Whatever did people do in the days before it was possible to carry their phones in their pockets all day long? They must have died in droves in the movie theaters.
How much more creepy could you make a horror film if your phone rang when the killer called their next victim?
Er, substantially LESS. When a film engages me, I am in the world of the film for a couple hours. I'm not thinking about -- and don't want to be reminded of -- my goddamn phone.
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I just don't think the statement that pretending you are killing someone can't be good is correct
Well as an absolute statement I would have to agree with you, but I think it's clear in the context that it isn't meant as an absolute, but to apply to a specific style of video game.
I was skeptical until I read this slice of sheer brilliance:
Also, instead of a play-within-a-play to trap the conscience of a king, there's an "an-adventure-is-chosen" book within this "an-adventure-is-chosen" book, which you read while playing as King Claudius reading this nested book!
The reason prohibition didn't work is that its basis was a bad faith vision of humanity which saw partaking of alcohol as an aberration and tee-totaling the norm.
Apart from this, the alarmist phrase "banning guns" is not equivalent to preventing private citizens from owning semiautomatic rifles.
It's a bad faith argument to suggest that pointing your finger at someone and shouting "bang" is the equivalent of playing a graphic survival-horror video game.
If anything, the chart suggests, pretty clearly, that there's an entirely different variable impacting the US's proclivity towards gun-related murders, and that video games have absolutely nothing to do with any of it.
Not quite; you're assuming an equivalence among all video games played in the U.S. Not all video games involve killing, and not all video games that do involve killing feature extreme, graphic violence. Those would have to be filtered out of the equation to justify your statement.
It would be interesting to see a similar chart that compares to consumption of violent to nonviolent entertainment.
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Not so fast there, citizen...
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You might be interested in the films of William Castle
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Apart from this, the alarmist phrase "banning guns" is not equivalent to preventing private citizens from owning semiautomatic rifles.
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It would be interesting to see a similar chart that compares to consumption of violent to nonviolent entertainment.
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