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Published: 2020-01-30 10:52:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 3520; Favourites: 133; Downloads: 7
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Do you guys like violence in the media you consume?Don't know what is wrong with me honestly, I am a pretty chill dude but when I relax I mostly (if not only) play videogames that involve killing and violence. I do not wish to harm anyone in real life, I am actually pretty squeamish lmao but I got this weird urge every now and then to put Doom on a big screen and shoot demons to bits...is violence hard coded into us? In nature we see it everywhere: baby animals play fight with one another, hunters chase their helpless prey around, invaders fight alphas for supremacy...Our society condemns any kind of aggression to others, rightfully so, and we as a developed and intelligent species tend to prefer dialogue to conflict. And yet you hear it everyday, individuals going mad on a killing spree, crooks hurting others for no apparent reasons, whole parades of people resorting to violence and even the police abusing their power.
Anger is a big part of our personality, to deny its existence is to deny our animal side, therefore ourselves, is it possible to live in a world where not only war but any kind of conflict will cease? Perhaps the senseless violence that shrouds our reasoning is more than just thirst for power, yet an itch, a desire that we try to ignore but looms over us constantly poking our sides.
Boy i sure do love Doom
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the old one is still and will always be a classic but the recent 2016 one is pure adrenaline, ripping the leg of a demon soldier and smashing his face with it is DOPE AF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh
I got it on switch too and I love it
take care friend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Oh man, this is legit reminding me of the Primal Rage fighting games, which if you don't know of, I'd HIGHLY recommend you check 'em out. They seem right up your alley, bud!
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oh yea I had that one on the old nintendo cartridge, the farting gorilla and the cobra dinosaur, it was so cool but the moveset was crazy ahaha lovely memories ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
take care Elfie, have a relaxing weekend!
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some of us try not to be, but it is sure hard to stray from this path...
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I used to love a browser-based game called Thing Thing 2 (1, 3 and 4 were cool, but 2 was special.) 2D-platform, shoot everyone. It had a survival mode where you stay in one screen, and enemies come at you from each side, endlessly. I could play that one screen for hours.
Humans have so many remnants of ancient instincts, and violence is still something many people rely upon for survival today. It’s not going to go away anytime soon.
Dehumanization plays an important part in «normal» people’s willingness to hurt other humans. In video games it’s very easy to accept that it isn’t real, so you can perform representations of extreme violence and/or cruelty.
In real life you just need to get convinced the other is a lesser being. (Not gonna go into factors of society and groups right now.)
Videogame violence is fun. I think. It’s actually been a while. Silent Hill 3 was the last, and while violent, it’s a vastly different feel from the shooters. Does appeal to the survival instinct, though.
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Lovely read buddy, thanks for sharing your opinion and elaborating your thoughts so well.
I do believe you have a lot of good points there, like playfighting is often done by baby animals to kind of get ready for the real actual fights. The dehumanization you were talking about is really interesting too, because while a lot of media coverage focuses on the fact that videogames makes people less sensitive about violence, they forget to address that the desire to hurt other and fight is deeply rooted into us, videogames like any sports or many other activities is just an outlet.
I remember the good old days of flash games, I played somenthing similar to that ahaha newgrounds was packed with this sort of stuff. I remember playing resident evil when I was younger (i still do lol) but I always thought that Silent Hill was too spooky for me, i tried the demo of the first one on ps1 and I scared the crap out of me!
have a lovely day friend, thanks for stopping by ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I love the idea of being strong enough to defend oneself in a fight and come out victorious, I am currently too small & feeble to do it irl. With morality and laws and shit, there's not many ways that primal rage can be let out, because as humans we're meant to be "above that" or whatever.
I kinda think its bullshit, as some people really don't deserve their teeth, but yknow, to each their own.
Videogames are great for it though. Even if you're not in a shitty mood, or angry, this stuff provides for some amazing entertainment. The Mortal Kombat series kinda depends on their gore for the sake of entertaining, and yet it's widely popular. Similar deal with heavy metal & its more aggressive subgenres. I listen to tons of it every day but I'm not aggressive. It's very interesting how malicious or "angry" violent entertainment is in theory, but in practice, we as people have developed a way to separate what we see and what we feel.
As for conflict and wars, well.... I think it's more complicated then "I'm angry, I'm gonna go fuck this country." Hell almost all wars are started because big, suited rich men are feeling threatened by other big, suited rich men. The soldiers are often convinced/lightly brainwashed to believe that "the enemy" should enrage them, thus they can let out their rage on the battlefield. The warmongers themselves have nothing to do with the violence other than starting it.
And, well... We've evolved to the point where pressing a button on a weapon can instantly kill millions of people. There's more "tolerance to handle this stressful situation while also denying any feeling of guilt" than it is rage.
Idk, that's my two cents on it. Gore is cool. Fictional violence rules. Real life violence rules as long as the "victim" deserved it. Anger in itself is a valid emotion. Who cares unless innocent people get hurt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ahah I like how passionate you are about this friend ,"some people really don't deserve their teeth" and "There's more tolerance to handle this stressful situation while also denying any feeling of guilt than it is rage" are both quotes worth putting into a dissertation ahahah
I was watching this video talking about the old doom mechanics and it was saying that enemies turn into giblets when you shoot them and they made it feel like that was your reward for playing aggressively, it sparked an insatiable satisfaction in most people. Maybe some of us can't help feeding our brain some old fashions blood and gore, as another commenter pointed out, being able to tell apart violence from a game and irl really changes its meaning. Movies and games allow us to experience this crazy situations without really suffering any consequences. I am sure getting involved in a knife fight is not as pleasant as shooting gangsters in gta ahah
War on the other hand I think transcends violence, it is not something that occurs in nature, animals do not do it, monsters do. The pursue and the killing of another group of people is really madness if you think about it, and its real purpose is often vague or unknown to both sides of the conflict.
What a crazy world we live it! What is right? what is wrong? There is not right answer I guess, not an easy one for sure.
Thanks for sharing your opinion with us champ! You voiced your thoughts pretty well, if you are concerned about your size maybe you should try judo, I know some "small" people that can flip my ass in a second and mind you I am a big chungus ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
have a lovely day buddy! take care
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Lol yeah I am weirdly passionate on my take, but I've been desensitised to fake violence in media and such for a long loooong time. I feel like people's reactions to the Doom giblet stuff might be more related to simple action-reward mechanics? Like it wouldn't make sense for the bodies to crumple up all sad-like and slowly bleed out their bullet wounds, that would probably make less people feel good, but vague explody-bits of body parts? People live for explosions dude. Realistic violence would probably be a massive turn off. I guess in a way what it is that people actually enjoy is a dramatised/maybe even romanticised versions of violence?
I agree wholeheartedly on the war stuff. On one hand you're killing people, on the other hand you're in constant danger, and on the third, mutant hand, if you try to leave you'll be relentlessly shamed for it. People only got to come back if they somehow did too much. I reckon there's a similar deal with how war used to be portrayed though. "Go on, fight for your country, be a man" used to be the big selling point of it. I wonder if video games had existed back then, would there be war propaganda games? And just how dramatised would the violence be in order to convince people to enjoy it?
War games nowadays have minigames like "capture the flag". In order to actually get the players hooked on it they need to make the game itself a competition, so I doubt that most war games actually rely on their violence to get people to feel good. It's a strange phenomenon indeed.
And lastly judo sounds great tbh. Out here they teach primary school children judo lol
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yea totally my dude, it is definitely a more cartoon version of violence, you never really get the full thing. I guess you could say Mortal combat goes all in with realism, but after a dude gets his testicles crushed he just gets up and walks it off like it is nothing ahaha so only realistic to a certain point. I guess the red mist explosions in the games like doom helps the player to connect to what he is doing, never really feels as brutal as you can see on those live leaks videos where a dude gets run over. In the latter I find it much more intense, maybe because I know it is real.
REAL as the propaganda cartoons they used to churn during ww1 and ww2, I am sure they would have done the same to videogames back in the days, much less today hopefully, or maybe they are just more subtle you know?
Fricking yea man, kids are dangerous per se, teaching them judo only makes them more deadly ahahah I trained myself against a couple kids once and they kick the crap out of me!
have a lovely day buddy thanks for the conversation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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There’s no winning in real life fights. One or both (or all) is likely to get seriously injured, and never fully recover, and the one (if any) who comes out on top gets to be the bad guy. (Unless you’re living in a war zone or something.) Self-defense is great, but when someone is truly superior in fighting capability, they’ll often be able to avoid random brawls. Punching someone deserving of it in real life, feels nothing like the fantasy. It feels mean.
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Eh, I'm willing to bet against that last point. People punch people who aren't even deserving of it, and yet some of them don't "feel mean" or empathise. Horrific shit happens to someone with an opposing political belief, and people on the other side will cheer it en masse, without an inch of sympathy. Everyone's levels of tolerance & sympathy is different. I'd have no regret for punching an abuser, personally.
As for the winner coming out on top for just random fights being the bad guy, I've only ever seen it in movies. I highly doubt that the case is the same for all of them, but sure, people probably point fingers at whoever won moreso then they do to whoever instigated the fight in the first place, because outsiders most likely won't even know the full extent of why they were even throwing fists in the first place.
Random people in the street can jump anyone at anytime. Being able to fight my way out of a potentially worse situation sounds like a win to me
Altho, who knows, I'd probably think differently if I lived in a place like America, where hospital fees can disable you moreso than attackers ever could
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Of course, people who are mean won’t feel mean, it’s just an advice to people who are not mean who might feel tempted to resort to violence when there seems to be no other way.
And on the scale of masses and politics, that’s a different psychology at play. I’m not adressing that now.
And yes, people pointing the finger at whoever comes out on top without knowing the context is my point. The police do that too (that or they consider you both equally guilty.)
Yes, being able to defend yourself is a good thing, but it’s important to also practice the ability to remain calm while someone is acting threatening.
I don’t feel mean for kicking the guy who took my skateboard to use it as a weapon, but I wish I had been collected enough to at least try another way first. Had that guy been seriously injured when the police arrived, I’d have had a huge problem. There was no win in my situation. I know this is just one small example, and my personal experience, it won’t apply to everyone everywhere, and noone ever learns from other people’s mistakes anyway, but it doesn’t hurt to try. : )
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cheers
do you play videogames my dude?
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Yeah
Star Wars and such
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cool laserz m8
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