The internet fucking moulded this twat. Memes and shit written on his guns and a playlist to match.
'The internet' did nothing, it's simply an extension of society which assholes are as free to use as the rest of us.
Is it? I'd say a clear majority of games are themed around shooting/punching/blowing things up/all of the above. Not many antiques, love songs or romcoms. And I say this as someone who pretty much only enjoys games that aren't to do with those things, so I'm always out looking for them.
We finally ferret Yev out of the gaming section, and it's to defend computer games.
You're a Granddad, lad.
It's an interactive medium too, and a fairly young one, it remains much easier to make an engaging game based around combat and much much easier to get it published. There's plenty of interactive fiction though (unfortunately much of it is Japanese in origin/inspiration which is less accessible by definition) it just isn't the best fit for the medium at the moment.
I don't think there's any less emphasis on violence, it's been a while since I had a tv but when I did you'd struggle to find any drama that wasn't about killing or violence in some way.
I'm not really defending computer games as I don't necessarily believe there is absolutely no link between people playing them and violence perpetrated in real life. I suspect if there is a link, you have to be pretty fucking unhinged in the first place for games to tap into that, but I'd certainly say it's possible.
Either way, I wouldn't ban them as they're fun and millions upon millions of people enjoy playing them without doing so, so I'd say it's a acceptable degree of risk if a link is there.
Does anyone else remember 'video nasties' (they killed Jamie Bulger), it's a good job we solved that problem.
Chucky was fucking terrifying.
I'd like to disown the absolute nonsense spouted about video games and concentrate harder on complete nihilist societal outcasts building communities in public forums communicating in what the majority thinks is edgy humor but for a small percentage is idelogically true. There's a reason you can look through the dudes 'manifesto' and it reads like a better researched mert post from when he was just copying the_donald memes. This is really, really, really bad and anyone that doesn't know at least what gamergate is has no chance of understanding what's happening on the internet at this point in time.
Meanwhile, lets see what the tabloids are saying:
'this'
A few decades back, these people were outcasts. They had no friends and nobody patting them on the back for what is, in delicious irony, a declaration of Jihad. Instead, people called the fucking police.
These days, 'the chans', Twitter, Facebook and Reddit have made it easy for like minded people to congregate, for better, or, well, this.
As an aside, the same forces that are giving us the Alt-right, Flat Earthers, Anti-Vaxers and murderous fascists are also giving us 27 Gender identities, Radical Feminism, Super Vegans and the Alt-Left.
It's not that they congregate in these places, it's that these huge forums aren't doing the equivalent of us banning Harold. The first internet age was telnet. The second was the likes of us on fBBS. We're living through the third and none of these places have mods that overlook these communities.
Yev, before I reply to that post. I'm going to ask if you're still applying the 'I only post when I really care about a subject' thing?
Granted, but would you be surprised if a Radical Feminist ended up murdering a gym full of men? Or a vegan mowed down the entirety of a KFC restaurant? People aren't less mental just because they fall to the left. Less inclined to violence, perhaps, but it only takes a single nutt job.
Actually, there was that Trans YouTuber that murdered an office of people last year. So it does, and is happening.
Okay he doubled down with the fucking moronic shit. Have a look at yourself.
All he's done is point out that it's a breeding ground for nutters on the right and left. You brought in the assumption that he was comparing what was worse.
It's like Henry. Labour can be an absolute fucking steaming pile of ineffective shit (as they are now), but he'll only criticise the Tories.
Grow the fuck up.
Then you're arguing against the wrong person trying to both sides a murder of nearly 50 people. What made you feel the need to bring up those movements here. You made a completely seperate post about it so you must have thought it was an important issue to address?
It's been proved over and over and over again that the majority of nutters who kill people are on their side. Stop being a dumbass about it.
Nope. I've made my thoughts on the Far-Right clear, then I hit post, thought for a bit more and followed up with an aside rather than editing.
If you think I'm saying that the left is as violent as the right, I'm not. The right is demonstrably more violent. I was just pointing out that both the left and right are getting more extreme, and the previously mentioned websites are largely to blame.
Does he mean economic liberalism or social liberalism?
Okay, that tweet has a fact compared with a hypothetical (albeit one based around a probable or definite event) situation. And I don't think we're doing that in the name of liberalism. Generation Soapbox can fuck itself.
BTW love to get gaslit by nazis for years saying the ok symbol is just a troll and then the only time the press are allowed to take a picture of the fucker he pulls this
Ha. Just seen the edit. Again, I made my thoughts on the far right pretty fucking clear. Then I mentioned some concerns about the far-left getting more and more loony too.It's been proved over and over and over again that the majority of nutters who kill people are on their side. Stop being a dumbass about it.
It really is very nice of you to prove my point.
Why is his face pixelated there but freely available everywhere else?
What in the fuck are we doing?
Also:
"Then you're arguing against the wrong person"
I was fucking agreeing with you.
This isnt even the first terrorist attack by the right in this country. Mosques have been fire bombed plenty of times.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...school/7552394
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...c3c0ef0adf54a6
https://m.thechronicle.com.au/news/t...-fire/2610025/
Etc.
All the warning signs.
Everyone will be trans by 2050.
The reason you get less 'far left' violence of this type is that there is no point of reference these days for left-wing violence. During the Cold War you had communists (and various off-shoot 'liberation' movements) running around the world over blowing things up and murdering people, because there was actually-existing communism providing ideological certainty to track towards, and their movements attracted the sort of disaffected flubs who now tend towards either this stuff or Islamism, as both of them - race/nation, religion - are actual things. Islamism is effectively the like-for-like replacement for communist violence, since it utilises the same sort of grievance rhetoric and substance in the West as communism used to, particularly where its converts are concerned.
Tied into that I think is an outlet issue. You don't really need to go shooting things up if you find yourself and your equally obnoxious opinions courted and verified on Twitter owing to your side being utterly culturally dominant. Give this daft cunt ten thousand re-tweets every time he posted 'ugh muslims right?' and he would have been happy.