I am aware and I agree. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I disagree with the findings of the article, nor am I advocating for censorship, nor am I making a blanket statement saying that video games as a whole or even certain types of video games are unhealthy and should not be consumed at all. All I said was, is that whatever we consume in our lives do affect us, including video games, and it's important to be mindful of that.You should be careful of what you consume but you should also be carful to have some kind of not clickbaity foundation upon which to base your belifes if you want to ground them in reality.
That's a nice sentiment I suppose. The thing is that this is about weather video games cause violent behavior and the evidence doesn't seem to show that they do that. The evidence leans toward probably not and barring more evidence it seems like keeping an open mind is somewhat foolish, not that you were debating that, you were pretty carefully saying nothing about the topic at hand, while waxing philosophical in a post about violent video games. I'm not saying that your comment was directly pointed toward suggesting that we shouldn't tend to believe that video games make people more violent but maybe you can see how others might feel that you are being disingenuous. I'm all for being mindful about what you consume. I don't watch TV because I think it's a pestilent shit hole that constantly pushes messages that make us greedy, unhappy, jealous and generally supports moral values that are either saccharinly hollow or anti-social. I think our entire society is has had it's brains twisted and our values corrupted by advertising and that we are all mostly chasing things that could would never align with our true desires if we could break the spell. It's even killing our planet. Amusing ourselves to death. I don't really think that video games are so bad. I find some gross and don't play many violent games but can't possibly imagine that an hour of video games can do as much damage as an hour of commercials. I guess we all have our little niches of fear and suspicion. I'd gladly give up gaming for the rest of my days if I could trade it for a plague that killed every last person that says they work in marketing. Dare To Dream!
Performed at a high level, like all things, marketing is an art form.I'd gladly give up gaming for the rest of my days if I could trade it for a plague that killed every last person that says they work in marketing
As spoken by someone that clearly has only ever worked with low level shitheel marketers...
An art form that makes us value things more than people. An art that thrives by making us feel like what we have is not good enough, that we are not think enough, pretty enough, smart enough, rich enough or happy enough. An art that is killing our planet, that promoted depression and manic consumption and desire. The more artful the marketer who walks away from destroying our minds the better. I think you totally misunderstand my fears.