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Violent, western-developed games cause mass shootings imho
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Date: January 5th, 2026 7:32 AM Author: 180 institution There have been Studies, probably paid for by Activision, showing that Game violence doesn’t contribute to irl violence, but it’s bs. Mass shooters are statistical ghosts. If an event’s likelihood is 1 in 10,000,000k, you are never going to capture it cleanly in lab aggression tasks, self-reported hostility scales, or short-term behavioral proxies. Social science is good at measuring mean shifts, not pathological outliers. It can tell you whether violent games raise heart rate or irritability by 3%. It cannot tell you how a single alienated, obsessive, grievance-soaked mind metabolizes thousands of hours of simulated domination.
The “selection effect” is only half the story. Yes, violent Scum/Losers are drawn to violent Games. But feedback loops exist: obsession sharpens fantasy fantasy rehearses identity identity seeks expression Social science hates feedback loops because they ruin clean causality. But human psychology is loops. The industry’s favorite move is to say: “They were already violent.” That’s like saying: “The fire already existed, therefore gasoline is irrelevant.” Discuss.
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:33 AM Author: chrome ungodly field corn cake You are probably right. I think the idea it didn't cause violence was true when people weren't always online. When life wasn't all Computer. But now you've got a toxic soup of people living on Computer and in Discord forums 24/7 while playing endless hours of this kind of shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563763) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 AM Author: 180 institution And people just want to hand-wave it. It’s rank intellectual dishonesty. Same with Scummy af metal or nigger rap music. Of course it influences kids ffs. Millennials have their heads up their asses and it’s leading to more mass shootings by zoomers, all because millennial Losers like Gaming so much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563792) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:05 PM Author: chrome ungodly field corn cake I'd even throw in shit like people listening to podcasts all day. People literally put headphones in and pump brainwashing straight into their minds non-stop. Very sick!
lol at the rap music shit, too. It's all become so ignorant and increasingly just derivatives of derivatives of what's come before because the "artists" have no actual talent and it costs nothing to make rap music and put it online. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 1:58 PM Author: 180 institution It’s like a joke or something. But idk it’s kind of The Same as TV or radio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564277) |
Date: January 5th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: histrionic deranged generalized bond are you literally arguing for Censorship here. you really are a shitcon aren't you haha. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563859) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:09 PM Author: stirring ticket booth Oh do we care about that now? lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563868) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:13 PM Author: chrome ungodly field corn cake Not OP, but I would absolutely be in favor of some sort of Ready Player One "one day a week of no internet" kind of rule. I'd ban porn outside of magazines as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563881) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: 180 institution When it comes to Gaming, I mean it’s pointless given its current State, where the cat’s already out of the bag. But imo at least acknowledging that violent western-developed games are horrifying is progress. There was nothing that came after Doom 1-2 or Mortal Kombat 1-3 that matched it terms of Scumminess and Hellish imagery. The later games feel sanitized even if they’re still violent af. I feel this is a byproduct of the Democratic Caucus’ hearings in the 90s. What people should at least do is what I’m doing — just be like “wow just wow these games are violent, and probably inspire Losers to do mass shootings.” At some point, congress should call western developers such as Todd Howard for Hearings where they are harangued. Also, respectable parents should limit their kids to Japanese games exclusively. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:18 PM Author: histrionic deranged generalized bond Japanese games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, the most recent one which was banned in Australia iirc? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563905) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:22 PM Author: 180 institution These seem fine bc the violence serves a purpose and usually isn’t in FPS view whereas Doom and other PC FPSs put you in FPS view which helps the player train for mass shootings. There is also little if any point to the violence other than to prepare for school shootings with aliens serving as a stand-in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563924) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:26 PM Author: histrionic deranged generalized bond wouldn't it make more sense to infiltrate the Clique System and modify it so that Losers and Scum aren't sent to the basement while others ace OCI. there is a market for that aggression no matter how much you try to hide it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563936) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:43 PM Author: 180 institution Shutting out Losers from society has all sorts of ghastly knock-on effects. The Losery white collar work that they excel at ends up being done by incompetents or Indians. And the pool of “qualified” people gets narrowed when no one hires college grads except at OCI. One thing leads to another and COL skyrockets while everything becomes shittier. I don’t think we can change this — or anything — without a bloody af revolution or a threat thereof.
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:09 PM Author: stirring ticket booth I'm sure there are positives that offset the social harm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563867) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:27 PM Author: Motley federal orchestra pit 'gamer' culture produces weird faggot losers. mass shooters are pretty much 100% weird faggot losers, so the more video games are out there the more potential mass shooters are created. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49563940) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:44 PM Author: 180 institution Nintendo fanboys haven’t perpetrated a single mass shooting, ever. QED. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564003) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:02 PM Author: infuriating burgundy garrison potus my teen take was that violent video games can be solved with 'good education'
ljl, 90% of the people on this planet are retarded fags, tiktok psyoped a whole generation of millennials into dumping their house deposits on gaudy tank sized cars with illegal exhausts. we need eugenics back. open a fucking book from 100 years ago and you will realize how far we have fallen |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:42 PM Author: 180 institution Everyone was intellectual af until after WWI or something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564421) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: chrome ungodly field corn cake Decline can almost certainly be tied to rise of mass media. It seems like every time a new form of media is introduced, some sort of mania occurs. Smartphone social media is just the mega nuke to end literacy once and for all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564440) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: 180 institution Technology Ruins people imho. Nerds need to cut it out imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564674) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: histrionic deranged generalized bond https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya-nadella-ai-slop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564682) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:57 PM Author: 180 institution AI should be good enough for Engineering imho. It’s better at liberal arts bc liberal arts is Easy and bs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564700) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: histrionic deranged generalized bond Better than who at Liberal Arts though? Are you saying you’d rather watch an AI-generated Film than like the latest Tarantino or whatever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564711) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: 180 institution Better at writing posts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564805) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:03 PM Author: Swollen indian lodge private investor Lots of countries that have video games and strict gun laws don’t have mass shootings
how do you explain that? |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: 180 institution Gun laws would 100% prevent mass shootings bc Losers can’t access illegal guns. Cons are intellectually dishonest when they ignore this. Laws have less effect on murders within the criminal underworld imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564420) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:56 PM Author: rough-skinned frozen stock car What does playing Stardew Valley cause? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564470) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: 180 institution Loseriness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564668) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:19 PM Author: aphrodisiac chad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564738) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 5:05 PM Author: painfully honest appetizing tanning salon coffee pot I disagree. See the decline in crime and crack use in the mid-1990s following the release of 32X. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49564875) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:38 PM Author: 180 institution I’m talking about mass/school shootings, which SKYROCKETED following the release of Doom for 32X. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49565074) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:41 PM Author: Disgusting Office Dysfunction Nah it's psych meds. Something about them convinces depressed suicidal people to commit mass homicide instead of just offing themselves. I promise you, if we got the complete medical history of every mass shooter, it would show they were on a cocktail of psych meds (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49565083) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:43 PM Author: 180 institution Feedback loops exist. Maybe SSRIs and FPSs interact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49565089) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:45 PM Author: 180 institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49565424) |
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Date: January 6th, 2026 10:57 AM Author: chrome ungodly field corn cake They probably do. But the poaster is right to point to SSRIs. An unimaginable number of people are on them because the thought of dealing with the real world as it is has become such a nightmare for most people.
In reality they should just poast instead of popping pills. Much better solution. |
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Date: January 6th, 2026 12:49 PM Author: 180 institution SSRIs should only be prescribed to Women imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49566654) |
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Date: January 6th, 2026 12:50 PM Author: stirring ticket booth Correlation vs causation fail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49566658) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:56 PM Author: bonkers fanboi Seems to me the obvious answer is that media coverage of mass shootings causes mass shootings.
A certain % of people are psychopaths. It's why they always come in waves - they see the nonstop coverage and get inspired. |
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Date: January 6th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: 180 institution Columbine could only have occurred after the release of Doom for 32x. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2/en-en/#49566741) |