Re: [ScaleGarden] Rhode's Fortress
I don't think works of fiction affect real life as much as you think, only the mentally frail would be so much influenced by any kind of fictional work to the point they would bring it to the real life and try to mimic unreal scenarios. The human being is amazing both physically and mentally to lose their free will to something so trivial as "fiction".
We play games, watch movies,read books out of entertainement and curiosity of something we will likely never replicate in real life (and since it is a work of fiction it would probably have a very different counter-part in real life anyways, food for thought.) Because life is boring. Because we want to phantasize being a hero and not a shitty cashier, because we want to fuck all the hot girls even though we never will, because we want to be the captain of a freaking spaceship and visit the stars but likely never will in this lifetime.
You play a shooting game, you murder people, you enjoy the game, you DON'T go out shooting people in real life, you are not a murderer, I don't see why it would be different with ANY other genre, anything fits there, any genre can be replaced in the formula.
So I disagree, there is nothing wrong with people that play videogames, it is line of thoughts like yours (and I don't mean that as an attack or insult) that leads to the mega censorship we see in fiction today, because subject A offends group B and subject C offends group D, suddenly fiction is only fiction when it doesn't offend groups A and D, even though it is just all fiction ... because subject C is just TOO MUCH (even though it is still fiction just like the other subjects that are accepted). Then there is this creation of "accepted fiction", which still makes zero sense in my head, but it is the way it is in some countries now, getting worse and heading towards more censorship and the range of accepted fiction will decrease daily.
You think you're fucked up, you are not, unless you decide to actually go retarded in real life, you're good bro.
Why would there be anything wrong with anyone for playing any kind of games? Fiction is fiction, if you open the genres a little bit out of the "rape" and "sex" genre for videogames/books/movies, you would then think the world is nuts and would end in any second.Heh, with all the rape, maybe we're developing empathy and actual feelings?I still have a problem with SG and its/his obsession with getting forced by black guys (as in it's built into the story), but I suppose that only reinforces the rape mentality.
Part of me always wonders why we're constantly playing a female MC (or why these games are so popular, along with reverse rape). Why not a male MC that rapes females instead? I mean, do we enjoy rape against us even as males, assuming most of us are? Is there something fundamentally wrong with us, we rejoice in seeing our avatars--virtual projections of ourselves--get violated and mindbroken? (Obv there's something wrong with us regardless if we play these games in general, but I can live with that, haha). Anyway...digression.
I don't think works of fiction affect real life as much as you think, only the mentally frail would be so much influenced by any kind of fictional work to the point they would bring it to the real life and try to mimic unreal scenarios. The human being is amazing both physically and mentally to lose their free will to something so trivial as "fiction".
We play games, watch movies,read books out of entertainement and curiosity of something we will likely never replicate in real life (and since it is a work of fiction it would probably have a very different counter-part in real life anyways, food for thought.) Because life is boring. Because we want to phantasize being a hero and not a shitty cashier, because we want to fuck all the hot girls even though we never will, because we want to be the captain of a freaking spaceship and visit the stars but likely never will in this lifetime.
You play a shooting game, you murder people, you enjoy the game, you DON'T go out shooting people in real life, you are not a murderer, I don't see why it would be different with ANY other genre, anything fits there, any genre can be replaced in the formula.
So I disagree, there is nothing wrong with people that play videogames, it is line of thoughts like yours (and I don't mean that as an attack or insult) that leads to the mega censorship we see in fiction today, because subject A offends group B and subject C offends group D, suddenly fiction is only fiction when it doesn't offend groups A and D, even though it is just all fiction ... because subject C is just TOO MUCH (even though it is still fiction just like the other subjects that are accepted). Then there is this creation of "accepted fiction", which still makes zero sense in my head, but it is the way it is in some countries now, getting worse and heading towards more censorship and the range of accepted fiction will decrease daily.
You think you're fucked up, you are not, unless you decide to actually go retarded in real life, you're good bro.
