Discussion How do you feel about witnessing violence in games/movies/tv?

[SchrodingerIsDed]

Please also discuss why you chose the answer you chose and rate your suicidal-ness on a scale of 1-10 in general.

 

[ma0]

I tend to prefer more profound, thought provoking stories, but it can be pretty fun to just turn your brain off and let chaos ensue.

Overall, I don't really care that much. If violence is in a film, violence is in a film. Doesn't matter.

 

[Anonymousa]

I chose: I like it in moderate amounts if it fits the story

I will mostly be saying about violence in games as I only occasionally watch tv and movies. Depending on my how I am, I can really like violence and enjoy acting it out in games or be squeamish about it. I think games such as Hotline Miami and Katana Zero are better for having more intense violence in them as to get their points across and make you feel like a blood-lustful murderer. I definitely can have a sadistic desire to hurt characters in games without remorse and want to see them suffer but depending if it fits best for the game I can turn my empathy on again as to experience guilt for hurting said characters or seeing them get hurt by other characters. Sometimes I can be squeamish about it if I feel less muderery when playing the game. I will say I never plan to act on these things I do in games in real life as I don't want to hurt innocent people unconsentally and if I did I would feel intense guilt for it.

The suicide scale is a bit vague on how someone is supposed to interpret it but I will say my suicidalness can be lower or higher depending on how I am and whats going on with my life but on average I guess I will say its a 7.33/10.

 

[Jadeith]

Neutral. I can still differentiate reality from movie or game. It's more like if the use of violence in certain media is "justified" or not. Like, if game is some kind of "combat sim", obviously it's ok. But game being violent just for violence becomes boring or straight annoying very quickly. Same goes for movies. Sometimes violence fits the story, sometimes it's overused.

 

[WrathfulGloom32]

I see the zeds get blown up in killing floor (2) and normal enemies in POE2 and the only thing I can think is "me next please". But it depends on the game, some games don't need violence at all.

My average suicide meter is around 8/10, I have days with 6/10 when nobody bothers me and somehow I have no gastric problems or bone and muscle pain and days with 10/10 where I get so angry I can just go to sleep despite having woke up 3 hours ago, then I wake up with the biggest headache like there are little pot of gold gnomes mining me head for gold and silver coins and I can't even scream about it and I get very VERY angry about it and I wish I didn't exist, let's say 8.5/10 for good measure.