Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NEStalgia What's ''Manhunt''? lol Never heard of that one.

@Octane Picture an entire game about Trevor from GTAV only without the humor. Any of it.

It's kind of a spinoff from GTA (and references GTA locations) that exists as a survival horror with a deranged serial killer. It was famed for excessively graphic violence....not just hack and slash but very individual torturous murders.

Then again, that was before TLOU2 brought torture porn into the mainstream....

Yeah I saw that article this morning. Even though its actually just a compilation of previous data, so there's no real control group. Basically like pulling a Metacritic on hundreds of people's term papers
I did notice that at least the researcher being interviewed pointed out 'maybe we should look at how, why, and to what degree the consumption makes a difference, rather than blaming it'. That was refreshing. Ya know, like real research.

Manhunt is... interesting. I played Manhunt 2 on the Wii, which definitely made for a more visceral experience than PS2 with the motion controls. I think the story was that you wake up a patient/inmate somewhere and you're trying to escape, but whatever experimentation they did on you has triggers. Kinda like CIA MK Ultra-esque ideas. I'd be amazed to meet anyone that's a casual (read: doesn't keep up with) gamer that has played it or is aware of it. It originally got an AO classing, then Rockstar took some things out, blurred some stuff, and it released as M in most places.

They grew up into terrible terrible adults.

Oh no, I'm one of them!!! (granted, I was like 21 or 22 when it came out I think) It forced me to yell at a stranger and offer them spare change! What have I done with my life....

Meanwhile, Quentin Tarentino does his thing and nobody blinks. And a risque outfit on a female character in a video game has the censors outraged while Game of Thrones does what it does.

What I find amusing is rarely is it "mentally well adjusted child of wealthy family with solid future ahead turned to life of crime and murder due to playing video games."

It's always "poor ghetto kid with no future and abusive family" or "kid with extensive mental and behavioral history" that magically gets turned to the dark side of murder and drugs by playing Battlefield.

Video games are a poison of young minds. All they do is teach them how to be violent. That's where all the hate comes from. We need to go back to the good old says when kids had solid role models in life like O.J. Simpson and Ted Kennedy.

This again eh?

I mean I turned out fine. Video games were what STOPPED me being like these studies suggest.

If I didnt have those worlds Id have buried half of the people who ever bullied me in school due to the horrific things they did.

But I didnt because I knew back home was a world I could explore or save.

Hahahaha I love it. Pretty on point. Every time a news report mentions that someone was a gamer, I look at my mother and say "See? I turned out alright after all, didn't I?"
Ah, Ted.

@Knuckles-Fajita And if you ever finally snap and kill someone we'll all be subjected to 24/7 loops of your streaming channel on every TV network worldwide highlighting how it was video games that poisoned your mind and made you do it.....

@NEStalgia I may snap at the day staff at work. The store is left in an hnholy mess that we spend time tidying when we shouldnt. And if its like that tonjght Ill be furious as there is 7 of us to do 54 palettes of stock.

In one night.

@NEStalgia To give them some credit, after playing Spider-Man I've been zipping around town, beating up criminals, and exposing gang members. So there's some merit to the cause and effect of video games.

@Knuckles-Fajita LOL, sounds like my local supermarket. At least it's not Amazon?

@Octane It's true, there's a bleed effect to it when you play games. Recently, I've found that playing Undertale has filled me with determination.

Plot twist: Knuckles works at an Amazon warehouse.

That’s why his hands are so large, for lifting boxes.

No I work at a newly opened department store that last week was the highest grossing store in the company period.

So you know, lots of stock to go out.

Nope, the secret is better than the truth. You're an Amazon drone now. We've decided. Your new identity and papers are in your dresser. They're exactly the same as they were, except it's all been approved now.

This message will self destruct upon reading.

This is your EULA, should you choose to accept it.

Why is NLife giving positive PR to this scammy fake vr headset

I need to remember to pull this on some of my relatives....

"See? I have a job and house! I'm not some chainsaw-wielding psycho locked in front of the computer in my parents' basement!"

What's funny is that I recently watched a music video that was alluding to some heist that happened somewhere in Europe years ago that got a ton of media attention, which was what the perp(s) wanted.

It's for Rammstein's Ich Will, if anyone is curious.