If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills… Wait…

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am an Italian man who eats mushrooms and stomps turtles

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How many princesses have you tried to rescue only for them to be on another castle

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is why representation in games is so important

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      im an actual Italian man who eats mushrooms, but i dont dont stomp on turtles, and i haven’t found my princess peach yet.

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  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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“

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rename “chores” to “dailies” and you would get immediate results.

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, weMd all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt

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  • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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’

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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”

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is why I’m never getting into PC gaming.

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• Ilixtze@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I only do side quests and never get the main quest done.

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  • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And that one time I tried to check behind a waterfall there was nothing there. :(

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You gotta explore more and meet some guides, they unlock those abilities later.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The One Secret Item The NBA Doesn’t Want You To Know About

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• FerretyFever0@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mine, I forage, I genocide. It's a simple life, but a good one.

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.

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  • admin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mine, I forage, I genocide.

    Steve?

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Solar punk?

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Minecraft

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If that’s true, then we be building factories, polluting the environment, and killing protestor.

  Ohh wait

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sir this is Wendy’s

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• Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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!

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How much older?

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.

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  • Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t?

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m either building a factory in space or an organ harvesting drug empire in space.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seems like you really like…

    Image

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• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Commercial driver’s licenses?

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

    achivx.com/how-many-copies-of-euro-truck-simulato…

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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!

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You obviously pasted the wrong link.

      I believe this is the game you meant: share.google/9Qcqk3rI2jBEqz6s7

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    hell yeah

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  • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh shit.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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  • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You gotta change your username, TrainBoy.

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    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nyaaaa I am train girl :3

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• usernameusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love eating mushrooms, being high as fuck, hitting bricks with my hands and crushing turts all day.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t just say perchance!!!

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• 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  id be shooting aliens and not afraid of anything

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hear ICE is hiring.

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i can’t believe they used halo for their recruitment ads. i was so pissed.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And I’d be eating readily available street pizza all the time!

  “Hey look, someone left a full ham roast here on the sidewalk! I’m bleeding pretty bad, so I’ll go ahead and chow down! Let me just squat over it real quick, I can usually eat a roast ham in 0.06 seconds (assuming I’ve lost enough blood).”

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• radix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That many anvils… Maybe that’s wipe out the iron supply.

    Though death valley might be an even stranger landscape, covered in the anvils left behind.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d be rolling everything up into a ball as my distant authority figure father berates me.

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• thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d just be living in a small town, digging through trash cans, giving fish to the local homeless man, giving beer to the alcoholic and mostly just planting an ungodly amount of fruit trees on my land.

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• BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Imagine your behavior shaped by Ubisoft collect-a-thons. Now that’s grim.

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  • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Drug addicts looking for scrap metal aren’t much different. They look through abandoned structures, sneak around armed “hostiles”, and sleep wherever there are no enemies.

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    • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      meanwhile, some tech bro tries to wrangle this into some kind of ARG product

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Call of Duty League?
  Commercial Driver’s Licence?
  Christian Defence League?

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the second. its about driving Sims

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• count_dongulus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation

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• BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There would certainly not be any feral pig problems in the US, that’s for sure.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never understood how “vitality” means not armor but instead an inheret "unkillable"ness until I started looking into fetal pigs.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would be an amazing manager and be very rich

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d be a successful xenobiologist.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.

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  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whenever I play Civ I try to go for a peaceful victory. Then someone picks a fight with me and that escalates with me going for the world domination victory.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I usually play as Victoria so I like to do themes. Like if there are a lot of other woman leaders I’ll do a Girl Power game and form alliances with them and kill all the men.

      Or if there are a lot of colonizer countries I’ll do a reverse colonization playthrough and conquer them with the help of colonized nations.

      Then there’s the genocides I’ve waged for the most sacred resource to the English: Tea.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like Civ always punished you too much for being too successful in repelling another civ’s attacks. Like, what do you mean they can take a couple of cities but when I do it it sours my relations with every single civilization on the map? Always pushes me to a domination victory when that happens. Sometimes I can manage it without gaining too much of a warmonger reputation, but it’s too much of a balancing act

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• regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What I get from simulation video games is that if I didn’t have to worry about working to live and the daily grind of life, I’d work to get real-world experience doing stuff I may like.

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• m532@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d be wacking walls and machinery with a pickaxe.

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• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess I’m an immortal autocrat with foresight and pattern recognition good enough to be the global economy by the 16th century.

  I play too much 4x.

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