There was a social experiment like that. This guy had his university student take on the roles of cops and prisoners in a mock prison for an approved experiment.Silva said:This is so true. Simulation games just allow the worst of us to take pleasure in evils they can't engage in here, in real life. Such games can feed a psychological problem really quickly.
You know what's worse than The Sims for this, though? The prison mod for Counter Strike: Source. In this mod, people take roles as either cops or prisoners, and the prisoners have no guns at the start. They have to do what the cops say or get shot.
Eventually they have to kill a cop, take the gun, and somehow take out his friends. But that never happens. The whole scenario almost always becomes an excuse for people to live out really bizarre sado-masochistic fantasies. As far as my experience goes, the prisoners never manage to win, because the cops play very dirty.
The reason why this is worse than Yahtzee's current punching bag? There are real humans at the end of the suffering, even if the suffering is fake.
Amen to that. Unless these same whiners want to whine about, The Simpsons, King of Queens, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement and the vast litany of shows which present a view of men as idiotic beer swilling sex crazed beasts with barely a coherent thought in their head then the whine comes across as the typical "I want to whine about you, but you can't whine about me" pop-feminism. For hecks sake, the last century has been one long female whine and even now that the vast majority of inequalities are easily explainable without reference to sexism the whining still goes on. Anyway, don't get me started on this.Xaositect said:Jesus H Christ.... Yahtzee can spew vitriol on the male sex any review he wants, but when he unleashes some hilarious "hatred" on women, we get people bitching and moaning? I am not going to drag this out, because I can easily solve the problem with this statement: youre all overreacting hypocrites.
It's because he's right and they are trying to defend themselves.Xaositect said:Jesus H Christ.... Yahtzee can spew vitriol on the male sex any review he wants, but when he unleashes some hilarious "hatred" on women, we get people bitching and moaning? I am not going to drag this out, because I can easily solve the problem with this statement: youre all overreacting hypocrites.