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Will never forget the time when I was a child and Tortimer asked me for inappropriate pictures as I was chopping down trees. Thanks for the shoutout, man!
The scariest part of my day is when I run a group of pedestrians over in GTA, and realize I was actually just driving to the gym. My brain can’t tell the difference between the two 😢
ugh, that happened to me last night! I could've sworn i was at the strip club buying drinks when all of the sudden after driving back to the office, i woke up in actual prison. that's when i finally realized, it couldn't be gta, because usually you just spawn out.
Man real life sucks, when can I start driving in third person mode so I can see how cool my car looks as I run over pedestrians while going to the gym?
People never realize that video games can disconnect you from reality. This morning, I just played an hour of Minecraft, and then went to work. I thought I was simply driving on the freeway, but when I *actually* snapped back to reality, I was beating the life out of an innocent woman because I thought he was a tree in Minecraft. 😢💔💔
I had a friend who had to sell all of their Pokémon stuff cause the pastor at their church felt disturbing forces coming from their ceiling fan in their bedroom. Said that all the air-type Pokémon that they had cards of had summoned a wind demon who took possession of the fan. I wish I were making this up.
Did they at least get to keep the money they got from selling all of it? If they had to give it all to the pastor/church as a "donation," I'm going to start seeing red.
@@zimzimph yup lol. their backwards ass logic is so far removed from how things work. the notion that games are evil because they have dialogue is fucking hilarious
It's interesting how reporters flip back and forth from "kids are too young to be exposed to this dangerous hardcore stuff" to "adults are too old to play this childish stuff".
why "flip back and forth"? it make perfect sense kids are too young to play video-games, and adults are too old to play them. clearly video-games should be played by absolutely no-one, it's meant to be a hobby you don't engage with. kinda like peoples who collects vynyles to never listen to them. the way you're meant to engage with video-games, is to buy a shitton of them on steam during sales, and never ever play them. you're supposed to take a look at your steam-page, gaze upon the hundreds of vidyas you own, sigh and then say "damn... i got nothing to play". that's how you're meant to enjoy video-games.
@@Rise65487 Edit: So I didn't know that the dude's joking and I fell for it. Well played. you do know that there are plenty of 18+ / M rated games, so who are the target audiences for those mature games? Also the second part of your comment is irrelevant to OP comment at all, like people collecting games and look at your games library is what video games is all about? What on earth are you babbling on?
i remember getting yelled at for watching overwatch esports at my parents' house. told my mom it was basically no different than watching football and she took the remote, telling me it was a waste of time to watch that stuff. so weird.
Fr. I Watch smash bros and fight game e sports and I swear my family hates on it. Like it’s sports but it’s safe and like wayyy more entertaining then chess
As a girl, I can say I have certainly noticed my male peers failing to distinguish between games and reality. I've had to complete many matches on my own due to my teammates having a mental breakdown when the bullets begin flying overhead.
I fuckin hate it when im selling coke to kindergarteners in a videogame and then next thing you know the police immediately spawn in and tackle me! I didnt even get a game over screen, let alone a wanted level indicator! I had to go to this boring level called "court" and then I had to sit in a locked room for a year! And I guess the developers never considered someone would want to quit the game either cause there wasn't any main menu!
7:41 Hey mother of your own children, if you just saw your child giving away where she lives literally right in front of you, mayhaps this is a perfect opportunity to teach her NOT TO DO THAT. Parents do not want to actually parent holy shit
Markiplier had some insight into this. He was at an award ceremony and all the press ignored him because they knew he wouldn’t provide them desperate attention seeking behavior for them to exploit. They know that people who make their fame on Twitch, Instagram, RU-vid, etc don’t need them. It’s in direct competition with their slimy behavior
I'm 100% sure that the psychiatrist woman asked gamers why they like videogames and they replied with "it helps me escape from reality for a moment" or something like that, so she decided to twist it into "they can't even tell the difference between videogames and reality anymore!"
Why would I say video game worlds are better than the real world if I couldn't tell the difference? The definition of escapism is lost on this "expert."
@@flameshana9 It's because she couldn't actually find any evidence to actually prove her point is correct, so she had to make up shit. It's sad, but people will go to any lengths just to prove their point.
I wanted to slap her. She was so condescending and dismissive. That being said this was quite a while ago. Mass media didn't know what to make of video games in those days. At least she apologized later on.
Crazy thing is there were probably tons of parents who ate this stuff up. And they probably still hold those biases to this day. Mainstream news is a plague
I remember rolling a 4 and buying the boardwalk in Monopoly. Apparently I just landed my entire family in impossible debt from me buying that boardwalk, because it was actually in real life, not Monopoly. I couldn’t tell the difference between existence and real life.
"The PictoChat Killer" The movie opens with a group of friends, who are all avid gamers, excitedly discussing the upcoming release of the latest console. As they chat, one of them mentions a strange message they received on their Nintendo DS through the built-in messaging program, PictoChat. The message is from an unknown user and simply says "I'm watching you." The group brushes it off as a prank and continues their discussion. However, as the days pass, the messages become more and more sinister and specific, mentioning the friends' names and daily routines. The friends start to realize that whoever is sending these messages is somehow watching them and knows their every move. As the friends try to uncover the identity of the person behind the messages, they begin to suspect each other and their relationships start to unravel. Meanwhile, the messages become more and more violent and the friends start to fear for their lives. As the tension builds, the friends start to disappear one by one and the remaining ones find evidence that the killer is among them, using PictoChat to communicate and manipulate them. In the climactic scene, the remaining friends finally figure out who the killer is and confront them. But it's too late, as the killer has already set in motion a deadly plan to kill them all. As the friends desperately try to escape, the killer taunts them through PictoChat, sending messages of their impending doom. In the end, only a few of the friends survive the night, but they are forever haunted by the memory of the PictoChat Killer.
Imagine if journalists focused on how game companies treated their employees instead of how "evil" gaming is... I promise you guys the actual villains are RIGHT THERE
When you said the word “gamer” I literally broke down crying and shaking dramatically like a man who had an epileptic seizure immediately after watching his family get slaughtered by a train. That word is truly a horrible and powerful word.
What’s an even worse problem is that this is conversation is a perfect example of the damages done of Social media on society too. Not everyone is on Twitter, but at this point it seems that those people are “irrelevant” I think it’s time for a global emp
People were crazy, xenophobic, trend-chasing maniacs long before the internet existed. Only difference is before people were in such extreme echo chambers, they didn't even know other Echo chambers existed. Now the internet lays bare the reality.
What gets me is that people are completely chill with someone watching a TV show or reading a book for 10-15 hours straight because the story got really good, but god forbid I say I did that with a video game because then it’s bad. I don’t play games that long most of the time, it’s no different from a book being a page-turner.
Reading a book us good for u bcs it keeps ut brain active, same with videos games bcs u are activly participating but tv thats the actual criminal , u dont do anything
@@gamingyoshi2280 I agree, but not all video games are made equal in that respect. some are reall brain dummers, but some are also decent for the brain.
These arguments against games have always made me die a little inside. This is literally the household I grew up in and I hate everything it stands for.
Because parents and most news outlets back then were so abysmally backwards they believed a form of ENTERTAINMENT is a satanic evil that must be exorcised. People tend to fear things they don’t understand, but rather than understanding the thing you are fearing, they just make a shitty news article that no one but middle-aged Karens read about how games “corrupt the minds of our children.”
Fun fact: about a century ago (if I remember correctly) adults believed that kids were addicted to reading magazines and that they were harmful the same way the media views video games now. It's not they hate video games specifically, it's that people are against whatever relatively new thing is popular with children at the time.
I don't remember what movie it was but it was set in the Wild West and one character said to the other "These damn stories you're reading are gonna rot your brain out, get out there and experience life" or something. He was literally shitting on him for reading books.
Well, you know what, or rather, who DID exist in the 1940s? Charlie Chaplin! And we've all seen his mustache. It looks like a toothbrush! And we brush our teeth to get rid of plaque. But who wouldn't want a plaque? People with self-loathing issues! Now, low self-esteem is a problem I don't have, but I do have anger issues. And so does Donald Duck, known for being a terrible healer in the Kingdom Hearts series! And he's the only character to ever use Zettaflare unassisted in any Square-Enix game. Zettaflare is basically if a laser was a nuke. And when have nukes been a problem? Since World War II, a war associated with the political party that ran Germany at the time! But Germany is now one of the most openly-hostile countries to that party's beliefs, so who can we blame for those beliefs making a resurgence? Perchance. Ergo, Twitter debates cause Charlie Chaplin to grow stronger. Someday, he may even win a plaque for unleashing a spell beyond Zettaflare and freeing us from the tyranny of the Moon!
I remember playing cod and started a match. I was on a 14 kill streak and no one was attacking me. I was confused and then 3 minutes later the police arrived and arrested me. Turns out I couldn’t tell what the difference between reality and games so those studies are 100% true and be careful!
I once attempted to summon the wither to try and get a nether star when it occurred to me that I wasn't playing minecraft. I was then apprehended by the authorities for "the murder of three pedestrians whose skulls were placed in a child's sandbox". And just when I thought my day couldn't get worse I noticed the Wither's health bar in my peripheral vision while chilling in the holding cell.
People sleep on our Dorito Pope, but he has, unironically, been one of, if not definitively, the most vocal advocates for gaming as more than just this thing for children and geeks. He has *never* entertained any sort of disparaging of it, even from members WITHIN the community -- there's this great encounter between him and Angry Joe at a VGA where Joe tries to apply "funny meme haha call of duty, more like, call od DOODY amiright Mr. Mountain Dew Dorito guy? Haaaa!" logic to an interview and Keighley no-sells the whole thing. It's like, Joe wanted to break the ice with a joke, which would have diminished the view of gaming, and so Geoff just demolishes him by taking the entire encounter as seriously as he does this interview with this professional psychologist. Sure, it's led to some obnoxious things. Like how ya boy Geoff tends to only get very *photogenic* people to be advocates with him, and tends to shoo away the average "gamer". It's led to a lot of Gaming "Journalism" being an insular space where everyone knows everyone else and either you're "In" or youre not, and it's led to the VGAs being kinda cringy at times as they disproportionately favor the most broadly appealing games over the truly great games (sometimes there's overlap, not always). But, it's also led to *GAMING* being recognized as the largest emergent entertainment industry on the planet. It's led to games being officially recognized as _ART._ It's helped bleed out the stigma of video games being just for children and basement dwellers, and to direct it more specifically at our main man Geoff? It's led to the VGAS pulling more ratings than the Oscars, routinely, for the past 8 years. Geoff get's memed on because he's mainstream. People forget that he's only mainstream because he helped MAKE this shit mainstream.
14:36 Ah, yes. I remember that time, as a wee bit lad, when I was playing Gran Turismo 2 in my PS1 Slim, when I suddenly disconnected from reality and I thought the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 that I was playing with in the game was actually real and that I was driving it.
My uncle who hated video games said it best. "I'd rather have my kids play games after practice, doing homework, all Saturday than doing what I was doing at their age.". He felt that way after he talked shit over a decade ago to 16 year old me, when he tried making fun of me for playing games and not being "tough" like him. Said didn't you drunkly crash your parents car when you were like 15? He said good point and changed his views.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember seeing a magazine that said "a new videogame lets you chainsaw babies." I kept reading to see which game they were talking about, and lo and behold it was Zombies Ate My Neighbors, which I already owned. I had to think for a while what the hell they were referring to, and then I realized that they were talking about the NPCs, which were just little sprites that gave bonus points if you touched, but would "die" if you hit them with *any* weapon in the game, causing a cute little ghost animation to appear and costing you some number of points. So given that there was an NPC which had a baby carriage, and there was a chainsaw weapon, technically yes, you *could* "chainsaw babies," but that description is mind-numbingly misleading. Thirty years later and the mainstream media is still shilling the same distorted nonsense... Correction: It was an enemy who had the chainsaw, and if they touched an NPC it triggered the ghost animation. No significant difference really.
as a child, the only time i wanted to act out the actions i saw was after movies. video games gave me those feelings. i’ve never understood the hatred because it honestly lead to calmer children overall
I can attest for this. I too witnessed this but I couldn't do anything. I was horrified like the pets in Among Us after watching their owner getting murdered.
I love how they say "the signs say it was inevitable" Yet do not think to stop it, but freak out when it happens and blame, not the person, but the software the use on their free time
As a programmer of 14 years on the Roblox platform, I can unfortunately confidently say it’s astronomically easy to come across pedos. I’ve done work with a few individuals on getting some of the victims proper justice that Roblox fails to provide. It’s sad how often and openly it takes place on that platform.
U r pengling (any discord for me to reach out) since ur a dev? lol :P just want to know if you have any suggestions for resources on learning more about Lua for Roblox
For those confused, in Animal Crossing City Folk you could take in-game screenshots and save them on an SD card, and the game encouraged you to use the screenshot feature. Absolutely no actual real-life photos or other players involved. 💀
I once saw a girl in the roblox chat say; her entire first and last name, her school and her grade (4th). I tried explaining how dangerous that could be but she didn't understand. I reported her account of sharing personal and potentionally dangerous information. I can only hope that report did something. Parents don't teach their kids about internet safety anymore, they just expect the screen to parent their child.
I can't imagine why any adult would want to escape reality for a while. Especially to an island paradise where you have a home as soon as you land and debts have no time limit.
This type of stuff reminds me of when friends and I started a D&D group at school. We had what was called "Commens Groups," where peers could start groups at the last period of the day. We chose this, and the school granted it. And all was good. Fast forward about a month, the whole school had a presentation to go to where a pastor came in and told everyone there how playing games like this were gateways. Gateways to Satan and damnation. You know, for the 12 of us in the group. But furthermore, he went on to attack harmful music like Van Halen, I wish I was kidding. Long story short we had a group of 12. The pastor said it was bad. More people joined the group. And then they shut commons down. And many of the people in that group became lifelong friends. Thanks, Pastor.
Sounds less like God told him to say any of that and more like the pastor was offended by something HE didn't understand and used God to justify HIS lack of understanding on certain things which is ironically not something a Christian let alone a pastor should be doing as it's straight up a deadly sin to use God's name like from what I understand What I'm saying is that pastor is not only out of touch with youth, but is essentially a massive hypocrite for doing that
@@MaxiemumKarnage Idk man being called "feminist" has become the most awful things to be associated with/called, truly a horrifying turn of events I've seen in awhile
In Korea, they did an experiment where they would turn the power off in one of those pc cafes to prove that ‘gaming promotes violence in teenagers’ Which is not only a stupid experiment because who wouldnt be frustrated when someone pulls the plug on what theyre doing, but the kids actually reacted rather mildly and left to go do other stuff
Not to mention they might not've strictly policed what the kids were doing, and if not, likely f*cked over some poor kid halfway through a literary assignment on a different tab who hadn't gotten to save yet.
@@Not_William Man, if I was part of that experiment, I would have just cried at the lost progess lmao. Be it something related to gaming or academics, though more likely if it's academics. I once wrote three pages of an essay assignment back in high school in an internet cafe, the cpu kinda went crazy and it restarted on its own. I called the owner to check on it, and when the computer rebooted back, my document was already gone (': RIP my essay assignment 2019-2019
@@Not_William "motherf-, who tf cut the power!? the deadline is tonight!" a loud squeak exclaimed from the other side of the room moments later a few loud crash is heard in the same direction, followed by the rushing footsteps of staffs as they scurry to the source of the noise it was only a few weeks later that the national news reported on this incident, and reported that the violent outburst was caused by "video game" called Microsoft Word it's only a made up story tho, but i would be dying of laughter if i get to see news report of microsoft word as a video game that causes violence or "twitch streamer caught live commiting atrocities caused by the popular video game windows login screen, a game where if the player guesses the secret pass code wrong enough times the game would lock your device" "teen turns demon and broke furniture around the house after playing the video game Zoom meeting, parents report that many teens across the nation is 'participating' in Zoom meeting" "little girl kidnapped due to being distracted by a handheld video game device called 'watch', which contains a popular game that tells time and rewards players for managing their time"
And you already knows it only takes one kid to get mad over losing his essay and presentation to be completely taken out of context and they get a headline. What a wonderful world we live in.
@THAT GUY play all the games you want, but you don't ever forget to get that report done by 5 to your boss a lot of war has ended because a soldier on 1 side just happens to forget to submit that report and boom! the entire nation just disappear, nobody even remembers it like it's just gone, never existed in the first place that's how werfrought disappeared from the entire of history
one of my earliest memories with gaming was in animal crossing wild world on the ds when tangy asked me to take a picture of my toes with the dsi camera
I saw a story about a kid who at a young age got injured and his sports career was over for life. He got depressed and ending up shooting someone and the media turned it into Halo made him do it.
"This man shot someone and the root cause of it all was the video game known as Halo." "oh yeah he also had an injury or something that ruined his dream career of sports and thus put him in depression or something but thats not important nor the reason behind this shooting whatsoever" betting 17 cents that this is somewhat of a paraphrase from the article/other media that covered this
That's the guy who got in a bad skiing accident in hs and spent his recovery playing vidya and ended up getting into Halo despite his parents disapproving (they were religious) They then took his copy of Halo and put it in the father's gun safe to punish him for bringing it into their home. Wouldn't you know, the guy knows where the key is and takes both items out. He then shot both his parents and fled. However, I can't quite remember if the father survived or not (iirc, the son did try to set the scene as a murder/suicide); but he was famously caught with his copy of Halo on the passenger seat of his getaway car
Omg why would you say that im so sad why would you say that that is just so sad I mean like how why would you say that that is so rude well it's not rude it's kind of sad but I am so I'm not like really mad at you but I'm I'm kind of mad at you right now like I'm actually really mad at you right now.
Charlie at 6:50 describing a stranger comming into pictochat reminds me so much of the TellTale Games walking dead game when Clementine is talking to a stranger on the radio in like season 3 or 4
The pictochat in the car argument is so crazy. Not only do you have to keep your car in a very limited range but you also have to both have pictochat open and enter the same chat room
Also, how are you supposed to know if there's even a child, or other potential victim there? Are you supposed to just pay close attention to what's inside every single car, and how are you supposed to know if they're even on pictochat/have the device needed for it in the first place? Obviously you'd need a separate person driving, because otherwise you're not paying nearly enough attention to drive. (please keep in mind I've never used pictochat vbefore, I may have gotten some things wrong)
@@venomousslime6797 As a long-time owner of a DS, your point stands, it's really only good nowadays for cheating on tests with your friends (assuming you can find one with a DS.)
The most delicious cherry on top is Marvin Grossberg's theme playing over the Animal Crossing segment, a song used for characters who do nothing but latch onto the "good old days" and/or have a difficult time adapting to the current situation.
@@lylelylecrocodile2538Cartoons became heavily censored and sanitized by parent organizations and the FTC (& budgets were shoestring). As the rough edges of the medium were sanded off, the now-common perception of animation being largely for kids began to take root. For example, the 1975 Tom and Jerry reboot removed all the violence that made the originals classics. It took the heart of the series and surgically removed it for a G-rating.
I grew up in Mexico, and I remember there was a whole satanic panic where the local churches went door-to-door to deliver booklets about how bad videogames and anime were. I remember gems such as "Pikachu from right to left means demon", "Pokemon means POcket deMONs", "Goku means devil worship"... My brother was so gullible he teared up OUR Yugioh cards and buried them in the backyard after pouring holy water (weird catholic souvenir) on them. I was so mad
“It was me sending those messages!” I laughed so hard when the reporter didn’t realize he did the same thing he’s reporting on which is predatory behavior toward children in video games😭
its done on purpose, adding a word like that makes it more scary to the ignorant. Other media will do something similar and they should always be taken with a grain of salt.
My favorite episode in gumball is still when the Karen mom wanted to ban video games (because of their violence) and have kids only be able to read books in the library, so the kids proceeded to have a whole f*ckin song and dance about how f*cked up a lot of famous books are.
This video is so wholesome 💕 my favorite thing on the Internet. Two of my favorite youtubers just laughing together while simultaneously dumping on game journalists.
I actually had a short pictochat with another kid in the car next to us. It lasted thirty seconds. We could see each other through the windows and just sent bad renditions of Pikachu.
Yeah. They are privately owned and operated studios and networks. They technically aren't supposed to do anything but share their opinions. But they've fooled everyone into thinking they report facts. And they've remained unregulated in this vast misunderstanding.
I too, can’t differentiate games from reality. I was playing Ark one morning when all of a sudden I passed out and awoke with a gun made from scrap metal and a stegosaurus skeleton I stole from the museum😢.
when my cousin and I were kids we thought we had hacked the system by staying in pictochat before she left to go back home. the idea was if we never left the session, we could have a way to stay in contact (no cellphones and all). not even like 2 mins after their car had driven away it disconnected. that story about pictochat made me audibly wheeze lmao
I remember growing up and my parents letting us play or watch whatever we want and whenever anyone asked "i trust my kids are smart enough to differentiate between fantasy and reality" i'm glad my mechanic mother is more intelligent than fox news journalists
My parents were like that too. I couldn't play stuff like GTA or most M rated games when I was 10 but once I was like 12 they knew I wasn't a dumb gremlin and would let me play almost anything.
Lucky you im 16, and my mom act like im a 8 year old, she complain when i play games that have guns, curse words and are "violent", but has no problem at all in letting me when i was a child see a movie about the bible with people getting killed or smth, but my dad is like "hey you didnt ran over that soldier is he on your side?"
I remember there was a study years ago where they hooked up the brain of the people participating and were watching their reaction showing them some footage. One of them was a videogame shooting someone in the head, not a single person had a emotional reaction to it. The other footage was a real footage (not a movie) of someone shooting another person in the head. Not a single of those people had no emotion seeing this, one of them even vomitted.
Thats a pretty fucked up experiment. I wonder how long ago that was, I feel like the potential psychological damage it might leave wouldn’t be allowed anymore.
@@lil.dogbyte jus thought I'd let you know thst I got your joke and understood what you meant. I hate the feeling of "these people didn't understand and refuse to try" lol
I literally just wrote my dissertation on gaming and improving mental health and im pretty sure i used them studies from the univeristy as references in my work 😂😂
The fact that gamers actively enter such dangerous, predator-filled warzones every day of their lives and still wear smiles on their faces makes them heroes honestly
i literally don't care about news/journalists talking scrap about gaming, like sure. project your demons onto us. i won't start beating people with cake pans or lobbing grenades because that's the new hype in games. it's simply up to the consumer whether they get triggered or affected by said games, and the companies usually put warnings all over the game upon release and sale, plus you got the whole internet, youtube videos, reviews if you're this insecure about games to make EXTRA sure the game won't trigger something in you so you really have no excuse to say "yeah this game made me punch a woman in a green hoodie because i thought she was a creeper"
My parents were so neglectful when they raised me. I had a tablet when I was 8 and ended up getting groomed by pedophiles on google plus and google hangouts and my brother found it and showed my parents and I was the one who got in trouble for being groomed because “i knew better” they never seemed to be mad at the pedophiles that took advantage of me. Just the confused taken advantage scared 8 year old who was told if I didn’t give my tablet to them, the old men would come to the house and kidnap me and kill me (even though I hadn’t given them my address or the state I live in) They had every opportunity to teach me the dangers of the internet then and there but they just tried to scare me into never talking to people online again. If your gonna have kids don’t neglect them. And don’t punish them for other people taking advantage of them. It’s not the kids fault, their just a kid. Wish I could tell my parents that.
My mom did the same thing when I was groomed, though all she did was yell at me instead of taking anything away from me. Hell, she didn't even prevent me from going on a school trip even AFTER I told her I was meeting those people online there! I didn't end up meeting them, but what would had happened if I did? No one was watching me, and no one wanted to be my buddy during the trip, so I could've easily walked away and met up with them in the empty parking lot. I was between 10-12 then, and had no idea about the dangers of the internet. Even now my mom just lets my little sisters do whatever they want on the internet and it scares the hell out of me that they could potentially be groomed or are being groomed.
@@xXShadowmayXx I don’t understand why parents feel the need to punish the victim in these situations, like we know what those creeps really wanted to do with us, when we just thought we were cool enough to be friends with older people, I remember vividly my brother randomly taking my tablet and searching through it because “if I find anything weird on here I’m smashing your tablet and locking you in a closet” like I was 8 I didn’t know what I was doing was wrong, I was the child in this situation yet was the only one punished. Not even the pedophiles were talked with or yelled at. Only the confused 8 year old
Parents explaining why small children are born with the innate knowledge on the dangers of bad people on the Internet (they don't want to have responsibility so they lie out the ass)
This type of parenting is why the video game scapegoat issue still continues to exist today. Parents who are failures love to neglect teaching their kids what they should and instead scapegoat specific things and blame literally anyone else, including the victim. There’s tons of kids today that are raised more by media and schools than parents. We gotta be realistic here, we can’t keep banning every media and expect schools to literally do everything. Parents need to become ready to parent again. This is the first generation where children are left uninteracted with to this extent, all day, completely alone, with an IPad that got strapped to them since they were an infant. Modern parents love this shit tho and will just ignore their kid all day every day and then you get situations like this.
I was a kid in the Milwaukee area when that Nintendo DS story aired. I vaguely remember watching it and thinking, "Uh...no???" and then having to basically fact check the whole story to my parents, assuring them I had never once encountered a p3d0ph1l3 in freaking Pictochat.
Man, that Fox reported nailed it with the gamers can't tell the difference between games and real life claim. I do have a hard time distinguishing my game where I shoot 6 limbed monsters with lazer guns, from my real life of being a McDonald's employee.
The irony of Fox News saying that, when it has a reputation of conspiracy theory junk blurring reality. It's like getting a lecture from Walter White against drug use.
I was 9 watching a twitch stream, never did anything inappropriate but I was asking questions about a game my brother showed me (binding of isaac) and I was watching this guy, he was around 20 something and I was asking questions about the game, he was very family friendly never cussed never asked any weird personal questions and my mom busted down the door (it was closed not locked and this was at my grandmother's house) and it scared me and I dropped my phone, she automatically asked who I was talking to or what I was watching and then proceeded to yell and scream at me for like an hour and banned me from using RU-vid (she thought it was yt) and took my phone for a while. I remember crying throwing up because I thought she was gonna hit me, she never put her hands on me before but instead of teaching me anything about internet safety she just tried to scare me into not talking online at all. She never told me why it was bad or what was wrong with it. And now I don't tell her anything because of how she may react. Apologies for this long story
@$hervi in her defense she's has gone to therapy and it has gotten somewhat better, she has a lot of her own issues and it doesn't excuse the had things she has done but there is improvement. And I have to give her props for staying to raise me cuz my dad never did lmao 😭
I bet in the very, very, near future ai will be far better journalist then a lot of the so called "journalists" of today. You could even make an argument that ai is already superior to them right now.
Journalism is dead, nothing but mouth breathers who fight for the agenda of their tribe in order to make sure their tribe is shown in a positive light while making sure the other side is wrong at every turn.
I had a friend in high school who had a cult-level Christian mother (she was actually raised in a cult so when she got out and got saved she just swapped cult for Christianity, no hate to chill Christians) and he came home from school one day and laid out on his bed were actual books about how final fantasy, pokemon, and two other games were all about luring kids to the devil. He brought the pokemon one to school to show us and it explained that Psyduck was tortured by demons (why his head hurts, psychic demons), Gengar was just demon spawn, and Mew was a psychic demon posing as a kitten. I was like aww bummer all my faves are evil. Oh well. My favourite memory of her was when I was at his house and we were playing some Japanese ROM rip on his dreamcast and we just hear her scream out "GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE DOING". We looked at each other and burst out laughing. She was actually a super nice lady most of the time, in fact she was the first member of his family that accepted him for being gay. Her view was God made him that way so she was supposed to love him just as God made him lol. Early 2000s were just a weird time lol.
I wonder what the "Pokémon is sinful" crowd would say about the plot of Legends Arceus considering the goal is to meet and defeat God, and the main villain is a religious fanatic whose zealotry has caused him to both adore and despise that God.
@@MaztRPwn I'm going to assume that this reading comprehension error is because english is your second language. The son came out as gay, the mom was believing what the church told her about games.
this reminds me of the time when i was playing minecraft and i burned down a village and then i realised i wasnt playing minecraft, i was in prison! god i hate when that happens
my favorite time that gaming has an effect is whenever a new gta releases. companies crumble, school attendance is down to 0, and the articles of gta causing violence are at an all time peak. it’s really beautiful
Yeah, I remember when GTA 4 released there were several mass murders that kids did to reenact violence in this game. Also bowling alleys were overcrowded as fuck.
I did research on this kind of topic in university. It’s amazing seeing how the public jumps from thing to thing to vilify. It used to be books, then went to television and now video games
Everything, that makes people happy, openminded, and free spirited. Because most governments and big cooperations apparently don’t like those kind of people, even if they claim to.
I will never forget the time I saw an nbc reporter blame GTA 5 for a child’s ability to assemble a FULLY DISASSEMBLED ak-47 and use it to fire on police. I don’t remember the gun building update in gta but I might have missed it😂😂😂