Oof... Man, to live in the US. I don't envy you guys, though things aren't really going the right direction here in the Netherlands, either.
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Your perceptions about the experience of the average American are a long way from accurate. You might want to take a hard look at the media you're consuming.
EDIT: I have now discovered that the fastest way to kick the Lemmy hornet's nest is to say you aren't living in constant terror of being mowed down at random. How do you people function out in public? Do you even go out in public? This place is a fucking hole.
There's a child in my family who has monthly school shooter drills
I'm american. Is my perception of the average American correct?
And when I was a kid we had tornado drills. Schools got hit by tornados, but it was a freak incident that was ultimately an overblown fear.
If only there was some parallel we could draw here...
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Media bias is one thing for sure, but there are data showing that gun related death are much higher in the USA than whole of Europe (except, well... Ukraine).
Gun related death per 100k inhabitants, in 2019: USA=10, Netherlands=0.5. Gun deaths by country - WorldPopulationReview.com
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They literally gave no details about their perception. They might just pity people with kids who worry about school shootings which is a valid thing to feel and a valid thing to pity.
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Anyolduser: You're all a bunch of pussies for being afraid to get shot in a country without reasonable gun laws and increasing political unrest.
Also Anyolduser: People are disagreeing with me?!? "This place is a fucking hole"
I left the fucking country because it was too dangerous for my kids. Fuck off.
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Earlier this month, I had a parent-teacher meeting with lots of parents and she had to explain to one parent to please stop allowing her 2nd grader to come with weapons. The parent kept putting a butterfly knife in the kid's bookbag and she explained that they are doing everything they can to ensure safety, but now when a 2nd grader has a knife.
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What, about gun violence? Are you saying the shootings are under reported?
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I can't wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/
TBF, generally speedrunners start speedrunning games because they love it to death (ie. have played it through several times already) and want to start challenging themselves in new ways.
...or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.
Anyway, this don't undermine the intention of the developer.
Speedrunning isn't THAT popular. If you want to chase trends there are much easier ways other than spending thousands of hours on a single game to have low chances of make a record.
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It sound like most didn't read the article. You aren't playing as the shooter, it is a horror game where you are the victim trying to escape and/or hide from the shooter.
I haven't read the article, probably won't, doesn't really interest me. But I thought the title pretty clearly implies you don't play as the shooter. I'm surprised others didn't interpret the same way.
No parent should go through what they have gone through. And they want to express that through a game. It is an incredible idea, especially because of interactivity of the medium. I always believe that art can help hold a mirror to the society and this game proves that.
This... Is special kind of stupid lol
You play as a victim running from the shooter though.
It's a 10 minute game, that at the end of it tries to convince the player to vote on new gun laws. Who is this targeting? Gamers that are into horror/terror games have played plethora of great games in that genre, have a hard time believing they'd even care to download the game for those 10 minutes.
it's an awareness tool, we're talking about the game right now, people will play it on streams, dumb reactionaries will say stupid shit about it, and we'll be talking about gun control bills all the while.
It's like a PSA or political campaign ad, but interactive and intended to be viral.
It's not trying to win game awards or start a video game franchise
Well at least they tried giving people an experience of a school shooter, not just sitting on their arse commenting on the Internet.
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Why? It sounds like haunting experience from what I've read
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Uhm, Columbine RPG anyone?
uh no, i think the point would be that it's a scary game. This isn't a fucking beavis bacon teaches you typing simulator game.
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