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Emeraldegg posted...

Even something like cod doesn't HAVE to be "harmful to society" if people understand it to be a competitive game meant to test certain skills, as advance wars is.

I can agree with this, but it's based on tone. Advance Wars is a game meant to test skills and it also has a more lighthearted tone, so people can appreciate it as a game and not take it as exemplifying the real deal. Duty Calls has a gritty, realistic tone so certain kinds of people think of war in the manner is presents. It's subconscious, and not everyone is like this, but an FPS gets people to think of war as a "game."

And, to be honest, I didn't realize that until the Red Army invaded Ukraine and some people started showing that they didn't understand war. It's not that video games are bad. It's that we're not teaching people about war properly or getting 12 y/os to understand that games aren't reality. Because this is the first time in nearly two decades I can recall seeing something like this in the news (when Dubya invaded Iraq so hastily).