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Greddan, 3 dni temu do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

Cultists have no place in governments.

CallMeAnAI, 3 dni temu do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

How many Catholics in that country? They get taxed?

pathos, 3 dni temu do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

Japan and Korea must be wastelands

Bronzebeard, 3 dni temu do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

I think it’s your cartels, bro

InternetCitizen2, 3 dni temu

There’s also been moves to ban narco culture.

NuXCOM_90Percent, 3 dni temu

Yeah.

I can’t speak to Mexico. But, at least in the US, video games very much have been a pipeline for both rehabilitation of the military’s image and direct recruitment. It is what leads to generations that believe tier ninety special force operators are the greatest people ever which both provides “They know what they are doing and have their reasons” and “I want to be one of those”

I am not aware of any cartel friendly games (unless you REALLY disliked Fifty Cent, I guess?) but I wouldn’t immediately rule this out IF it is part of a wider media push.

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Violent video games do not make you violent. But “cool guys doing cool shit” makes people want to “do cool shit”. There is a reason (para)militaries around the world tend to cooperate with, and outright fund, so much media that glazes them. Hell, military/spy porn is sometimes so good that it makes you ALMOST stop making jokes about how Sullivan Stapleton should play Hank Hill in a live action KOTH (that man wishes he had Hank Hill’s ass).

InternetCitizen2, 3 dni temu

That is definitely a good point about games making the military look good. At one point the US Army had its own game called America’s Army too.

Cybersteel, wczoraj

I thought me being stabbed in the back is kinda of like a jump scare and you almost make zero noise.

Katana314, wczoraj

There are definitely some ways I’d like to see media shifts, but I’m always very cautious about govt regulation around it.

For instance, I always hated how much we parodize authoritarian dystopias. The “parody” element is often lost on people, and they end up respecting it; like people who lose the irony in vouching for Helldivers’ “For Managed Democracy!” or feel like Warhammer40k’s Imperium of Man is awesome.

We probably need more Spec Ops: The Line’s, but also more hero fantasies about destroying those dystopias.

Flamekebab, 3 dni temu do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

Whilst I can’t be bothered to look it up on my phone - we have hard data that disproves this link, last I checked.

JigglySackles, wczoraj do games w Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

Fuckin hell, thought this shit had finally gone away in the 00s. It’s the 90s all over again. 🙄