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I played video games from ages ~8-19, and I probably killed a few hundred thousand animals, people, soldiers, knights, Nazis, medieval soldiers and archers, spa
by pchristensen 14y ago
I played video games from ages ~8-19, and I probably killed a few hundred thousand animals, people, soldiers, knights, Nazis, medieval soldiers and archers, spaceships, aliens, etc. Very few people in history can even claim responsibility for that many deaths, let alone committing them. But millions of people have played video games more than me.
- mayanksinghal 14y agoYes, but I hope that it didn't entice you to murder which was the intent behind the original post. :) And yes the amount of violent activity in games far outweigh that in real life but there is another huge difference. Games are not real and even the most naive of us have a very clear differentiation: there is no respawn in real life.
- Dove 14y agoIf video game kills count, regular old make-believe kills should count too. And I've never met a little boy who didn't have hundreds of those. It's not as historically exceptional as you might think!