Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.
it’s supposed to connect ‘steam’ with ‘extremism’ instead of something like Twitter, Truth, or Fox to coincide with their recent ‘fact finding mission’
Absolutely, here is RFK on Sept 10 saying they cause mass shootings. (Completely ignoring the ENTIRE WORLD OUTSIDE THE US)
https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-video-games-mass-shootings-gun-violence-2127808
Also Congress has called for the leaders of discord, steam, Reddit and twitch to come and testify about extremism.
I don’t see any of the social media heads who donated to Trump’s inaugural on that list.
Steam is very much connected to extremism. Far right extremisn to be precise.
Take a look at any Steam forum and you’ll see. The reason is because Valve hardly ever hires moderators and delegates responsibility to the developer who created the game the forum is about.
I think German speaking Steam has a total of two global (i.e. paid by Valve) moderators? Not sure where I’ve heard this though.
This actually true, even though I swear it didn’t used to be like that. There are sooo many far right people on the forums and in the discussions. I was looking up a game where one of the female characters has the option to date her female friend. I went to the discussion tab to see if anyone knew what choices you had to pick to unlock it. A whole bunch of trolls calling the game “woke” and disgusting for hating an OPTIONAL story arc. Even on games like Life is Strange, which isn’t a new game and is pretty well known for having lgbtq elements, tons of far right people gay-bashing in the discussions tab.
Yup. It’s utterly ridiculous.
I remember at least one steam group dedicated to determining the “woke” rating of games
That’s unexplainable textile mill fires. Steam is connected to unexplainable textile mill fires, not
autismshit video games.
I wish we lived in a time before videogames when there were no political assassinations or mass shootings.
/s <-- do I even need this?
Famous gamer John Wilkes Booth.
Brutus was way better at Halo
Not Fruit Ninja?
Lincoln ruined his killstreak and swatting wouldn’t be invented for three more years, by famous inventor Thomas “I made up the N word” Edison.
No no, you’re thinking of Charles Guiteau.
just leave it to someone who’s gonna be french but not gonna be properly french to go and french things up
wouldnt those graphs look similar though, even if just by coincidence?
If you’re suggesting that political assassinations are more common in modern times, let me introduce you to the Life Details column of the List of Roman Emperors wiki page.
Because it’s saying “leftists play video games, rightists play and watch sports” without saying it. Same with the “serially online” thing.
Lol, just check out WoWs general chat to find as many right wingers as you want.
Yeah but that’s not the perception uh people that think they’re offline rightists have.
Ikr? Blog, content creation, videos, Facebook. Like they constantly are looking for everything they could possibly do online.
And lots of fps.
Or literally any fps. You dont even have to play things like CS or R6 to know, that shouting racial slurs into the voice Chat is relatively common in this games.
Would love some MAGA to say this to me. Then I whip their ass in any game or sport they want to play. Gravy Seals can get balled on.
Motivated by radical pirate ideology confirmed.
I blame Microsoft
Same.
I see. Video games cause violence. Guns had nothing to do with it. Mandatory id, facial scanning, and government reporting on all video game platforms is totally cool and justified. /s
You see, guns in video games, where nobody is hurt, are bad. Guns in reality are good.
It’s a bad example, the gun in this case was good. Would have been great if just aimed 15 cm higher.
I’ll give up modern gaming it failed for blizzard it’ll fail .gov
and a gobsmacking negative review of Sea of Thieves despite that 2,000 hours of playtime.
Oh damn, he’s one of those people… Sounds like the worst charge so far
I am more concerned that he logged like 3 work weeks worth of time playing “power washing simulator”
People under capitalism are so alienated from their work that they escape to something as mundane as Power Washing Simulator. Having a stable job with a modicum of satisfaction and control is a power fantasy nowadays.
Work in HVAC, I go home and play project zomboid. My fantasy is that everyone stops needing me and I can stay inside on a Tuesday and just read and eat sphaghetti straight out of the can.
I bet your room is the perfect room temperature.
People spend hundreds of hours driving transport truck simulations in traffic.
That’s particular simulator game actually has you saving the world from some sort of Alien UFO time traveler conspiracy plot though doesn’t it? It’s not quite as mundane as some other simulator games like farming or truck driving sims.
I play space truck sim. Sometimes you just wanna chill and press clunky buttons. Do some really low stakes slow shit. I’m old though.
I am telling you that there is proof video games effect people. Ever notice how most people born in the 80s grew up and all became plumbers? I mean sure all the competition has driven costs down for all of us and with just a little work you can find a plumber that will do the work for free, but a lot of these plumbers can no longer support their families and are forced to live in sewers and fight turtles for food.
there is proof video games effect people
Holy shit they can give birth now?
The trick to using effect/affect is to use them interchangeably and at random, then you’re bound to be right sometime. Or panic and use “impact” instead, like a coward.
Or you only ever use one spelling, to the same effect… :p
Kinda what I do, I am dyslexic and if spell check says it’s good I tend to miss that it is the wrong spelling of the word.
It’s like scone and scone. I’ll swap pronunciation mid sentence, just to throw people.
you know what we should make our own variation on the pastry and pronounce it scuhn
affect.
You affect things. Things have an effect.
Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.
also you effect an effect
Isn’t English great?
all the trees are square now and I’m scared to go out at night.
And the turtle with the stick is super OP compared to the rest.
But all of them have trouble swimming around dams.
His Steam profile has over 100 “Mind Blown!” Awards lmao
You can look up the tweet from the article to get the link to the Steam profile
How did he have time to practice his rifle skills? That’s my question.
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I mean, I met enough shit shots who can’t figure out “if the hole in the paper is lower than where you’re aiming, aim more up” and video games kind of teach that kind of problem solving.
Depends on what games you play though. You surely aren’t learning this stuff from CS
those are 1 hit kills with massive hitboxes, right? it’s been a while.
Not really. In CS the first few shots go directly into the crosshair, but when firing continuously you have to aim downwards. So there its the other direction than in real life.
No wonder RFK jr says videogames lead to violence!
To me what’s stupid is that they found nothing, as most of us would have expected going through a steam account, and yet they are “leaking” this information and what kind of bullshit narrative are they trying to push this time.
Trying to back up RFK’s bullshit, disproven games caused mass shootings BS?
The fuckheads in office are searching for stuff they can blame. It’s couldn’t possibly because he was a right wing nutjob. Oh no it must be video games! Time to start cracking down on that now!
Dumb fucks…
right-wing nutjob
Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?
Agreed that Steam is a really stupid place to be looking for anything of substance.
Well, maybe the fact that he left a negative review for a game he has over 2000 hours in signifies derangement on some level, if not political, lol.
Do you mean those totally legit messages that totally didn’t sound like it was a mix of someone from the 60s and cop speak? Or did he criticize somewhere else?
“I would like to remain unseen,” said the Genzer
You’re right, every piece of evidence that doesn’t confirm your biases must be fabricated.
There’s no other possibility.
My only bias in the situation is not trusting cops, espescially Trumps justice department and Patel’s FBI.
If you look for any information outside of what the administration says and what the news repeats, you will see many people believe it was fabricated. People who are the same age as him say it doesn’t read plausible, people on the far right say it doesn’t sound like anything they have read, leftists say it sounds like no kid they have come across, people who study linguistics say it doesn’t match someone his age and the writing cadence is weird, especially someone who spent as much time online as him.
It’s just super fishy, and I would be skeptical no matter who was in charge. I think a healthy dose of skepticism is important in today’s environment. We will find out more when this comes up in court.
Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?
He was an active groyper.
The Groyper War began in the fall of 2019, when Fuentes and his followers launched a social media campaign targeting Turning Point USA’s “Culture War” college tour, led by Charlie Kirk. Motivated by the firing of a Fuentes ally and other conflicts, Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights to challenge mainstream conservative figures like Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Ben Shapiro, whom they labeled “Conservative Inc.” for deviating from their far-right views.
This is also why Ben Shapiro went into hiding shitting himself.
Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions
This is pretty much the opposite of what Robinson did, so…what are you talking about?
Also, groypers didn’t criticize Kirk because he ‘spreads too much hate’—if anything, they think he’s not extreme enough. Another direct contradiction.
I think you’re believing what you want to believe, not what the evidence points to.
People who play Powerwash Simulator are not to be treated.
How DARE you! … I mean, you’re not wrong but…
Especially if more than 100 hours
but I’m not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us
Criminally insane.
Well the dude was definitely mentally ill if youre looking at that.
The evangelicals supporting trump are responsible for the recent mastercard debacle to remove steam games. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start into a new wave “video games cause violence” bullshit.
Also I thought the kid seemed fairly normal but him being a SoT sicko makes me wonder.
It supposed to help them find something that will allow them to convince us to let them do what they already decided they want to do.
