NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
Massive boomer energy right there.
Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won't fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.
Hello! I played D&D first in nineteen-eighty-fucking-one and lived through the Satanic Panic. Have you seen Tom Hanks in his first big acting role? My parents sat me down in front of that. But I'm still playing D&D in a campaign right now, and my son plays as well. Aha, take that Satanic Panic!
It's the same shit every decade. They just need something to blame violence on, because surely it can't be gun culture.
News for Boomers Corporation
Yeah I am like, what year is it?
Wait the “violent video game” is Among Us?!?!
WT actual F
It could be in this very room! It could be NBA 2024! It could be Red Dead Redemption 2! It could even be-
WWE 2024! 🎺🎺🎺🎺
I think they interviewed people in his circles, and I think a friend flippantly noticed it was kinda ironic that they played Among Us with someone who went on to actually assassinate someone, and now the media is twisting that into the standard "video games cause violence" bugbear.
He had some shitty friends if they yap to the media.
Wait until the media hears about Garry's Mod
You can't argue that it's violent, but it's like Tom and Jerry Violent
News Outlets are dead to me.
This is how you radicalize actual children. It's clear these people are completely oblivious to the fact that every 10 year old in the country knows among us and plays it. Actual children will see how completely absurd all of this is. I love this move. Go ahead, show the children how utterly out of touch the top is.
Yeah, that's the problem. It's our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.
It’s likely more than half of adults in the US play video games. About 40% of those play some kind of shooter. There are 258 million adults in the US. That’s ~129 million gamers, and ~51 million “shooters”.
Out of 51 million, they think they can link one to a game and condemn the genre?
Whatever. Try again. The only people that think so are the pearl-clutchers and the press.
Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!
This has been done over and over again to entice boomer parents to get their kids to stop playing video games. My parents didn't let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini becuase they thought it was a exploration game...
It’s rock music. It’s “reefer madness”. Then it’s metal music with satanic messaging when played backwards. Now it’s video games. Same old blame game while never tackling the actual problems of lack of psych care, real societal pressures like financial difficulties, and more.
Boomers' children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn't play anymore
My parents didn't let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini
At least you landed on solid gold! Jet Force Gemini was the single best shooter for the N64. Far superior to Golden Eye. Yes, I'll die on this hill.
Don't ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.
In other news, study ties dysfunctional healthcare system to video game violence. Details at 11.
If someone wanted to make a fast buck right now, I bet a game where you go hunt down CEO's and virtually.... you know, accomplish your mission goals on them, it would be wildly popular.
So, the solution to CEOs is more violent video games?
Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn't cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
I'm pretty sure that is the point
Sure, but they've only ever had correlational evidence to suggest video games cause violence. Their own correlational evidence does not support their conclusions, and that should be called out and ridiculed.
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).
Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn't know we're back to the 2000s
Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.
FR
The fact that we're wasting time talking about this means NBC's strategy is working.
I noticed that of the late night hosts Seth Meyers had the least material on the subject to the point of it being conspicuous.
Pretty sus.
Red voted.
Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.
Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP and Al Jazeera)
Also, watch moderate people on the other side of the political divide. It may annoy you in some ways (like how I can't listen to Maher when he gets on the topic of Israel), but you'll learn more and you'll have more nuanced views, which will benefit you in ways you can't fully understand until you're able to think about things in a different way. I'm a leftist, so for me, it's been Bill Maher, Chris Williamson, or Jon Stewart. More people need to learn what they don't know that they don't know.
I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.
Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.
Our "news" outlets are simply pathetic.
It's embarrassing.
Huh, I thought NBC was a respectable news org...
Lol
It's linked to social media. I guess they can't criticize that.
and shitty health insurance.
Wow, I can't believe I get to dredge up this ancient photo again:
(Obviously this is satire. I furthermore still haven't quite made peace with the fact that every single item on Daniel Rutter's web site can now be considered "retro.")
Monopoly? No? I guess that's the less visible kind of violence that makes it acceptable.
Who the fuck are these assholes, Jack Thompson?
Now there's a name I've not heard in a long, long time.
He also breathed air.
"news"
Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.
What year is it ?
This is the same tired horse shit they've been peddling for decades.
The problem is the for profit healthcare system. The system is designed to turn blood into money. It needs to be torn down, then rebuilt as nationalized, socialized healthcare system for all. Everything profit seeking needs banned.
it's about to become a cartoon from CBS, watch it get delayed like all those terrorist movies after 9/11
ASMUGUS
Hmm, of course.
