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Violent, western-developed games cause mass shootings imho

There have been Studies, probably paid for by Activision, sh...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
You are probably right. I think the idea it didn't cause vio...
multi-colored theater stage
  01/05/26
And people just want to hand-wave it. It’s rank intell...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
I'd even throw in shit like people listening to podcasts all...
multi-colored theater stage
  01/05/26
It’s like a joke or something. But idk it’s kind...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
are you literally arguing for Censorship here. you really ar...
vivacious sticky piazza dragon
  01/05/26
Oh do we care about that now? lol
Hot kitchen new version
  01/05/26
Not OP, but I would absolutely be in favor of some sort of R...
multi-colored theater stage
  01/05/26
When it comes to Gaming, I mean it’s pointless given i...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
Japanese games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, the most ...
vivacious sticky piazza dragon
  01/05/26
These seem fine bc the violence serves a purpose and usually...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
wouldn't it make more sense to infiltrate the Clique System ...
vivacious sticky piazza dragon
  01/05/26
Shutting out Losers from society has all sorts of ghastly kn...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
I'm sure there are positives that offset the social harm
Hot kitchen new version
  01/05/26
'gamer' culture produces weird faggot losers. mass shooters...
Talented Stag Film
  01/05/26
Nintendo fanboys haven’t perpetrated a single mass sho...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
my teen take was that violent video games can be solved with...
stimulating clown affirmative action
  01/05/26
Everyone was intellectual af until after WWI or something
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
Decline can almost certainly be tied to rise of mass media. ...
multi-colored theater stage
  01/05/26
Technology Ruins people imho. Nerds need to cut it out imho
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya...
vivacious sticky piazza dragon
  01/05/26
AI should be good enough for Engineering imho. It’s be...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
Better than who at Liberal Arts though? Are you saying you&r...
vivacious sticky piazza dragon
  01/05/26
Better at writing posts
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
Lots of countries that have video games and strict gun laws ...
violent fortuitous meteor parlour
  01/05/26
Gun laws would 100% prevent mass shootings bc Losers can&rsq...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
What does playing Stardew Valley cause?
hyperactive nubile school
  01/05/26
Loseriness
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
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soggy menage
  01/05/26
I disagree. See the decline in crime and crack use in the m...
bronze native stain
  01/05/26
I’m talking about mass/school shootings, which SKYROCK...
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
Nah it's psych meds. Something about them convinces depresse...
onyx box office
  01/05/26
Feedback loops exist. Maybe SSRIs and FPSs interact.
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
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Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/05/26
They probably do. But the poaster is right to point to SSRIs...
multi-colored theater stage
  01/06/26
SSRIs should only be prescribed to Women imho
Exhilarant Library National Security Agency
  01/06/26
Correlation vs causation fail
Hot kitchen new version
  01/06/26
Seems to me the obvious answer is that media coverage of mas...
kink-friendly state quadroon
  01/05/26
Columbine could only have occurred after the release of Doom...
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Date: January 5th, 2026 7:32 AM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

There have been Studies, probably paid for by Activision, showing that Game violence doesn’t contribute to irl violence, but it’s bs. Mass shooters are statistical ghosts. If an event’s likelihood is 1 in 10,000,000k, you are never going to capture it cleanly in lab aggression tasks, self-reported hostility scales, or short-term behavioral proxies. Social science is good at measuring mean shifts, not pathological outliers. It can tell you whether violent games raise heart rate or irritability by 3%. It cannot tell you how a single alienated, obsessive, grievance-soaked mind metabolizes thousands of hours of simulated domination.

The “selection effect” is only half the story. Yes, violent Scum/Losers are drawn to violent Games. But feedback loops exist:

obsession sharpens fantasy

fantasy rehearses identity

identity seeks expression

Social science hates feedback loops because they ruin clean causality. But human psychology is loops. The industry’s favorite move is to say: “They were already violent.” That’s like saying: “The fire already existed, therefore gasoline is irrelevant.” Discuss.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563406)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:33 AM
Author: multi-colored theater stage

You are probably right. I think the idea it didn't cause violence was true when people weren't always online. When life wasn't all Computer. But now you've got a toxic soup of people living on Computer and in Discord forums 24/7 while playing endless hours of this kind of shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563763)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 AM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

And people just want to hand-wave it. It’s rank intellectual dishonesty. Same with Scummy af metal or nigger rap music. Of course it influences kids ffs. Millennials have their heads up their asses and it’s leading to more mass shootings by zoomers, all because millennial Losers like Gaming so much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563792)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: multi-colored theater stage

I'd even throw in shit like people listening to podcasts all day. People literally put headphones in and pump brainwashing straight into their minds non-stop. Very sick!

lol at the rap music shit, too. It's all become so ignorant and increasingly just derivatives of derivatives of what's come before because the "artists" have no actual talent and it costs nothing to make rap music and put it online.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563857)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

It’s like a joke or something. But idk it’s kind of The Same as TV or radio

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564277)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:06 PM
Author: vivacious sticky piazza dragon

are you literally arguing for Censorship here. you really are a shitcon aren't you haha.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563859)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:09 PM
Author: Hot kitchen new version

Oh do we care about that now? lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563868)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:13 PM
Author: multi-colored theater stage

Not OP, but I would absolutely be in favor of some sort of Ready Player One "one day a week of no internet" kind of rule. I'd ban porn outside of magazines as well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563881)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

When it comes to Gaming, I mean it’s pointless given its current State, where the cat’s already out of the bag. But imo at least acknowledging that violent western-developed games are horrifying is progress. There was nothing that came after Doom 1-2 or Mortal Kombat 1-3 that matched it terms of Scumminess and Hellish imagery. The later games feel sanitized even if they’re still violent af. I feel this is a byproduct of the Democratic Caucus’ hearings in the 90s.

What people should at least do is what I’m doing — just be like “wow just wow these games are violent, and probably inspire Losers to do mass shootings.” At some point, congress should call western developers such as Todd Howard for Hearings where they are harangued. Also, respectable parents should limit their kids to Japanese games exclusively.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563893)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:18 PM
Author: vivacious sticky piazza dragon

Japanese games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, the most recent one which was banned in Australia iirc?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563905)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

These seem fine bc the violence serves a purpose and usually isn’t in FPS view whereas Doom and other PC FPSs put you in FPS view which helps the player train for mass shootings. There is also little if any point to the violence other than to prepare for school shootings with aliens serving as a stand-in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563924)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:26 PM
Author: vivacious sticky piazza dragon

wouldn't it make more sense to infiltrate the Clique System and modify it so that Losers and Scum aren't sent to the basement while others ace OCI. there is a market for that aggression no matter how much you try to hide it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563936)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:43 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Shutting out Losers from society has all sorts of ghastly knock-on effects. The Losery white collar work that they excel at ends up being done by incompetents or Indians. And the pool of “qualified” people gets narrowed when no one hires college grads except at OCI. One thing leads to another and COL skyrockets while everything becomes shittier. I don’t think we can change this — or anything — without a bloody af revolution or a threat thereof.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564000)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:09 PM
Author: Hot kitchen new version

I'm sure there are positives that offset the social harm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563867)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:27 PM
Author: Talented Stag Film

'gamer' culture produces weird faggot losers. mass shooters are pretty much 100% weird faggot losers, so the more video games are out there the more potential mass shooters are created.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49563940)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 12:44 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Nintendo fanboys haven’t perpetrated a single mass shooting, ever. QED.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564003)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:02 PM
Author: stimulating clown affirmative action

my teen take was that violent video games can be solved with 'good education'

ljl, 90% of the people on this planet are retarded fags, tiktok psyoped a whole generation of millennials into dumping their house deposits on gaudy tank sized cars with illegal exhausts. we need eugenics back. open a fucking book from 100 years ago and you will realize how far we have fallen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564291)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:42 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Everyone was intellectual af until after WWI or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564421)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:48 PM
Author: multi-colored theater stage

Decline can almost certainly be tied to rise of mass media. It seems like every time a new form of media is introduced, some sort of mania occurs. Smartphone social media is just the mega nuke to end literacy once and for all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564440)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:52 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Technology Ruins people imho. Nerds need to cut it out imho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564674)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: vivacious sticky piazza dragon

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya-nadella-ai-slop

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564682)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

AI should be good enough for Engineering imho. It’s better at liberal arts bc liberal arts is Easy and bs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564700)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:05 PM
Author: vivacious sticky piazza dragon

Better than who at Liberal Arts though? Are you saying you’d rather watch an AI-generated Film than like the latest Tarantino or whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564711)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Better at writing posts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564805)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:03 PM
Author: violent fortuitous meteor parlour

Lots of countries that have video games and strict gun laws don’t have mass shootings

how do you explain that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564294)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:41 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Gun laws would 100% prevent mass shootings bc Losers can’t access illegal guns. Cons are intellectually dishonest when they ignore this. Laws have less effect on murders within the criminal underworld imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564420)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:56 PM
Author: hyperactive nubile school

What does playing Stardew Valley cause?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564470)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Loseriness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564668)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:19 PM
Author: soggy menage



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Date: January 5th, 2026 5:05 PM
Author: bronze native stain

I disagree. See the decline in crime and crack use in the mid-1990s following the release of 32X.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49564875)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:38 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

I’m talking about mass/school shootings, which SKYROCKETED following the release of Doom for 32X.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49565074)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:41 PM
Author: onyx box office

Nah it's psych meds. Something about them convinces depressed suicidal people to commit mass homicide instead of just offing themselves. I promise you, if we got the complete medical history of every mass shooter, it would show they were on a cocktail of psych meds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49565083)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:43 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Feedback loops exist. Maybe SSRIs and FPSs interact.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49565089)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:45 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency



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Date: January 6th, 2026 10:57 AM
Author: multi-colored theater stage

They probably do. But the poaster is right to point to SSRIs. An unimaginable number of people are on them because the thought of dealing with the real world as it is has become such a nightmare for most people.

In reality they should just poast instead of popping pills. Much better solution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49566424)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 12:49 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

SSRIs should only be prescribed to Women imho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49566654)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 12:50 PM
Author: Hot kitchen new version

Correlation vs causation fail

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49566658)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:56 PM
Author: kink-friendly state quadroon

Seems to me the obvious answer is that media coverage of mass shootings causes mass shootings.

A certain % of people are psychopaths. It's why they always come in waves - they see the nonstop coverage and get inspired.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49565466)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 1:22 PM
Author: Exhilarant Library National Security Agency

Columbine could only have occurred after the release of Doom for 32x.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817431&forum_id=2...#49566741)