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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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apiaceae and rosaceae most fucked up families. thats like half of all plants in the world

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Yareta (Azorella compacta) in Bolivia (elevation of 14,000 ft.).

This may look like a moss, but it isnt! This is a broad-leafed plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.

These plants can grow to bve over 3000 years old. This large specimen may be over 1000 years old.

photographs by Mark Dwyer

#READING ABOUT TVJS THING #FUCKING APIACEAE DOES IT AGAIN!!!

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can i get a yippee for leg hair

#YIPPEEEEEE

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i cant fucking believe i forgot anderson bruford wakeman howe.

just love it when bands names are the names of the members. simon and garfunkel. emerson lake and palmer. like they really sign up for no lineup changes thats commitment if ive ever seen it. ive only ever seen it with duos-trios for the obvious reason of they're more stable and it's more of a fundamental change if a member switches but i need to see like a Full Band with 4 or 5 members named like that

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just love it when bands names are the names of the members. simon and garfunkel. emerson lake and palmer. like they really sign up for no lineup changes thats commitment if ive ever seen it. ive only ever seen it with duos-trios for the obvious reason of they're more stable and it's more of a fundamental change if a member switches but i need to see like a Full Band with 4 or 5 members named like that

#Harrison Lennon Mccartney Starr world famous rock band

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the notes are broken 😂

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They should invent classical music with titles that are easy to remember. Why does it have to be like concerto number 27 in E minor I want to know if it's the one that blasts my dick off or not

#LITERALLY BLASTS YOIUR DICK CLEAN OFF!!!!!

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They should invent classical music with titles that are easy to remember. Why does it have to be like concerto number 27 in E minor I want to know if it's the one that blasts my dick off or not

#PREV STRING QUARTET NO. 8 ENJOYER?

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a la versión en español de La Metamorfosis le tendrían que haber puesto el Kafkarudo

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you know in retrospect it's weird that the splatooniverse has a band called "the squid sisters" when, like... they Are squids. that's like if the real world had a band called "the human league"

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"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.

"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!

"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands

Look how they massacred my boy

#I LOVE URANUS MY SMOOTH BALL

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💐🌷spread the love to the people you’re glad you’ve found in this corner of the internet 💐🌷

:] look at these things as a gift in return. which i saw

#i will sens thjs to the muyuals i believe would welcome an ask chain

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#our president's dogs are four clones of his dead dog

[ofsunhillow]

the thing about the "um excuse me if you're as poor as you say you are why don't you just sell all your most treasured possessions" thing that people love to trot out as some kind of "gotcha" is that they do not acknowledge how fucking soul-crushing it is to be in a situation that is already destroying your mental health and then be forced to sell one of the few things in your life that still bring you joy

#yeah wheres that quote