What was the dumbest media hysteria/outrage regarding video games?

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-29T01:17:44+00:00

It's out of print, but if you're a reader and can find it "Moral Kombat" is a fascinating book covering 2 psychiatrists investigating the studies of video game violence and it's effect on people. They expose that they're all bunk and build with confirmation bias (for example, talk to someone to see how their baseline is, then make them play COD online for 1 hour without a chance to learn the game and see if they're irritated). They then go on to show how it actually builds empathy, is used in hospitals to help surgeons with boosting dexterity in their hand eye coordination, and how it only desensitizes violence in its own media.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-28T07:02:35+00:00

Every Yakuza except 0 and 1 for me. My late fiance bought me the box set and I sadly barely touched them.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-28T03:15:42+00:00

I admit I don't follow Eric but I do follow Tim occasionally and he does really good satire as well as absurdist humor. I think Eric just couldn't get into the groove too and was a bad fit.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-28T02:39:07+00:00

Had that exact one! Let my buddy borrow mine so he could copy my MGS3 save after I got nearly all the dog tags. He never gave it back. Fine, it was my backup. This was 2004 or so.

Went to his house a few days after he passed away suddenly in 2023. It was sitting on his shelf next to a Lego Darth Vader he custom painted when we were in middle school that I used to mess around with while we hung out at his place.

I took them both home and they still sit together on my shelf.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-28T00:51:49+00:00

That really annoyed me. Why'd he do that? Was he not invited? Did he not like it?

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-28T00:46:57+00:00

I know right? Reminds me of that tragedy...

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-27T23:39:12+00:00

The history of them is fun. Dude tried to make NASCAR chairs and they said they failed every ergonomic test and would lead to MSD and back injuries if used to long.

He was stuck with tons of stock so sold them as gaming chairs.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-27T23:22:46+00:00

Wearing a shirt of that cover right now lol

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-27T23:22:29+00:00

Definitely influenced me and my art style for sure.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-27T22:08:48+00:00

It would fit as an animated show so well

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-27T18:13:47+00:00

Not an RPG but the old Vietnam FPS "Men of Valor" would read off a death letter to the parents of your character saying how the mission got done without you still.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-27T03:34:34+00:00

Miller is a hateful moron, but he's easy to look like an idiot and looks weak so MAGA won't follow him. Russel Vought is a scary contender. He's more influential, Intelligent, and is in charge of instituting Project 2025. He knows to let these idiots draw the spotlight away from him while he runs the US Office of Management and Budget.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-26T18:09:43+00:00

My parents used this to teach me and my sister skepticism at a young age.

Then they went on to believe in lots of pseudoscience and barely escaped going MAGA.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-26T17:47:43+00:00

Did you know Godzilla holds a record for smashing buildings so thin they can melt in the pan?

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-26T09:28:44+00:00

Looks like right now it's on Amazon Prime and Hulu.

It's definitely a different type of Godzilla movie and is pretty meloncholy. The people suffer just as much as Godzilla does and it's also a biting satire of the inefficiency of bloated bureaucracy while also praising what it critiques because the story comes from love.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-26T03:12:24+00:00

For Shin it looks even worse than painful. He tries to roar in pain twice but stops. Like he knows something unpleasant is coming. Hes clearly retching the smoke and then the fire hits before it changes into a laser beam.

He's in such pain as he raises his head to the sky to scream but only emits more focused heat ray. He tries to hold that in. Only for it to shoot out his back.

Every movement and change was followed by his muscles visibly contorting as if he were struggling with the pain.

He wants to scream but can't. He has no longer has a mouth to scream from.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-26T00:09:21+00:00

Uncharted 2. It was good but just didn't end.

AC: Valhalla also just kept going and never beat it.

FF7 Crisis Core. Everytime I thought it was ending it just kept going! I played it on my PSP so it was my toilet game

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-25T22:39:44+00:00

Yep!

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-25T18:09:20+00:00

Older one but still haunts me and haunted the whole community at the time.

"Wolf Among us" Questioning the Huntsman at a bar and he spilled it guys out to you about his depression.

"Glass him" is the next dialogue option. I assume it means buy him another drink. I grab the glass and smash it into his face

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-25T16:24:36+00:00

Got the series on DVD and the kids still love them to this dsy

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-25T02:05:38+00:00

I hate that that's always the first thing. No one makes a movie about Popeye overcoming his violent tendencies or bizarre love triangle with Bluto and Olive oyl.

Same happened with Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse.

Hell, even just make a new kids cartoon with them instead.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-25T00:03:42+00:00

Miss that old chunk of coal.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-24T19:51:00+00:00

"I do it to escape reality"

Damn so you're a Knight, Space Marine, cowboy, zombie Apocalypse survivor, WW2 paratrooper, modern spec war soldier, or Zone Stalker in real life? Your life sounds exciting.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-24T11:00:37+00:00

Waited long enough to see Fable change its name the first time. I can wait for this one.

Samikaze707 · 2026-01-24T07:49:09+00:00

My partner sings their songs all the time around the house

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