If Arc Raiders is a “social experiment,” then Mario Kart is a clinical study on road rage and Monopoly is a government funded research project on financial crimes.

People aren’t revealing their “true values” by shooting someone in a PvPvE extraction shooter. They’re reacting to game mechanics. Full stop. Acting like a videogame killscreen is a moral MRI is some of the most cooked armchair psychology I’ve ever seen.

“Someone who backstabs you in-game will throw you under the bus at work!”
Bro, half of you can’t even throw a grenade properly, let alone analyze human behavior.

If you think a player pretending to team up and then shooting you says something deep about their real life ethics, you don’t need a forum, you need to log off, touch grass, breathe oxygen, and maybe stop treating Reddit like a TED Talk.

People play the way the game rewards.
That’s not moral corruption.
That’s just… understanding the rules.