Considering the Pentagon’s level of involvement with Call of Duty’s development, I’d say you’re absolutely right One of them recreated the Highway of Death almost exactly and then was like “the Russians did it”

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Not the games these days for sure. When it was pixelated and a bit janky it was better for the brains.

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Like all forms of mass media, video games are a tool for propagating and reinforcing social norms. I would feel better about the popularity of games like Modern Warfare (or MCU movies, American football, etc.) if people had healthy, well-rounded cultural diets, but they generally do not.

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I'm at Halloween Horror Nights, where they decided to make sure 80% of the park don't get to do much so Express pass folks never wait more than 5 min. It used to be 20, everyone was happy. I'm not coming back next year, and wouldn't buy Express if I had unlimited funds. A soda is $6, cold brew $11

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The military has, for years, been in the gaming space. One of the most insane ironies of the 21st century imo is that David Grossman, the guy who helped make our police insane killers, was roundly mocked when he said that violent games were making kids killers in the early 2000s.

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