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> playing brutal games makes people more brutal in real life? After a fashion. I mean you would have to imagine that game as though it was IRL and it was actua

> playing brutal games makes people more brutal in real life? After a fashion. I mean you would have to imagine that game as though it was IRL and it was actually you who were in it. Now add in what you saw, thought, smelled and tasted, mix in with that actual hatred of the enemy and the euphoria of victory... than yeah, that shit would work.

reificator 7y ago
> > playing brutal games makes people more brutal in real life? > After a fashion. I mean you would have to imagine that game as though it was IRL and it was actually you who were in it. Now add in what you saw, thought, smelled and tasted, mix in with that actual hatred of the enemy and the euphoria of victory... than yeah, that shit would work. Or it self selects for people willing to "play" those games. I just picked up the Hotline Miami collection for Switch and started playing for the first time. It's an ultra-violent top-down game that tries to have you question your own motivations. It's a fun game with good mechanics, so I've been enjoying it. If it were 2060 level VR in first person with Smell-o-Vision and hyper-realistic graphics, I wouldn't be playing it at all.
- RaceWon 7y ago
  > I just picked up the Hotline Miami collection for Switch I just want to turn this 180 degrees for a second. Imagine yourself having created The App of 2020. It's a social site that has had so many downloads and signups that the web version went down in the third week. You've been front page on HN 4 times since your launch and techcrunch and Wired have been hounding the shit out of you for an interview. You actually had to buy a burner phone because your regular number is currently under siege. Wall Street is already talking about the IPO and Sequoia Capital has actually Sent People to You because they are dying to write you a 9 figure check.... Imagine that. Are your palms sweating? ...because mine are as I type this.
  - reificator 7y ago
    I can confirm that in that case I would not pick up the phone and murder everyone at the address given. Hypotheticals like this are always hard. An honest answer is that I don't believe I would, no. But until you're in that situation, you don't know for sure.
    - RaceWon 7y ago
      > I can confirm that in that case I would not pick up the phone OIC, (lol) I don't play online games (my car is parked outside--so, I have no need for them), I get the connection now though. But you would take a call from Sequoia Capital I bet :)

reificator 7y ago

> > playing brutal games makes people more brutal in real life? > After a fashion. I mean you would have to imagine that game as though it was IRL and it was actually you who were in it. Now add in what you saw, thought, smelled and tasted, mix in with that actual hatred of the enemy and the euphoria of victory... than yeah, that shit would work. Or it self selects for people willing to "play" those games. I just picked up the Hotline Miami collection for Switch and started playing for the first time. It's an ultra-violent top-down game that tries to have you question your own motivations. It's a fun game with good mechanics, so I've been enjoying it. If it were 2060 level VR in first person with Smell-o-Vision and hyper-realistic graphics, I wouldn't be playing it at all.

RaceWon 7y ago
> I just picked up the Hotline Miami collection for Switch I just want to turn this 180 degrees for a second. Imagine yourself having created The App of 2020. It's a social site that has had so many downloads and signups that the web version went down in the third week. You've been front page on HN 4 times since your launch and techcrunch and Wired have been hounding the shit out of you for an interview. You actually had to buy a burner phone because your regular number is currently under siege. Wall Street is already talking about the IPO and Sequoia Capital has actually Sent People to You because they are dying to write you a 9 figure check.... Imagine that. Are your palms sweating? ...because mine are as I type this.
- reificator 7y ago
  I can confirm that in that case I would not pick up the phone and murder everyone at the address given. Hypotheticals like this are always hard. An honest answer is that I don't believe I would, no. But until you're in that situation, you don't know for sure.
  - RaceWon 7y ago
    > I can confirm that in that case I would not pick up the phone OIC, (lol) I don't play online games (my car is parked outside--so, I have no need for them), I get the connection now though. But you would take a call from Sequoia Capital I bet :)