edit - Yeah I play video games with violence too, my point is that video games are a mirror that exposes a less brutal image of ourselves than we are convinced of. The truth of what we desire is as often silly or altruistic as it is selfish or violent, even in the realm of fantasy where the violence is unreal as everything else.
We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills… Wait…
I am an Italian man who eats mushrooms and stomps turtles
How many princesses have you tried to rescue only for them to be on another castle
Nah man he’s banned from all Disney theme parks now
“I KNOW YOU HAVE HER, YOU ASSHOLES!”
This is why representation in games is so important
Ya know…I don’t remember any super mario bros games where Mario is black.
im an actual Italian man who eats mushrooms, but i dont dont stomp on turtles, and i haven’t found my princess peach yet.
Have you checked the other castle?
ive checked alot of castles, i was told no
Well, one out of three is … pretty unremarkable, actually
:(
I’ve always heard it as „we‘d be running around in dark rooms with brightly colored lights, eating pills and listening to electronic music“
every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every ‘honey do’ list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.
A cottage industry of recovering neighbors who have fallen asleep on their way home and returning them to their beds in exchange for a ‘finders’ fee might develop.
Rename “chores” to “dailies” and you would get immediate results.
“Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, we’d all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt
I always liked that one…*old ex raver, still love the music for sure. Actual shirt I owned was ‘I said no to drugs but they didn’t listen’
Edit, I always thought raves was my generation’s summer of love. Diluted but I think the idea for many were the same…of course not for all, but it’s how I felt it sometimes. The best people to be around were always so positive, and I so wished the millennium ushered in more positivity than how it happened. But … yeah we all know what happened early 2000s.
I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.
For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.
The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.
So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”
He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.
Imagine a dad making that argument these days and then they look at their kid’s steam library and all they play is “shower with your dad simulator”
This is why I’m never getting into PC gaming.
Fox news might only go back to 96 but it was almost always politically motivated, I will accept that it may be deteriorating though
Videogames in fact dictate my real world behavior, but I am stuck because I can’t find the double jump or the wall climb anywhere. =C
I only do side quests and never get the main quest done.
And that one time I tried to check behind a waterfall there was nothing there. :(
You gotta explore more and meet some guides, they unlock those abilities later.
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I mine, I forage, I genocide. It’s a simple life, but a good one.
And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.
I mine, I forage, I genocide.
Steve?
I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.
Solar punk?
Minecraft
If that’s true, then we be building factories, polluting the environment, and killing protestor.
Ohh wait
Sir this is Wendy’s
Do it slaughter millions of humans in games across different genres? Yes, I do and it’s great fun!
Do I have any intention to kill even one human in real life? Hell no, I don’t even want to hurt others!
Wait until you get older and see how the world runs, you’ll get lots of reasons of wanting to hurt others!
Ah yes but video games are unrelated.
How much older?
I don’t know, I was only guessing. And having fun too of course.
So I was guessing 20 to 30 for you which would be an average I pulled out of my butt (and could of course be wildly wrong) I could be almost double your age.
Oh and also not being neurotypical adds to having a very dark world view (like, probably, we keep negatives while NT forget them).
We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.
You don’t?
If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3
hell yeah
oh shit.
You gotta change your username, Train
BoyGirl.Nyaaaa I am train girl :3
I was going to say similar. Gonna start laying track on my new micro model railroad this evening.
I acquired some German models by pure happenstance but they’re in a different scale from all of my other stuff so I need to build a small home for them. I’ve got a track plan for a basic little 1x4 foot micro layout and just got the last few pieces of track that I needed
I’m either building a factory in space or an organ harvesting drug empire in space.
Seems like you really like…
Commercial driver’s licenses?
Over 9 million copies of Euro Truck Simulator 2 have been sold, according to a Renault Trucks press release from March 2024. That’s a staggering number, reflecting the game’s enduring popularity.
https://achivx.com/how-many-copies-of-euro-truck-simulator-2-have-been-sold/
That’s pretty amazing. I’ve never played the game but it looks pretty chill.
Sometimes I really get in the mood for chill games like Stardew Valley or NetHack! Maybe I’ll check out ETS2 sometime!
I mean, I recommend Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, but ETS2 is undeniably awesome too!
Oh nice! I’ll check that out too! Thanks!
ETS2 is getting a bus expansion too so you can drive buses instead of trucks of you prefer. The American counterpart ATS (same game engine, same studio and updated in lockstep with ETS2) is similarly getting a road trip expansion, where you can drive many classic American cars on a road trip.
Honestly I highly recommend the games because they’re incredibly chill driving simulators
ETS2 + Lee Hazlewood’s Cowboy in Sweden is just maximum aura.
You obviously pasted the wrong link.
I believe this is the game you meant:
this game is great, i installed it just now. I heard the game is bad, but even still, i assumed the ui problems must have been from running the game through proton. but no, it’s literally just that bad
also, on wikipedia there’s a picture of the truck climbing a steep mountain. but what it doesn’t show is that the truck actually goes much faster up steep mountains than over flat land because the physics system is terrible and the car doesn’t slow down at all horizontally when it starts moving vertically.
Have you tried going in reverse? 😂
The play is fun, but you can get the highlights from watching the hilarious videos people have made on them. Just in case anyone wants to save the megabytes on the hard disk ;)
You’re winner
id be shooting aliens and not afraid of anything
I hear ICE is hiring.
i can’t believe they used halo for their recruitment ads. i was so pissed.
Wtf. That’s horrendous.
yeah one of my favorite series was taken to promote their shit.
Is this Microsoft approved or another case of the fascists just using art without permission?
they used microsoft art, and as far as i know, microsoft has been tight lipped about it
I love eating mushrooms, being high as fuck, hitting bricks with my hands and crushing turts all day.
You can’t just say perchance!!!
