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"Violent"? Do you consider news reporting to be violent too? This isn't remotely in the league of all the shooter games you can find on the store.
by the_pwner224 6mo ago
"Violent"? Do you consider news reporting to be violent too? This isn't remotely in the league of all the shooter games you can find on the store.
- stratos123 6mo agoGore in shooters is culturally treated as much less "violent" than e.g. graphic scenes of suicide. You could make an argument that it shouldn't be, but it is.
- hackable_sand 6mo agoMost shooters are an abstraction, i.e. you're not really shooting anyone. You are, but you're not. Most of them are in the same league of violence that an aggressive debate would be in.
- bawolff 6mo agoWhich is really sad. Video games with dehumanized violence: a-ok. Video games that show you the actual consequences of violence, well that is a bridge too far. Perhaps soiety would be better if it was reversed.
- xboxnolifes 6mo agoWhen journalism shows death or gore, they do often call it violent imagery. So... yes? Violent imagery is imagery of violence. The news report is not itself violence, but it contains violence.