Will Gaming KILL YOU?! - News Reports & Video Games

[@TheActMan]

Go to buyraycon.com/actman for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon! Do you or a loved one suffer from GAMING DISORDER? If so, please just unplug the fucking computer you dork.

[@lukahmei2000]

Miss you act man

[@andrewhernandez2987]

Wow, the new PewNews looks good.

[@doophin4793]

raycon

[@evaporatednut9824]

I'll buy more Raycon if you review Metro 2033

[@greatgrungustwo904]

please do an arma 3 review

[@perturbedbatman2009]

That kid 100% downloaded porn to his 3DS, his parents found out, lied and said "it came that way" and went down the dumbest rabbit hole to the point of going on a local news report bullshitting his way out of getting grounded. Respect.

[@roygaleana9984]

as soon as he got it on Christmas day?!😂

[@AlmaJin]

I actually did that as a kid lmao it just didn't snowball out of control my father just refunded it back and got me a new one

[@RisingRevengeance]

@@roygaleana9984 Dont underestimate a kid looking for boobs. It was probably one of the first things I did when I got a psp back in the day. edit: nvm my bad, it was a 5 year old... possible but unlikely.

[@naenre21]

Do 5 year olds even know what adult culture even is? How do you even download it to nintendo stuff lol

[@TheAsigmaOfNone]

@@naenre21 bruh you totally can, it was connected to the internet but could only do still images i think if i remember right

[@brando8408]

Playing the Wii without the safety strap was when I realized I was an unhinged sociopath

[@GrogedUp]

Same skywardsword made my wii remote a blunt throwing knife

[@SplendidCoffee0]

More like unstrapped

[@SilentStrike117]

I remember all the videos of people hitting lights, fans and televisions. It was hilarious

[@iliketocomment8144]

😂

[@FTChomp9980]

Glad I wasn't the only one who needs safety strap.

[@Ginger_bit]

Moral of the story: - Actually parent your children. - Stop demonizing everything you don't understand. - Stop trying to predict the future. You will be wrong. - Everybody is stupid. The end.

[@GuroMakeMeHard]

You literally described American politicial party

[@MultiChrisjb]

mainstream media is it's own world, not reality.

[@austinbradley8551]

And you are exactly right

[@bulldozer281]

Plus look and read the age ratings on the game box or game page

[@h3lld1v3rfilms6]

Words of wisdom.

[@bouclechocolat]

I can't get over "can you believe this child talked me on pictochat while her mom was supervising her in this clearly previously agreed upon setting!" 💀

[@florian4012]

yeah they're like "what they're telling me the adress of the house that im currently in???????"

[@allanorme2093]

I COULD BE ANYBODY... JUST DONT PAY ATTENTION TO MY CAMARA CREW OR THE FACT THAT I WOULDVE TOLD YOU IM A NEWS REPORTER

[@bobjones4469]

"This Pokemon craze will only last a few years at most." 20 years later, the most successful media franchise of all time.

[@crazyluigi6664]

Second-most right now behind Mickey Mouse, but that's only at this moment in time right here and now...

[@Rahnonymous]

Not most successful videogame franchise, most successful MEDIA franchise. Really makes the all-around laziness of the new gen games inexcusable.

[@anafu-sankanashi8933]

for better or worse

[@EldritchErik94]

@m_train1 In terms of most profitable, it’s Pokémon.

[@CharmedReally7]

@@crazyluigi6664 it's actually Vinnie the pooh

[@Coregno]

I love how Jeff burned the news caster with one question. "Have you played Mass Effect?" And she responded "No" In a cutesie poopsie voice.

[@kurtisvandermiller4507]

That shit was hilarious. Then they cut him off because they knew they fucked up and he was about to make them look stupid.

[@nick33ee]

if i was him i would have screamed. then why tf are you talking about it!

[@TheAsylumCat]

@nick33e "but are you not a journalist? Oh wait, you're a journalist. I forget.

[@darknesswave100]

It just amazes me that video games are so "violent" when you have TV shows that kids can watch that are readily available that show murders being committed, people being burned alive in some cases and all other sorts of stuff but it's the video games that are the thing to watch out for

[@ma.2089]

@@darknesswave100 it’s puritan culture. More recently it’s been manifesting in ppl wanting to cancel other ppl for watching and reading material that contains problematic material, as if they condone that stuff or they’d turn out to be like that.

[@aaronsommerfeldt8832]

If parents are so worried about their kids, playing violent video games, then maybe the parents should do their job as parents

[@luvhair255]

What?! Parenting my child?! No >:(

[@gucciguy3408]

Yea I was playing GTA since like 6-7 and gotta say nothing wrong about that. Went to the Suran House of earthly delights in morrowind once and my mom saw and stopped me from playing it that day. So clearly these parents are just lazy.

[@ardantop132na6]

Blaming video games for the kid's bad behaviour instead of parents, is like _blaming the unmaintained machine for the workplace accidents for the workers instead of technicians._

[@apnapalm]

ItS aLmOsT lIkE hE sAiD tHaT iN tHe FuCkInG vIdEo

[@flubber1557]

Agreed. Video games arent a problem if parents do their jobs and make them realise its a game and not to take any of it seriously (gta and crazy taxi) . Many kids get unhinged because they cannot control their emotions yet when frustrated or angry from hard games or trolls. Many also are just spoiled. Que the kid who wanted a pc but got a ps5 for christmas lol. The amount of kids exposed to streamers and games who make jokes that they then copy and place out of context is stunning. Look at the among us and fortnight phase. It is only cringe due to the excessive use of fortnight dances and among us jokes. It doesnt actually cause the issues. If it wasnt the video games it would be something else like beyblades or legos. A young kid will get upset if you take away their teddy bear. Its not that different you just let them cry until they get over it and earn it back. Having a child is hard work these parents need to get over it and accept their responsability. If a kid is able to buy an adult game on their console without adult supervision thats on the parents. They should be there when they buy the games giving them access to the money lol. Im pretty sure many children would do some bad things with unlimited access to their parents credit cards.

[@Joseph-wh5of]

I remember when I was in a college class, I had to write an essay on how news can portray certain aspects of culture incorrectly filled biases. I literally wrote my entire essay on the mass effect Fox News segment. It was the best assignment ever had.

[@LiamGoulding-mo2lv]

You better have gotten an A+ for that

[@notacrow6286]

Do you remember what grade you got?

[@Hye12112]

Taking the kid to a MRI scan because of gaming is like a straight South Park bit

[@LordRyno]

Let's face it, we are living in a south park episode now💀

[@Ratrick666]

the crazy thing for me with south park is that a lot of episodes seem so stupid on the surface and then you realise it just portrays reality perfectly and shows you how dumb some things are. I just love how good it is, perfect satire most times (of course there's also stupid episodes as well)

[@salmark9080]

at that point would ask them to map out my brain so i could lowkey find out what games I would be best at

[@alexapuerta]

Butter's mental hospital probe.

[@qunt100]

Yah society is a joke, and i swear the average human parent is a dumbass.

[@inanimatesum4945]

I’ll never get over how kids playing a literal town management simulator was something to demonize. Learning how debts, loans and property management was something to take issue with.

[@abadenoughdude300]

One could tinfoil hat this approach and suspect "they" don't want you or your kids to know how debts, loans and property management works so they can take advantage of your lack of knowledge and "they" use the "think of the children!" narrative to curb that knowledge. Then again, that would require "them" and the media to actually be competent. ;)

[@hcook1023]

@@abadenoughdude300 seriously had an actual finance class in high school that taught less, it might be because my brother and I created literal death parks in Roller Coaster Tycoon lol

[@darknesswave100]

Which is hilarious cause the bs they teach you in school is next to useless. It's basically a collection of facts you memorize for singular moments for tests and then move on to the next useless thing. I don't know how to do my taxes or how loans work but I know what happened in the war of 1812 🤓

[@combativeThinker]

@@abadenoughdude300 Now that you mention it…

[@SaberInferno]

@@hcook1023 Once I was old enough to earn money and budget; I was livid at the extremely low bar my economics class took. Barely taught me anything about money, a bank account, etc etc

[@YuniorGamboa]

Man Having parents just want to play with you a match or two is a feeling I always cherish as a kid.

[@TheLazyBoi_]

Hell no, my dad hates me to this day for crashing him out in a racing game lmao

[@hcook1023]

@@TheLazyBoi_ lol better than my older brother who beat my ass physically for beating him in Super Smash Bros 64 Ah cherished memories

[@Sun1ightSpear]

My father used to play the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 with me on PlayStation 2. Good Times

[@SirDavid290]

Lucky you

[@YuniorGamboa]

@@TheLazyBoi_😆Dude my stepdad was so bad at playing that sometimes I would just lose on purpose so he would keep on playing

[@saxlaxdm10]

That mother talking about why pokemon was good for kids is so amazing. What an amazing smart mother

[@ΗλίαςΛιόφαγος-χ7ω]

she wasnt smart, she was just normal, the mother hating the game was just a dumb person

[@historicflame972]

My mother is pretty much anti most video games but she loves pokemon to an unhealthy degree

[@KarmicID]

Why are smart parents kinda rare

[@trapskilla]

The term “gaming disorder” is so funny to me because its so extra. People can get addicted to ANYTHING that brings them joy. Its not a “disorder” 😂

[@falcongamingproductions9938]

Fr tho. They’re just fearmongering. You don’t get withdrawals if you stop playing games cold turkey after playing them for years. You feel the urge to game and might be mad that you can’t, but that goes for just about anything you enjoy. There were multiple times in my childhood when my mom straight took all my shit for the whole year because I did something bad or did poorly in school and, while I was always pissed for a while, it ended up not really even affecting me that much. I could still have fun and be happy, and in fact I’m glad my mom did that looking back.

[@justsomeguywithnoeyes7303]

@@falcongamingproductions9938 i think theyre all just mad that they didnt invest early into video game industry and make a killing, so now its just sour grapes

[@agentsteve8263]

@@falcongamingproductions9938 The media needs to create problem by using unreleated things as scapegoats(video games or a specific group of people) that ignore actual problems in society such as rising unequality or lower standards of living

[@snooplenny3765]

Sure but addiction can change the way a person's brain functions and "gaming disorder" describes a person who has trouble performing daily activities or doing work because they're so addicted. It think it's hard to argue that there isn't something wrong with a person's brain if they're addicted to something like video games that much.

[@snooplenny3765]

@@falcongamingproductions9938 The news certainly is, the idea that fortnite is as addictive as heroin when only 3% of ALL GAMERS are addicted to gaming is hilarious. They will say or publish anything that will get them views, no matter how stupid the claim.

[@timokakoun4367]

I get extremely angry when parents act like they have no influence on their children's behaviour. It's almost like: Yeah I don't care about my child, never thaught him/her anything valuable, never did the uncomfortable stuff to actually raise a responsible human being, BUT I will use him/her to play the victim and have my 15 seconds of "fame". UGH

[@darknesswave100]

Funny story but last night at my job there was a mom who got caught stealing and her kids with her and she was like oh you can take me but don't do anything to my kids and the LP guy looked her dead in the face and said we have your son holding a brush up to you and you NODDED and they stuck it in their pocket. You did this to your kids not us. Some parents are just oblivious

[@db_524]

I 100% agree with you on that.

[@hmhmhmmmmmm]

instead of him/her, u can simply say them/they

[@blanc7619]

That court case in the Netherlands with the RuneScape thievery actually was a thing because two kids threatened a kid with a knife to transfer his stuff to them. Wild times.

[@FlakkerDPS]

this is why they got weed legalized. Mfs need to chill tf down

[@jaywerner8415]

@@FlakkerDPS Honestly, it might help.

[@K-Nyne]

@@FlakkerDPS it's not legalized here in the Netherlands though, just tolerated. We're getting behind on the United States which actually legalize it.

[@K-Nyne]

@@FlakkerDPS it's not legalized here in the Netherlands though, just tolerated. We're getting behind on the United States which actually legalize it.

[@Guirko]

@@K-Nyne Authorities just don't really care, which is honestly a more sensible attitude to have towards weed if you ask me.

[@bumponalog5001]

I love how the TV reporters who tell people literally everyday to watch them multiple hours a day don't see the irony of not liking people supposedly gaming to much.

[@kempolar9768]

Being told as a kid that I look at a screen too much due to spending 4 hours over a weekend on the tv playing games, says my day while sitting in front of the same tv 3 hours minimum a day and also on his phone at the same time. Even as a kid who didn't know what hypocrisy was yet I knew that was insane.

[@allanorme2093]

@@kempolar9768 Especially because now most parents look at at Monitor in a semi lit fluorescent box

[@Monsuco]

Parents today: You can't play this game because of violence/sex. Gamer parents of tomorrow: You can't play this game because it's a live service game and it sucks.

[@umbridly_doodly_oodly4]

Oh god I can already imagine my kid wanting to get madden 50 bc their friends have it and I’ll be like “nah it’s a terrible game. It’s been the same since I was a kid. They should just make 1 version and keep updating every year with a new roster.” While saying all that my kid went off the go find a new parent.

[@blockyvids2]

“Now, son. I don’t want you spending too much money on a game that’s going to be unplayable soon.

[@spartanwar1185]

I wish i could like this comment 4 additional times

[@gentleseal1778]

If I ever have kids, I will play games with them(if they want to), both as a way to bond and to learn valuable lessons about time and goal management

[@AlneCraft]

Yeah hell no I'm not allowing my kids play freaking Genshin Impact. Stuff gonna fry their brains out

[@billybadass3056]

and yet.... Grand Theft Auto Happened...... MORE INTERESTING is, none of these reports had that game in them.. *X-Files Theme Plays*

[@mercce6750]

Don't you mean "Grand Auto Theft"?

[@billybadass3056]

@@mercce6750 u know in the original game I think released sometime in 95/96, terrible game btw, has a mission where you have to take this mobsters side piece to an Ab Clinic so she can exercise her right to choose... among many other wholesome life lesson missions..

[@DaDualityofMan]

Well I assume he didn't put it in because GTA alone really needs its own separate video with Hot Coffee and Jack Thompson

[@trapskilla]

Funny enough GTA was the only game my parents wouldn’t let me play as a little kid. I clearly remember my dad saying he didn’t care if I was shooting terrorists or aliens, but he drew the line at cops 😂

[@loukiz5447]

@@trapskilla ahahah i remember receiving Minecraft instead of gta 😂😂😂

[@alexanderjones3830]

The funny thing about pictochat is that you have to actively be looking for chatrooms and it doesn't work over the internet. You have to be within 100 feet of another DS user and even then they can only send a message if you join the same chat room!

[@baseddoggie]

And you certainly can't send photos like half of the dumbshit reporters claimed. Maybe you can draw a ms paint quality dick? When the reporter pictochatting with the girls showed his screen it cracked me up because it was just shitposting. One of them sent the text box just scribbled out all in black for the heck of it. Truly dangerous

[@DoktahDoktah]

100 feet sounds really generous. I bet it tops at 30 feet.

[@_Azurael_]

Probably not even 100 feet

[@amandap7733]

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

[@GrayD_Fox]

They don’t care about research they only care about making shit up

[@kylespevak6781]

The funniest part about Wii remotes hitting TVs is that it doesn't measure the speed or strength of the movement, hence "waggle controls"

[@kanetombs1275]

One of my happiest memories as a parent was my daughter sitting on my lap blowing away zombies and imps with a shotgun in the original Doom using a 360 controller, she would giggle and laugh everytime we got one. We spent hours playing and eating excessive amounts of pizza. You have to know your kid, you have to pay attention to what they can handle and what they can't and set guidelines and be ready to explain the world. You have to be a parent and you can't give that control and responsibility up to a ratings board or news media or the government.

[@g3n3ral1nsanity5]

This statement along with the notion you can be a parent is highly illegal in the wef

[@Jay-gf8tm]

@@g3n3ral1nsanity5 this ^

[@g3n3ral1nsanity5]

@@Jay-gf8tm yes

[@danielwalton8633]

i aspire for the modern version of this experience. thank you for sharing

[@billybadass3056]

@@danielwalton8633 that is highly improbable in this current culture.....

[@thesublimeparadigm8863]

I like how the mom in the pictochat segment was upset that her daughters sent the new reporter their address despite the fact that he was already in their house

[@NateTheScot]

I think she was more horrified by the way her kid didn't say "i'm not comfortable giving you my address" and just went "yo straight up here's my location!" Even when i was growing up i knew better than to give strangers my address or phone number, but then my parents were often very involved in our lives and are also the ones who introduced my brother and i to games and the internet in the 90s so it's probably different for parents who don't give a shit and just want someone to blame for their own lack of parenting.

[@madtabby66]

@@NateTheScot to someone you knew was in your house?

[@baseddoggie]

@@NateTheScot He had literally introduced himself, he was in the hallway and there was a whole film crew there. Of course if he asks the kids on pictochat that they will answer. Whole thing was so strawmanned, I mean the guy had to sit on the stairs because the Wifi range was so weak on those OG DSes that he cant even "groom" them from the kitchen.

[@gwit4051]

@@NateTheScot i mean the guy said right after that the girls knew it was him and that he was already in their house. idk what child would take that situation seriously.

[@thecatwhisperer2820]

@@gwit4051 plus pictochat only had a range of like 100ft. So it's not like you were going to be asked questions or connect to somebody hundreds of miles away. If you were talking to somebody on it, they were well within range to actually talk in person.

[@I_Speak_Anime]

The government seems obsessed with every answer to gaming addictions other than the correct one: RESPONSIBLE PARENTS

[@skyhawkslcb18]

responsible parents don't raise sheep and the government and media cannot allow that, the horror

[@MyHeadHz]

Because the government would rather have incompetent parents lean on them to raise their kids for them than have people think for themselves.

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Because that's the one factor they can't control. Parents can't even teach proper sex ed. Do you really think they can teach responsible gaming habits or self-discipline?

[@Deep_wolf]

@@juanmanuelpenaloza9264 I agree, they haven't taught sex ed. in Texas and now it's an incest heaven.

[@humanity_moment.]

@@juanmanuelpenaloza9264 People like that shouldn't even be having kids. That's their own fucking fault.

[@connersatterblom7661]

16:09 My dead uncle's fountain at a church became a pokestop. I always got ultraballs from it. I'd like to think he had some influence on it.

[@24flyingcats84]

My Mum was really into gaming herself, and we used to play games together a lot. So she knew what we were playing, and the PC ,then later, console was always in the family room. I have great memories of playing Gauntlet with her and my Sister. She was always a Dwarf. She passed away in 1993, but she would have absolutely loved Skyrim and I wish I had been able to share it with her. Her twin sister plays video games as well, in her 70's!

[@thebeaver8456]

Respect

[@db_524]

Nice

[@theredheadwiththread1275]

My dad is in his 70s and loves videogames. My six year old likes taking his Switch to my parents' house to play with my dad.

[@professinalweeabootrash5254]

Gauntlet? Damn, that brings back memories. Me and my dad did a FULL LONGPLAY of Gauntlet:Dark Legacy last month, on my 21st. Beverages were had, but we mostly laughed and remembered the 15 years of the two of us playing this game. Gauntlet was the game that made me fall in love with the experience. It has so many memories attached to it, that every time I go home, we make it a tradition to head to a certain arcade that has all 4 Gauntlet cabinets. Someday, I hope the series returns, but Seven Sorrows was too much of a flop for me to have that hope.

[@FrostReave]

Your Family was awesome and wholesome. Thank you for sharing this story I needed this wholesome to wash out the stupidity of these newscasters

[@jessehouse5466]

My mom was a gamer I had all the old systems growing up, I battled drug addiction years ago and can safely say video games are one of the foundation pieces too helping me come over that and never look back.

[@hilariousloversday396]

Nice for you👌.

[@LittleSilva422]

I mean i didnt battle drugs, but same here my father was a bit of a nerd, showed me a lot of stuff like music, art, games, movies etc. He was an amazing artist and he drew aliens and such, i wouldn't be who i am without him, some problems i got over just by what he would prob say "kid shut the fuck up and listen to some Iron Maiden"

[@MST3Killa]

Cool story, did you steal your moms credit cards and run up thousands in bills? Because that's what they're talking about, not you and your crack addiction.

[@jessehouse5466]

@@MST3Killa If you want to be a cuck you can just be one, you don't have too announce it. If you had any fraction of a logical thought/ reasoning, you would realize I'm referring to a good thing, that's not totally out of context but is actually in both reference towards how video games are a distraction, but while also arguing in favor of it being good. It can distract one from bad habits just as much as it can from good you parapablegic. My comment was in no way, shape or form directed towards anything outside of the distraction aspect. You'd make a great politician tho I must say, they have a real knack for taking ones words, removing it from its context, while slandering them as if it's some superiority move.

[@MST3Killa]

@@jessehouse5466 aww, look at the little baby

[@zericle1]

My dad would let me play Duke Nukem 3D, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, and Halo 2 as a kid. One day I saw one of these news channels doing a segment on how video games were bad for you and all that, so I told my dad, "hey, I saw on the news that games are bad." He said to me, "That's bullshit. Here, I got you Gears of War you wanna play it with me?"

[@personguy5234]

Based dad

[@bradanklauer8926]

GIGACHAD DAD

[@churchA.I]

Based

[@deathcon_one]

your dads a g,its just outlets tryna push bs to every parent who dosent know

[@ryukami404]

I was able to play a lot of games like those at a young age but I also remember being told that if I tried any of those things in games in real life, I wouldn't be able to play them.

[@idontknowwhyimmakimgthis4440]

17:47 gaming disorder is like saying people who use netflix have a "movie addiction"

[@kygaly]

I truly am happy with my childhood, especially with my mom who once defended video games to other parents at the school board meeting. They were speaking against letting teens play video games. "Well at least, she ain't doing drugs or being drunk--- going around town late at night. She is right at home, safe, and having a good time" Sadly she lost a lot of ppl support and friends. My younger brother tho? It made my brother violent, extremely violent, and yelling, raging. So my family never stopped me from getting video games and neither to stop buying me games. My brother tho? They focused on getting him into sports instead. Parenting is important as also adapting to how your children react to things.

[@kyleremund1856]

It's really like people forget that every individual is exactly that. An individual. We need more parents who adapt to the needs of their kids instead of expecting it to be the other way around.

[@dustinnabil798]

Chad mom.

[@Zinji3]

big mom W

[@SommerSen]

she lost friends for not being a paranoid schizo fun ruiner? why are so many parents so perpetually unhinged?

[@pxpiii]

Same my mom said if your grades are good you can play what you want

[@adummy9664]

I'm surprised none of those concerns for easy access to porn and communication with strangers don't seem to get applied to Smart Phones and social media sites, they're just like "Games are bad and addictive and will melt your brain, now make sure your 10 year old has 24/7 access to Twitter as soon as possible."

[@camelandpepsi]

Nah bruv trust that they also cover social media and stuff alot

[@CBman11037]

​@@camelandpepsi At least the social media stuff is right. Like call me paranoid but I assure you there are no advantages to be on a site like twitter.

[@camelandpepsi]

@@CBman11037 fam fuck twitter had it one week then deleted it toxic waste of an app But tings like the gram snap and KZbin are all ight I would say Facebook but I'm not hundred years old so I dunno Discord ant twitch also good to some levels

[@Hatemx1]

​@@CBman11037ZERO advantages!

[@kman9884]

⁠@@zogwort1522 At least all of the concerns about social media were valid. Widespread depression and anxiety disorders, body dysphoria, lack of privacy and exploitation. Shit’s way worse than any form of gaming

[@syedwahab2021]

The whole DS pictochat thing. I feel most predators aren't aware of things like this so it's really nice that Fox made it national news so the under-the-rock predators can have new knowledge to help their cause. Such wholesome news!

[@hagelslag9312]

That's how I felt with most of them that covered any 'issues'. Instead of solving it by contacting the company so they can fix it or increase safety, they expose it for the world to use.

[@JamesTaylor-th2of]

@@hagelslag9312 exactly, they expose something that most people don't know about and end up actually making things worse and in that case made it less safe for kids, absolutely brain dead and all for the money.

[@pinkneko13]

@@hagelslag9312 don't worry the company will find out after a drove of mad Karens blow their phones out screaming how they're killing their children.

[@TheTrueRman]

I remember Opie and Anthony ripping into this news report on how stupid it is.

[@visionhawk4403]

Not saying I'm a predator but this is the first time I've ever even heard of Pictochat and all 3 of my kids had DSs.

[@DetectiveJones]

To be fair! 2:41 The Emperor is a weird old guy taking you into a dark secret crypt after speaking about how you are the person from his dreams...Which to me sounds a lot more concerning than Tortimer

[@KankedTv]

Worked at gamestop like 10 years ago. One day a lady came into the store with her grandson and asked us which game wont turn him into a crazy murderer. My co-worker just replied with, "literally every single game on that wall"

[@MatticusDB]

The news report fails to mention that the kid asked for porn for Xmas. Santa actually had a hard time making it as discrete as possible and now he's being exposed for it.

[@spartanq7781]

Damn Santa is based.

[@Rahnonymous]

source?

[@dealbreaker6499]

@@Rahnonymous Deez

[@WeedShaggy]

@@spartanq7781 Sigma Claus

[@LineOfThy]

@@Rahnonymous ligma

[@RC32Smiths01]

Nothing hits home and nostalgia more than when news outlets show how old they are a lot of the times by talking about things they probably aren't use to. It's a surreal experience sometimes.

[@42ZaphodB42]

And the funny thing is that actual science promotes gaming and highlights it's benefits. It's only harmful when done excessively like drug use. But that's generally true for everything in life. Too much sport is unhealthy, too many drugs, too much party, gambling.... so on and so forth.

[@bobthebuilder1360]

@@42ZaphodB42 balance is key

[@42ZaphodB42]

@@ironCondor623 Very true.

[@AzureKaioshin]

True....anyone remember when tic-tok first hit and everyone on KZbin universally hated it instantly? Pretty similar but we didn't get a fucking surgeon general involved. Lol

[@allanorme2093]

@@ironCondor623 So Act man is the Scottish people of Gaming

[@SuperMasterJefe]

24:06 In the words of Dr. Ian Malcom, "There it is."

[@Ultra_64]

One of humanity's greatest mysteries is figuring out how to stop gamers from gaming apparently

[@Blessed_V0id]

I think its simple. If the world wasn't as shit as it is, and these people fixed stuff instead of complaining (ironic, but gimme their budget or even any chance and that would change), maybe people wouldn't be so desperate to escape it. That applies to all addictions, and although it wouldn't eradicate it, but imagine how much a functioning police force, mental health service and political institution would make that plummet over time

[@RonsaRRR]

@@Blessed_V0id People will play anyway. Games are art. Like movies.

[@davidempey8980]

if only we could prevent stupid people from voting.

[@Blessed_V0id]

@@davidempey8980 I think the issue is voting. No human can be entrusted with the lives of millions, and if they can, the next person can't, or the next. It only takes one drop of poison to spoil drinking water. It only takes one corrupt person to spoil the world, one deal at a time. Although on your very true point about stupidity, rest in peace natural selection. Clearly noone remembers what evolution is anymore. At least pollution will cure the disease

[@Blessed_V0id]

@@RonsaRRR That's very true. I'm just bitterly ranting, I mean no discredit towards video games. Sorry about that

[@VendingRulesBOC]

As an 18 year old who’s been playing games for more than half my life I can safely say that going from God of war 3 to playing Lego Batman an hour later was quite the fun experience.

[@wieldylattice3015]

Me waking up on a weekend and going from playing Ace Attorney to Silent Hill to Rollcage Stage 2 Btw the soundtrack for Rollcage is on Apple Music if y’all wanna check it out, idk about Spotify tho

[@spidersae2wswd54]

"ZEUS!I HAVE COME BRING THE DESTRUCTION OF OLYMPUS" 1 hour later "bruce its have been 5 years,you still owe me 16 dollars"

[@amberkilljoy]

A core memory I have was when I went to therapy as child and she told my parents the reason I was irrationally scared of death was because I played The Sims. As it had a grim reaper in it. .

[@killtachi7400]

I really hope she’s not a therapist anymore

[@strellettes8511]

Lol every child has that moment where they realise they are mortal and have an existential crisis.

[@amberkilljoy]

@@strellettes8511 😅 I don't think the therapist could comprehend a 5 year old wanting to die but too scared of the idea of it

[@madtabby66]

Used to work with therapists 9/10 are crazier than their patients.

[@mapleflower]

@@amberkilljoy its pretty normal for kids to realize their time is limited. Given the context she was probably just saying it was the grim reaper to make you feel better… which sucks cause any normal parent would probably say that to a 5 yr old

[@DetectiveJones]

For the love of god please make more of this! I remember finding many of my favorite channels today (Including this one) From the olden days of "Games cause violence" wars online followed by Gamergate and all that lovely stuff so this just feels like a nostalgia trip that I am all for

[@evolvedmonkey9775]

Funny story: As a kid I rented Mass Effect and was playing in the living room. I was having a nice Convo with my boy Garrus when he suddenly mentioned krogan testicles as my Dad walked by. He looked at me, said "what?," laughed, and kept walking

[@mr.electronx9036]

WHAT? 🤣🤣🤣

[@djweavergamesmaster]

@@mr.electronx9036 exactly

[@petepeterson5917]

"Someone's making a killing out there..."

[@QJ89]

Playing Mass Effect when alone vs. playing Mass Effect with your parents around.

[@hcook1023]

Oh my god, I forgot about the Mass Effect scandal The irony is every teenage boy who heard about the sex scandal immediately wanted the game

[@gamingforever9121]

I know I did 😂

[@Haggysack2k8]

"We'll bang okay?" -Shepard Everyone: *SHUDDUP AND TAKE MY MONEY!*

[@Sir_Newkirk]

I heard because of that incident, half of all the relationships in game were cut from Mass Effect 2.

[@jake199767]

As an ex pill addict and gamer I can confirm , video games = heroin

[@TheActMan]

gaming must've been so much harder to quit

[@alanreilly6016]

@@TheActMan withdraws are really bad I choose to join a programme where we got a switch for a few hours each day.

[@olivia3779]

@@alanreilly6016 stay strong. You can beat this thing I know you can

[@OverlordRei]

@@olivia3779 I can't stop, the princess is in another castle and i have to save her.

[@sazo1st]

@@TheActMan well he's an ex pill addict, but still a gamer....

[@mistermittens3533]

24:42 anyone gonna talk about how this sentence she said was actually INCREDIBLY sexist towards males? Like.... I'm not one to get offended but that actually genuinely pissed me off enforcing that sterotype....

[@wolftamer5463]

No you’re not, it was incredibly demeaning.

[@DoBap_]

“Gmod on the news” will forever be my favourite broadcast news moment 😂

[@UpgradedHumanCybernetics]

the one about the players making the pizza and abortion clinic? (if that's the one, sorry to say but it's not real)

[@DoBap_]

@@UpgradedHumanCybernetics NO lifes ruined…

[@Deadpool021]

I was that kid Act Man. I only enjoyed the Pokemania craze for a few months before my parents heard the fear mongering about it so they said Pokémon was the devil. They threw away the Pokémon games, cards and toys. They would even ground me if they caught me watching the cartoon. It devastated 9 year old me

[@HintedImage]

Pokémon was actually fine- Now Yu-Gi-Oh... 🌋👹🌋

[@TheActMan]

Damn dude... thats rough

[@FlakkerDPS]

F in the chat for this punished unit.

[@craaab____721]

What is it with parents demonising everything children have even mild interests in, that they don’t understand themselves?

[@canyonohara1764]

Same here dude, my parents put a religious spin on it saying it was demonic like how

[@JohnDoe-yp3zv]

The Pictochat scare is probably my favorite one because of the absurdity of the situation. So let's go with their example. You're a kid in the back of the car with a DS. Are you going on Pictochat and coincidentally finding some predator within the DS's wireless communication range (reminder that you're in a car that will be spending most of the time moving) that is also using a DS and has Pictochat open to talk to you without your parent's knowledge? No, you're playing Mario & Luigi Partners in Time trying to defeat the final boss as your mother tries to get you out of the car to go to school because you're so close to the end and your child brain thinks you'll definitely have enough time to beat two bosses, one of which has two phases, back-to-back and watch the final cutscene in the 15 minutes it takes to get to school.

[@117Ender]

while unrealistic, the steelman postion, is someone could get a 3ds and slowly drive around neighborhoods and use picochat to get kids to either share security info so someone robs the home while ppl are away, or worse. is it doable yes, will kids willingly give out such info? idk maybe actman admitted to wanting to meet a stranger from online as a kid, and the solution to that is to be a good parent.

[@reginadea2821]

Little Timmy's heart was beating so fast at the final boss fight. It was thrill like he's never felt before. But this is not as innocent as you might think. Doctors have stated that too much of these boss fights, and Little Timmy would have died of a heart attack.

[@theengineer2650]

“She discovered her son’s memorial hall was turned into a pokèstop” well at least in his death he still helps us

[@sanemaniac7416]

Big question is,which was worse? Memorial hall becoming a poke stop or Wheezings being found in a Holocaust museum?

[@SotaMake]

@@sanemaniac7416 neither

[@FortressofShred]

Now imagine if her son was a gamer, would have been stoked to have something to do with (even if by accident) one of the greatest selling video game franchises of all-times..... and then along comes Karen to ruin it all.

[@Choryrth]

i still find it hilarious that people tried to break INTO prison, in order to catch rare pokemon on pokemon go.

[@andregon4366]

@@sanemaniac7416 Worse? That's brilliant!

[@cornedbeefncash8967]

I loved this walk down memory lane. My family bought into these legendary reports over the years and every single time, no one played the actual game. So I walked them through every single instance. Never did get a come back. Every single time.

[@mario-k.]

Im no native speaker, what do you mean with the last two sentences?

[@randomdeliveryguy]

@@mario-k. He means no one was able to have a response to his arguments.

[@benhaworth9937]

My parents threatened to throw away my copy of Mass Effect as it was a "rape simulator"

[@deathcon_one]

fr

[@burgerkingfries4941]

@@mario-k. He showed his parents that the news was lying and they did not have a response.

[@Vallarok117]

I grew up playing Halo and Gears of War with my mom, and I just got her a GoW blanket for Christmas, I can't express how much she loves the series. Gaming is an excellent opportunity for parents and their kids to bond, or alternatively I guess you can go out of your way to ensure they resent you. Not really sure why you'd make that choice.

[@bagelxxbutter592]

Gaming with ur mom in Gears of war?? That's awesome I'm so jealous

[@HyperShadow991]

how parenting should be done ^^

[@VendingRulesBOC]

Same here, grew up playing the gears franchise with my dad since I was 8.

[@sazo1st]

When I was little I had this assasins creed game for the DS, and my mother often had to help me out if I got stuck. I still remember when I had her help me do this sort of mini game, where you had to twist a guy's arm so he would give you information 😭

[@User_Brandon]

That’s actually cool, God bless you and your mom for spending that time together.

[@Dondoogle]

I hope he does more of these kind of videos, it's hilarious seeing news stations' takes on video games, and just being absolutely wild. Much love Act Man 👍

[@goncaloguimaraes4185]

As a person who played the original Battlefront II on psp, i can say i am honored to have my childhood appear on the news

[@alessandrocanale6189]

Onestly killzone liberation was my battelfront 2 on the psp and im proud of it

[@goncaloguimaraes4185]

@@alessandrocanale6189 thats really cool i didnt get it but i Saw it all the time on atores shelves

[@alessandrocanale6189]

@@goncaloguimaraes4185 well i never played battelfront 2 but if you say so im sure is a good game but the only bad thing about killzone liberation is the fact that to play the last chapter (chapter 5) you needed to connect your psp online and download it and at the time i didint know how to do it but if sony will realiese it on ps plus premium im gonna be happy so thank you kind stranger from the internet for responding me

[@goncaloguimaraes4185]

@@alessandrocanale6189 they couldnt put a whole game on the PSP disc ??? But a whole GTA game could be on there ?

[@alessandrocanale6189]

@@goncaloguimaraes4185 onestly i dont know why

[@yamatosama6028]

I love how that one kid playing Runescape can officially say: "Hellslayer.... Sponsored by Grandma"

[@WorshipperOfKhone]

"Made with Grandma's love"

[@cmnidit4444]

I wonder how it felt to have a parent look at you while playing animal crossing at like age 8 and go "those characters are real people and could be pedophiles" because that's what the news told them 💀

[@Aredel]

Imagine their faces when you stare back at them blankly and say “these are my friends from school.”

[@darknesswave100]

Facebook parents in a nutshell

[@robertbeisert3315]

I don't know, but the news is a big part of why I grew up with dial-up. Can't get phished if you can't hardly open your email.

[@junior1388666]

TV news sucks it's baffling how ppl still watches this garbage

[@JoshuaGutz]

12:57 Hell yeah Ancient Mew cards!!! My older sister worked at a movie theater when this came out, I got several of these still unopened!

[@masterzombie161]

To be fair Yoshi’s island is about a dinosaur devouring everything in sight, converting their matter into eggs and throwing them at a giant Flaming Turtle.

[@roboturtle1429]

same could be said about Kirby, apart from the egg throwing

[@KayFiOS]

While death metal plays in the background no less.

[@DjCyberZonex]

Do you hate fox news, abc news, republican politicial and the morons for there stupidity on videogame.

[@vizthex]

man, i need a part 2 of this. always super fun to make fun of news networks, they make it way too easy.

[@dualiedan5205]

I remember the one where they got upset over an adoption joke😂

[@UnchainedEruption]

He's cherry picking the lowest hanging fruits, the easiest targets. Most if not all of these clips are from maybe 2 decades ago.

[@QJ89]

@26:28 : I think this needs looking in to. Why would you Want to design a Strip Club in Roblox, of all things? Way to pull the plug on something so baffling; but if you're curious: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z57Hhoirm6Z8aq8&feature=shares .

[@xXXhighrollerx]

news is always easy to make fun of in general

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

yup.

[@BlueJayz474]

I was 11 I think when I played the Black Ops 2 campaign, and I got to that mission where the nightclub gets shot up, and I remember consciously thinking “these types of situations can happen, it’s cool this game can portray it so vividly” and Fox would label me a psychopath. I quit playing football cause I didn’t like hurting people, I’m a moral pacifist, yet I must be the next school shooter cause I did the Perseus ending of Cold War.

[@117Ender]

moral pacifist? meaning? the irony for me is, my friends played CoD and etc, and i liked RPGs guess which one joined the military thou...

[@Hk7762Tube]

Probably you, you just heard they got RPG's at military and was like, hell yeah dude, I'm all about that shit, sign me up right now my m'an.

[@bbuny10]

I saw Perseus and for a second I thought you were talking about God of War lol

[@crimsonchaos7635]

Seeing sum of the shit u do in games made me a pacifist too tbh no need for hate when were all the same scripts tryna survive the grind

[@SuperGoose42]

@@Hk7762Tube😂😂😂

[@Enigma75614]

22:37 Wait till she sees Game of Thrones, or literally any other HBO show.

[@Juanito_Pecados]

Seeing this kind of stuff makes me grateful for having supportive parents that actually discussed stuff with me and engaged with my interests, not just look for excuses to not do their job as parents. Hell, my father introduced me to the hitman saga, and as you may imagine, I didnt turn into an assassin.

[@EnvyMachinery]

You can be an assassin and still be a good guy.

[@wieldylattice3015]

My dad is always trying to get me to play Titanfall and that’s how I know about it, and he also introduced me to Forza Motorsport and I’ve been playing racing games ever since

[@thebeaver8456]

Yeah my very first game was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for Sega Genesis my Dad would play it with my brother and I all the time

[@theonlybilge]

@@wieldylattice3015 Does your dad know about Titanfall 2?

[@AceofSpades-6728]

My dad had me play left 4 dead 2 back when I was around 3, it was the first video game I ever played, and damn I will always have it as my favorite game of all time. Him along with my brother and my dad's nephew all play with me or left 4 dead 2, and it's a lot of fun

[@Coff33Drink3r02]

So fun fact: When I was a kid I brought a beyblade to school and there was this safe little plastic slide that had a big flat bottom so I played with it there. Other kids thought it was cool so we all started bringing our own and playing to trade parts- we didn't just ask for parts and steal em we got to choose what was traded. Since the whole game was rng we all just ended up with random ass sets of beyblades XD The teachers and parents HATED it cause it was basically gambling so it was shut down after a week.

[@V2ULTRAKill]

The game wasnt rng is the interesting part While there is randomness theres an excess of skill expression in your parts combos and launch technique

[@Coff33Drink3r02]

@@V2ULTRAKill Wait for real? XD I guess since we were all like 8-10 we never cracked the code

[@V2ULTRAKill]

@@Coff33Drink3r02 yeah theres a whole competitive landscape and meta no joke With the original early 2000s era of toys being the most diverse competitively

[@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother]

Beyblades got banned in Every. School. On. Earth. It was a phenomenon lol.

[@Booneface]

Let it rip!!!!

[@Captain_Klutch]

I grew up in a super religious household and my mom saw one of these reports on Pokémon so she decided to look at my cards, saw one of them had telepathy, freaked out and told me I couldn't play or watch the show anymore. I still have to see a therapist about that day.. ugh

[@Captain_Klutch]

@gmu_alum08 telepathy would be considered demonic duh 🙄

[@heramaaroricon4738]

Do you mean you have to see a theraphist about that day because it gives you PTSD or do you mean you still HAVE to visit a therapist to this day?

[@Captain_Klutch]

@@heramaaroricon4738 yessss

[@jacob5395]

Professor Xavier has entered the chat.

[@Captain_Klutch]

@@jacob5395 🤣🤣🤣

[@tommyt374]

Bruh i absolutely love the "cool transition" RWJ and =3 was my shit back in the early days of the tube. Love you Act Man

[@4-eyedtoycollector200]

The segment with Geoff Keighley being cut off too short had me rolling, Fox News had a whole segment prepared to talk about that Mass Effect scandal that got debunked almost immediately.

[@generalyousif3640]

Damm, this is BIG NEWS. Time to throw my consoles out of my window

[@SkylarTrahan]

I’ll take care of it for you! Wouldn’t want you to go in a rampage because of those darn video games

[@williamnigo5038]

While at it, throw out your computer as well

[@ancientmariner9460]

Oh I remember when I was a young pup, after playing Doom 1 I ALWAYS went outside and chase everyone with a chainsaw. Once I was even given a full regiment of Sardaukar troopers by the Emperor himself to conquer local sandbox. Those were amazing times... (and some things never change)

[@MaticTheProto]

So what’s more addictive? Videogames or the spice?

[@Haggysack2k8]

Yes, i know that feel bro, i also always left the house after playing Age of Empires and WOLOLO'd the next person i could find.

[@ancientmariner9460]

@@MaticTheProto Definitely spice - it must ALWAYS flow!

[@MaticTheProto]

@@shimaphys yes

[@Slender_Man_186]

Man am I glad I had a cool mom who was pretty much completely ok with video games, she got me into video games with her old SNES. Even when it came to the Xbox and more violent games, she knew I was capable of understanding the difference between reality and fiction, and she made it very clear that I wasn’t to reveal any personal details when playing online (I did still usually have “doug” as my clan tag in CoD and Reach, but even my full name is extremely common).

[@Jon-zj2cn]

If the university of maryland showed subjects a video game, and those subjects were unable to differentiate game from reality then that sounds like a banger of a game. Immersive AF.

[@dagothurik1815]

Can somebody find that study? Asking for myself.

[@Nai_101]

Betting it was Metro: Exodus.

[@SPX157]

Or they have the intelligence of an amoeba. Pick whichever one you want, I guess.

[@ChampionofVardenfell]

Or the subjects have an IQ below freezing.

[@jaceybella1267]

I'm one of the kids who's mom thought Pokémon was evil. Yes it was terrible. What made it worse was she saw a news report after I was already obsessed with one of the games, I was 6 damn gyms into the game and one day she's like "This is evil! I'm taking it" I tasted the sweet fruit but had it taken away from me. Anyway she was a drug addict anyway and my dad got me the newest game on the DS to make me feel better when she died of an OD, lmao.

[@luckylarry88]

My neighbors/friends dad was a cop I remember them going to church when I was young but they must have stopped. Well I remember when Harry Potter came out, everyone loved it and it must have been like the 2nd one by the time this happened. Asked my friends if they wanted to go to see the 2nd one with me and my mom but they were all bummed and said their mom heard it was anti Christian and was teaching evil witchcraft and stuff like that haha. Idk what internet forums she could have been on back then filling her head with that bs, maybe it was the news. It was weird for me to hear that because they weren't really an uptight family, they joked around a lot, didn't go to church anymore, cussed in front of their kids, even let them say words like ass, bitch, ect... I think the news was trusted much more back then and it was a time where supernatural stuff was still popular and people believed in it a little more.

[@MsZsc]

:(

[@Matanumi]

Welp. Live by the paranoid I die by the paranoia

[@jakewallace1869]

Based

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

bro that's nothing but I understand because there was a time on youtube in a weird modern era back then where there were videos saying how anime is demonic or of the devil etc. Same thing kind of etc.

[@robertbeisert3315]

I've got a son in diapers, and I'm literally rearranging my game library in order of what I want him to play at which ages. There's so much to share with him, and I want to make sure he's in the right place to experience each. But I also really, really want to encourage him to play outside with other kids. I was pretty darn lonely growing up, and while it made for loads of gaming time, it wasn't the best.

[@AnnaVictrix]

IMO the best way to parent is share what you love but also accept the kid is their own different little human being. Giving kids options and helping them explore what inspires them. You have a good plan.

[@madtabby66]

Good luck finding other kids outside

[@toastedcrack8105]

You should buy him some fishing gear and some exercising equipment and train him to be awesome.

[@robertbeisert3315]

@@toastedcrack8105 his grandpa has his daddy's old line all cleaned and restrung for him already :)

[@toastedcrack8105]

@@robertbeisert3315 dope

[@CookedCrispy22]

“Kids cant tell the difference between the game and reality” what? watched my step dad play God of War 3 when I was 7 but you don’t see me ripping off peoples heads and using them as a flashlight

[@BreakfastAtNoon]

"Play it with them" - Bonnie Ross. "We are no longer supporting split screen" - Bonnie Ross

[@Foliagedcarcass]

*steps down- Bonnie Ross

[@TheActMan]

OOF

[@Kamo442]

I feel like this is going to be less of a problem now as people who grown up playing games is having kids of their own and understanding games and wanting to play game with them

[@ReaperShackal]

It stopped being a problem a while ago, for the most part.

[@gravdigr27]

I was extraordinarily lucky as a child in the 70s-80s. My pops was an old school techie. Crypto tech in the navy from '70-'80, then was into IT for the rest of his civilian career. He loved tech and video gaming and he knew more than the average person back then did about them. He called bullshit on all these stories so my gaming was a protected pastime as far as they were concerned. In the 80s my dad worked for the wall street journal in plant communications (later known as IT). Friday nights he would take me to work with him and let me play video games on the computers there. He later told me I was playing Star Trek on a $2 million mainframe when I was 8.

[@miirico5398]

@@gravdigr27 Thats real nice mate I had a decent father but he hates all of my hobbies from music, video games etc. My brother is the one who introduce me to video games and we would sneak out from time to time and play on arcades despite getting belt'd at the end of the day but god damn is it worth it.

[@deathcon_one]

fr like news outlets shouldent talk shit abut video games unless they actually play it,im starting to lose trust in our media

[@JOE_XD]

If you get a death threat from devs in a live dev talk seen by thousands, there's a risk!

[@pcalix17]

Oh no. They would never do that. (sarcasm)

[@JOE_XD]

@@pcalix17 A cheapa$$ ''game studio'' would and did.

[@AdonMrGveret]

when did this happen

[@JOE_XD]

@@AdonMrGveret april 2022, the 12th

[@DjCyberZonex]

What news did you heard about that company, i need to know.

[@aureliomedinajr1135]

Man! I haven't seen that "Cool transition" since RWJ =3. That was too nostalgic man subscribed.

[@TheGravityShifter]

That whole pictochat thing is so funny. If anyone ever was taught stranger danger, they know better than to do anything like that. No different from a phone or in person. Btw that Geoff Kieghley bit was awesome. I wish more people were that blunt and direct in their arguments on these things.

[@dagothurik1815]

I only ever used it with my cousins and sister

[@TheGravityShifter]

@@dagothurik1815 Mainly what I used it for too. Since for me it was usually local internet access points at the time.

[@Greenpoptartover9000]

not to mention, it only worked for up to like 10 feet

[@TheGravityShifter]

@@Greenpoptartover9000 Ye. Maybe 20ft if you're lucky.

[@Sonichero151]

Jeff in his hayday as an Xbox marketing guy really knew what he was doing. Shilling for Halo? Become a meme that lasts for decades? Shilling for Mass effect in FOX? Just utterly clown on the pompous and arrogant reporters that haven't even double checked their fucking work

[@shobitts1127]

That fact pictochat was thought of that way by journalists just makes me think that the real predators were those people for thinking about that way

[@MultiChrisjb]

The part about driving beside a kid in the back seat of the car, and connecting with him on pictochat.. Yeah that happens /s. And increases traffic accidents from the pedophiles not paying attention to the road as well.. lol

[@Data-Expungeded]

@@MultiChrisjbwhat the hell does /s mean

[@MultiChrisjb]

@@Data-Expungeded sarcasm

[@NegativeGamer418]

Dude, those older news reports from nes and snes days are pure gold, I laughed my ass off everytime they would refer consoles as regular toys 🤣

[@Nin10Guy]

Gaming back in those days was perceived as a kids only thing and consoles were typically marketed under the Toy category. Even companies like Sega would hire people like Tom Kalinske to become CEO of Sega of America due to his successful career with marketing G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls while working at Mattel.

[@NegativeGamer418]

@@Nin10Guy very true, is just so weird to look back on those days and to see how they would compare consoles to Barbie dolls. Now gaming is something that can turn you into a mass shooter lol 🤣

[@NegativeGamer418]

@Flare lol right on 🤣

[@owenshodges1441]

This kid has a toy halo scorpion. That's sick, I wish I had that as a kid. 7:30

[@cs82271]

13:39 that was my mother. But for all technology. Got my first phone, an old Samsung flip phone, in 2014. My uncle managed to sneak his old GameCube to me on my 12th birthday. Mom gave it to Goodwill when she found it. Yes, Goodwill. Nowadays she always complains about how I don't love her, or visit her when she never loved nor really cared about me. It was always about how I made others view her as her son.

[@channingbloom7125]

Sorry for what happened.

[@Mr.Jim248]

The same thing happened to me when I had Minecraft books and gold Charizard card.

[@randyjax09]

The sad part is that media networks still can’t see gaming for what it is. A therapeutic escape from reality.

[@gravdigr27]

Therapeutic and cathartic release. I swear some days after dealing with stupid people all day the only thing keeping me from going up into a bell tower is the ability to fire up some doom eternal and kill me some demons, or some other equally satisfying gaming experience.

[@NateTheScot]

Yeah because then they'd be forced to actually look at their own exploitative coverage of horrific REAL events for clicks and views... or they could just keep trying to blame it all on video games. Mass shootings? Clearly video games are to blame!

[@madtabby66]

Like all escapes, what's therapeutic for you is an addiction for others.

[@randyjax09]

@@madtabby66 “Video game addiction.” Lol that’s cute. If you think that’s bad, try heroin.

[@justsomeguywithnoeyes7303]

no no no, they do see it for what it is. They want you to have your eyes glued to the cable news, not on your video games

[@iXSIKOBOIXi]

How crazy is it that in the Gaming Disorder part, the interviewer for the NEWS was more reasonable than the people being interviewed?

[@sman574melee]

The best part about that animals crossing one is that you needed “friend codes”, AKA an IP address substitute

[@TheJokersAreWild]

RuneScape was and still is a great childhood game. You either are smart enough to not get hacked, lured, and scammed, or you learn the hard way.

[@yabarber9285]

Even smart people get hacked

[@tomisaacson2762]

Half the fun was scamming people. At least until the safeguards got too overbearing.

[@arqueiroXD]

I think the only time someone ever scammed me in Runescape was a guy from my guild. Like it was even a weird kind,i think we trade something and he scammed and run out of the guild.

[@mobcrusher99]

@@tomisaacson2762I think you need help

[@TrainedArcTrooper]

One thing I hate about people saying “gaming can make you a terrorist”. It can also make you aware of the sadness of war, and can make you a hero on D-Day, a hero who saves the world and stops terrorists Edit: wow didn’t expect this many likes

[@jimskywaker4345]

not to mention that the terrorist mission in MW2 clearly makes it out to be a bad thing and at least in the original, was entirely optional

[@mniakan3544]

I mean absolutely a game like spec ops the line more than anything showed how horrible war is (it did also show that even the best of man have potential to do horrible things when they are pushed that far but that’s a discussion for another day)

[@thebeaver8456]

Yeah COD wow was one of the few games were it wasn't all about the flair and action it tried to tell the players that this was a horrible time that's why the game ends with the death total and makes you feel that pain.

[@TrainedArcTrooper]

@@thebeaver8456 exactly!!!

[@luckystarplays1837]

@@mniakan3544 literally about to mention this

[@Paper_titan]

When my computer was taken away as a kid, I would find where they stashed it and plug it in while they were gone. They found out, and took cords with them to work. So I bought copies of the power cords, hdmi, etc. They eventually found that out, took the whole computer to work. So I used safe mode on the family computer to bypass their account passwords. My parents definitely wanted me to stop and they couldn't

[@charliewebb7812]

So they didn’t punish you in any other way? Again sounds like bad parenting. If my parents found out I was avoiding a punishment like that they wouldn’t just let it slide.

[@Paper_titan]

@Charlie Webb I did get punished, my room was damn empty by the end of it. Only my bed, even my dresser was taken so I couldn't hide anything in it and I wasn't allowed to go to my friends and was forced to come straight home. I still did it. The punishment changed nothing about what I did. I hid my spare cords in the attic, which the door to it was in my room, and I hid it under a beam in the attic which was impossible to see. Punishments only work if you let yourself be punished

[@charliewebb7812]

@@Paper_titan so all these people in prison should just get up and leave?

[@Paper_titan]

@@charliewebb7812 no. There is a massive difference between a parent punishing a child, which has limitations on how violent it can potentially be, and a cop with a criminal, which can escalate to fucking shooting each other. These are in no way similar

[@Paper_titan]

@@charliewebb7812 lemme ask you, what would your parents do to you then?

[@robofistsrevenge3288]

"The Internet is filled with predators, porn, hate speech, and bomb instructions, all of which the PSP is 100% responsible for. Obviously."

[@rampantrambling]

"excuse me Hellslayer, may I speak to you for a moment?" Greatest line ever.

[@adamcogan211]

2 minutes in and Tortimer from Animal Crossing is on a news report. What an absolute fever dream 😂

[@rczarnecki]

"Press X for thrust" Can't stop laughing after this. Your commentary was golden.

[@MemeVader]

"you killed him?" "yeah" best part for sure

[@terryglover6442]

14:00 I wish all kids had a mother like her, willing to see their kid is interested in something and embracing it.

[@AnnaVictrix]

Yeah that was great. Encouraging practical life lessons that will help the kid. And gets the kid to be social!

[@mexicancommando117]

My mom has been always like that, and I think I'm lucky for having a mom like her

[@terryglover6442]

@@mexicancommando117 Yes you are man, my mother wasn't very involved or interested in any of my hobbies, cherish her man.

[@mexicancommando117]

@@terryglover6442 of course I'll cherish her, wish you had the type of mom that I had :(

[@terryglover6442]

@@mexicancommando117 Thanks man, me too.

[@Fennin1]

The courtcase at 11:47 was kinda big news in my country. But it became a court case because he was robbed in real life. They forced the kid to login and transfer his goods while they were punching and 'strangling' him, add in some death threats and you've got yourself a case about Runescape Robbery.

[@Medic_TFTwo]

Im to lazy to search up if that is true so im just gonna beleve you.

[@dicknasty1616]

@@Medic_TFTwo lmao I believe him because I believe in you believing in him

[@alexislesperance9791]

It is true

[@nevetodagle]

Bro, please make a series out of this. There's like so much more of this ridiculousness out there.

[@elisimons8841]

He has like 4 other videos on stuff like this. Watch the war against video games

[@elisimons8841]

And feminists and sjws vs video games

[@sudoGL]

"Top of the line graphics" *shows a survival game from 2005 with a dude killing animals to not starve to death*

[@RobinBlend]

calling morrowind a survival game is not far off 😂😂😂

[@RaffleRaffle]

As a heavy ex fentanyl, and meth abuser, who also used to heavily abuse mdma and mda, and has had close friends overdose and die, one of who couldn't stop abusing no matter how much I tried to help her, and be there for her. It really upsets me that they tried to compare video games to heroin......

[@ClayDunks]

The idea of someone hopping into my pictochat while I was driving was always one of my biggest dreams as a kid. I was always so bored and I thought it would be so funny if I just got to pictochat with a random person

[@luckylarry88]

Yeah I always hoped it would happen as well

[@Lumberjack_king]

Imagine if time travel was possible it would be hilarious to show some of these reporters modern games or cell phones. Cyberpunks character creation screen alone would drive them insane