This was a really entertaining show. I’m studying to be a therapist and I was about to point out all of his mistakes. That made me happy to know I was able to identify that.

Kirsty Alley was the only cast member from Cheers who refused a guest appearance on Frasier, unsurprising given she was a Scientologist which comes with a war-like hatred of Psychiatry by default.

Congrats!

Those black pages are ✨immaculate✨

Holy jesus your very right in this ny stepson is out of control with toxix behavior and i tell hes a demon i try ro get it to stop but can't i never really listen to you but man I your smart

Looks great!

Thanks for this list! I've never really considered Reality is Broken to be a Game Studies book, and I'm sure that lots of other people in the field feel the same. It's a popular science kind of book (not really a "studies" book in general). It's a great book and probably the one which really got me into thinking about serious games, with loads of great examples. But I don't think the aim of Game Studies is to proselytize about the benefits of games as a medium, or to argue for author's commercial practice.

A very nice lecture

Hello. I want to read it

Whoops, so much for purging all self records, huh?

Gaming GOLD!🎉

This aged well.

Lmao I guess Coty put that creative writing degree to good use after all 😂

Coty Craven died on the way back to his home planet.

Well this is fucking awkward now.

I was brought here by some terrible revelations coming to light... honesty is so important on this industry, ESPECIALLY this specific, vulnerable corner of it.

WAHOOOOO! <3

Love your hair bun, looks like isabelle

I like the portion on touch. The one and only time a therapist touched me was when my grandfather died. His death was pretty sudden, and a lot of our previous work was on me, trying to deal with the concept of him dying. So my therapist knew that this was a huge deal to me.

TL;DR: Gamers more often have depression and anxiety not 'because' they play games. But rather games are used as a coping method to socialize and interact without leaving their comfort zone.

Thank you. I'm from India and here Game studies is almost non-existent. We do have a Digra India branch here but it is still in a very nascent stage. I completed my post-grad in English literature and cultural studies with my final research project on Protest Gaming narratives in India. I wish to teach and research going ahead and still figuring things out. I'm new to Game studies, no one in our department held expertise on the subject. I don't know what I'll do if i don't get an opportunity here. This video was quite insightful.

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I see quite a bit of similarity with gambling. I have observed that my peers, which were into buing loot boxes, now do more gambling like sports betting.

This is very interesting! I've been wanting to try Senua's Sacrifice for some time now and this just places it further up on my list!

Just got this game on sale for like 2$. Looking forward to playing it 👍

I love that you don't even hide your "Are you serious?" face when pointing out refuted claims lol

All gamers should push back on anyone trying to censor speech, whether or not this lady know it she is a useful idiot. The Marxist push in the west is undeniable at this point, kick rocks. Use the mute button if you don’t like it and stop treating adults like they need to be “disciplined” like children. People have the right to be toxic and people who don’t want to deal with it have plenty of built in options to avoid those people. This is about control, resist at all costs 🙏

your existence is worthless

CN and CWs are so useful for helping me decide what not to play based on the headspace I'm in at the moment. As an example I really want to play Spec Ops : The Line - especially now that it has been delisted (have it on Steam) - but since I know that it contains depictions of heinous war crimes I *know* that I won't be able to handle it given the current situation.

That content warning example - absolute gold.

Your paper states that participants were gathered via social media and authors personal and professional networks. What personal/professional networks were specifically utilized? Could you share what that looked like? How it was advertised and where it was advertised is a pretty important variable that could greatly skew data collected.

The part about it affecting the bottom line is huge. I only got one person into League of Legends because the game was known to be so toxic, and that person ended up getting a bit dramatic, to the point I had to set rules to play with her. That being said, she also didn't spend anything on the game, and I stopped spending after negative experiences with her. I've seen the same happening in Pokemon GO with stalking/harassment, and no one in my immediate friend group gives the company that facilitated it, Niantic, another chance in their other games.

I am so glad we found one of the main people helping secure tax money and esg funding. "Gamergate2" "Harassment campaign" God I can't wait until Rachel gets her career ruined over the next few months.

Before your type was involved it was a great social activity. They you come and spew shit on everything then hide behind protected when your shit take was called out. Oink Oink 🐽 👃

How do you live with telling falsehoods and fabrication you protected post twitter coward. Psychgeist more like shitstaingeist.

Interesting how every single manifestation of alleged radicalization/extremism you focus on are what would be categorized as right wing(or conveniently associated with the right), and obviously from a white woke progressive ethno-centrist perspective. Tell us Rachel, does the left never go too far? Does the left never radicalize? Do explicitly left-identifying gamers never misbehave? And if so how do you recognize it? Does the left never misbehave along ideological lines? We know xenophobia can go very wrong, but how and when does xenophilia go wrong? Does the left not have an extremely strong presence in the video gaming world and the internet world? When the left goes too far, is it not dangerous? Seems to me as though you're quite happy to have the Overton Window shifted as far left as it is at the moment. Your perspective seems to be that of a sheltered white progressive leftist thinking their brand of leftism is the normal socio-political baseline and mystical mean mugged dragons are to be found everywhere to the right of where you stand. Using your example of Pew Die Pie making an obvious sexist joke as an example of online radicalization is, at best, laughable. Pointing to fringe 4chan edgelords cosplaying as revolutionaries as though they are in any way representative of the gamer demographic is really cringe. I laughed my ass off at the "Fused Gamer Identity" bit. Are you actually serious with this stuff? My goodness. You use the former Vice President of "Trust and Safety" on Twitter as a legitimate source to support your claims but it was revealed via leaks and the Twitter Files that this entire Trust and Safety apparatus was run by DNC-affilliated types, by former FBI and CIA employees and by people otherwise close to the Democratic party. The Twitter Files and many other leaks proved that the TaS council on Twitter was actively controlling narratives, controlling what was allowed to trend or go viral, of enforcing false narratives and of essentially being smear merchants. Twitter(and Reddit for that matter) literally had(has for Reddit) anti-white discrimination being OK as part of their ethical rules. They deliberately ignore anti-white racism and non-white racists spewing hate while going after anyone who disagrees often with nothing but dog whistles they themselves made up. That you included Del Harvey as though she is a legitimate source to support your thesis makes you lose any and all academic credibility that you may have had on this topic. Have any of you who support this stuff EVER considered the long term effects of harshly stomping down on hate from whites while protecting or ignoring hate from non-whites? Have you done any thought exercises on how this could backfire? On how this can have unintended consequences? On how it makes you gigantic hypocrites? I'm center left myself, always have been. But from my experience, while counting gaming as one of my hobbies for over 30 years, I have been exposed to just as much extremism/radicalization/hate-mongering coming from the woke/socialist/communist/anarchist left as I have from what would be considered the right, and the grand total of it all is not that much. But clearly its enough for a small industry of grifters to go tilting at windmills. I watched almost all of this at x2.5 speed and honestly the entire presentation is pedestrian. A bunch of grand declarations are made by the equivalent of reading tea leaves. I cannot believe tax payer funding is going toward this propaganda apparatus.

Hi Rachel!! you deserve more views and recognition as i cant explain and thank you enough for all the work you do, I am now doing a research on video games to the behavior of students and you're papers are helping me a lot, almost all of my related literature is from you. keep up doing what you do and what you love very much thanks!

Love your earrings!

What a cool lady

Omg she always has the best earrings

I can't believe I was able to find what hours of research in different articles would provide me, in your channel. Thank you very much Dr. Kowert.

I just like video games. I wouldn't call you a mysoginist or a white nationalist for having a passion for watching films, or call you a racist for having a love for reading. Gaming is simply a hobby. What you are referring to is not gaming, nor should it be correlated with it, more so a toxic immaturity found in online video games where those with radical views manipulate vulnerable neurodiverse and neutral people.

How is this insight? There is no distinction, they are the same.

you mean addictive ?

The fact that your channel exists, and I just found out blows my mind! I did study game design, yet, I've been highly interested in game culture, psychology and social theory. And what you bring in your channel is just what I needed. Please do keep sharing!

Not sure if anyone will see this, but I wanted to ask about what Dr. Rachel Kowert said "generally speaking, media effects are incredibly, incredibly small. The way in which media affects our behavior is incredibly small, if not negligible, completely." In your earlier video "Mental Health in games: Stigma & Stereotypes, you talk about the repercussions of media portrayal of mental illness, specifically negative portrayals of mental illness lead to negative perceptions of the mentally ill, stigma, and barriers for individuals to seek help. How do you reconcile these points? Playing the devil's advocate here: Why do portrayals of mental illness matter and not portrayals of violence? Does it matter how mental illness and violence is portrayed in games if media effects might be negligible? Further, how would you measure real repercussions of these harmful portrayals? What about tokenism and stereotypical portrayals of women and BIPOC populations?

Thank you for this

You may need to revisit ciilent crime amongst youth. In 2023, it's crazy and getting worse in 2024.

Great lists!

there is good reason for the decline in crime. kids dont go out being bored on the street doing illegal crap. sitting at home with a controller in your hand keeping you busy doesnt encourage doing stupid things out of boredom.