Since 1980, video games have featured nuclear weapons and nuclear explosions in many shapes, sizes and forms in over 100 video and computer games. The collective barrage of apocalyptic images over the last 30 years has caused subsequent psychological damage to the minds of millions of children and young adults.. Even more frightening is that players in some games actually choose to use nuclear weapons on their enemies as well as their own people.
Developing the rational for the use of Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction at a young age is anti-human and a shame. This amalgamation of nuclear video games does not purport to be infallible or inclusive, and does not necessarily represent all games with nuclear weapons, scenarios, or contexts.The foreshadowing of nuclear terror in video games and card games is rather blatant, and is clearly an attempt to unconsciously submit our minds to the nuclear terror reality.
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Hey, DCT. I thought that the Swiss CIA had finally silenced you, or the Illuminati took you out for your groundbreaking work on exposing the truth about CERN. You're just upset that there's no game depictingt be nuclear superpower that is the Greenland Roman empire.
Is a person (or game character) any less dead with a knife or a gun, with blood (real or video) splashed all over? Remember, most teenagers don't have access to nuclear armaments, nor does Walmart sell them....
Since 1980, ... The collective barrage of apocalyptic images over the last 30 years has caused subsequent psychological damage to the minds of millions of children and young adults.
Since 1, Christians have featured torture and execution by crucifixion as often as possible, in every place possible. The collective barrage and ubiquitous repetition of gory, bloody, violent images and stories over the last 2015 years has caused subsequent psychological damage to the minds of billions of children and young adults.
When will it end?
And yet here we are, in the post cold war. Though the threat of total atomic annihilation still looms over our heads, it looms a little less now then when we literally nuked ourselves to make sure our nukes were nuclear enough to nuke the other guy.
By the way, the people fueling legislation that keeps up nuclear arsenals, tend to be deeply religious conservatives. Have a lovely day.
Swede
Since 1945, nuclear weapons have been a real thing, in the real world.
I'd say the Cold War was much more responsible for the sense of apocalypse and doom, than fictional video games.
We who played videogames in 1980 are now in our mid- to late-forties; hardly YOUNG adults.
You seem to know an awful lot about what the players in games do...
The US remains the only country that have used Nuclear Weapons on an enemy, and that was BEFORE the videogame was invented.
Video games.
Explosions in video games, nuclear or otherwise, harm no one. Seeing something blow up on a computer screen doesn't traumatize anyone.
I played Ecco the dolphin (dreamcast version) when I was 7, The world was ended by these alien shits that killed almost everyone and you have to travel through different universes to stop them. Close enough to a apocalypse I guess.
I don't see any permanent scars on my psyche; nor would I have any in case it was a game involving nuclear explosions.
The Mysterons could have simply wiped out humanity.
So why did they instead wage a 'War of Attrition' against Spectrum in "Captain Scarlet"?
The Centauri used Mass Drivers against the Narn in "Babylon 5". No nuclear warheads required.
Why didn't the Strogg use nuclear warheads against humanity in "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars"? Can you say 'Stroggification' and 'Stroyent'? I know you can.
Moral: You don't know very much about videogames, eh n00b? Those on 4chan's /v/ would cause you worse -than psychological damage than even what could have happened at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...but didn't . Therefore a question, Davey-boy: Why?
I don't know about the others, but in the Fallout series, your karma takes a hard hit for using nukes against innocent people.
But I did it. For the achievements and trophies.
Because war...war never changes.
(Also because no humans were actually going to be harmed by my nuking a fictional area in a video game.)
How fucking stupid are you?
Uh-huh...
Just because people play a game that has nuclear weapons doesn't mean they would believe that the use of real ones is a good idea. These games provide a fictional world or situation for the player to enjoy without actually affecting anything in reality.
I'll just keep enjoying Fallout 4, thank you. c:
So are you suggesting video games make people think nukes are good and should be used?
Cause, yeah, that's totally what happens.
Or maybe I'll go play that mission in Red Alert 2 where Chicago gets nuked and the European Allies are finally spurred on to help America instead of rejoicing that another nuke went off.
Or perhaps that level in Call of Duty 4 where nukes are launched at America and it's treated as a very serious threat you have to stop right there rather than just letting it happen and thanking them for it.
Or maybe even that sidequest in Fallout 3 where someone asks you to detonate a warhead that fell without exploding and you can choose to completely disable it then call in the local sheriff on him for suggesting it instead.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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