Do videogame developers deserve prison?
I am of the opinion that mentalcelling doesn't exist. If you were sufficiently good-looking, you would not feel any social inhibition. However, for those who rate 5 to 8 on the looks scale, I'm convinced video games and other solitary, low-T activities do make it worse on the front of relationships.
Inceldom aside, video games, especially RPGs and RTS, are a notorious time sink. Many gifted young men underperformed at school because of them, and the time spent by nerds on Civilization 4 could have been used for PhDs in physics or biology. I'm sincerely convinced that video games are currently slowing down greatly the progress of society, although this is mitigated by the money funneled into semiconductor research by hardware enthusiasts.
Do you think video game developers and producers deserve to be jailed for their negative impact on young men?
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Along with everyone who works in the film and TV industries. Might as well get writers of any sort, and sports team too. Anything that distracts people from doing something other than enjoying themselves.
Treat video games like alcohol. Enjoy responsibly.
I'm convinced video games and other solitary, low-T activities do make it worse on the front of relationships
Founder & former CEO of id Software John Carmack is married to Katherine Anna Kang: they have two children.
So, from someone who created "Commander Keen" to "Wolfenstein", "DOOM", "Quake" etc right up to the id Tech 5-based "Rage", I'd say someone's wrong.
And as you're not Tim Willits currently working on the next id Tech 6-based game - "DOOM Eternal" - it's not his former boss: now Chief Programmer at Oculus VR.
Another person who thinks jail is the answer for all life's little annoyances. Video games are a choice, so it's up to you to stop, but you are really reaching a long way to find somebody else to blame for your antisocial leanings. I'm guessing that you think of yourself as one of those "gifted but underperforming" young men. I'm also guessing that you've figured out that you are NOT going to graduate with your class. That's nobody's fault but your own.
What the hell are "low-T" activities? Playing video games (and other hobbies) have exactly nothing to do with testosterone levels! "T" is really a magical substance for you that gives someone who has much of it superpowers, isn't it? While actually having too much of it causes aggression, skin problems, high blood pressure, and quite a few other side effects. But sure, blame everything else for your situation, your hormone levels, women, video games etc. Perhaps instead you should use Occams razor, meaning that maybe, just maybe it's more improbable that there is such a huge conspiracy against you than that it is actually you sabotaging yourself.
Translation: I live in my mother's basement and I don't try have a social life. Thanks video game developers.
Do you think video game developers and producers deserve to be jailed for their negative impact on young men?
If they jailed everyone who they believe had a "negative impact" on young men, there would be nobody but them not in jail...and they would still whine because everyone is in jail.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
This is probably the stupidest thing I've seen this morning, and my work involves a super nonsensical world!
Learn to take responsibility for what you do with your life, kid.
Maybe the main thing that is messing up incel minds is their fucked up idea of gender roles. Well, that and their total lack of self-esteem.
And, wow, actually that's kinda fucked up, that I'm talking shit about someone else not having self esteem.
@ChrisBP747 : "Low-T" activities are ones which gradually erode your testosterone levels, as which is a measure of your innate manliness, eventually turning you into an androgynous girly-male. "High-T" activities gradually pump up your testosterone innate manliness, gradually turning you into an extra-manly dude.
...Or something like that, it varies a bit depending on who's saying it, but it's always around that level of stupid.
@Zinnia
My point exactly, testosterone is not some magical "innate manliness" enhancer (whatever manliness actually IS in the eyes of incels) and it's also not lowered by "unmanly" activities (doing sports does somewhat elevate testosterone levels, but not only in men as far as I know and not to such a degree as these morons think it does).
So, as is usual with Incel "ideas", this is absolutely nonsensical.
I'm most likely wrong, but I'm starting to feel like they're just on the cusp of understanding what we actually fucking mean when we tell them "the problem is with you". They get what the first four words are and what they mean when put together in that specific order, it's just trying to wrap their obsessed little minds around what that last word means that short-circuits them and makes them blame everyone from video game developers to the Normans for their own failures.
Who knows, maybe when they turn 15 they'll finally get it.
Do you think video game developers and producers deserve to be jailed for their negative impact on young men?
No, I think it's only possible to be truly INcel, that is, INVOLUNTARY celibate, if you're all alone hundreds or thousands of miles from all other people. Like if you're stuck on a deserted island like Robinson Crusoe.
And yet, there ARE people who get PhDs AND play video games. The game is not the barrier, no more than any other leisure activity that's been available to men since the dawn of time. Gambling, drinking, whores, gambling on drinking games, sports, hiking, fishing....
If you can't use your time wisely, why not send YOU to jail for wasting everyone's time, rather than a programmer who just provides one way for you to waste it?
But no, that would require an incel taking responsibility for his own lot in life...
And even if they did jail you for doing nothing but play video games, you'd claim it was because you're ugly and society hated you since you were born.
Do videogame developers deserve prison?
No.
Well, maybe the people who made ET and Shaq-Fu...
(Kidding, of course. Crap-ass games aren't against the law)
If you were petty and mean, but "sufficiently" good looking, you'd still feel social inhibition, for being unpleasant to be around.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What I find pleasant, another person finds uninteresting, and people who are "ugly" can be more interesting to look at than "beautiful" people, who can be somewhat nondescript. In short, there is no universal scale that everyone is judged against; everyone has their own scales.
Hubby plays a lot of Battlefield over the net, often with his brother and a couple of friends who all live in different parts of Sweden. It's not solitary for them to play, it's a social thing. Besides, women play video-games too; you might meet your future partner there, if you're lucky.
Why not play games that help you with school-work?
Right now, being a good game-developer might make you more money than having a PhD in physics.
No, I don't think the people making the games should be jailed for the actions or non-actions of the gamers.
The men AND WOMEN playing the games are responsible for their on actions.
Okay, first, throw out your fucking "looks scale". You're using it as a crutch.
Second, video games are only as bad as you let them be. Anything can be addictive if allowed to become so.
Third, you can't solve every problem through banning and jail time.
I will give you a point for citing Civ 4; at least you have an idea of what a good game is. (Even if the combat system in that game was completely jacked.)
People who commit crimes deserve jail; the designers & tech nerds at Capcom do not. Stop trying to blame the geeks at EA & Nintendo for you being a pathetic loser whop can't be bothered to put down the controller & do something else.
I also find his logic quite flawed. Video games are seen as a traditionally male activity, so why would developers want their biggest customer base to erode into girly-men & stop buying their games?
Do incels think anything through before they splatter it all over the web?
@The Crimson Ghost
The ironic thing is they all play some infantile crap like nintendo games at the tender age of 30 and more. I`ve moved in their communities a litte, a lot of them will post dark souls memes but few have ever played it, fewer still made it to at least one finished playthrough. I`ve done a couple. All trilogy, the bloodborne excluded since I still don`t own a ps4 but as soon as I do, it shall too be played unto oblivion.Unlike those babies I do enjoy getting upset, even crying at a game I hate for that one particularly unfair moment but then I get my shit together and at last pass it and the rewards to my ego are just addictive in themselves. Too bad no incel will ever know my catharsis, I leave you boys with yet another level in some new mario game which was designed for a 5 year old to be beat. Have fun, as much as you can squeeze out of it anyway. Come on, no crying, mario and other shitheads of this old cartoon fame must be waiting for their awesome saviour, don`t they now?
@The Crimson Ghost
Do incels think anything through before they splatter it all over the web?
No, putting any degree of thought into it would break the illusion. Even for them.
@Skide
this sort of thing is a big part of why they think we make fun of them just for being human beings rather than being pathetic failures of human beings, for the record
@Skide : Take your "hardcore", "XTREME GAMEENG", "casuals can suck it", anti-Nintendo bullshit and shove it so far up your ass you puke From Software games.
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