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Very cheap game consoles and VR headsets. Unironically that could really help world peace and QOL: less news and doomscrolling, and people would have an outlet for stress, anger, and boredom.




I've never seen a group more easily angered than gamers.

"What do you mean the women in this game have proportions roughly equivalent to what's actually possible in nature?!?!"


That's a subset of gamers, specifically gamers who actively want a hypersexualized characters and still haven't figured out how to ignore the irrelevant products and still chose to be angered if some product doesn't fit their requirements (despite no shortage of games that would fit the bill).

The most trust and safety research I’ve seen - on things like recidivism, ban success, pro social behavior - comes from gaming.

Dota, league, he’ll - Roblox, twitch, discord - have some of the most data on how angry humans are when they play vidya.


The data are easily accessible, and the target group has little political power and is seen as problematic and about the only remaining legitimate target for negative discourse.

Imagine the reception that studies of female aggression get.


Capital G "Gamers", if you will.

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It's about ethics in game journalism!

This is one of the more hopeful explanations of the Fermi paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...

"Alien species may isolate themselves in virtual worlds"


Is this the technosolutionist version of "just one more lane and we'll fix traffic jams for good"?

Have you read Ready Player 1 or watched the Matrix?

You may be interested in alternative approaches such as playing chess, running, singing, dancing, or reading literature.



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