#violent video games

[dezertvideogames]

Ultrakill: Suffering Leaves Suffering Leaves

I have to talk about why the name of this song in the violence level is so clever!

CW: Suicide Mention, Religious Talk, Violence

MAJOR ULTRAKILL SPOILERS

So during the violence layer we come across the suffering trees of the labyrinth, and it's paired with the melancholy song Suffering Leaves Suffering Leaves.

This song is not alone in its melancholy undertones, but it sticks out due to its title, and a background themes of suicide strewn throughout the game, but especially its intro.

We start of the level in complete silence.

The trees demand violence in the form of blood ,summoning silhouettes made of blood to fight, in the form of people writhing and stumbling about in an attempt to fight you.

After feeding the trees they become imbued with blood and sprout leaves, while the song slowly kicks in.

Then we get the level name: No Sound, No Memory

The trees after being fed resemble a the human figure being impaled, their blood becoming a beautiful canopy. You don't think much of it and continue to stumble around in almost complete darkness, catching only the bright white roots and bramble of a dense forest.

Now... Have you heard of Dante's Inferno?

Assuming you haven't Dante's Inferno is a famous Christian poem where an Italian guy depicts hell level by level in order to roast his least favorite people of that time. In doing so Dante accidentally created the most detailed and references description of hell, in which many traits have become excepted in the canon interpretation of Christian hell.

One of the layers he comes across is Violence.

And one of the places he comes across there is a murky woods, based in the violence against one's self.

The woods of suicides... punishment of suicide being separated from one's body for all eternity and tormented outside it.

Dante waltzes around this forest discovering that the dead souls of the unfortunate who have committed suicide are encapsulated in the bramble, bushes, and trees of the forest.

There is something still human to these trees as described by Dante. Painters have interpreted this in many ways, leaving the trees in a somewhat humanoid shape, showing faces of agony or splayed arms protruding from bark...

In Dante's poem he writes of harpys plucking and eating the leaves of the suffering trees, where they cry out and plead for the rest of hell's years, unable to even move.

So the Ultrakill forest and the song

I can only imagine the amount of people who simply ended themselves during the end of the world as they know it in ultrakill, unable to take anymore of the senseless violence they themselves inherently created.

To become exactly as Dante warned, nothing more but suffering leaves. Sad, melancholy suffering leaves.

As suffering in this world left nothing for them but eternal suffering.

[voicesagainstliars]

the Team.

ever played violent video games?

Futaba: I don't play them on my own. Anxiety and PTSD and shit.

Futaba: I don't play the nastiest stuff a lot. That's reserved for Mom, Bro, and occasionally Haru.

Marc: Is Hifumi gonna be on the list someday?

Futaba, flushing: Yeah, I hop- HEY!

[maynardotheratman]

“Video games make kids more violent?”

Yeah, we’ll the only video games I play are sims and Minecraft, Leslie

And you know what Leslie, I’m still filed with homocidal rage.

[dearest-meat-mutt]

I have been released in an arcade, and Buddy, controversial and violent older fps are a new special interest of mine.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

ONLY THE TRUE ART CLASS FUCK-UPS KNOW THE SCORE – GET MUTILATED!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on “The Mutilator” (undated, early 2000’s), as seen in Enid’s art class in the comic book movie/comedy “Ghost World” (2001), directed & co-written by Terry Zwigoff. Artwork by David Bankins.

Seriously though, you are definitely one of the real ones if you even remember this, let alone know where this is from. Lol! 💢🔨

Source: https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/841049078.

[list-of-common-misconceptions]

There is no evidence that violent video games cause people to become violent. Studies have consistently found no link between aggression and violent video games, and the popularity of gaming has coincided with a decrease in youth violence. The moral panic surrounding video games in the 1980s through to the 2000s, alongside isolated incidents of violence and legislation in many countries, likely contributed to proliferating this idea.

[batcavescolony]

I feel like comic writers and some fans have forgotten that Young Justice is mostly about the girls. The main storylines were about Secret/Greta, Cissie, and Anita. The boys were there but they had their own runs. Take Young Justice Dark Crisis, yeah it's all about the boys IF you only read the first 5 ish comics. After that it's either big comic events or about the girls. Really the girls are the main characters of Young Justice, the boys are there to draw people in.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

[willowser]

every single day i think about the influence touya would have had on shouto as an older brother.

he has to take him everywhere he goes, so they're always jamming to the same hardcore music in touya's shitty car. shouto, obviously, develops a taste for the same bands, same songs. shouto is also in the ride-along to buy cigarettes and beer at midnight, and touya threatens his whole entire life if he tells rei, but shouto would never because he likes going too much.

shouto 100% would attempt to kick the ass of anyone that talked shit to his brother. little string bean, doesn't matter, this little boy is throwing HANDS for touya, and touya very much has the attitude of "no one can fuck with my little brother but me". whenever shouto gets in trouble for doing something he shouldn't be doing, touya is always taking the fall for him, no questions asked. shouto lies for touya like it's second nature.

shouto wants an earring because of touya, and touya probably GIVES the piercing to him, which makes enji blow a gasket. touya learns to play the drums and then shouto wants to, too — though he ends up being better than touya and touya promptly quits after that. touya teaches him to drive. shouto gets drunk for the first time with touya BECAUSE touya wants to be there to take care of him. they hate each other, they get into fist fights all the time, rolling around the house as fuyumi screams at both of them. they're best friends. they understand each other more than anyone else ever could.

[thelaurenshippen]

ah yes, the sweet sting of rejection from a billion dollar corporation who believes that "action stories don't appeal to romance audiences", welcome back my old familiar friend

[dabunnyvm]

yeah repost

[southernreaches]

As Boas Maneiras (2017) English Title: Good Manners

[toxooz]

had to renew my Big Creepy Mysterious Freak prescription or else imma start biting ft. A Theory thats been rotating in my mind like a gas station hotdog: Königs face is literally melted to that musty shirt bc of An Incident (acid??? to much radiation?? possibilities r endless) and he only peels it back as a last ditch shock distraction (the only """"face reveal""" im ever gunna draw for him)

[sysig]

whoops i asked in the wrong place. would you be willing to do a request of the vargas boys in a SAW trap? thank you in advance <3

Day 2 - Was it not obvious enough

[the2dstagesfg]

Violent vs Evil

[mdemn]

“you think you’re doing this because you’re loyal. but you’re not. you’re just scared.”

for your own good - leah horlick, mafia: definitive edition (hangar 13), bloodsport - yves olade, a primer for the small weird loves - richard siken, the end of poetry - ada limón, velvet hounds - aimee seu, as consciousness is harnessed to flesh: journals and notebooks (1964-1980) - susan sontag, mafia: definitive edition (hangar 13), boyish - japanese breakfast