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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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i think we live in overstimulated times

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Never understood the collective vehement resentment of small talk lol i hate the painful grind of small talk as much as the next person but i think id rather shrivel up and die than be denied nuggets of joy found in standing in an elevator and having a middle aged woman compliment my nails or bonding fleetingly with a cafegoer over the city's temperamental weather it's so integral to nurturing & cultivating the soul i think

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The landlord fears the urban oyster mushroom farmer

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🎧🎵 whatcha listening to?

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so jealous of ppl who live places where agave grows i see pictures of agave flowering and it looks so crazy

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Another thing is that when this aggression started, we were so worried about winter and how displaced people in tents will survive it. Earlier this week the temperature in Gaza hit 38 degrees (100 Fahrenheit) and we are now wondering how will displaced people survive the heat in those tents.

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Bitch why you mad? Because allies pop severely and gays don’t?

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Artwork of late early furry artist Albert Temple

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revisited this amv i started 4ever ago n finished it up at the beginning of last month !! cub has such a special place in my heart, wish i had time 2 animate all their songs </3

(ps the quality here is intentional, but theres a high res version + lotsa process stuff on my patreon if that interests any1)

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Columbo "Fade into Murder" & Twin Peaks "Northwest Passage"

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Concept artwork of Silver The Hedgehog, from ‘Sonic ‘06’. Support us on Patreon

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