Fat, short, tall, skinny, hairy, bald, whatever. How the person looks is beyond NOT the point in the least of what's happening here.

It's, again, about the message that is being put forward here into the minds of people who don't get what's really being said by the advertisement and that is consciously and subconsciously effecting them.

Good parenting is the only solution.

Sounds about right, and I wouldn't disagree, but how is good parenting possible when the people growing up to be parents are the very ones who grew up being bombarded by this kind of imagery in the first place?

Violent crime has been going down steadily for the past decade.

Seems like it's been pretty darn bad as of late.

Violent video games do not cause violent people.

I guarantee you they don't help either though.

Seems pretty obvious that you're the one who's not the brightest here. There's a lot more going on than the superficial perspective you continue advocating. I wouldn't doubt if this game in particular, or these types of games, are a favorite of yours. Last thing you want to here is that you're not in as much control of your mind and your perspective as you think you are.

Instead of attempting cheap, ineffective ad hominems, maybe you might want to try digging deeper into reality and realizing that societal manipulation is ubiquitous and all-pervasive. Here. Educate yourself.

as long as you have the incredibly simple ability of separating reality from fiction, you should be fine.

I think more than that is needed to keep from being adversely affected.

don't treat me as if I don't know that societal manipulation isn't a thing and hasn't been for years.

Some of the comments that you've made seemed to indicate that you're not aware of that.

how does a company benefit by pushing a "killing for money is good" message.

That's an easy one: We live on a planet that has been greatly contrived toward that type of perspective. All a company has to do to financially benefit is fall in line with that very type of m.o. Tow that party line, so to speak. If you create something relating to peace and wisdom on a planet geared toward violence and war (such as this one seems to be to a large and unfortunate extent), then you will likely not benefit as much as someone who makes games gratifying and advertising killing and murder.

Have you considered from a gameplay aspect how boring a game where you follow the rules/peacemaking game would be?

You only say and think and feel that because your mind is so indoctrinated to only look at “cool games” from a perspective of violence, war, and “how many people you can kill!”. This is, again, exactly the kind of mentality that the gaming industry and that this society/civilization breeds into the citizenry. No surprise that you have it, but it is by no means the only way possible to engage in a gaming activity that is fulfilling and exciting.

The examples that you pointed out constitute quite a bit of a straw man fallacy, as those are not by any means the only type of gaming experiences that could be made that A) don’t have as their main point violence and the murdering others, and B) are fulfilling to the participants nonetheless.

Regardless, the point is that this society is absolutely structured to think in exactly the limited, “violence only!” manner that you have greatly illustrated here, and that type of caustic way of thinking contributes significantly to the ongoing societal ills that keep all of us down, manipulated, and enslaved as it were.

You do realize once again that not all games revolve around violence right?

Of course. The most popular ones, the ones that make the most money, however, do.

I prefer racing games, and last time I checked, those are relatively non-violent. Games like sim-city, surgeon sim, portal, whatever else exist, where the main purpose is solving puzzles, leading a city, and any number of non-violent games.

Cool.

No one ever said that games need to be violent.

The market certainly says that tacitly, however, as - again - the most popular and most successful ones revolve around mass and gratuitous violence.

I'm not a game type person - never have been - and don't really care for them much, so this isn't something I spend too much time thinking about in the first place.

You're trying WAY too hard to defend your little limited world, man. Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.

The question doesn't need to be answered in order for everything I've said to still be correct nonetheless. It's okay. You can get back to your first person shooter games. You can stop trying to protect your little world view.

Try not to go to school up any schools though, m'kay?

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Most of humanity's heroes throughout history are killers.

There is a big difference between portraying someone who's main goal is freedom and/or honor and/or the defense of whatever country they've been convinced is worth dying for, and that individual ends up going to war and killing for it. That's one thing.

It's quite another to center your focus of attention on an individual whose sole purpose is to kill as many people as possible without getting caught on the way toward finally killing the main person you're after. And on the way, of course, you get "rewarded" with bonus points for extra kills and end up finding extra machine guns, hatchets, etc.

We are war.

We have been indoctrinated and brainwashed to think and believe that "we are war". Nothing could further form the truth for many humans on this planet, however.

Don't make it worse than it actually is. That's the Fox News' job.

Ha. Fair enough.

No reason it can't be both double teaming as well, however.