Video games

Over the weekend, Kevin McCarthy blamed violent video games for mass shootings. Donald Trump did the same at a press conference on Monday, blaming “the brutal video games that are now popular” for generating “a culture of violence.”

Coming from a man who ran on a pledge to “bomb the shit out of ’em” and has frequently floated the prospect of pardons for accused war criminals, this is a little rich.

It also ignores that, despite the widespread availability of video games in Europe and Japan, the United States has a considerably higher murder rate than any other wealthy country.

Indeed, while America’s total crime rate is slightly higher than the rest of the world, our homicide rate is significantly higher because assaults involving weapons are much more likely to result in death than assaults involving knives, bludgeons, or fists.

The problem is with guns.

However, because many people (including myself) find violent video games innately repulsive, it’s natural for people to wonder if video games aren’t adding to the problem. So it’s crucial to note that, according to the most recent research, a quasi-experimental study by Scott Cunningham, Benjamin Engelstätter, and Michael R. Ward, video games do not cause violent crime. Time spent playing video games, on the other hand, limits the amount of time that young men can be naughty.

According to the research, popular new game launches result in reduced crime.

The basic research strategy is straightforward: Compare “weekly aggregate violent crime incidents from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to the volume of sales of violent video games among the top 50 best-selling video games from 2005 to 2008 — and relate it to a marker for violent behaviors — weekly aggregate violent crime incidents.”

They employ both time-series and instrumental variable modeling, and regardless of how you slice it when a popular violent video game is released, violent crime decreases, not increases.

According to the researchers, the strategy is what criminal justice specialists refer to as “incapacitation” – if you’re home on your sofa playing video games, you’re not out on the street causing trouble. This technique is universally acknowledged for methods to spend time that mainstream society finds unquestionably healthy. Teenagers who work part-time during the summer, take studies after school, or join a sports team for fun Keep themselves out of trouble and away from the streets. Although video games are a more stigmatized pleasure than athletics, the essential principle remains the same. You’re not committing crimes if you’re too busy playing video games.

Nonviolent games are preferable to violent games.

Ward’s original work merely demonstrated that having many video games available reduced crime in general. Similarly, the current paper’s core causal mechanism says nothing about the virtues of violent video games – it only says that playing games reduce crime.

A previous body of laboratory-based psychology research suggests that violent video games enhance hostility.

As a result, the incapacitation effect could be hiding a more crime-inducing psychological impact on players. Under the circumstances, you might be doing good if you can move game developers and users away from violent games and toward peaceful ones. You don’t want to suffocate the overall appeal of video games as a business because gaming time will be substituted for criminal activity as well as more harmless pastimes.

But, while this data is intriguing and worth considering, it can’t be stressed enough that the United States’ homicide rate is significantly higher than that of peer countries on a scale that dwarfs any putative gaming-related consequences.

Anime Video Games

People who like video games are likely to like anime, which is true for anime fans. Because most people who make games know this, there are a lot of anime video games out there. Not all of them are winners, but when a show has a big crowd, quality doesn’t always matter.

Kira’s Adventure

Death Note is well-known for its success and high quality as an anime and manga. On the other hand, its games aren’t as famous among fans. This video game for the Nintendo DS came out in 2007, but it was only sold in Japan.

About Shoujo anime that doesn’t make sense

Everyone knows that each subgenre of anime has its own set of tropes. Shoujo is Shonen’s sister series, and both have problems, like characters who are too strong or the same love story that happens fifty times in a row. The more shoujo anime you watch and the more titles you binge, the more problems you’ll have.

Video game reviews

Salute to the King!

Halo Infinite is 343 Industries’ best game to date. When Halo Infinite was first shown off in 2018, I hoped to be able to write that sentence. Even though the game came out later than expected, 343 did a great job following up on the poorly received Halo 5: Guardians. In Halo Infinite!, there’s a new way to move the Halo series forward in important ways while staying true to what Halo was when it first came out 20 years ago, both in terms of its story and its multiplayer options. The result is a nostalgic game that feels like the next generation of Halo that we’ve all been waiting for.

The campaign is the biggest difference between Halo Infinite and the other games in the series. Halo Infinite isn’t set up by missions like almost every other Halo game up to this point. Instead, Master Chief will find himself in Zeta Halo, a mysterious new realm. This is where almost all of Halo Infinite takes place, so the game is more like other open-world shooters we’ve seen. Even though you still have to finish the campaign’s main goals to finish the story, Zeta Halo also has several other, less important goals that you can try to finish on your own time.

The change to Halo Infinite’s new open-world design has both good and bad points. The best thing about the format, in my opinion, is that it gives players new ways to use the huge variety of weapons, vehicles, and other things that have always been in Halo. Unlike many other first-person shooters, this series has always been known for its sandbox-style gameplay, which lets you try out more. Because Halo Infinite is now so open-ended, the way you handle some fights is very different from what we’ve seen in the past, which is great.