This was originally posted to c/games, but since that comm doesn't allow piracy they replaced the link with a youtube link.

So here's an alternative for people who don't like Youtube

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[–] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Not only video games and certainly not video games for everything. I played my fair share of SHMUP and other kind of violent games. But this one really looks like a movie, I can really imagine kids identifying to the protagonists and reproducing that IRL. I wouldn't want to forbid it but still it disturbs me. I'm wondering.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    But this one really looks like a movie, I can really imagine kids identifying to the protagonists and reproducing that IRL.

    Cinematography is here for a century already. What amount of crimes is done because "Cool! I want to be like that guy with a gun"? I suppose a dozen in total during that whole century.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    If you want to go there : All US action movies have a gun displayed on their poster. The US is number one in gun homicide from a very, very wide margin. You can always say it's not linked. Other countries think it is.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yes, I will say that posters with guns are unrelated to the number of real crimes.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    Not the poster by themselves, but that means that for any US action movies, the hero is identified as a person with a gun. The gun is kinda the symbol of its power.

    One such movie from time to time is perfectly OK. When all of them glorify guns, you have a cultural problem.

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