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  • I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

    For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.

    The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

    So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”

    He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.



  • There’s a Jon Lajoie song called “Pop Song”. It’s basically a song mocking how all radio friendly pop songs sound the same.

    The reason I bring this up is there is a 3 second clip of the song that I wish were isolated on youtube.

    The lyric is something along the lines of:

    “And you assume the general public would be too smart to listen to the same fucking song again…BUT YOU WERE WROOOOOONG!!!”

    And I want that part at the end, “BUT YOU WERE WROOOOONG!!!” to be isolated. I want to post just that 3 seconds when someone says something that’s clearly wrong, or will be proven wrong soon.

    Kind of like when the kids say vapes are healthy, unlike cigerettes. Then as they get the news from their doctor that they have a new previously undiscovered strain of cancer, they’d tell the doctor they thought vapes were safe.

    BUT YOU WERE WROOOOOONG!!!

    And I’d like to play that sound clip to you, circa 1999. Then we’d inevitably talk about The Matrix. Because it’s 1999.