girlofprey

The news hasn't been great today. One of the stories was a shooting at a video game tournament, and all the people saying "but video games don't make people violent!" is just making my head hurt. For the record, I don't think video games do make people violent, but I think that maybe at the moment they make people less able to cope with losing. Especially with all the current online, multiplayer, eSports, hyper-competitive stuff that's going on. There's a lot of hate and toxicity and aggressiveness in the video game community at the moment, and that's not all of it, but it is a definite strain that seems to be constantly egging itself on and whipping itself up more, and honestly this seems very like that. But no-one wants to criticise that in case people take all the video games away - or in case they themselves lose the people who watch their Youtube videos. It makes me feel differently about video games, and respect the people whose Youtube videos I watch less.

All the Let's Plays out at the moment have guns in them.