r/BanVideoGames • u/Internal_Coast2926 G*MER! • 2d ago
Removed: We're Not Satire! Read my ANTI-G*MING MANIFESTO
THE ANTI-G*MING MANIFESTO
We stand today at the precipice of civilization. Our society, once built upon the noble foundations of reading newspapers, staring at walls, and complaining about the youth, now faces its greatest enemy: G*MES.
Oh, the HORROR!
Children are laughing with their friends online. Teenagers are developing strategic thinking, teamwork, reaction times, and problem-solving skills. Some are even learning to code their own G*mes! Good heavens, what has this world come to?
We must act. We must resist. We must protect the children from this unprecedented catastrophe. after all, what could possibly be more dangerous than a teenager enjoying a perfectly ordinary hobby?
G*ming is clearly the root of all evil. Never mind that chess involves warfare, that football involves aggressive competition, or that films routinely depict violence. No! If a pixelated soldier appears on a monitor, civilization itself is under threat. must we really tolerate such madness?
Children are building entire cities in Minecraft, coordinating elaborate strategies in team-based G*mes, and creating digital masterpieces. Why, some of them can manage complicated virtual economies better than certain actual governments! it is truly a tragedy that they have developed useful skills while having fun.
And now we arrive at the ultimate accusation: G*ming leads to extremism. G*ming leads to violence. G*ming leads to the downfall of society. G*ming leads, apparently, to NAZISM.
Yes, you heard that correctly. nothing says historical analysis quite like comparing a teenager playing BedWars to the rise of the Third Reich.
Where is the evidence? Where is the nuance? Where is the distinction between fictional conflict and real-world ideology? good questions, all of them, but questions we shall conveniently ignore.
Apparently, a child clicking a mouse is now a matter of national security. in fact, we have decided that every problem in the household can be attributed to G*ming.
Did your child forget to do their homework? G*ming.
Did your child sleep late? G*ming.
Did your child disagree with you? Clearly, a side effect of G*ming. surely, there is no possibility that children might have independent opinions!
We refuse to acknowledge moderation, context, individual responsibility, or the possibility that a hobby can be perfectly healthy when balanced with school, sleep, exercise, and real-life relationships. good grief, imagine having to understand something before condemning it!
Why? Because nuance requires effort, and effort is considerably more difficult than shouting at a teenager to get off the computer. obviously, the most effective way to understand modern entertainment is to refuse to engage with it.
So let this manifesto stand as a monument to the absurdity of moral panic. Let it remind us that every generation has found something new to blame for the supposed decay of civilization. our ancestors blamed books, comics, rock music, and television. We have simply found a new target.
And let us remember the sacred principle of the anti-G*ming movement: if the younger generation enjoys something that we do not understand, it must be dangerous. don't bother investigating. Just ban it!
After all, why investigate when you can generalize? Why understand when you can accuse? Why have a conversation when you can compare an entire entertainment medium to one of history's most monstrous ideologies?
We shall not be moved.
We shall not be persuaded.
We shall continue to confuse correlation with causation, entertainment with indoctrination, and pixels with political manifestos.
Signed,
The Committee for the Preservation of Being Absolutely Furious About Things We Have Never Properly Understood.
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u/MikeSihl 1d ago
Well said. Millennial kids don’t understand how thrilling it is to knit, complete a jigsaw puzzle or sit quietly. I prey that our youth rediscover that. WAP (worship and praise)
- Grandpappy Mike
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u/EfficientPositive386 2d ago
Where are the hate crimes, church bombings, terrorism, general larceny, lack of proper hygiene, defecating in public, illegal detention and torture, drug dealing, public flashing children in elementary schools, drunk driving, attempts of burning LGBTQ+ members, and the pedophilia? Those should have been addressed, suspiciously enough. Those are g@ming archetypes too.
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u/cyrus_is_faecked 2d ago
Hitler played v!deo g*mes. Mein Kampf is German for Mine Craft (g*me my great nephew plays)
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u/Standard_Part4311 1d ago edited 1d ago
What proof do you have , also why is specifically German minceraft be labelled as an evil video gametes
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u/cyrus_is_faecked 1d ago
The proof is in the name. It’s all versions of Mine Craft that are evil, Mein Kampf is just one translation.
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u/Standard_Part4311 1d ago
By how?
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u/cyrus_is_faecked 1d ago
Maybe you havnet seen the evils of this g@me for yourself just yet,, I saw my great nephew kill a pig then make two naked men kiss with bread. I couldn’t watch after
that and my niece (millennial) wont take his iPod away so he kept playing1
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u/Standard_Part4311 1d ago
Do you know how to get pork in real life? As for the kissing, this is the way how to breed in Minceraft and the villageers have no texture and code for female counterparts.
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u/EfficientPositive386 1d ago
I pl@yed meinkraft. There is a video here where g@mers forced me to play videog@mes. There are n@ked women in meinkampf.
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u/Standard_Part4311 1d ago
These are mods, also the average Joe doesn't search for nked women on Minceraft
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u/Im_A_Real_Boy1 Ex-g*mer 2d ago
Brave and true