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It’s likely more than half of adults in the US play video games. About 40% of those play some kind of shooter. There are 258 million adults in the US. That’s ~129 million gamers, and ~51 million “shooters”.
Out of 51 million, they think they can link one to a game and condemn the genre?
Whatever. Try again. The only people that think so are the pearl-clutchers and the press.
Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!
(Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)
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.
Not too much earlier; Wikipedia says the game was invented in 1986 by psychology student Dimitry Davidoff, a psychology student at Moscow State University.
Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.
Also... of course
If you enjoy the game you should check out The Traitors with its many international variants. I was surprised to read that the productions provide psychologists to help the contestants as it gets traumatic, but when I watched the first UK season there were a lot of people getting into emotional distress.
There have been a lot of people cast who really shouldn’t be on the show; it’s just a game!
I love the game, that show sounds really fun!
The biggest difference of the TV show versus the home game is the home game just ends whenever all the killers are found. The TV show has to reach a set number of episodes, so there are mechanisms built-in to make sure there’s always at least one traitor up to the final episode.
I actually did try watching a bit of it, and while I love the idea of it, I can't stand the length they make it due to the reality tv show.
It just drags on and on.
If they'd made them 30-40 minute episodes instead of an hour I might have liked it.
I guess it depends which version you watch; I think the U.S. and Canada versions are 44 minutes without commercials, but yeah, it does have some filler. When someone’s actually good at the strategy it can be interesting hearing them talk through their plans.
In op's linked article:
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...
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.
I mean aside from LSD being introduced by the CIA into the public, everything else the government tries to blame someone else.
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
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)
Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
What you're saying doesn't make any sense.
my parents are boomers and im a millennial (90)
That's cool. Playing the outlier game could go on all day, but it's obviously not the norm.
Ok. Maybe it was just me then, but growing up in the 90s there was a push for "video games bad they are violent"
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
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.
It was actually a really hard game. I never beat it, i sold my N64 anyways as i needed the cash.
Especially in the era before just looking shit up on the internet when you hit a snag. I remember scouring levels in that looking for a path that I'd missed when I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to go next.
Definitely a highlight of the N64 for me. It's up there with the Zeldas in my book.
beating majoras mask was the best thing ever.
...in an it was the worst thing ever kind of way - cuz that meant it was over Q_Q
yeah...true