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      Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!

      screenshot of NBC article
      (Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)

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        Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.

        Brilliant.

        90s house party game here, I’m sure people played it earlier.

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            Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.

            Also… of course

            In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.

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      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…

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        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

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          I’m talking about boomer parents. In respects to the millennial parents, of course they are laughing at this shit (or I would hope so)

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            Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
            What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense.

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                That’s cool. Playing the outlier game could go on all day, but it’s obviously not the norm.

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                  Ok. Maybe it was just me then, but growing up in the 90s there was a push for “video games bad they are violent”

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                    Yea. They’ve been doing it since the 70’s, and are still doing it now by trying to say Among Us made Luigi violent.

                    That doesn’t have anything to do with the millennial or gen z generations. The first “video game generation” was X.

                    Silent> Greatest> Boomer> X> Millennial> Z

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        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.

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          I mean aside from LSD being introduced by the CIA into the public, everything else the government tries to blame someone else.

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        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.