Here's Milo's prior article on gamersGrand Theft Auto (GTA) Online has become a sex-saturated virtual dystopia in which hackers have modified or "modded" the game so they can "rape" other players who in real life can be as young as 12 or 13 years old. It's a new low for the video games industry.
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GTA, which rewards players with in-game currency for having sex with prostitutes, then killing them, is already a bit disturbed. You can't help but feel it's a game for frustrated beta males who can't kill or shag anything in real life, so get their kicks doing it on a computer screen.
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There's no doubt violent games play a part in the deeds of some wackos, such as Elliot "killer virgin" Rodger. Rodger didn't kill because the video games made violent, but the games did help to shape his violent fantasies. They provided a framework through which his online bloodlust turned into real-world slaughter.
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It's that brazen, sociopathic, adolescent attitude from Rockstar – founded in Scotland – that most people will find grating, together with a reckless lack of care about games that depict violent, public rape in quite granular detail. Hijacked by nerd rapists, GTA Online is now not only somewhere you wouldn't allow your children but it's somewhere no normal adult would want to go either.
Personally, I don't understand grown men wasting their lives playing computer games. It seems a bit sad to me. I mean, we've all been sucked in to a few rounds of Candy Crush, but if you want to shoot a gun, why not go to a rifle range? I suspect most people who play these games have never held a firearm in real life.
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I'm more relaxed about violent video games than most, because it seems unlikely that they alone make people act out in real life. So what if they're the last resort of the frustrated beta male? It's not for me to legislate what weirdos in yellowing underpants get up to in their spare time.
But I think I'm right to be a bit disturbed by the whole culture around games like Grand Theft Auto. Not because I'm some hysterical activist worried about oppressive heteropatriarchal rape culture, but because I can't for the life of me work out why anyone would want to behave this way. Is it me, or do these weirdos need therapy and their internet connections taken away by mum?This is the moron that #gamergate people have rallied around, whose article became one of the most read. He basically says things Anita has pointed out, only with much more condescension for an adult male that dares find video games entertaining.
When will anyone turn on him rather than keep sharing his other articles?