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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.
No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.
However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.
It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.
I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.
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Cloud Strife & Aerith Gainsborough
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE (2020) ➙ FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) dev. Square Enix
#ff7 rebirth spoilers#rebirth spoilers#aerith gainsborough#cloud strife#dont talk to me im a wreck#my girl :((
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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)
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yeah sorry we took your canon male character and made him a butch dyke. no yeah it didnt change his appearance hes just a butch dyke now. sorry. hes infinitely cooler now if that makes u feel better
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Cameron Frye’s dad loves cars. He adores them so much. He buys rare and expensive vintage cars and spends hours and hours by himself restoring and maintaining them so they can sit in a room for him alone to enjoy. And when it comes time for him to buy Cameron a car. He buys him a cheap piece of shit. God damn.
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Ever just have like an amazing fic idea but don’t have the motivation or time to write it yourself so you start frantically searching for an existing fic that has the same plot as what you were envisioning but can’t find one so you have to resort to playing out little scenarios in your head but ultimately its just not the same? Just me? Okay..💔
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Hi, I’m here to propose that A.A. Milne’s distinctive syntax in the Winnie-the-Pooh books is a major origin of modern Capital Letters Used For Emphasis On The Internet. Observe:
(in which Pooh wryly self-deprecates)
(in which Eeyore masters modern sarcasm)
(in which Eeyore is vagueblogging)
(in which Owl says something i would absolutely type in the YOOL 2017)
(In which Eeyore continues to be a shining example to us all)
(in which Pooh describes a Big Mood)
(in which Piglet has a Relatable Experience)
I could go on, but you can read the books and find your own. It’s a weirdly modern-feeling layer to an old, thoroughly enjoyable story and most of the original Pooh books are online for free. I cited from this online text upload of the book. Enjoy!
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Having a bruise is great it’s like a second clitoris but it only does masochism
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Why don't they make stained glass fish tanks? Give those fish Catholic guilt
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