The games on the market are not remotely realistic, they’re violent pantomimes. People are hacked and slashed and shot, and they’re either fine, or they drop de

The games on the market are not remotely realistic, they’re violent pantomimes. People are hacked and slashed and shot, and they’re either fine, or they drop dead. There’s no human being hurt, and you have a Hollywood movie’s idea of what shooting or dismembering a person looks and sounds like. People don’t whimper, stink, piss and shit themselves and spend a delirious hour moshing for their mothers. You don’t smell their stomach contents, or their intestines or bile. Most of all though, a few seconds later they vanish and come back to life. No one is crippled or killed, no one is widowed or orphaned. Video games are not realistic violence, they’re graphic games of tag. If you doubt it, volunteer at a busy city ER for a few months. Beyond that... The notion of “priming” is some murky nonsense which it seems, cannot be well replicated. Behavioral studies have been just horrendous, and often poorly constructed, yet their conclusions are almost always fodder for political and media hysteria. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-science-forward/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-scien... It’s sad that a couple of decades of confirming the null hypothesis vis a vis video games is still news.