I might still tweet about E3 but fair warning, today I’ve got no patience for video games that glorify guns, gun violence or gun culture.
I was going to live-tweet E3 press events today but I just don’t think I can stomach the way the video game industry fetishizes gun culture.
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We need to have a serious discussion about how video games that fetishize guns and glorify gun violence end up contributing to gun culture.
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The question is not “Do games make people killers?” Nope. The real question is “How do games that fetishize guns contribute to gun culture?"
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There’s tremendous pressure in the games industry (and games media) to downplay any potentially negative impacts games may have on culture.
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The reality is that the relationship between media and culture is cyclical. Media feeds culture, culture feeds media. It’s a feedback loop.
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Because of the cyclical relationship between culture and media, it's critical to investigate the messages flowing from one into the other.
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FWIW we play the same violent games in Europe and we’re mostly fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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WOW, its a good thing nobody fucking cares about your opinions!
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"Real" gun culture is reprehensible. Guns in videogames- not the same. Did western movies contribute to gun violence?
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never stop tweeting. you fuel my cringe fetish
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stop this.
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