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learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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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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Half-Life Alyx // IS OR WILL BE (1/6)

"Oh, that Vortigaunt I met? He did give me a headcrab to eat." "Oh! Great! What did it taste like? Tell me how you f —" "Russell. Russell — I didn't eat it." "Right. Of course you didn't. No, that's… that's the right decision."

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yeah see this is my problem with DuckDuckGo

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A small victory to celebrate for today

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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good book if you want to learn more about how Palestinians had their land stolen/how Zionists planned out their ethnostate

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Today's Seal Is: The Spirit Of Gaming

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Now...

About that beer I owed ya!