• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!

    screenshot of NBC article
    (Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)

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      10 hours ago

      Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.

      Brilliant.

      90s house party game here, I’m sure people played it earlier.

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        13 minutes ago

        Not too much earlier; Wikipedia says the game was invented in 1986 by psychology student Dimitry Davidoff, a psychology student at Moscow State University.