“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
If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.
Submitted 6 months ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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4am@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 months 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’
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Speak for yourself; I am a VERY violent gamer! There’s a mission in Cyberpunk that really gets my blood boiling. These two guys are into human trafficking and shooting pornography of their sexual exploits. The father of a little boy they abused and filmed themselves abusing and murdering hires you to find them and kill them. Well, they don’t just shoot porn, they shoot brain dances, which are like interactive VR videos where you play a role. And they “shoot” while “in” the brain dance… so when you find them, they’re in their rigs and unaware you’re there. You can shoot them. You can wake them up and shoot them. You can shoot one and listen to the other mourn the one you shot (they’re father and son). Or you can leave them for the police. I always wake them up, shoot the son, let the father mourn him for a few minutes, then pull out a sword and take his head off. Can’t do anything about the people who do that for real, so I do it in a video game.
Though I just finished my third run through Night City, this time on the Xbox. I think I’m done for a while (it is a VERY long game and I insist on doing ALL the quests… my game time was something like 250 hours). I recently bought it on Mac (it was just ported) so I will go through it again on my computer with the keyboard and mouse. Sure, it looks like ass on the Mac (the whole computer, storage and all is one chip, there’s no dedicated graphics card) but it plays!
I’m gonna do the Mass Effect trilogy next. Just got the remastered trilogy for $6 on Xbox. I’ve started the first one a couple times but never finished it. I keep hearing it’s a masterpiece. This time I’m gonna get through the first one, and then do the second one. I expect them to take a long time.
I also play Animal Crossing. As of last year, that’s my main game. I’ve got everything unlocked, I’m just trying to finish the museum (without cheating). I got both the tarantula and the scorpion, so I never need to run around at night with my net out (which is what makes them attack, the only “scary” thing in Animal Crossing). They do sell for 8,000 Bells (the in-game currency) each, which is nice, but I make so much more than that every day, and I could make ~130,000 every 3 days harvesting all my fruit. Wasps is 15k (5 x 3,000 each), the money rock is 16.1k, I don’t need the hassle of catching the high value bugs (plus they’re rare). I’ve paid off all my loans to Tom Nook. The new update coming out in January will add two more storage upgrades, but I have 5.5M Bells banked, so I think I’m good and I don’t need more storage anyway (but buying it might unlock more fun stuff). They showed us more than they told us about, so there’s probably features they didn’t even show. Definitely a good time to book a deserted island getaway!
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Man what an adventure this was for me!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Solar punk?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Minecraft
Jumi@lemmy.world 6 months 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!
Strider@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months 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”
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
This is why I’m never getting into PC gaming.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 months 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
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
You gotta change your username, TrainBoy.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Nyaaaa I am train girl :3
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
oh shit.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
hell yeah
radix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Commercial driver’s licenses?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months 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.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You obviously pasted the wrong link.
I believe this is the game you meant: share.google/9Qcqk3rI2jBEqz6s7
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 6 months 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!
Broadfern@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.
Nefara@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You don’t?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That tracks actually.
adarza@lemmy.ca 6 months 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.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Rename “chores” to “dailies” and you would get immediate results.
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 6 months 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.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 6 months ago
I mine, I forage, I genocide. It's a simple life, but a good one.
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 6 months ago
And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.
admin@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I mine, I forage, I genocide.
Steve?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 6 months 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.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 months 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
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 6 months 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
binarytobis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And that one time I tried to check behind a waterfall there was nothing there. :(
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I only do side quests and never get the main quest done.
foggy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You gotta explore more and meet some guides, they unlock those abilities later.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The One Secret Item The NBA Doesn’t Want You To Know About
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills… Wait…
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 6 months 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“
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I am an Italian man who eats mushrooms and stomps turtles
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 months 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.
yakko@feddit.uk 6 months ago
This is why representation in games is so important
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How many princesses have you tried to rescue only for them to be on another castle
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
If games determined my behavior, I would practically be Machiavelli.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot of Crusader Kings or assassin’s Creed?
(I think in one of AC games you’re actually doing missions for Machiavelli himself.)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
No; I just do anything and everything I can to further my own strength and fuck everyone else because they’re just NPCs.