Video games don’t make you violent, but might they make you cruel? Smart @magiciansbook piece: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/11/do_video_games_make_us_more_cruel.html … Me, I suspect … 1/x
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Replying to @pomeranian99
… the deeper residue of war-themed video games is to normalize battle as just, y’know, what a society *does*; how it deals with stuff. 2/x
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@pomeranian99 empirically, the onus is on us to resist normalization of violence as primary/sole storytelling drive (in & out of games)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Yep — it’s very very old. And I’m as swept up in it as anything. I read the Illiad and looked forward to the fight scenes!
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despite, or maybe b/c of, real world conflict, I seek out games like Titanfall 2. But if it's *just* violence, I lose interest
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