If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent, we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.

We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills........ Wait....

every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every 'honey do' list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.

“Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, we’d all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt

I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there's heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn't nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn't exist yet I don't think. And even when it first started, it wasn't what it would later become.

The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said "Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs."

He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.

Videogames in fact dictate my real world behavior, but I am stuck because I can't find the double jump or the wall climb anywhere. =C

I mine, I forage, I genocide. It's a simple life, but a good one.

I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.

If that's true, then we be building factories, polluting the environment, and killing protestor.

Ohh wait

Do it slaughter millions of humans in games across different genres? Yes, I do and it's great fun!

Do I have any intention to kill even one human in real life? Hell no, I don't even want to hurt others!

We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.

Commercial driver’s licenses?

I'm either building a factory in space or an organ harvesting drug empire in space.

If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3

id be shooting aliens and not afraid of anything

And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them (or attempting to, anyway).

I love eating mushrooms, being high as fuck, hitting bricks with my hands and crushing turts all day.

Call of Duty League?
Commercial Driver's Licence?
Christian Defence League?

Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.

Speaking of plague, adding a disease mechanic would be cool

There would certainly not be any feral pig problems in the US, that's for sure.

Imagine your behavior shaped by Ubisoft collect-a-thons. Now that's grim.

And a zerg army

I'd be an expert race car driver, or really good at parkour.

If games determined my behavior, I would practically be Machiavelli.

Probably put military in our cities, rename Department of Defence to Department of War.. Make preparations to invade Venezuela or something...
GOoD ThiNg viDYa gAmeS don'T AFfeCt the ReAL WorlD!

Speak for yourself; I am a VERY violent gamer! There's a mission in Cyberpunk that really gets my blood boiling. These two guys are into human trafficking and shooting pornography of their sexual exploits. The father of a little boy they abused and filmed themselves abusing and murdering hires you to find them and kill them. Well, they don't just shoot porn, they shoot brain dances, which are like interactive VR videos where you play a role. And they "shoot" while "in" the brain dance... so when you find them, they're in their rigs and unaware you're there. You can shoot them. You can wake them up and shoot them. You can shoot one and listen to the other mourn the one you shot (they're father and son). Or you can leave them for the police. I always wake them up, shoot the son, let the father mourn him for a few minutes, then pull out a sword and take his head off. Can't do anything about the people who do that for real, so I do it in a video game.

Though I just finished my third run through Night City, this time on the Xbox. I think I'm done for a while (it is a VERY long game and I insist on doing ALL the quests... my game time was something like 250 hours). I recently bought it on Mac (it was just ported) so I will go through it again on my computer with the keyboard and mouse. Sure, it looks like ass on the Mac (the whole computer, storage and all is one chip, there's no dedicated graphics card) but it plays!

I'm gonna do the Mass Effect trilogy next. Just got the remastered trilogy for $6 on Xbox. I've started the first one a couple times but never finished it. I keep hearing it's a masterpiece. This time I'm gonna get through the first one, and then do the second one. I expect them to take a long time.

I also play Animal Crossing. As of last year, that's my main game. I've got everything unlocked, I'm just trying to finish the museum (without cheating). I got both the tarantula and the scorpion, so I never need to run around at night with my net out (which is what makes them attack, the only "scary" thing in Animal Crossing). They do sell for 8,000 Bells (the in-game currency) each, which is nice, but I make so much more than that every day, and I could make ~130,000 every 3 days harvesting all my fruit. Wasps is 15k (5 x 3,000 each), the money rock is 16.1k, I don't need the hassle of catching the high value bugs (plus they're rare). I've paid off all my loans to Tom Nook. The new update coming out in January will add two more storage upgrades, but I have 5.5M Bells banked, so I think I'm good and I don't need more storage anyway (but buying it might unlock more fun stuff). They showed us more than they told us about, so there's probably features they didn't even show. Definitely a good time to book a deserted island getaway!

Then I'd be pretty violent against demon invasions of our world. Or maybe I already am, don't really know how to test it out lol.