinction btw these games and this specific technology—how they work on the brain, what gets triggered, what makes them addictive, the reward system, etc.—as a category apart from "Violence in media" playing Ozzy backwards or watching Portrait of a Serial Killer but this seems like a massive challenge
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
It's clearly important to you, but maybe this isn't the appropriate time or place
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
lol yes, now is the time for mourning not politics
but ok, this last:
we've generally come to agree as a society that overexposure to a certain kind of porn can harm ppl's ideas/attitudes/expectations around sex and treatment of women...why is it so triggering to wonder the same about spending too much time pretending to riddle people with bullets?
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:07 (four years ago) link
Wtf is your problem?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
(sic is making a joke because you wrote dfag instead of dgaf)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 5 August 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
ahhhh
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:13 (four years ago) link
xp huh? I was taking your point abt it being a dead horse
sorry for appending another thought that got cross-posted in the interim? don't shoot!
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
or I don't know Moodles maybe you are srsly offended by that thought
clearly I have crossed some avid gamers, I'm out
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
I'm not a gamer, but yes I'm offended.
now is the time for mourning not politics
This is a bullshit POV to throw at me just because I don't want to engage in a video games argument. It is absolutely time for politics, and arguing about games is a distraction from that.
why is it so triggering
Fuck off with this shit. No one is "triggered", in fact I don't think anyone is even trying to say video games are perfect on here. I, for one, am very annoyed that after 30 people were killed you are sucking up oxygen on here with a topic that is very tangential to stopping this plague of terrorism.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
it wasn't meant in earnest, chill out. You happened to use a GOP talking point almost verbatim, I think unironically, and I built on it for you.
Distraction from what? Did I just prevent you from hurrying to the chamber to cast a deciding vote? Are you picketing Smith & Wesson?
Anyway there's a poll now, take it out over there. Holy smokes.
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link
Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.— Ryan Scott (@ryan_scott) August 3, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
<<< rejoins ILX plan to put an end to plague of terrorism >>>
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
Jesus Christ, you're an asshole
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
dude
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
easy
OMG, can't believe the discussion in here today. I don't even know how many thousands of people I've murdered in video games. IRL, I've been in one legit fight ever (in eighth grade), I detest guns, and I deplore violence. I guess I just need to play GTA a few more times until my psycho spree killer mode unlocks.I don't think violence in media is necessarily a net positive (particularly with respect to its potential unsupervised kids and people with an inability to differentiate reality vs. fantasy) but it's not the cause of any of this.
― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 August 2019 04:39 (four years ago) link
Impact, not potential. Sorry, video games have rottened by branes.
― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 August 2019 04:40 (four years ago) link
yesterday a disturbed 17-y-o threw a little kid off the Tate Modern in London. hard not to imagine how things might have been different in the land of the free.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 August 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
I blame it on the 'This is Sparta!' meme.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
The 6 year old could have shot him first.
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Monday, 5 August 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
How are you supposed to tell a toy gun apart from the real thing under such perilous circumstances?
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/29/american-toddlers-are-still-shooting-people-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
Some good news: 8chan is now offline. At last.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
now do ilx
― Simon H., Monday, 5 August 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
think the opprobrium aimed at hadrian is a bit strong lads, even while arguing against his point
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 5 August 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
Right, exactly. Can you imagine any American regime treating Richard Spencer like Anwar al-Awlaki? I'm not calling for them to, I'm just asking, what's the difference between them? https://t.co/6IkEd04NzR— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) August 5, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 August 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
In the wake of every spree shooting there are ten more aborted rants in my email drafts folder about how the problem is CCW permits, that uniquely American phenomenon. Racism and terrorism exist everywhere but only in the states— all 50 of them, thank you scotus— is it legal to carry concealed firearms.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 5 August 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Or carry openly, like here in Texas!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 5 August 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
So not to be one of those people, but has there been any further verification that Dayton shooter identified himself as a 'leftist' and a Warren backer? apparently on a twitter profile. Or is this some kind of right-wing disinfo that isn't getting any play in actual press?
― akm, Monday, 5 August 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
" Some good news: 8chan is now offline. At last." yeah their bot protection/CDN dropped them but presumably something somewhere is still hosting it. I think it's being DDOSed now.
― akm, Monday, 5 August 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
nyt summarizing tweets:
President Trump on Monday called for Republicans and Democrats to work together to strengthen background checks for prospective gun buyers and proposed “marrying” new measures with new immigration laws — two of the most politically divisive issues facing lawmakers.
the gall
the fucking gall
― j., Monday, 5 August 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
That's what they like about him.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
His speech this morning is fine but I can’t imagine him actually following through on this.
― akm, Monday, 5 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
His speech this morning is fine
No.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
"fine"
― sleeve, Monday, 5 August 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
have we really sunk this low?
― sleeve, Monday, 5 August 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Yes.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 August 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
swift and decisive death penalty!
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
cages for brown ppl and the mentally ill
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 August 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link